April 17, 2024 • 33 mins
The USC Valedictorian defended her anti-Israel social media post. Google Employee Sit-ins against Google's Israel AI contracts. Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about a new Boeing whistleblower testifying to the Senate that he saw employees jumping on plane parts. More on the homeless problem.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Everything coming up. We got we got some excellent stuff
coming up. After one thirty. We're going to talk to
ABC News correspondent Alex Stone. There were some Boeing whistleblowers
who spoke before Congress today, and one of them, Sam Salapoor,
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says that when Boeing was putting together the seven eighty
seven planes, the Dreamliner, that's the really big plane, obviously
have very large panels that they need to assemble to
create the fuselage. Well, the panels didn't fit, and to
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force them to fit, he saw Boeing employees jumping on
pieces of the airplane, jumping up and down trying to
force them to connect. And when he complained about this
to supervisors. They told him to shut up, and one
of them, one of the supervisors apparently said, you know,
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if anybody brought that up at a meeting, I'd kill them.
So that's the response Sam Sealipur gotten. To his credit,
he keeps going with the story. It is pretty uh,
it's it's it is very difficult to speak out against
the company you work for if you think the company
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is portraying the public trust in some way, or if
the company is doing something that you think is clearly unsafe.
Now we'll get into all the nuances of it with
Alex coming up after one thirty. But it's a fascinating story,
not just about Boeing and planes, but just human nature
and how companies respond to possibly valid criticisms. Now in
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the two o'clock hour, we're going to talk to somebody
that we heard excuse me in an audio clip yesterday.
But the mayor of Vista, John Franklin and John Is
created a homelessness strategic plan, and he testified before a
Senate Public Safety committee meeting in Sacramento because they were
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debating a bill that would make it a crime if
you lay in the streets you slept or lay or
camped within five hundred feet of a school, a park,
or a transit stop. Now I should say make it
a crime. That's the way it's being portrayed by the
lunatics in Sacramento. No, it's not. You got seventy two
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hours to move your We actually have this law in
Los Angeles. Certain zones are designated now that you have
to stay five hundred feet away from schools and parks.
So they want to make it a state wide law
and nobody ever has to get arrested because all you
have to do is move five hundred feet away. You
got seventy two hours to move, and they'll give you
a list of places where you can go get help. Right,
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That's what's frustrating about all this. We have we spent
as we know now, twenty four billion dollars in state
money over the last six years, so people could get help,
but there's nothing that forces them to. And you have
this crowd and Sacramento that doesn't even want to force
them to get away from the school or the park.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And John Franklin gave a.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Quite an eye opening recitation of what school kids and
this to have to go through. We're going to play
you that later after two o'clock, and we're gonna have
Mayor John Franklin on because I I just can't imagine
the frustration. We also have something brewing at USC because
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the valedictorian is not being allowed to speak because apparently
she has said and posted things that are unfriendly to
Jews and unfriendly to Israelis, and so now USC has
barred her from speaking at next month's graduation. Now she
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hadn't she hadn't even planned what she was going to say,
but the school didn't want to trust her, and they
also didn't want to trust what the reaction was going
to be because I think it's pretty clear that most
people are now fed up with all the death to
Israel protests and chants, and they're fed up with the
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criticism of Israel over trying to protect it self, and
you know, fed up with the disruptions and traffic, fed
up with disruptions on campus, and they didn't want to
deal with it. You know, there's death threats flying all
over the place, and they did not want, as the
taboose them. If I'm saying her name right to to
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inflame the graduation ceremony.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't have to go to any graduation ceremonies very
often because it's gotten so bad. The administrators are all woke,
the students are all radicalized. You sit at one of
these graduations and it's like three hours.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh, just shoot me through the ad.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Same cliched progressive nonsense and radical garbage, and everybody's woke,
and everybody's oppressed and offended and blah blah blah. It's like,
that's not what life is about for most people. But
all the radicals get the speaking spots. The administrators, you know,
they're they're completely over the edge. I didn't know much
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about this woman. We're going to play you a clip.
She was on CNN Asna Taboosim. She is the valedictorian,
and CNN anchor Abby Philip asks her about her anti
Israel social media posts and to bossom defense her post.
So let's hear this clip and see what this woman's about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You just brought up a link that was posted through
your social media page. I do want to ask you
about that since you did bring it up. One of
the items in this post calls for the complete abolishment
of Israel. Is that a position that you endorse?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
If you're asking me if I stand for human rights.
If you're asking me if I stand for equality and
unequivocal and unconditional right to life for all people, including Palestinians,
then I'm not apologetic. I believe in what I believe,
and it is because of the people around me that
I've met at USC, the classes that I've taken, the
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professors that I have learned from that have led me
to look at the world and the question it's unfortunate
that you know human rights is controversial.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The reason I'm asking is because that's what the link said.
It called for the complete abolishment and Israel. Abolishment of
Israel was in the actual language. Is that something that
you endorse?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So the abolishment of the state of Israel, I'd like
to clarify, is the abolishment of an apartheid system. It
inherently is a system that subjugates Palestinians as dehumanized, and
it subjugates Palestinian life as not worth the same as
other human life. So that's when the link.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Says that a yes, then.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I think a yes or a no would be an
injustice to the issue. And I think that any sort
of ideological debate or any sort of academic discourse is
worth clarification and worth discussion.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, you know you have to pay seventy five thousand
dollars a year at USC. I think graduate degrees go
for more. So imagine you've pumped in what three hundred
thousand dollars into your kids college education and they're studying
something that has nothing to do with politics, nothing to
do with foreign relations. It's say you go to the
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film school, right, or you know you're studying to be
a doctor or whatever, just something completely outside the realm
of whatever. She's prattling about seven three hundred thousand dollars.
You bringing the family? You got grandpa and grandma there,
eighty eight years old. Do they have the USC graduation
indoors or outdoors? Because man, if it's outdoors, it gets hot.
