i mean just to be clear i am quoting. i m a journalist, people say it, i quote it. i let you decide whether it s appropriate or not. the use is important here. i m mentioning, not using. i remember when we were talking about donald trump having sworn and at some point you just had to just say the words he said on tv and there were a lot of firsts over the last few years. i have not arrived at a consistent policy on this because it s ludicrous either way. it s ludicrous when you actually say it because it s like silly, but it s also ludicrous when you re like, called you a little b word. every part of this is unreal. thank you, chris, and thanks to you for joining us this hour at home. ten hours is about how much breathable airtime the u.s. coast guard estimates is left for the five men aboard the missing submersible which is named the titan. it began its descent to the wreckage of the titanic saturday. it conducts a search and rescue operation to find them in an are
reminder. we ll continue to follow those stories. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. more reports of noises from the ocean. in that desperate search for the missing sub. the lead starts right now. sounds of hope in what is still being described as very much a search and rescue mission. sensors picking up noises from the ocean, could those be from the passengers? trapped on that titanic submersible that vanished during a deep sea expedition. and another u.s. supreme court justice defending another undisclosed luxury trip paid for by another billionaire. this time it is justice samuel alito who many met with someone before the court. alito tried to get ahead of the claims. and diplomacy undone. was all that work by antony blinken in beijing ruined when president biden called xi jinping a dictator in an off the cuff remark. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead. we need to have hope. that is the message from the u.s. coast gu
see the wreckage of the titanic. this hour the supply of oxygen is rapidly running out. we ll show you what conditions are like inside the small, cramped sub that left with five people on board. china is now lashing out at the united states after president joe biden referred to chinese leader xi jinping as a dictator. this as cnn is getting an exclusive look at military drills preparing for a potential chinese invasion of taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the massive search for the missing submersible. the source of banging sounds in the area remains a mystery at this hour but they are giving rescue crews hope. when you are in the middle of a search and rescue you always have hope. that s why we re doing what we do. reporter: with what could be less than 24 hours of oxygen left onboard titan, hope at this point may rest on banging noises detected by sonar. the coast guard re
becoming more desperate by the minute. the coast guard now says noises have been detected in the search area where a titanic tourist submersible has been missing since sunday. we ll bring you the very latest on the intense race against time. another supreme court justice now at the center of controversy. new questions about a trip justice samuel alito took. we ll talk about it with one of the reporters who broke the story. china firing back at president biden after he called the nation s leader a dictator. china slamming the president s rhetoric as a provocation. we ll talk to congressman ro khanna about that and a whole lot more. at this hour, the frantic search for the missing titanic tourist submersible grows more desperate as the five-member crew s oxygen supply ticks below less than 18 hours. more help is arriving this morning, the u.s. coast guard says three vessels are on the scene to aid in the search. overnight, there were fresh signs of hope that the coast
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