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>> now the fuel in the solid rocket boosters have completed. the others will continue its burn for the next three minutes. >> good handle. >> good handle. >> that call good handle indicating the crew now has the ability to initiate and abort manually if needed. looking good so far. now two minutes into star liner's flight and coming out on the side rocket booster jetson at the two minute 40 second mark.
people interact with folks and news gets around. there has been a lot of conversation about and concern about biden's cognitive decline and you see it in the polls. independents and some democrats in polling express concern about whether joe biden is still up to the job mentally. i will simply say this. i'm not a psychological expert and i can't gauge or diagnose the depth of whatever cognitive decline president biden has but i will tell you this, he is in steep political decline. that may be irreversible not just connected to his mental state but the agenda he is pushing very far left and very unpopular with voters. >> dana: mark, let me read more from the "wall street journal." it was incredible to me as a former communication person that -- after the offices of several democrats shared with the white house a recording of an interview or details what was asked, some of those lawmakers spoke to the journal a second time and once again emphasized biden's strengths. they just said that i should
problem that they need to walk back. >> dana: give us a quick synopsis. what did he say? >> what he said basically was netanyahu was keeping the war going on for political purposes. >> dana: prolonging the war, that's right. >> that was a horrible thing to say about your ally to accuse them of basically wasting lives for political purposes and i think he has to walk that comment back from that time interview. >> dana: he is about to see the world leaders at the g7. maybe we'll hear more from there. thank you for your time today, steven and mark. >> thank you. >> bill: more to come. here is a beautiful look right now at the boeing star liner on florida's east coast, all right? they are a year behind schedule. $1.5 billion over budget. >> dana: is that all? >> bill: boeing and nasa have a lot on the line and see whether or not we can get going in an hour and 14 minutes. stand by. we're watching it from space
give you a call back said meeks a new york democrat referring to the white house. the white house spokesman said we thought it was important that all perspective to be represented. they were false and politically motivated claims. i know what the press office is trying to do and doing the best they can with the facts they have. but they don't have necessarily the communications problem, they have a fact problem, mark. >> well, i was chuckling when i read that how they called back let us set the record straight. it was an odd story in the "wall street journal." cobbled together what voters know. over 60% of the voters are concerned that biden is too old to be running again for another term. and i don't think that issue is going to be decided by these whisper stories. i think there is going to be a debate. they have deliberately thrown down the gauntlet for an early debate. i think that will be the point at which americans judge is he ready for another term or not? clearly an issue.
ones. let's bring in our panel. steven and mark. this comes at a time when "time" magazine also wrote a piece that posted yesterday. biden did a long interview with them and even the reporters acknowledged there had been a visible change. and i go back to the maxim if you find a turtle on a fence post it didn't get there itself. these stories are coming out at a time when, steven, my reporting, a couple people i've talked to is there are democrats who are very concerned about biden's state right now. and that's kind of a delicate topic but one that is driving a lot of consternation among voters. let me turn it over to you and what you think about this news report and the development and what you've heard. >> certainly. president biden's cognitive decline has been the talk of the town in d.c. for well near a year, dana. you and i know washington is a small town. people know each other and
a mix of purified kerosene and liquid oxygen. and then they go into the upper stage, which is going to be a critical part. you're going to hear separation, moving to the upper stage of the rocket where they burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen. again, accelerating, hitting that as fast as they can, they need to rendezvous with the international space station. this is all calculated, down to the millisecond. we watch 11 minutes and 09 seconds of elapsed time, waiting to hit the 12-minute mark because we want to listen for meco, main engine cutoff. i might make the point very quickly that sunita williams, the pilot, commander butch wilmore is also on board, but sunny, sunita, calls this capsule calypso in a nod to jacques cousteau, the famous french explorer. that's what they're trying to do, explore the heavens as they race toward the international space station. and if you don't mind, i'll make
tilted, so off the mark. is he 81 years old? he is a bit slower in terms of his reaction to some things? probably. that, i don't know. we don't know. i do know, richard, and you've talked to people, i'm sure, who have been with him in national security meetings. i've been with people who have been with him in the situation room where he literally goes around the globe on the chart in the situation room. i've never been in there but electronically and he points out the weakness and strengths with the united states with other countries with no notes. he is an 81-year-old president of the united states who gets up every day and has to deal with b.b. netanyahu and his son is on trial and an addict and on his mind all the time. this piece is outrageous. >> but mike, it's not that complicated. it's just not. you know -- >> look who they quote.
but you can look at the videos people are running and see i what they're trying to achieve with them and so on. - i think, you know, - in a sense, who targets me is a response to that, right? a kind of organisation that's| there to try and monitor this content, point out interesting stuff, show how people - are trying to use it _ in different ways, try and just kind of make people aware of the ways that's going. to going to happen to them over the next six weeks or so. - and how much have the parties spent already? i know it's early days, but do you have an assessment of how much they've spent on digital campaigning so far in this election? yeah, i mean, - it's a lot of money. i mean, obviously- the spending rules have changed for this election. they've nearly doubled. erm, you know, labour, since. the election was announced has spent about £375,000| on google/youtube ads alone, which is half. as much as they spent last time already. so in the first week- of the campaign, where notionally things are just - getting set up and we're just trying to work things out, - they're already 50% of the way to what they did in 2019. erm, the conservatives - are a bit slower off the mark. i mean, certainly their- advertising spend is maybe not even a quarter of what labour
he says, we must act quickly. justin rowlatt, bbc news. in india, narendra modi is set to retain power and be sworn in for a third term — equalling the record set by the country's first prime ministerjawaharlal nehru. but for the first time in ten years, mr modi's party has failed to secure an outright majority in parliament, winning 240 seats instead of their target of nearer 400. he is now dependent on coalition allies to get past the 272 mark needed to form a government. together the coalition has 293 seats. the bbc�*s yogita limaye is in delhi for us now. what's this likely to mean for mr modi's third term? this is a really unexpected turn of events we are seeing here in india, the vgp finding itself in a position
entire article on. then in frankly it's very misleading and i'd like to say that will probably could get the same number of slip hopes for donald trump and practically for anybody else including us. >> but we are sure mark, let me reaction the gate though, that it is a real concern for voters time and again, will absolutely see that voters have, and they have a greater concern about joe biden's age than they do about donald trump's, even though they're 3.5 years apart. so i don't want to like undercut what is actually one of the biggest vulnerable abilities for joe biden, even as we discussed what listened joe biden spent an hour every morning getting his hair together and putting makeup on. he looked a little less old. >> it's a serious issue for the president. he had a great moment at the state of the union. it gave him a temporary bump and the poles where democrats were reinvigorated didn't i felt this is still our guy and who we are what? 9,000 plus days later and people are looking at the president again, no thinking will kenny continue to do this job for another four years because of his age, you also throne with his son is going through and trying to mix that