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eastern here on msnbc. our coverage continues right now with "katy tur reports" ♪♪ good to be with you. i'm katy tur. tomorrow marks the three-year anniversary of the january 6th. in just a few minutes, president biden will give his first 2024 campaign speech marking that day, and warning americans the threat of that day still hangs over them. but what was the threat of that day? because in the years since january 6th, 2021, perceptions among some, especially republicans, have shifted. that trump wasn't responsible, that the fbi was really behind it, that it was no big deal or ...

Fallen out. >> spacex is also launching this on a sort of rocket ride share. would it help to join together on this? if not, why not? >> it's the difference between an a-380 flying everybody from new york to paris, versus point to point transportation in a aircraft. it's the same for satellites. they have businesses that they need to get revenue generating assets onboard, they don't have time to wait. they don't all need to go to the same place. we went to a very special orbit yesterday. and they don't want to drift in space for long periods of time. so it kind of is the difference between a b...

Back in the apollo days we got up there in two or three days. it took a different route, that's for sure. the way this puppy went up, it used what we call the balance position or the balance point between the earth and the sun. it uses that kind of to get a free ride basically to the moon. at some point when the spacecraft turned around it split into two. now we have not one but two orbiters that are making their way around the moon. so they've got into orbit yesterday. right now they're 100 or so miles in orbit. over the coming weeks they'll fire a couple of more rocket engines and get them i...

>> that's right. one of the big questions in this day before the iowa caucuses is whether the man in the sweater vest can make mitt romney sweat. rick santorum is in the enviable position of being the final surging non-romney conservative to do well. before these iowa caucuses so we are chasing him from stop to stop to stop today. he is chasing the undecided caucus goers. and you get the sense looking at the poll that came out over the weekend that showed rick santorum in third place. if you look at the last two days that that poll was taken, he is surging into second place into a st...