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That affected american proudness, that we are ahead of everybody. now it was first sputnik satellite and now first man in space was russian. and you can understand that this was really in the middle of the cold war, there was competition of the great superpowers. >> president, could you give us your view, sir, of the soviet achievement of putting a man in orbit and what it would mean to our space program as such? >> well, it is a most impressive scientific accomplishment. i have already sent con...

If this is successful, then and only then will we orbit. >> the mercury project was our first real response to the sputnik and to yuri gagarins flight, and it was a big deal for us, ill tell you, because all of a sudden we had seven guys and they were fighter pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around. you know, it was like being with rock stars. ♪ >> its again a day in houston as its citizens turn out by the tens of thousands to give a texas sized welcome to the u.s. space team. >> t...

Bravado, but will it turn to actual hostility, real violence? i will talk to admiral william mckravn, the man most famous for commanding the team that got to sa ma bin laden. and whom do americans want for their next president? i will tell you the fascinating results of a poll. but first here is my perspective. many of us have been waiting for a new moment, the point at which the challenge from china spurs america to get its act together. we may now be witnessing such a watershed, but in bei...

Of 1.4 billion people that already boasts many of the globes top technology companies. instead, we need our own sputnik moment, focusing the country to out-compete china. understand this technology strategy we are embarking on is far more consequential than trade talks. on trade, the trump administration has gentlemen lit mat complaints about chinese behavior. it is playing hard ball. but the end goal is to create more economic independence between the two countries. if there is a deal, china wi...

Tun the innovations of a dynamic country of $1.4 billion that already boast many of the globes top technology companies. instead, we need our own sputnik moment, focussing the country to outcompete china. understand this technology strategy we are embarking on is far more consequential than trade talks. on trade, the trump administration has many legitimate complaints about chinese behavior. it is playing hardball. but the end goal is to create more economic interdependence between the two count...

Technology company might be chinas sputnik moment. huawei will likely lose key hardware it relies on. this move can only be interpreted as an attempt by the trump administration to kill the company, already the worlds second largest maker of smartphones. the chinese will see this as a turning point. if washington can cut china off from american technology at will, china will be determined to build its own technological infrastructure top to bottom. we might be moving toward a bipolar world in di...

Accomplished july 1969. >> martha: and you think about the control room and then sweating it out. and crossed the party line force a common goal. does it make you back on that? >> yeah, it does, another moon shot instead of beating each other up over policy issues. the timing was right in the 60s. we just got the computer chip. the soviets were beating with us sputnik, the first satellite. they put the first human in space. kennedy got a bipartisan effort. nasa was created in 1958. kennedys word...

Elections because it doesnt benefit them in any way the fact is that. a lot to receive substantially more money from the e.u. than they contribute some 44 times more in fact and so you could argue that its definitely in the interest of latvians to take part in the election and facebook also have to deal with fake accounts re posting this clones and these are some of the some of the examples that of the hundreds of posts that facebook has taken down this year and basically they will reproach stuf...

A key role in trying to influence the u. election heres an example from march targeting latvian voters this article falsely claims that theres no point in voting in the european elections because it will bring no benefits to the lot in people the fact though is while latvia contributed 184000000 euros to the 117 it received 737000000 euros so 4 times as much as it contributed. well sputnik is teeming with similar examples like this some of those facebook accounts i mentioned before turns out a l...

About it. >> did he tell you, did kim jong-un tell you -- >> he felt badly about it. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. you got a lot of people, a big country, a lot of people. and in those prisons and camps, you have a lot of people. and some really bad things happened to otto. some really, really bad things. but he tells me that he didnt know about it, and i will take him at his word. yes, maam, go ahead, please. please, go ahead, in the back. no, in the back, behind you. thank ...