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.
based on our cnn poll. maggie, trump seizing on this. amid his own gargantuan level problems. how convenient is this timing for him? well, i don t know that i would use the word convenient. i do think that for trump, given the fact that this is coming right after he gave this astonishing fox news interview in which he appeared to acknowledge he was holding on to documents despite efforts by the federal government, despite a grand jury subpoena to get him to turn it over, i don t think it hurts him, but it doesn t help his larger legal case. it gives him something to seize on and trump is fighting as much in the court of public opinion as the legal case. to elliot aelt s point, these are very different cases. trump is facing charges in manhattan, potential indictment in georgia, potential second indictment from jack smith s office. two civil cases. it s just not the same thing. we re going to be discussing that train wreck of an interview the former president gave with fox news in
north atlantic ocean. coast guard warning that oxygen could run out on board in less than 40 hours. cnn s senior national correspondent miguel marquez is at the port where the troubled journey began. now a key launching point for the search efforts. miguel, what are you learning? reporter: there s a massive amount of resources headed to where i am standing. st. john s in newfoundland in canada. it is all hands on deck as resources from both the u.s. and canada move in. this is the sister ship to the polar prince. we suspect that it may be loading up with gear to take out there. it is an absolute race against time. this is a complex search. reporter: a complex search now more complicated by time, which they re running out of. we know there s about 40 hours of breathable air left. reporter: deep water submersibles and gear converging on st. john s newfoundland from the u.s. and canada.
appointment and plead guilty. i want to emphasize this deal, including that recommendation for probation, is still subject to approval by a judge. now to the white house. cnn s jeremy diamond, we did hear from president joe biden a little while ago. what did we have to say? reporter: president biden is making no effort to distance himself from his son. just as the white house earlier today in a statement said that the president and the first lady love their son and support him, the president, under dogged questioning by our colleague, jasmine wright, saying this. i m very proud of my son. reporter: and that is indeed in keeping with the strategy and frankly the relationship, period, between the president and his son, hunter. a very close relationship, one during which we ve heard president biden throughout this investigation say that he is proud of his son in particular for overcoming his drug addiction. look, this is a white house that has kept close tabs on this
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