that is expected to start any minute now. we ll bring you that as soon as it begins. plus, the polarizing plea deal for the president s son. republicans blasting the agreement that lets hunter biden avoid jail time as a slap on the wrist. but some legal experts suggest that if his last name wasn t biden, he might never have faced charges in the first place. and this deal was announced just about half an hour after we learned donald trump s court date. now less than eight weeks away. does judge aileen cannon s accelerated timeline suggest this trial could be over before the primaries even begin? but, we start with the extraordinary developments developing the current and former president on the same okay that donald trump s trial date is set, president biden s son hunter has reached a deal with federal prosecutors to avoid a trial and jail time. and we will get to that momentarily. but, first, let s take you to the coast guard briefing, the latest on the sub and the five p
best minds in the world. we have the u.s. coast guard, the canadian coast guard, p-3s flying out scanning and looking to see if they see anything either on the surface of the water or at any depth with their radar. they re dropping buoys so they can listen for any noise of perhaps the crew tapping or any voices that they hear. this is a huge area, though. like you said, the size of connecticut. while we know the destination was the titanic, have to think about ocean currents and where this vessel may have moved in the time since it was last heard from. just a massive effort going on now. they also talked about private interests that are getting involved now. a ship called deep energy has arrived on scene and has a robotic operated vehicle. rov. and that, a remote operated vehicle. that is searching with some cameras, that dive going on as we speak. as well as air flights going on and then the vessels rushing to
debris field is now defined, jeff? well bear in mind of course what we have now is just the beginning of the data that s going to allow us to define the debris field. so you know as the day continues in indonesia, they ll be gathering more material. they ll have a sense of probably more a circular scatter pattern and then they ll do a drift analysis and i presume they ve been dropping buoys and know how the water is moving through this body of water. and they ll be able to narrow down the area where presumably the black boxes will be under water. does a larger debris field mean one thing versus a shorter debris field? does that tell us how the crash happened? or is it more about currents that it tells us? it s both. listen if you have a massive depressurization at altitude or decompression that, you know, blasts the material into a wide area from altitude, then that itself is going to give you a debris field. if you have an intact airplane
modest clue of the importance that the australian authorities are devoting to it. i think the times is being mealy mouthed, describing it as a modest clue. i m going to read the exact words. this is the best lead we have right now. that is why all the australians, the jets, the planes, i ve injury been rejust been reading stories, malaysia is sending ships right now to focus in the search. debris, interesting, maybe, but with a high degree of credibility. they re dropping buoys, they re going to be looking at getting assets from base. they should have some of those assets already there. they will search in the night, the reason, anderson, let s go