from the coast guard at a briefing set for 3:00 eastern time. meanwhile, we are learning that canada is stepping up its rescue efforts sending in a ship, the hmcs glace bay, equipped with a hyperbaric recompression, and we will be joined in just moments. sandra: molly line outside the u.s. headquarters in boston. first get to mike tobin, live at the staging area for the search in st. john s, canada. mike, exactly what we know, officials are reporting the remote operated robot discovered this debris field near the titanic and they are saying it could be linked to the missing titan but cannot confirm that to be the case. what else are we learning? well, we have learned that certainly very discouraging news for the people who are holding out hope for a miracle in this case. i spoke with larry david who is larry daily, i should say, logistics specialist for titanic expeditions, he was down to the wreckage in 2003, and 1 of the things he points out is when you go down to the
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congress all about it. that s where we start on thursday morning as we get rolling here. i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana: good morning, i m dana perino. there is a lot of news. bombshell allegations come from an unnamed i.r.s. supervisor asking congress for whistleblower protection so he can tell them how the administration is mishandling the hunter biden tax probe. bill: that investigation started back in 2018. white house repeatedly promising to stay out of it. this agent says it has done anything but. according to his lawyer, he has receipts to prove it. my client wants to come forward to congress. he is ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections. would you find any evidence or allegation of a political agenda? no. to him the truth is one truth. he wants to come forward with it. the things he has been through are very well documented in emails and other communications with the department of justice
it does, and just like we see today in the space tourism business, there are risks involved and i had this discussion with a number of friends just over the last day or two and they talk about adventurers and rich guys paying to go on adventures. but my point of view in knowing some of these folks and dealing with some of them and i m not a rich guy that didn t pay to go on the adventure, but every exploration has content that we bring back that helps the world, even if an exploration fails such as this one obviously has, we are going to learn by it. and unless we press the envelope through exploration, and adventure can go along with. without a sense of adventure they wouldn t do it. so overall while they are probably have paid the ultimate price for their adventure the world still can find something,
bill: i think they want to do it successfully first before they floor that accelerator for the next time. they have something close to what s called equivalent to the force needed to send 100 concord supersonic airlines at take-off. dana: look on your screen. a little of what you are describing. you look at the size of the starship compared to all the others. you mention the space shuttle. the first one on the left. the power here is really extraordinary. bill: former astronaut tom jones with us now. i think once an astronaut, almost one. tell us how significant this is as we watch together. bill and dana, this is a significant test flight not only for spacex and its satellite business and potential space tourism business, but also a