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a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary yet short-lived uprising in russia that has left much of the world asking exactly how this happened and what could happen next. is putin s leadership under threat? is this an opportunity for ukraine to repel russia s ongoing invasion? we do have new developments tonight, including reaction from the biden administration. but first video has emerged on social media which shows the crash site of a russian military transport plane, reportedly shot down in southern russia saturday by the wagner mercenary group which carried out this rebellion. the russian defense ministry still has not commented on the loss of any aircraft. also, there is still no sign this evening of wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, after he apparently cut a deal with moscow and called off the insurrection. and there is no sign as well of putin after the most serious challenge to his rule since he ....
just begun, let s get right to it. first coast guard district commander. brief recap of our coordinated search efforts for the 21-foot submersible with the five on board and update on current search efforts and plans for the next 24 hours. on behalf of all the men and women of the united states coast guard and our search partners, we offer our most heartfelt thoughts and prayers for the five crew members, their families and their loved ones. our crews are working around the clock to ensure we are doing everything possible to locate the titan and the five crew members. yesterday we set up a unified command consisting of expertise from the united states coast guard, united states navy, canadian armed forces and coast guard, and the titan s parent company, oceangate expedition. a complex search effort, requires multiple agencies with subject matters expertise and specialized equipment. the u.s. coast guard has assumed the role of mission coordinator, we do not have all t ....
that is expected to start any minute now. we ll bring you that as soon as it begins. plus, the polarizing plea deal for the president s son. republicans blasting the agreement that lets hunter biden avoid jail time as a slap on the wrist. but some legal experts suggest that if his last name wasn t biden, he might never have faced charges in the first place. and this deal was announced just about half an hour after we learned donald trump s court date. now less than eight weeks away. does judge aileen cannon s accelerated timeline suggest this trial could be over before the primaries even begin? but, we start with the extraordinary developments developing the current and former president on the same okay that donald trump s trial date is set, president biden s son hunter has reached a deal with federal prosecutors to avoid a trial and jail time. and we will get to that momentarily. but, first, let s take you to the coast guard briefing, the latest on the sub and the ....
Collecting evidence at the scene now. again, as you said, this is preliminary. then they will determine whether or not they need to launch a full-scale investigation. and then they would have all the investigative powers, perhaps even pronounced by a judge, to be able to seize any one of those interviews perhaps or actual evidence that was seized by others. so the search and rescue operation already had costs associated with it as will certainly this post-disaster investigation, including the cost of bringing debris up from 2 1/2 miles down. do we have an estimate of those costs and who s on the hook for them? reporter: i mean, look, who s on the hook, canadian taxpayers principally, again, because this is a transportation safety board, because the polar prince launched from a canadian port, and they have no idea right now how much this will cost. likely in the tens of millions of dollars. but the one thing that s happened now is that all the salvage equipment is already out there, ....
And air as set searches at that point. you mentioned that the search operation is very complicated. [ inaudible question ] well, it s this is a complex search, and it s complex for a variety of reasons. you re talking about a search area that s 900 miles east of cape cod, 400 miles south of st. john s, so logistically speaking it s hard to bring assets to bear. it takes time, coordination, and then we re dealing with two pieces of you re dealing with a surface and sub surface search. it s complicated. will the u.s. navy be able to get salvage equipment on time before the air runs out. obviously getting salvage equipment on scene is a top priority. unified command is work thorough that to prioritize what equipment we can get there. there are ongoing operations ....