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Even if it's indoors, it gets hot because the place
is crowded. And you know, the last thing anybody wants
to do is here radical politics preached at you in loud,
self righteous tones for hours.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I mean, I'd rather go to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Nobody wants to hear this except other crazy radicals. And
why can't you just have a graduation where everybody celebrates. Hey,
we got our degrees, we made it through. Let's get
on with life. A good thing happened today. Graduation is
supposed to be happy, they're supposed to be celebratory, and
then they got laden with all this progressive politics and
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people being oppressed. You know, progressiveness has destroyed all the
fun stuff in life over the last few years.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
We've seen it ruined.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Sports for a time, you know, with all the messages
on the uniform and the messages painted on the on
the on the end zones right, messages painted on the
basketball courts, and you know, late night television ruined. There
aren't too many laughs after eleven thirty anymore, are there.
The award shows were ruined for a time. They're trying
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to crawl back out of it. It's just like everything
was ruined, and graduation celebrations are ruined. It's just nonsense. No,
normal people don't want to hear this ever from anybody.
Shut up, argue in your house about this. Besides, you
can't do anything about it. I don't know if you
saw the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, he is made it
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very clear again that if that you know, Ron's gonna
be in for a hell of a lot of trouble
if this keeps up. So you're not having any effect
on Israel, You're not having any effect on.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The deceased Joe Biden. Just shut up already.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
More coming up, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
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Speaker 2 (10:51):
Once again, we're gonna have Alex Stone Khan Alex Stone
on from ABC News coming up after one thirties news.
Alex is going to tell us about the Boeing employee
who said that when the panels wouldn't fit when they
were building the Dreamliner seven eighty seven, Boeing employees would
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jump up and down until the panels clicked in sort of,
among other things. At the hearings today in Congress, as
more whistleblowers are speaking out against Boeing. Now another company
having issues which with its employees. Google now Google, you know,
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famously had hired so many wokeheads from you know, the
elite universities and overseas, and the wokeheads really found their
voice in twenty twenty during all the uprisings over the
George Floyd murder and all that, and they started trying
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to hold the supervisor's hostage not in a literal, but
in that they would have these big, massive Google meetings.
Everyone would crowd into a room and the Google supervisors
and executives would listen to all the low level employees
bitch and complaint and whine and talk about their microaggressions
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and talk about the offenses that they've had to suffer,
and on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean, it was wocal.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And suddenly Google realized, oh my god, this is a
massive waste of time. These people are crazy, and they
stopped having the meetings and then came time to do layoffs.
A lot of those people were laid off, but some
of them are still around because Google, like any company
in the world, just wants to make money. They're not
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interested in all these social causes. Whatever a company pretends
to be interested in the social cause, that's only another
way they think they can make money, you know, to
create an affinity maybe with a certain customer group. But
that's what it is. It's all emotional manipulation. So the
Google employees, some of them, are upset that Google and
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Amazon have a cloud computing contract an artificial intelligence contract
with the Israeli government and military UH. The deal is
known as Project Nimbus. It's worth one point two billion dollars.
Dozens of Google employees held sit ins in New York
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City and in Sunnyvale, up in Silicon Valley in California.
Demand excuse me, I just got to get a hold
on a second Okay, I got an analogy thing on it.
They demanded that Google and Amazon drop Project Nimbus. They
had the sit in, and they actually sat in the
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office of the Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Curion, and they
remained there for about ten hours. Google responded by ordering
the arrest of some of the workers. Wow, I didn't
think that would ever happen anymore. The arrest of some
in Sunnyville and some in New York and told they'd
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be locked out of their accounts, locked out of their offices,
and they were not expected to they can't come back
to work until they hear from human resources. Officers arrived
at the Google facility in Sunnyville at ten thirty in
the morning for about eighty protesters there. Most of them left,
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five remained. When those five wouldn't leave, around six thirty,
they were arrested. They wore t shirts that read Googler
against Genocide. God, you're so sick. I heard about this
genocide thing. That's what Hamas was doing. Hamas woke up
that Saturday morning and they're charter is to kill all
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the Jews, all of them. Really, what's wrong with them?
Everybody had this call get well turned upside down? Well,
everybody likes to lie. We're gonna play you a clip
of what went on with the protests.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, the cooperate, Yeah, all going.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, let's get kind of late a little bit ago.
I wanted to ask you, you know, to cooperate. You know,
we place on admin leave and you know we'd like
to if you just voluntarily you know, so it's been
a while, so can you do that for us? And
you know, afford that space and then you can contact
HR and go from there.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Well, could you get.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
That? No, I can't talk about that.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I'm just here.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I spoke about earlier because if not, you know, to
call law enforcement and go in.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That space and go in that space and get trespassed
and all that.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, we understand, Okay, just trying to get Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's pretty forceful.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Huh. You guys nather getting toughed here.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, that's not how you throw out a group of protesters. Well, guys,
you know it's getting late. Maybe you want to go out,
you know, Uh, otherwise, you know we're gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We're gonna have to. You're gonna get rested. You know,
you have to call h R.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's like, wow, there's they really are wieners up there,
aren't they? They really are wieners. What you should get
is some get get some German shepherds that'll clear the
place out.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Get some hungry German shepherds.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Here's a software engineer who said, we are not going
to uh be part of powering the first AI powered genocide.
We were willing to get a rest for that because
at this point we aren't willing to be lied to
by our higher ups. We aren't willing to be disrespected
by our higher ups. Blah blah blah, So go, so quit.
So you're not going to cancel the one point two
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billion dollar contract that Google and Amazon signed. You are
not going to stop Israel from using AI and cloud
computing and high tech. That's not happening, So Beard, you
are ineffective, flaccid, and pointless. These people are probably all
making six figure salaries. They got the golden ticket. They
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came out of college, probably an elite college, expensive college.
