Week with these big time boehner s who are cutting checks that doesn t include that kind of money. and i am told there are still millions some dollars there. that is the soft money and keep in mind, we also know marion madison has just said she s going to donate millions to one of donald trump super pac that was established back in 2020. so you re seeing a real republican donors coming to roost. we ll see what comes out of next week. donald trump on thursday leaves for a big west coast, fundraising a both in california and nevada. i mean, the really interesting thing here is that we spent the big portion of the first part of this year talk think about how no one, none of these big time voters wanted to get behind donald trump and now it seems as though they are all starting to circle the wagons. yeah. i mean, it may using all of them after after what they said and what they thought. now, doing this, kristen, thank you very much. outside trump tower tonight. and even as trump is now raised $53 million in small donor money, they say, and untold
About allowing more nasa mr. knots to fly. it s about reducing the russians dependency reducing us dependency on russian soyuz rockets. and it really would to usher in a new kind of golden era of space travel, so to speak, because it s the nasa administrator, the current nasa administrator, bill nelson has been saying, allison this is what this, if they can get boeing starliner off the ground. this is the moment that nasa has been waiting a decade four to have not one but two spacecrafts that can do the exact same thing. three, nasa, up to focus on bigger picture stuff like the artemis missions and returning nasa astronauts to the moon for the first time since the apollo program. now really good information for us to have kristen and charles stick around if you would, because we re getting information in very quickly and we re going to take a very quick break because this historic starliner launch has now officially been scrubbed
Collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she is live it kennedy space center for us as well as former nasa administrator, charles bolden. okay. so kristen, is this going to happen today? allison, with about 24 minutes left on the countdown clock, we are go for launch. we ve been watching two things this morning too. potential problem spots for nasa, boeing in the united launch alliance. and that is first the wind. it s been very gusty here, but so far, so good on the weather front, the weather team saying we are go for launch as of now, and then the other issue we ve been watching has been an issue with the center rocket let me just show you this is an older model here, so it s not
That s never happened before she s done seven spacewalks. that s the second most log that the second most amount of cumulative spacewalk time of any female astronaut. and the first to finish a triathlon in space. the two of them have really bonded over. their many years in training. and i should just note alison, that they have been waiting for years to fly this thing. i mean, nasa first selected boeing and spacex to fly these commercial crew missions to the iss back in 2014, sonny was assigned in 2015, so that s how long she has been waiting for this mission. that s an incredible context. there, kristen. so charles, just help just so i understand the difference between a test flight and a spaceflight is that no one has ever gone into space on this rocket before. so they need to make sure that this particular rocket gets them to the international space station. is that right that s not exactly
Spacecraft, so much so that it s competitors, spacex, has been able to launch 13 crewed missions to the outer space in that four-year span that boeing hasn t been able to fly. so the pressure really on boeing to prove that it s spacecraft can finally fly in space and carry astronauts on board for the very first time. but alison today just was not their day. and so when will the next attempt by could be as soon as tomorrow at noon we should find that out at this press conference in one hour. if not, then then they have next back the next backup launch attempts, our next week, june 5 and june 6. so hopefully we ll learn more in one hour. alyson. okay. keep us posted, kristen, thanks so much for being there on the ground. all right. now, to a key security summit, we d significant implications for ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy is there. he is scheduled to meet with us defense secretary lloyd austin to talk about us