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the knife sheath under one of the victim's bodies. we can expect that evidence to be highlighted when the prosecution files a response to this in the outlining witnesses it will use it rebut these defense claims. and now i'm going to toss it to carley. >> carley: that is quite development. chanly, thank you so much. more news to get to. two boeing whistleblowers testifying on capitol hill. one says he received threats from supervisors after raising safety concerns about the company's airplanes. >> the attitude from the highest level is just to push the defective parts. >> i'm not going to sugar coat. this this is a criminal cover-up. records do, in fact, exist. i know this because i've personally passed them to the fbi. >> the aviation giant is under investigation after a string of mishaps this year. including that door plug that blue ofblew off. meeting with congressional staff to lobby against a bill that
makes this kind of hardware, this, this hi reliability hardware like an airplane. you need people to not be afraid that they're putting their livelihoods on the line. if they raise an issue that they think is important, you need the focus to be not on blame when something goes wrong but on why did it go wrong and how can we prevent it from going wrong in the future that's the attitude that has not that we did not see yet at boeing. will they get there eventually they might. i don't know. i do know that it has been five years we need to move at a faster pace. i i don't believe that the that the rate of change that we're seeing is commensurate with the events that cause us to be needed in the first place. namely, the crashes of two brand new airplanes and the death of than the deaths of 346 people things need to pick up and need to, they need to go much fatter. >> critical perspective. javier, did luis appreciate your time, so thank you my
>> very disturbing warnings from boeing whistleblowers accusing the company of putting out defective airplanes while so engaging in a quote criminal cover up. we have details from their alarming testimony up on capitol hill welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i'm wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room our covers begins tonight up on capitol hill where speaker mike johnson is staring down a conservative revolt volley to put critical foreign aid bills to a vote despite republican hardliners pushing to oust him. cnn's melanie zanona is up on capitol hill for us. melanie, what's the latest? >> yeah speaker mike johnson in the fight of his political life right now, he's decided to plow ahead with a package of foreign aid bills and really setting up a showdown with his hard, right? they are furious over this funding for ukraine
for the company testifie engined the senate about safety concerns and the threats he has received receive. now, during an exchange with the missouri senator josh hawley, i'll take a look at what happened. >> are these planes safe right now? i would not. you know, it's like an >> an. ake you know, the bigger quake is coming. but whenas win when that hits the building that, you know, you let's say if you're talking to a building have to be prepared to accommodate that type of, let's say, shake up, you know, it has to bet i built properly right now. >> from what i've seen, the airplanes are not being built per spec and per a requirement. >> the companies response to you was to threaten you, threaten you, sideline you, you know, transfer you. >> you raised concerns transfe about the 787. and so they transferred you,e transferred you to the 7777,. right. >> well, in the. yes. now boeing released a statement refuting his claims about flawsg
listen to this. >> in a rush to address the production -- boeing hip problems and pushed peace treatment pieces together with excessive force to make it apper that the gaps do not exist even though they do exist. it did not actually go away and this may result in premature failure. effectively they are putting out defective airplanes. near severe misalignment where the planes were assembled. boeing manufacturing use unmeasured and unlimited amount of force to correct the misalignment. in this also weekend the airplane in the long run. i literally saw people jumping onto the pieces of the airplane to get them to align. >> kayleigh: that is pretty concerning. >> kevin: i'll take the whistle-blower's testimony with the day of salt. but this company has had its guts smashed out of it but the
then you are operating at 35,000 feet details are that the size of a human hair can be a matter of life and death. they are putting out defective airplanes. >> boeing insists there is no evidence of fatigue failure in the sixth teen years, the 787 has been flying. there are about 1,100 operating worldwide and none have been lost to a crash. in a briefing for reporters monday, boeing detailed than it tested the 787 to 275 years of flights boeing is standing by the design saying, quote, claims about the structural integrity the of the 787 are inaccurate and do not represent the comprehensive work boeing has done to ensure the quality and long-term safety of the aircraft. if senator richard blumenthal called this hearing, what we see here is simply management that has been failing manufacturing that has defects and a broken safety culture. >> lawmakers anger is the
or related. how does this show how vulnerable some of our critical infrastructure really is here? >> incredibly vulnerable. i will just say, this laura. it strikes me that more and more, nothing really works in america anymore. our roads are falling apart. bridges are falling down right in front of our eyes. pieces of airplanes are falling out of the sky. now we have got these outages yet at the same time the congress of the united states and the president, what do they want to do? spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on foreign wars, use tax dollars to subsidize chinese industry, electric vehicles, paying the chinese to make stuff we don't want. whereas our country or while our country is falling apart. if ever this was the moment to say wake up and start investing in america, it would be right now. >> laura: now, the gw parkway which is one of the major arteries into d.c., they have ripped that up, senator. this is just one little example. effects millions of people in the course of a week in the nation's capital.
eastern on cnn a bruising day for boeing up on capitol hill in two different senate hearings today, current and former boeing employees detailed problems with how the company makes sure airplanes are safe to fly i'm not going to sugar coat this. this is a criminal cover up. >> de are putting out defective airplanes boeing has built more commercial jets flying in america than any other company. to be clear, it's been more than a decade since there was a dead league plane crash here in the united states and flying in this country is still remarkably safe, but today's hearing added two more than five years of tough scrutiny about safety and manufacturing safeguards at boeing that scrutiny traces back to, to debit card crashes, both in other countries involving the 7307 max, then came this scene in january, a door plug blowing out in the middle of an alaska airlines flight. a month after that, pilots reported the flight controls jammed as a planned light plane landed in new jersey and in february, the faa flagged issues with
the same whistle-blower said that boeing is producing defective airplanes. >> i have analyzed boeing and their data to conclude that the company is taking shortcuts on this program that may significantly reduce the airplane safety. and the life cycle. >> they claim boeing is prohibited and employees are encouraged to speak up. senators were skeptical they want changes at boeing and the faa who came under fire to become cozy with boeing. it's not just for passenger safety but they are the single largest exporter and there are lots of jobs at this company. >> kayleigh: no doubt about that. thank you. haven't we heard from the whistle-blower i want to play one more portion that really alarms me that involves people g on planes to try and fix them.
board a boeing 7307 max eight when it crashed in ethiopia in 2019, he was also part of an expert panel that interviewed witnesses at every level of boeing and a key witness in front of congress today, javier do luis. thank you for joining us. i want to start with the words of one of the witnesses today mr. luis, other boeing is quote, pointing out defective airplanes staff from a whistleblower putting out defective airplanes. that's a lot stronger than cutting corners here and there on safety, what do you make of that? >> well i'm not sure that the effective that well, let me put it this way in the work that we did with the panel, we didn't identify any purposely defective aircraft however, we did identify many instances where work is being pushed through at effect faster pace than it should be, which leads to situations where aircraft are heading out the door with things that are just not right with parts that are not