They got a chance to work for Google, and now
they're going to get kicked out because it's Israel and
Israel shouldn't exist and everybody in Israel ought to die
and Israel ought to be wiped out on the face
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of the earth. That's never going to happen short of
nuke your war. Israel is not going to allow it
to happen, and either's the United States. So who the
hell are we letting into the country. I mean, a
lot of this stuff is really subversive. There's a lot
of death to America chance going on now in these protests.
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It wasn't just death to Israel Low, it's death to
America too. When we come back, how about Bowie Bowey
employees jumping up and down on airline panels trying to
force them to connect. Really, that's next. We're going to
talk with Alex Stone from ABC News.
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to anything you missed. We're gonna talk now about more
bad news for Boeing because some witnesses whistleblowers testified at
two Senate committee hearings today and one of them, Sam Salapoor,
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said that he saw workers jumping up and down on
large panels of the aircraft as it was being assembled
to try to close the gaps between two pieces of
the fuselage. Seriously, and that's just the beginning of it.
Let's get Alex Stone from ABC News on Alex.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
How Arthur hey John doing well, Yeah, this is you
remember about a week ago we began to hear some
of his story and then we knew we were going
to hear more today when he was in front of
lawmakers on Capitol Hill. So it was a current whistleblower
today that Sam Salapoor who works at Boeing claims he's
been kind of sidelined and pushed out retaliated against four
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bringing up issues, and then a former whistleblower who has
not worked going for around six years, and they both
were giving their testimony. Quite honestly, though today senators of
the hearing seemed like the senators were uninformed on Boeing issues.
Most of the senators gave their comments, you know where
they were heard, they were seen. Then they left before
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either of these guys ever gave their testimony, so they
didn't even hear that. The senators said, well, we got
to wrap it up, we got to get to impeachment hearings.
So it seemed like there was a lot of listening
to what they said today, but the focus really being
on Sam Salibor, and he has been making claims that
the Boeing seven eighty seven Dreamliner and the Triple seven.
He worked on the Triple seven then moved over the
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seven eighty seven that he says that the way they
being built, that there are corners that are being cut,
that they are speeding things along and not looking at
a problem that he claims is there. He said today, I.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Have analyzed Boeing's own data to conclude that the companies
take in manufacture and shortcuts on the seven eight seven
program that may significantly redose air plane safety.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
So what he says is in production that the seven
eighty seven Dreamliner and the Triple seven, the pieces of
the fuselage don't fit together correctly when the different pieces
come in, and the Boeing then manipulates the material in
the case of the Dreamliner, it's composite material, not aluminum
like the Triple seven, to make them fit together, and
he says they put extreme force on them, that that
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can create failures in the composite material or in the
aluminum that over time can rip apart. But he says,
no matter what they do, that there are still tiny
gaps about twice the width of a human hair, so
really small gaps. No matter how much manipulating they do,
that they don't fit together correctly. He says, over time,
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over thousands of flights, that those gaps can come apart,
the plane can rip apart in the air, and that
it could be a danger to the flying public. And
he said in their eyes.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
To add this next in production, Boeing hit problems pushing
pieces together them with excessive force to make him appear
that the gaps don't exist. Even though they exist, the
gap didn't actually go away, and this may result in
provemature for the failure. Effectively, they are putting out defective airplanes.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
And so John Boeing denies all of this. It even
slowed production of the seven eighty seven a few years
ago to test these claims saying it simulated over one
hundred and sixty seven thousand flights did not find an issue.
Says it has full confidence in the seven eighty seven
and the Triple seven that this is not a real
life concern and that this is not something that should
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be taken as truth. Salopoor, though, and then you mentioned this,
he says it got as crazy. He has to force
those people together, the pieces together. He calls it the
Tarzan effect of jumping on the fuselage in the factory, saying.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the
airplane to get them to align. I call it the
part effect, among other improper methods.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
He's just jumping all over it. So he says he's
been retaliate against a nail and his car tired at Boeing,
But he says he can't prove that it was retaliation.
His lawyers say that they're not going to release the
evidence that they promised they were going to get best
last week. Then the former whistleblower who also testified today
more on the seven thirty seven Max. He claims that
he has documents about the Max door plug blowout that
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Alaska Airline's plane, even though the FAA and the NTSP
say no documents exist. He says, yes they do, but
he lost them and cannot produce them any longer. So
there are some questions this testimony. They can't back any
of it up with any evidence at this point, or
at least publicly. They're not releasing it. And the one
guy saying, well, I had the evidence, but I lost
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it now, so there are questions about that. But they
are claiming that Boeing is doing things at the factory
to produce planes quickly and doing things that they shouldn't
be doing.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The first guy salapoor at saga, that's a colorful story.
You can't really make that up. Employees jumping up and
down on the panels to force them together.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Yeah, and we know a couple of years ago Boeing
when they put the pause on the Dreamliner production and
they stopped deliveries to investigate some of these claims. They
did make production changes, and they admit that they made
production changes, but they say that they stand behind the
seven eighty sevens that are out there that were built
before the production changes, and they aren't really explaining what
they changed, but to try to make things smoother in
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the factory. One can assume that they kind of said, look,
you can't be doing this, and that this is not
the way we put these together. The other issue being
your planes historically have been made out of aluminum. We
are now in the new era, whether it be the
seven eighty seven or over at Airbus, the A three fifty,
I believe is mainly composite material. It is lighter, it is.
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It just performs better, but we don't really know. His
point being when you manipulate it. We haven't had it
long enough that if you put enough force onto it,
at what point does it create a little bit of
a tear in that composite material and the honeycomb material.
Where down the line that ear becomes a failure. We
haven't had these planes around long enough to really know.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Now.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Gin Boeing says, well, we simulated one hundred and sixty
seven thousand flights and it wasn't a problem. He says,
as an engineer at Boeing that it will be a
problem after a plane pressurizes and depressurizes enough takeoff and landing.
And these planes are beginning to get up there in age.
