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Katherine Firkin: US Correspondent on the call for Boeing to be charged with criminal liability · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Time after the States and Catherine Firk and Catherine good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning mate. Are you wearing heavy nitwear?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wearing heavy knitwhere Noah, are you asking me
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  Speaker 2: about the heat weeds that's happening over here.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, I'll come to that in a moment. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: is the CEO thing yesterday with Boeing. Did anything material
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  Speaker 3: come out of that apart from, you know, a show
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  Speaker 3: for the cameras well, it was.
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  Speaker 4: A show for the cameras. I'm sure sure you saw it.
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  Speaker 2: It was really quite emotional scenes with family members of
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  Speaker 2: people who've died in those two deadly Bowing crashes in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. They absolutely let the CEO,
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  Speaker 2: Dave Calhoun, have it. They confronted him, some called him
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  Speaker 2: a mass killer. Some painted their hands red and said
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  Speaker 2: that the company and he himself had blood on his hands.
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  Speaker 2: But what's interesting what's actually come out of it is
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  Speaker 2: there is this renewed push now for the US Justice
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  Speaker 2: Department to lay criminal charges against the company and against
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  Speaker 2: executives at the company. We already knew that they had
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  Speaker 2: until July seven to make it decision whether they were
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  Speaker 2: going to go ahead and do this, But now that
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  Speaker 2: we've had this Senate hearing that really was quite extraordinary,
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  Speaker 2: there is this renewed push for action against the company.
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  Speaker 2: Relatives of the victims are asking the US Justice Department
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  Speaker 2: to seek a fine of almost twenty five billion US
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  Speaker 2: dollars that's more than forty billion New Zealand dollars. They
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  Speaker 2: also want the authority to move forward with a criminal prosecution.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to point out this all comes at
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  Speaker 2: a time when we have just had another whistleblower come forward.
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  Speaker 2: This person claims the company is knowingly installing defective parts
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  Speaker 2: in some of its aircraft. So it's certain feels like
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  Speaker 2: whatever's going to happen, Boeing's troubles are getting worse before
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  Speaker 2: they get better.
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  Speaker 1: It's a scandal for the ages. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The weather, so I was looking, funnily enough, a sort
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  Speaker 3: of forecast for a hurricane into Texas and Mexico. So
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  Speaker 3: you got that down south. So we're dealing with the
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  Speaker 3: heat wise midwest northeast.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Absolutely, we are dealing with a heat wave.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I don't want to call Americans wines, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be honest. It is only twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: degrees felsius at the moment in New York exactly. So
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  Speaker 2: you and I probably are not going to really consider
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  Speaker 2: that stupidly hot. But for Americans, it is quite warm
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  Speaker 2: here this time of year. They're calling it an excessive
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  Speaker 2: heat wave. Yesterday we did have eleven cities reach record highs.
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  Speaker 4: That was in places like Ohio. Detroit. Pennsylvania also got
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  Speaker 4: pretty warm. Today.
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  Speaker 2: We've got seventy four million people from the Midwest to
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  Speaker 2: the Northeast under these heat alerts. Here in New York,
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  Speaker 2: the Governor Kathi Hokl has said the National Guard will
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  Speaker 2: be on standby in case things get too bad this week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm certainly still in long sleeves, so I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know what I'm sorry, So, is it forecast to get
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  Speaker 3: worse than twenty nine for the national Guard? Or are
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  Speaker 3: we getting the national Guard out four twenty nine?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Look again, I have to be totally honest.
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  Speaker 2: I don't totally myself understand what stress is at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: because the forecast for the next couple of days is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, thirty degrees thirty one. I think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to get as high as thirty two. You know, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that is warm for this time of year. Don't really
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  Speaker 2: anticipate we're all going to be falling over fainting, but
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  Speaker 2: they've got the National Guard on standby justin case. Certainly
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  Speaker 2: on the West Coast there are a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 2: wildfires you've probably seen affect in California, very early for
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  Speaker 2: the fire season over there, and the heat is early
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  Speaker 2: for this time of year, but not something your eye
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  Speaker 2: would probably be losing a lot of sleep over.
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  Speaker 1: Very good context, Katherine, appreciate it very much. Go well.
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  Speaker 1: Katherine Fukin has US correspondent.
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