it s okay if north korea launches missiles as long as they are short ray range missiles he says. your reaction. it s disjointed policy, erin. let me first define a short range missile. this kn 23, the missile mr. trump is talking about has a range of 200 kilometers and 420 kilometers. let s put that in miles. that s about 120 miles to about 260 miles. you could shoot a missile from washington, d.c. to new york and hit it with precision with this kind of short range missile. it s not incongroups. most of the american forces on the korean peninsula are within that range. 28,000 u.s. troops, all of our airbuses in the range. as well as 35 miles away from the the north korean border is the city of seoul with the population of 10 million. what explains this to you? i have no explanation.
resuming talks. did the u.s. withdraw from this deal kick the iranian problem to europe s doorstep? it gives the impression of doing that. the fact it is europe can t do anything about it. no matter how much macron promises or the european political leadership promises to keep the deal alive, the fact is that european companies, the mercedes-benzs, the airbuses of europe will not dare to defy american sanctions. if they do so, that will hurt them in europe, in the united states. so europe doesn t really have any leverage here, does not have any cards to play. this is not something the european politicians would like to admit. they d like to keep up the impression they re an important power and can make change happen in iran. the fact is that their companies have already essentially shown where their priorities lie and their priorities lie in not
defying american sanctions. the e.u. tried to come up with a financial work around but multilateral sanctions by the u.s. made it unworkable. what viable options remain to save this deal? well, none really. that one thing that the e.u. came up with was specifically for humanitarian exports to iran. things like medicine, things like emergency supplies or food if iran needs those things. they re not meant to sell airbuses to iran or manufacturing equipment or anything else of substance that will help the iran economy. as you point out, even that mechanism cannot really work until and unless the united states says it s okay for companies to use that mechanism even for humanitarian trade. the united states has not done that yet. the u.s. would prefer that humanitarian trade go through other channels.
that but we are tracking the story minute-by-minute, back to you guys. sandra: we will to follow the latest from their greg palkot, thank you. jon: also tracking new information in the bowling investigation as data from the flight data, the so-called black box appears to show a link between two deadly crashes in less than six months. while the wall street journal reports federal prosecutors in the department of transportation are taking a closer look at the development of the boeing 737 max eight jack. jet. initial suspicions are pointing towards the flight control system, tell us about that. it stands for maneuvering characteristics augmentation system, it is an automated control of the automated system in any boeing airplane. while they are very common among air buses. they are designed to compensate for the bigger engines which necessitated moving the engine
boeing had 5,000 orders pending for the max 8 but direct competitor airbus had over 6500 for new a 320 eo. the market poised to enter the fight. china has a brand new competitor for the 737 max series and that s co-maxine 109 i think it is which is about to be sold. the reason why they were among the first to actually ground the plane. in december boeing made a risky decision to open a finishing factor in china. some fear china could use the factory as a bargaining chip in trade talks. french president macron visits china next month to discuss a major order of airbus planes. today he is in africa winning an airbus contract in kenya and negotiating with ethiopian airlines to sell more airbuses. coincidentally the black boxes from the ethiopian airlines crash are being examined in macron s country. the bea which is the