The seven eighty seven has been around for twelve thirteen years,
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so some of the older ones have a lot of
cycles on them, take offs and landings, and he's saying
eventually that's going to rip apart and blow apart in
the air. Boeing says, no, it's not, and that they're
totally safe.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, Salaport, he tells them, Well, his story is that
when he started airing these grievances within Boeing, they told
him to shut up, and that one supervised said if
he said that in a meeting with me, and kill him.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Yeah, those are his claims. Again, you know, he doesn't
really have any way to back any of that up,
but that is what he told lawmakers today, and that
he says he has been sidelined, that he's been pushed
out from his job at Boeing even though he still
works at Boeing, and then that he has faced retaliation. Now,
that would be in line with what some other whistleblowers
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have come up with Boeing. On their side, they claim
that no, that they get a lot of whistleblower complaints.
We don't hear about most of them. They investigate them.
They handle those that are valid and investigate those that
are not valid and deal with those but they are
welcoming and they want whistleblowers to come forward for the
safety of airline, that safety. But I'm sure they high
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profile whistleblowers. They have a different story to tell.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I'm sure they want more whistle blowers coming forward.
That's done great for the stock price. I heard this
morning and went from two seventy to one seventy. So
it's it's just that there's no way to know until
years down the road of a plane first into pieces.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Yeah, in in air when it's pressurized and the forces
on the plane and they're at you know, thirty eight
thousand feet and something happens there. So yeah, you got that.
And then the obviously the Max issues and the other guy,
Ed Pearson, he claims that there's been a huge cover
up on the safety of the seven thirty seven Max.
So these are their best selling planes, the Max, the
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seven thirty seven, the Triple seven. There are a lot
of those flying in the US right now, the seven
eighty seven, a lot of those flying around the world.
That these are the bread and butter of Boeing and
now they're having to descend them.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
All right, Alex, thanks for coming on, you got it.
Thanks Jean A lot of good stuff in there. We'll
talk some more about this. Alex Stone from ABC News.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
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Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're going to John Franklin on the Mara of Vista.
I want you to hear this coming up after Ashley's
two o'clock News. In fact, I'm going to play a
clip from that we ran yesterday. He testified in Sacramento
they were considering a bill.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
They were considering a bill in Sacramento to block homeless
encampments if they were within five hundred feet of schools
and parks. We have a limited version of that bill
here in Los Angeles. A city council person has to
apply to declare a certain zone off limits to homeless encampments,
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and they generally use it for parks in schools. Fork
a long time to get that patched, and it's being
used all over Los Angeles now, but there were always
council people against it. It's really simple. This is not complicated.
You can't have a homeless encampment within five hundred feet
of a school or a park.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Period. Well, ran into a brick wall with.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
The Assembly Public Safety Committee, and we're going to play
you a clip of John Franklin, the mayor Vista, trying
to explain to the idiots on the Assembly Public Safety
Committee what it's like if you're a child and you
have to navigate past a group of drug addicts and
mental patiencey the.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Clip from a parent.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
This morning, a homeless man became aggressive and hostile toward
me simply because he was asked to leave the area
that children were walking to school. The person refused to
leave when law enforcement was called to remove them, and
all of the young kindergarteners watched. This is not something
that kindergarteners or any student should be experiencing on their
way to school. From a student while walking to school,
it makes me feel very unsafe to have them walk
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by and sit on the sidewalk, and even at one
of the exits to our schools, it makes me feel anxious.
I don't understand why the police department won't help us.
From another student, I feel nervous sometimes when I walk
to school, and usually try to walk with other people
because the homeless scare me. I don't think it's right
that I should feel nervous when all I want to
do is go to school.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
From a parent.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
The behavior of these almost individuals is not only vulgar,
but it is harassing, also unsanitary. Their living conditions often
result in unsanitary uncleanliness, which poses a serious health risk
for the children in our community. And finally, from the
portraite one of our schools, every morning I have to
clean pee and poop off of the entrance to One time,
(30:32):
a homeless man smeared his poop all over the emergency door.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That's John Wagner, the mayor of Vista. He lays that out.
That's the reality, right, that's what homeless people do. They
smear poop all over the emergency door at a school.
Of course, that's what they do because they're either mentally
ill or they're addicted to drugs. They're out of their
minds either way, and people who are insane like to
smear their pool all over the place. Now you can
(30:58):
imagine the kind of disease that little children could catch
if they touched a door handle that had homeless pooh
on it. Not to mention you know, the urine, the vomit,
the garbage, the rats, but this bill to move homeless
camps at least five hundred feet away from schools in
parks lost in committee Assembly pitty three to one. Two
(31:22):
of the most outspoken were two women, Nancy Skinner, Democrats
from Berkeley, and Aisha Wahab, a Democrat from Hayward. And
I guess they think it's okay for homeless people to
smear pooh on school door knops.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It's okay by them, and they voted this down.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
This is not about this is not about tearing down
all the encampments and banning them. It's just keeping away
from schools in park that's all. You can't even get
that out of this crowd. And the way it would
work is you got seventy two hours of warning and
(32:01):
then you're going to get a list of places to
go and get help, right because we're told you know
when you need help. Okay, well here's the help. Let's
go get out of here. But they voted down. The
women on the Usually you tell stories about children having
to deal with vulgar, frightening, bad guys laying in wait
(32:25):
for them on the walk to school and the pooh
on the doorknobs. You think you know the motherly instinct
would kick in there and saying, oh my god, this
is terrible, wet. We don't have this in most societies.
It's not permitted. Well for Nancy Skinner and let me
get the other lady's name right, Aisha Wahab. Yeah, little
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children just have to deal with that. They have to
deal with the discomfort, the fear, the disgust. John Franklin
the Mayra Vista you heard him talking, will be on
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coming up. After one thirty. We're going to talk to
ABC News correspondent Alex Stone. There were some Boeing whistleblowers
who spoke before Congress today, and one of them, Sam Salapoor,
(00:49):
says that when Boeing was putting together the seven eighty
seven planes, the Dreamliner, that's the really big plane, obviously
have very large panels that they need to assemble to
create the fuselage. Well, the panels didn't fit, and to
(01:10):
force them to fit, he saw Boeing employees jumping on
pieces of the airplane, jumping up and down trying to
force them to connect. And when he complained about this
to supervisors. They told him to shut up, and one
of them, one of the supervisors apparently said, you know,
(01:32):
if anybody brought that up at a meeting, I'd kill them.
