trump-appointed prosecutor. tonight, one of donald trump s gop rivals says the former president just admitted to obstruction of justice on national television. we re following the fallout from trump s first tv interview since his indictment in the classified documents investigation. and the search for the missing titanic tour submersible is growing more urgent. the coast guard warning the five people on board have less than 40 hours of oxygen left. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitser is off. i m alex marquardt. you re in the situation room. we do begin with the legal ramifications for hunter biden after his newly announced plea agreement with the justice department and the political implications for his father, the president. our correspondents are all standing by at the white house and on capitol hill. first cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, what more are we learning about this deal on th
To be revealed. Translator we want malaysia to apologize for the information that caused confusion in the first week which delayed the search mission. And we want the malaysian government to apologize for irresponsibly announcing on march 24th that the plane had crashed. Of course, our reporter and our experts are standing by, standing at the ready to bring us the very latest. Lets get going right now here on cnn. Cnns sara sidner joins me from kuala lumpur, malaysia. Do we know how many search planes are heading out there . Its believed to be about ten. Is the main focus to relocate those orange objects . Reporter yeah. Eight to ten planes going up today. Now that its light out, we do expect that the planes will be in the air shortly. We also know that the Prime Minister, tony abbott, is expected to visit the air base there. The significance of that, we dont know. But obviously these objects that they are now looking at, saying that they could potentially be something from flight mh37
Work of their professional lives, slowly making their way in and around a sunken ferry, looking for survivors. More than 270 people, many of them High School Students on a field trip did not make it off the vessel. And looking at this vessel as it sank it is not hard to see why. Passengers, as you know, were initial initially told to stay where they were. And somehow, the ships captain was among the first to leave. It is all making for a nightmarish day for loved ones on shore, and anguish as they wait for their missing loved ones. Kyung lah has more. Reporter yes, the coast guard is saying that they have laid down those search lines. Theyre like physical rope that they put on the ferry itself, the sunken ferry where they can go room by room. They have not entered this ferry at this point, anderson, and from what we have been able to understand, anderson, they have been looking inside it. And they see things floating but will not be able to see beyond that. So there is more news. Were
john s, bringing gear so they can hopefully, hopefully have a happy ending to this one. miguel marquez, we know you ll stay on this story, thank you very much. right now, i want to bring in cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman and retired navy captain bobby scully. captain, pick up where miguel left off. this letter to the ceo, stockton rush, which said in part that the rurnt experimental approach adopted by ocean gate could result in negative outcomes from minor to catastrophic. what do you make of this experimental approach, these letter writers said, of this expedition? well, it s very concerning. especially coming, you know for somebody like myself, who is used to the very rigid standards that we set in military equipment.