carrying the air supply for the boy and tethered to the boy in the middle. they follow the line out. and then another diver comes in the back to backstop the entire effort as they went through very tight areas and other areas as well. how many places do they actually have to be completely underwater tlik? we don t entirely know. the maps are very inadequate at this point. by some estimates though, a quarter of this cave may still require that sort of passage. if that s true, these boys are having to go under roughly 11 football fields completely underwater with muck and cold and currents. it s a huge challenge. yet, they managed to get four of them all the way outside. now why did they stop? because they ran out of their oxygen supply. they have to replenish. that will take a while. but the clock is really ticking here. all of that pumping was to deal with the rain that fell from the time the boys disappeared until the little lull that they reached right in here. and now what s happeni
it hasn t. but the court has become so politicized in recent years starting before trump that a lot of people are losing faith in the court. it is supposed to be nonpartisan. you re not supposed to be able to predict the outcome. but here we are. a lot of things declined in quality. it s not a good situation. but you know, inevitably, this president as recent presidents, they do look to protect their ideology. they look to protect their power. and they see it as a way of projecting power far into the future long after they left. i want to ask you about the international situation. after the president makes the pick, he ll go to nato and meet with leaders in the united kingdom and then one-on-one with have lat mere putin. the series of meetings is coming right after we learned that a person died as a result of being
nonshah lan nonchalantly saying, well, we did. it seemed in the beginning this is not the first time he s done something along these lines. there is a lot of criticism. this appears to be a strategy, doesn t it? absolutely. i think as i say, i think it s a clever strategy. look at the way the public is gradually turning against this investigation against mueller. the negatives on this thing have gone up about ten points in recent months. they ve gone up a lot since rudy got involved in this. as i say, i think one reason that left and many, many people in this country are very upset about giuliani is he s muddying the waters effectively and they realize that the chances of mueller being a blockbuster, having a block butter obuster oe diminished. the president is going to make his decision tomorrow at 9:00. a few hours ago he said he still didn t make the final decision. listen to this. i m very close to making a decision. have not made it official yet obviously. have not made it
not appropriate for the hohn your and the responsibility of becoming a supreme court justice? well, i mean, it s not just the announcement. it s the whole spectacle around this. i do like the fact that the president gets how important the supreme court is. but to do it in a game show way and the theatrics last time around about for judge hardiman filling up his gas tank and all of that stuff, you know, the kind of misdirections and saying it s going to be him from the white house and then not picking him. i just it leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. whatever it is, i think what you starpted out by saying is absolutely right. this is a critical seat on the supreme court. there are nine justices on the court. justice kennedy s retirement, he was kind of considered the swing vote. not in every case but certainly in some of the more important ones. and so in an age of exaggeration that we hear on tv all the time, it s hard to believe anything. this is a one time in which
reason for encouragement. this story is far from over. thank you for your expertise. we appreciate it. my pleasure. between the heavy rainfall about to come, the lack of oxygen as paul is mentioning in the cave and the shear number of days that those kids are trapped underground, the urgency is never higher to get them out. here is tom foreman with how phase one happened. tom? reporter: ryan, the initial part of the rescue went a little faster than officials expected. two boys came out about ten minutes apart. then two hours later two more. the only way that was possible was through this incredibly aggressive effort to pump many, many, many hundreds of gallons of water out of here to clear enough space where they could actually walk out. now some places remain completely submerged. that s why the divers had to put these boys into full facemasks. there were 18 divers working inside the cave and as they brought them out, they did it in this configuration. a diver would go up front