So that's the response Sam Sealipur gotten. To his credit,
he keeps going with the story. It is pretty uh,
it's it's it is very difficult to speak out against
the company you work for if you think the company
(01:54):
is portraying the public trust in some way, or if
the company is doing something that you think is clearly unsafe.
Now we'll get into all the nuances of it with
Alex coming up after one thirty. But it's a fascinating story,
not just about Boeing and planes, but just human nature
and how companies respond to possibly valid criticisms. Now in
(02:16):
the two o'clock hour, we're going to talk to somebody
that we heard excuse me in an audio clip yesterday.
But the mayor of Vista, John Franklin and John Is
created a homelessness strategic plan, and he testified before a
Senate Public Safety committee meeting in Sacramento because they were
(02:38):
debating a bill that would make it a crime if
you lay in the streets you slept or lay or
camped within five hundred feet of a school, a park,
or a transit stop. Now I should say make it
a crime. That's the way it's being portrayed by the
lunatics in Sacramento. No, it's not. You got seventy two
(02:59):
hours to move your We actually have this law in
Los Angeles. Certain zones are designated now that you have
to stay five hundred feet away from schools and parks.
So they want to make it a state wide law
and nobody ever has to get arrested because all you
have to do is move five hundred feet away. You
got seventy two hours to move, and they'll give you
a list of places where you can go get help. Right,
(03:23):
That's what's frustrating about all this. We have we spent
as we know now, twenty four billion dollars in state
money over the last six years, so people could get help,
but there's nothing that forces them to. And you have
this crowd and Sacramento that doesn't even want to force
them to get away from the school or the park.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And John Franklin gave a.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Quite an eye opening recitation of what school kids and
this to have to go through. We're going to play
you that later after two o'clock, and we're gonna have
Mayor John Franklin on because I I just can't imagine
the frustration. We also have something brewing at USC because
(04:14):
the valedictorian is not being allowed to speak because apparently
she has said and posted things that are unfriendly to
Jews and unfriendly to Israelis, and so now USC has
barred her from speaking at next month's graduation. Now she
(04:36):
hadn't she hadn't even planned what she was going to say,
but the school didn't want to trust her, and they
also didn't want to trust what the reaction was going
to be because I think it's pretty clear that most
people are now fed up with all the death to
Israel protests and chants, and they're fed up with the
(04:57):
criticism of Israel over trying to protect it self, and
you know, fed up with the disruptions and traffic, fed
up with disruptions on campus, and they didn't want to
deal with it. You know, there's death threats flying all
over the place, and they did not want, as the
taboose them. If I'm saying her name right to to
(05:17):
inflame the graduation ceremony.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I don't have to go to any graduation ceremonies very
often because it's gotten so bad. The administrators are all woke,
the students are all radicalized. You sit at one of
these graduations and it's like three hours.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh, just shoot me through the ad.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Same cliched progressive nonsense and radical garbage, and everybody's woke,
and everybody's oppressed and offended and blah blah blah. It's like,
that's not what life is about for most people. But
all the radicals get the speaking spots. The administrators, you know,
they're they're completely over the edge. I didn't know much
(06:02):
about this woman. We're going to play you a clip.
She was on CNN Asna Taboosim. She is the valedictorian,
and CNN anchor Abby Philip asks her about her anti
Israel social media posts and to bossom defense her post.
So let's hear this clip and see what this woman's about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You just brought up a link that was posted through
your social media page. I do want to ask you
about that since you did bring it up. One of
the items in this post calls for the complete abolishment
of Israel. Is that a position that you endorse?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
If you're asking me if I stand for human rights.
If you're asking me if I stand for equality and
unequivocal and unconditional right to life for all people, including Palestinians,
then I'm not apologetic. I believe in what I believe,
and it is because of the people around me that
I've met at USC, the classes that I've taken, the
(07:08):
professors that I have learned from that have led me
to look at the world and the question it's unfortunate
that you know human rights is controversial.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The reason I'm asking is because that's what the link said.
It called for the complete abolishment and Israel. Abolishment of
Israel was in the actual language. Is that something that
you endorse?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So the abolishment of the state of Israel, I'd like
to clarify, is the abolishment of an apartheid system. It
inherently is a system that subjugates Palestinians as dehumanized, and
it subjugates Palestinian life as not worth the same as
other human life. So that's when the link.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Says that a yes, then.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I think a yes or a no would be an
injustice to the issue. And I think that any sort
of ideological debate or any sort of academic discourse is
worth clarification and worth discussion.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, you know you have to pay seventy five thousand
dollars a year at USC. I think graduate degrees go
for more. So imagine you've pumped in what three hundred
thousand dollars into your kids college education and they're studying
something that has nothing to do with politics, nothing to
do with foreign relations. It's say you go to the
(08:32):
film school, right, or you know you're studying to be
a doctor or whatever, just something completely outside the realm
of whatever. She's prattling about seven three hundred thousand dollars.
You bringing the family? You got grandpa and grandma there,
eighty eight years old. Do they have the USC graduation
indoors or outdoors? Because man, if it's outdoors, it gets hot.
(08:55):
Even if it's indoors, it gets hot because the place
is crowded. And you know, the last thing anybody wants
to do is here radical politics preached at you in loud,
self righteous tones for hours.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I mean, I'd rather go to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Nobody wants to hear this except other crazy radicals. And
why can't you just have a graduation where everybody celebrates. Hey,
we got our degrees, we made it through. Let's get
on with life. A good thing happened today. Graduation is
supposed to be happy, they're supposed to be celebratory, and
then they got laden with all this progressive politics and
(09:36):
people being oppressed. You know, progressiveness has destroyed all the
fun stuff in life over the last few years.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
We've seen it ruined.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Sports for a time, you know, with all the messages
on the uniform and the messages painted on the on
the on the end zones right, messages painted on the
basketball courts, and you know, late night television ruined. There
aren't too many laughs after eleven thirty anymore, are there.
