the five people on board who are hoping to see the wreckage of the titanic. submersible could use up all its air in less than about a day and a half. let s get an update from correspondent molly line in boston. good evening, mollie. good evening, bret. the coast guard reported there is no sign of the missing submarine with the five people on board and at this moment an estimated 35 hours of life support left there on board private and military assets are scouring above and below the surface covering thousands of miles. the canadian coast guard playing a major role. remote operating vehicles and diving planes are conducting a grid search. they are specialized if being able to see these things from the air. they have given it everything that they have to it. and if it s on the surface, we re fairly certain we would be able to find it. the founder of observation gate leading the mission. in 2021 the firm started taking paying customers to the titanic rec. will hammish ha
you look at saudi arabia. you look at the wealth that they built. we have more oil than they do. i got anwar approved in alaska. it s as big or bigger than saudi arabia. the first day of the biden administration, they terminated the deal. ronald reagan tried to do anwar. he was unsuccessful doing it. bush tried. everybody tried to do it. all for years and years, for 60 years i got it done. it was all done. they were getting ready to drill. biden ended it. then we got the covid. came in from china. and we had to do other things. bret: you believe that? no, i don t. i believe that it came in from wuhan. i said that. if you go back you will say i was the one who said it came in from the wuhan labs from day one. i was told don t close up the country in terms of china and i did. i saved hundreds of thousands of lives. i believe it was incompetence, actually. you know, there are two thoughts
to family members. to people guilty of violent crimes. what do you say to that? because i looked at individual things and i had committees doing this. much more than me. they would look at things and sometimes people even when there very few violent crimes because i didn t want to take chances on that, right? but they would look at people and they would recommend to me do it or not. i turned down 50 for every one i pardoned. but, sometimes you would see something that normally you wouldn t do and you do it on recommendation of a very good committee. we had a very good committee. very capable committee. but if you want to stop drugs in this country, which by the way, cause, i would say, 50%, 60% of the crime. bret: add fentanyl in there, yeah. fentanyl is a disaster. one thing with fentanyl, i was with president xi and we had a deal worked out. he was going to give the death penalty to anybody in china who made fentanyl call it a criminal act. all set to do it. had the electio
ready for it. china was hugely 150 years ago, china was taken over by much lesser countries because they were all drugged out on the opium and all the problem. bret: communist regime. they dropped the hammer. they were all drugged out. and they were totally they were a disaster. they were taken over by other smaller countries, large sections of china. and then things happened and they had strong leadership and they put in the death penalty any have been able to build. president xi without death penalty nonfunctioning country. bret: my point is you are getting hit from the right being soft on crime because of the first step act and then you are saying that that would be your policy. marc short the vice president s staff said that this weekend. the most unseemly part of our administration was the pardons he gave to cocaine traffickers.
they did it there is another thought i was so tough on china they did it to get me out. bret: you don t believe that part. i don t believe that, no. i actually think they were just incompetent. bret: it is a big part of that spending. covid. do you have regrets on how you handled that because some of your opponents are now running these loops of where you say you shut down the country. we had to artificially close our country. we just did the right thing, we closed it down. we understood the disease. we closed the country down. we studied it. we learned about it. some people wish we never closed it down. everything we did was right. bret: and do you have regrets about doing that? i gave the governors the options. for instance, henry mcmaster of south carolina, governor. great guy, great governor. he didn t shut it down. tennessee didn t shut it down. south dakota didn t shut it down. georgia for a little while but not much. they did a good job. six states that didn t