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Sen. Bill Hagerty is urging Sen. Bernie Sanders to oppose a "corporate carve-out for unlimited foreign labor."

Eventually go to mars, go high and higher. this flew about 100 miles past the space station, so let's keep going, and hopefully this will inspire kids to get into stem fields. i know when i was growing up, it was apollo for me, had my father's national geographic magazine, and i just went through that magazine every day, just reading, hoping some day i would be an astronaut. i'm sorry, clayton, i know you have been to space before. now it's my turn. i want to go next. [laughter] >> jon: yeah. go ahead. >> yeah. i hope you get a chance. you know, for me, i've said this often, that i think every...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think you've probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, it's been a fund-raising campaign for st. jude's, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there's been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we're getting our first images. let's listen to mission control. >> as part of the inspir...

Limbo. >> my research was disrupted. >> reporter: dennis hu flew to shanghai in january 2020 along with friend and lab mate matthew jikelski. while matthew, an american, returned to the u.s., hu was delayed in going back to their university in boston. first by the outbreak. several attempts to return failed. then came a new policy under president trump. >> first i think it's a policy of discrimination based on nationality. >> to suspend the entry -- >> reporter: hu was referring to proclamation 10043. in may 2020, trump blocked chinese graduate students and post-grad researchers that came most...

Universities with suspected military ties. the policy singled out those studying in stem fields, science, technology, engineering and math, framed as part of national security. >> there is certainly espionage that goes on in u.s. universities from china. there have been cases in the past where students have been used for espionage purposes. this policy, though, is very sweeping. very arbitrary. >> it is estimated there were sms 5,000 students kept from reentering the u.s. in response to cnn, the u.s. state department said in part the united states welcomed international students and stated the...