The award shows were ruined for a time. They're trying
(10:06):
to crawl back out of it. It's just like everything
was ruined, and graduation celebrations are ruined. It's just nonsense. No,
normal people don't want to hear this ever from anybody.
Shut up, argue in your house about this. Besides, you
can't do anything about it. I don't know if you
saw the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, he is made it
(10:30):
very clear again that if that you know, Ron's gonna
be in for a hell of a lot of trouble
if this keeps up. So you're not having any effect
on Israel, You're not having any effect on.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
The deceased Joe Biden. Just shut up already.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
More coming up, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
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Speaker 2 (10:51):
Once again, we're gonna have Alex Stone Khan Alex Stone
on from ABC News coming up after one thirties news.
Alex is going to tell us about the Boeing employee
who said that when the panels wouldn't fit when they
were building the Dreamliner seven eighty seven, Boeing employees would
(11:12):
jump up and down until the panels clicked in sort of,
among other things. At the hearings today in Congress, as
more whistleblowers are speaking out against Boeing. Now another company
having issues which with its employees. Google now Google, you know,
(11:35):
famously had hired so many wokeheads from you know, the
elite universities and overseas, and the wokeheads really found their
voice in twenty twenty during all the uprisings over the
George Floyd murder and all that, and they started trying
(11:56):
to hold the supervisor's hostage not in a literal, but
in that they would have these big, massive Google meetings.
Everyone would crowd into a room and the Google supervisors
and executives would listen to all the low level employees
bitch and complaint and whine and talk about their microaggressions
(12:18):
and talk about the offenses that they've had to suffer,
and on and on and on.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I mean, it was wocal.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And suddenly Google realized, oh my god, this is a
massive waste of time. These people are crazy, and they
stopped having the meetings and then came time to do layoffs.
A lot of those people were laid off, but some
of them are still around because Google, like any company
in the world, just wants to make money. They're not
(12:47):
interested in all these social causes. Whatever a company pretends
to be interested in the social cause, that's only another
way they think they can make money, you know, to
create an affinity maybe with a certain customer group. But
that's what it is. It's all emotional manipulation. So the
Google employees, some of them, are upset that Google and
(13:09):
Amazon have a cloud computing contract an artificial intelligence contract
with the Israeli government and military UH. The deal is
known as Project Nimbus. It's worth one point two billion dollars.
Dozens of Google employees held sit ins in New York
(13:30):
City and in Sunnyvale, up in Silicon Valley in California.
Demand excuse me, I just got to get a hold
on a second Okay, I got an analogy thing on it.
They demanded that Google and Amazon drop Project Nimbus. They
had the sit in, and they actually sat in the
(13:52):
office of the Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Curion, and they
remained there for about ten hours. Google responded by ordering
the arrest of some of the workers. Wow, I didn't
think that would ever happen anymore. The arrest of some
in Sunnyville and some in New York and told they'd
(14:13):
be locked out of their accounts, locked out of their offices,
and they were not expected to they can't come back
to work until they hear from human resources. Officers arrived
at the Google facility in Sunnyville at ten thirty in
the morning for about eighty protesters there. Most of them left,
(14:34):
five remained. When those five wouldn't leave, around six thirty,
they were arrested. They wore t shirts that read Googler
against Genocide. God, you're so sick. I heard about this
genocide thing. That's what Hamas was doing. Hamas woke up
that Saturday morning and they're charter is to kill all
(14:56):
the Jews, all of them. Really, what's wrong with them?
Everybody had this call get well turned upside down? Well,
everybody likes to lie. We're gonna play you a clip
of what went on with the protests.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, the cooperate, Yeah, all going.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, let's get kind of late a little bit ago.
I wanted to ask you, you know, to cooperate. You know,
we place on admin leave and you know we'd like
to if you just voluntarily you know, so it's been
a while, so can you do that for us? And
you know, afford that space and then you can contact
HR and go from there.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Well, could you get.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
That? No, I can't talk about that.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I'm just here.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I spoke about earlier because if not, you know, to
call law enforcement and go in.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That space and go in that space and get trespassed
and all that.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Yeah, we understand, Okay, just trying to get Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's pretty forceful.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Huh. You guys nather getting toughed here.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Well, that's not how you throw out a group of protesters. Well, guys,
you know it's getting late. Maybe you want to go out,
you know, Uh, otherwise, you know we're gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We're gonna have to. You're gonna get rested. You know,
you have to call h R.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's like, wow, there's they really are wieners up there,
aren't they? They really are wieners. What you should get
is some get get some German shepherds that'll clear the
place out.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Get some hungry German shepherds.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Here's a software engineer who said, we are not going
to uh be part of powering the first AI powered genocide.
We were willing to get a rest for that because
at this point we aren't willing to be lied to
by our higher ups. We aren't willing to be disrespected
by our higher ups. Blah blah blah, So go, so quit.
So you're not going to cancel the one point two
(17:10):
billion dollar contract that Google and Amazon signed. You are
not going to stop Israel from using AI and cloud
computing and high tech. That's not happening, So Beard, you
are ineffective, flaccid, and pointless. These people are probably all
making six figure salaries. They got the golden ticket. They
(17:35):
came out of college, probably an elite college, expensive college.
They got a chance to work for Google, and now
they're going to get kicked out because it's Israel and
Israel shouldn't exist and everybody in Israel ought to die
and Israel ought to be wiped out on the face
(17:57):
of the earth. That's never going to happen short of
nuke your war. Israel is not going to allow it
to happen, and either's the United States. So who the
hell are we letting into the country. I mean, a
lot of this stuff is really subversive. There's a lot
of death to America chance going on now in these protests.
