Planes, the plead involved in a deadly pair of crashes that killed everybody on board. All this according to reports which cite instant messages from two boeing employees. Our chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt covering breaking news from los angeles. Jonathan, tell us about the text messages. Yeah, trace. The faa and the Justice Department now have these messages. The faa has called them concerning. The messages are between mark faulkner, the chief technical pilot for the boeing 737 max when it was going through the certification process and another boeing pilot. In one, faulkner says the Automated Systems on the max were making the plane very difficult to fly on a simulator. Youll remember, it was that Automated System that is being blamed for two crashes. One in indonesia in october of 2018, the other in ethiopia in march this year that killed three 46 people. The ncas system is said by investigators to have sent both planes into unrecoverable nose dives. Two years before the first o
Expected to hear from President Trump in just a few minutes but this comes after bombshell testimony on capitol hill from a key witness and the impeachment investigation. The former ambassador to ukrai ukraine, marie young evanovich, telling house lawmakers that the deputy secretary of state told her President Trump personally pressure of the state department to remove her, even though she has done nothing wrong, she blames what she calls unfounded and false claims by people who clearly have questionable motives. That is all according to her Opening Statement today. The Trump Administration removed the then ambassador who is a respected career diplomat at the same time Rudy Giuliani trying to get ukraine to investigate joe biden. President trump called the ambassador bad news in july phone call with ukrainian president during which he asked the foreign leader to investigate his political rival. The Rudy Giuliani, soviet born, conspired to remove the ambassador from the post by funnelin
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Airport where they were about to leave the country on oneway tickets. The pair also figure in the impeachment inquiry and those shadowy efforts to draw ukraine into investigating joe biden our Hallie Jackson has details. Reporter inside federal court, Rudy Giulianis inside men in ukraine, who had been helping him dig up dirt on joe biden there. Now, in a separate case, the pair is being charged with breaking Campaign Finance laws here, by allegedly trying to funnel foreign money into elections to buy potential influence with the candidates, campaigns and the candidates government the two were arrested at dulles airport, after buying a oneway ticket out of the country, prosecutors say. This investigation is about corrupt behavior, deliberate law breaking lev parnas and igor fruman donated more than they were allowed to to congressman Pete Sessions and asked for help to get rid of the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. Alert on tand by nbc news show sessions in 2018 asked th