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Dont let your eyes glaze over too quickly. there are three varants of the 787. theres the eight, the nine, and the ten. so far the most popular in terms of sales and orders has been the nine, but the ten could be moving into a sweet spot in aviation where airlines want to carry more passengers, but you dont want necessarily to need the vast distances of, say, for example, the triple seven l.r. this is why its a significant plane for boeing. there are people extremely enthusiastic about it, and t...

I said where is the pipe made? and they told me not here. i said thats good. add a little sentence that you have to buy american steel. and do you know what? thats the way it is. thats the way its going to be. we are going to fight for every last american job. weve come a long way since the wright brothers and their first flight more than a century ago. your plane is made of carbon fiber, it seats 330 passengers. its 18 feet longer than the previous version of the 787 and this airplane can fly f...

And it is time now for a check of the headlines at the half hour. president trump repeating his pledge to keep more manufacturing jobs in the united states. this during a visit to south carolina today. he was at a boeing plant. company unveiled a new version of its 787 dreamliner aircraft. president set to spend the weekend in florida. hes going to hold a campaign-style rally in florida tomorrow. and today scott pruitt confirmed as new head of environmental protection agency. democrats trying to...

Long ago the president was at odds with some of the folks here at boeing after he balked at the $4 billion price tag for building two new air force ones. as you recall, kate, he tweeted out, cancel the order. shortly thereafter he had a meeting with the ceo, the head of boeing. and they decided together they would come up with an alternative plan for the cost of those air force ones. and give a break to taxpayers. so right now, though, things are looking good in terms of how the president is exp...

There? >> reporter: this comes three days after workers here had a chance to form a union and unionize. they overwhelmingly turned that down. had it gone the other way, that vote, it would have sent a big message across the country about jobs here in south carolina. of course boeing came here, and a big selling point for them building this plant was to build the 787 dreamliner which the president is coming here to unveil, that enormous plane that boeing has been talking about, specifically for a...

>> and, ronna, as mark lays out hes going to talk about his efforts to keep jobs here, boeing keeping jobs here. one year ago donald trump was in south carolina warning boeing is going to send jobs to south carolina. so is this dreamliner a made of america success story? >> not really. this is one of the most complex global supply chains in aviation history. the dreamliner 787 had an incredibly complex supply chain, over 100 countries were involved in the various parts that made this plane. in t...

Vacation, she said all right, lets not plan anything until 2001. >> i see a giant plane behind you. watching the action over your left shoulder. i dont want to ignore that. so the president today talking with the workers in boeing and then later to the rest of the nation. one of the things he said, our goal is to rely more on u.s. products and less on imports. he talked about jobs and the economy today. that was a huge issue for voters in november. >> it was. boeing is one of the biggest exporte...

Our leaders arent smart enough to stop it, okay? >> that was one year ago today. then candidate trump in south carolina. he is back there today to tout the jobs that didnt go to china. well be seeing him any minute at the boeing plant in north charleston, south carolina, as they will be unveiling the new boeing 787. the newest version of the dreamliner. when i think dreamliner and dreamy, i think richard quest. he is joining me now. he is editor at large of cnn money. of course, an aviation enth...

787, a new aircraft that is built exclusively here in south carolina, so this is part jobs event, it is also boeing is the maker of the air force one fleet, and so thats been a part of the presidents tenure where he was negotiating to get a better price on a future model and this has been a state that has been critical in president trumps path to the white house, and the new governor, henry mcmaster, has been a long time support of donald trump and i say new governor because of course the presid...

President, south carolina overwhelmingly supported his candidacy. henry mcmaster, the governor just spoke and one of the early supporters he was lieutenant governor at the time. folks surprised one of the reasons nicky hailey became ambassador was because donald trump wanted to make sure that henry mcmaster could become governor in a state where he had run unsuccessfully for that office on a number of occasions. right now the introduction being given by one of the execs there with boeing, he is ...