(18:17):
It wasn't just death to Israel Low, it's death to
America too. When we come back, how about Bowie Bowey
employees jumping up and down on airline panels trying to
force them to connect. Really, that's next. We're going to
talk with Alex Stone from ABC News.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
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Speaker 2 (18:46):
From one n till four, and then after four o'clock
you can get the John Cobelt Show on demand podcast
version same as the radio show, and you can listen
to anything you missed. We're gonna talk now about more
bad news for Boeing because some witnesses whistleblowers testified at
two Senate committee hearings today and one of them, Sam Salapoor,
(19:12):
said that he saw workers jumping up and down on
large panels of the aircraft as it was being assembled
to try to close the gaps between two pieces of
the fuselage. Seriously, and that's just the beginning of it.
Let's get Alex Stone from ABC News on Alex.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
How Arthur hey John doing well, Yeah, this is you
remember about a week ago we began to hear some
of his story and then we knew we were going
to hear more today when he was in front of
lawmakers on Capitol Hill. So it was a current whistleblower
today that Sam Salapoor who works at Boeing claims he's
been kind of sidelined and pushed out retaliated against four
(19:56):
bringing up issues, and then a former whistleblower who has
not worked going for around six years, and they both
were giving their testimony. Quite honestly, though today senators of
the hearing seemed like the senators were uninformed on Boeing issues.
Most of the senators gave their comments, you know where
they were heard, they were seen. Then they left before
(20:18):
either of these guys ever gave their testimony, so they
didn't even hear that. The senators said, well, we got
to wrap it up, we got to get to impeachment hearings.
So it seemed like there was a lot of listening
to what they said today, but the focus really being
on Sam Salibor, and he has been making claims that
the Boeing seven eighty seven Dreamliner and the Triple seven.
He worked on the Triple seven then moved over the
(20:39):
seven eighty seven that he says that the way they
being built, that there are corners that are being cut,
that they are speeding things along and not looking at
a problem that he claims is there. He said today, I.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Have analyzed Boeing's own data to conclude that the companies
take in manufacture and shortcuts on the seven eight seven
program that may significantly redose air plane safety.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
So what he says is in production that the seven
eighty seven Dreamliner and the Triple seven, the pieces of
the fuselage don't fit together correctly when the different pieces
come in, and the Boeing then manipulates the material in
the case of the Dreamliner, it's composite material, not aluminum
like the Triple seven, to make them fit together, and
he says they put extreme force on them, that that
(21:27):
can create failures in the composite material or in the
aluminum that over time can rip apart. But he says,
no matter what they do, that there are still tiny
gaps about twice the width of a human hair, so
really small gaps. No matter how much manipulating they do,
that they don't fit together correctly. He says, over time,
(21:48):
over thousands of flights, that those gaps can come apart,
the plane can rip apart in the air, and that
it could be a danger to the flying public. And
he said in their eyes.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
To add this next in production, Boeing hit problems pushing
pieces together them with excessive force to make him appear
that the gaps don't exist. Even though they exist, the
gap didn't actually go away, and this may result in
provemature for the failure. Effectively, they are putting out defective airplanes.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
And so John Boeing denies all of this. It even
slowed production of the seven eighty seven a few years
ago to test these claims saying it simulated over one
hundred and sixty seven thousand flights did not find an issue.
Says it has full confidence in the seven eighty seven
and the Triple seven that this is not a real
life concern and that this is not something that should
(22:39):
be taken as truth. Salopoor, though, and then you mentioned this,
he says it got as crazy. He has to force
those people together, the pieces together. He calls it the
Tarzan effect of jumping on the fuselage in the factory, saying.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
I literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the
airplane to get them to align. I call it the
part effect, among other improper methods.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
He's just jumping all over it. So he says he's
been retaliate against a nail and his car tired at Boeing,
But he says he can't prove that it was retaliation.
His lawyers say that they're not going to release the
evidence that they promised they were going to get best
last week. Then the former whistleblower who also testified today
more on the seven thirty seven Max. He claims that
he has documents about the Max door plug blowout that
(23:25):
Alaska Airline's plane, even though the FAA and the NTSP
say no documents exist. He says, yes they do, but
he lost them and cannot produce them any longer. So
there are some questions this testimony. They can't back any
of it up with any evidence at this point, or
at least publicly. They're not releasing it. And the one
guy saying, well, I had the evidence, but I lost
(23:45):
it now, so there are questions about that. But they
are claiming that Boeing is doing things at the factory
to produce planes quickly and doing things that they shouldn't
be doing.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The first guy salapoor at saga, that's a colorful story.
You can't really make that up. Employees jumping up and
down on the panels to force them together.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Yeah, and we know a couple of years ago Boeing
when they put the pause on the Dreamliner production and
they stopped deliveries to investigate some of these claims. They
did make production changes, and they admit that they made
production changes, but they say that they stand behind the
seven eighty sevens that are out there that were built
before the production changes, and they aren't really explaining what
they changed, but to try to make things smoother in
(24:32):
the factory. One can assume that they kind of said, look,
you can't be doing this, and that this is not
the way we put these together. The other issue being
your planes historically have been made out of aluminum. We
are now in the new era, whether it be the
seven eighty seven or over at Airbus, the A three fifty,
I believe is mainly composite material. It is lighter, it is.
(24:55):
It just performs better, but we don't really know. His
point being when you manipulate it. We haven't had it
long enough that if you put enough force onto it,
at what point does it create a little bit of
a tear in that composite material and the honeycomb material.
Where down the line that ear becomes a failure. We
haven't had these planes around long enough to really know.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Now.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
Gin Boeing says, well, we simulated one hundred and sixty
seven thousand flights and it wasn't a problem. He says,
as an engineer at Boeing that it will be a
problem after a plane pressurizes and depressurizes enough takeoff and landing.
