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were live with the latest. plus, taste the expletive out of the blue, a january 6th rioter who bragged about using a stun gun on police learns his fate from a judge. and the race against time in the atlantic, with less than a days worth of oxygen inside a missing submersible, more ships are rushing to a search area two times the size of connecticut, hoping to find five people alive. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right there wit...

insistence they never looked at gain of function research is he lab. john roberts in washington. here we go again for another excitement-packed 60 minutes. >> sandra: you never know where its going to go. kentucky senator rand paul is fired up and ready to react in just moments. but first this fox news alert. >> we currently have five service assets searching for the tie and we expect ten surface assets in the next 24/48 hours. >> smack dab in search and rescue. we need to have hope. i...

And mostly called jack-up rigs. when you move a jack-up rig and its inoperative for a long period of time, that rig moves to brazil or some other place. at that point, its not coming back in six months, its working in brazil at that point. so our people are still juxtaposed between safety and a job. >> okay. i got you. >> thats the problem in a nutshell. >> i have one extra problem. im going to go to mike for a final question. 27,000 wells out there have been apparently capped like manhole cover...

Your workers back. wouldnt we be better off paying them full salary and not putting them back to work so we wouldnt have to do this cleanup again? >> yes, on its face for sure. but with a deepwater rig, most of them are mobile. and mostly called jack-up rigs. when its inoperative for a long period of time, that rig moves to brazil or some other place. at that point, its not coming back in six months, its working in brazil at that point. so our people are still j juxtaposed between safety and a j...

Have to do this cleanup again? >> yes, on its face for sure. but you got to realize that with a deep water rig, most of them are mobile. and mostly called jack-up rigs. when you move a jack-up rig and its inoperative for a long period of time, that rig moves to brazil or some other place. at that point, its not coming back in six months, its working in brazil at that point. so our people are still juxtaposed between safety and a job. >> i got. >> you thats the problem in a nutshell. >> i have on...