And these planes are beginning to get up there in age.
The seven eighty seven has been around for twelve thirteen years,
(25:37):
so some of the older ones have a lot of
cycles on them, take offs and landings, and he's saying
eventually that's going to rip apart and blow apart in
the air. Boeing says, no, it's not, and that they're
totally safe.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, Salaport, he tells them, Well, his story is that
when he started airing these grievances within Boeing, they told
him to shut up, and that one supervised said if
he said that in a meeting with me, and kill him.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Yeah, those are his claims. Again, you know, he doesn't
really have any way to back any of that up,
but that is what he told lawmakers today, and that
he says he has been sidelined, that he's been pushed
out from his job at Boeing even though he still
works at Boeing, and then that he has faced retaliation. Now,
that would be in line with what some other whistleblowers
(26:24):
have come up with Boeing. On their side, they claim
that no, that they get a lot of whistleblower complaints.
We don't hear about most of them. They investigate them.
They handle those that are valid and investigate those that
are not valid and deal with those but they are
welcoming and they want whistleblowers to come forward for the
safety of airline, that safety. But I'm sure they high
(26:44):
profile whistleblowers. They have a different story to tell.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I'm sure they want more whistle blowers coming forward.
That's done great for the stock price. I heard this
morning and went from two seventy to one seventy. So
it's it's just that there's no way to know until
years down the road of a plane first into pieces.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Yeah, in in air when it's pressurized and the forces
on the plane and they're at you know, thirty eight
thousand feet and something happens there. So yeah, you got that.
And then the obviously the Max issues and the other guy,
Ed Pearson, he claims that there's been a huge cover
up on the safety of the seven thirty seven Max.
So these are their best selling planes, the Max, the
(27:25):
seven thirty seven, the Triple seven. There are a lot
of those flying in the US right now, the seven
eighty seven, a lot of those flying around the world.
That these are the bread and butter of Boeing and
now they're having to descend them.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
All right, Alex, thanks for coming on, you got it.
Thanks Jean A lot of good stuff in there. We'll
talk some more about this. Alex Stone from ABC News.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
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Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're going to John Franklin on the Mara of Vista.
I want you to hear this coming up after Ashley's
two o'clock News. In fact, I'm going to play a
clip from that we ran yesterday. He testified in Sacramento
they were considering a bill.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're not gonna believe this.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
They were considering a bill in Sacramento to block homeless
encampments if they were within five hundred feet of schools
and parks. We have a limited version of that bill
here in Los Angeles. A city council person has to
apply to declare a certain zone off limits to homeless encampments,
(28:36):
and they generally use it for parks in schools. Fork
a long time to get that patched, and it's being
used all over Los Angeles now, but there were always
council people against it. It's really simple. This is not complicated.
You can't have a homeless encampment within five hundred feet
of a school or a park.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Period. Well, ran into a brick wall with.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
The Assembly Public Safety Committee, and we're going to play
you a clip of John Franklin, the mayor Vista, trying
to explain to the idiots on the Assembly Public Safety
Committee what it's like if you're a child and you
have to navigate past a group of drug addicts and
mental patiencey the.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Clip from a parent.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
This morning, a homeless man became aggressive and hostile toward
me simply because he was asked to leave the area
that children were walking to school. The person refused to
leave when law enforcement was called to remove them, and
all of the young kindergarteners watched. This is not something
that kindergarteners or any student should be experiencing on their
way to school. From a student while walking to school,
it makes me feel very unsafe to have them walk
(29:48):
by and sit on the sidewalk, and even at one
of the exits to our schools, it makes me feel anxious.
I don't understand why the police department won't help us.
From another student, I feel nervous sometimes when I walk
to school, and usually try to walk with other people
because the homeless scare me. I don't think it's right
that I should feel nervous when all I want to
do is go to school.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
From a parent.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
The behavior of these almost individuals is not only vulgar,
but it is harassing, also unsanitary. Their living conditions often
result in unsanitary uncleanliness, which poses a serious health risk
for the children in our community. And finally, from the
portraite one of our schools, every morning I have to
clean pee and poop off of the entrance to One time,
(30:32):
a homeless man smeared his poop all over the emergency door.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That's John Wagner, the mayor of Vista. He lays that out.
That's the reality, right, that's what homeless people do. They
smear poop all over the emergency door at a school.
Of course, that's what they do because they're either mentally
ill or they're addicted to drugs. They're out of their
minds either way, and people who are insane like to
smear their pool all over the place. Now you can
(30:58):
imagine the kind of disease that little children could catch
if they touched a door handle that had homeless pooh
on it. Not to mention you know, the urine, the vomit,
the garbage, the rats, but this bill to move homeless
camps at least five hundred feet away from schools in
parks lost in committee Assembly pitty three to one. Two
(31:22):
of the most outspoken were two women, Nancy Skinner, Democrats
from Berkeley, and Aisha Wahab, a Democrat from Hayward. And
I guess they think it's okay for homeless people to
smear pooh on school door knops.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It's okay by them, and they voted this down.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
This is not about this is not about tearing down
all the encampments and banning them. It's just keeping away
from schools in park that's all. You can't even get
that out of this crowd. And the way it would
work is you got seventy two hours of warning and
(32:01):
then you're going to get a list of places to
go and get help, right because we're told you know
when you need help. Okay, well here's the help. Let's
go get out of here. But they voted down. The
women on the Usually you tell stories about children having
to deal with vulgar, frightening, bad guys laying in wait
(32:25):
for them on the walk to school and the pooh
on the doorknobs. You think you know the motherly instinct
would kick in there and saying, oh my god, this
is terrible, wet. We don't have this in most societies.
It's not permitted. Well for Nancy Skinner and let me
get the other lady's name right, Aisha Wahab. Yeah, little
(32:48):
children just have to deal with that. They have to
deal with the discomfort, the fear, the disgust. John Franklin
the Mayra Vista you heard him talking, will be on
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