isn t helping the administration. reporter: and that s the larger problem for the trump administration. wow. we re going to win with health care, repeal and replace that garbage known as obama care. reporter: trump s most ambitious health care promises like replacing obamacare and lowering drug costs are stalled. a former agency official and a verma ally told cnn they partially blame the feud. in that meeting moderated by white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and vice president mike pence, a senior administration official tells cnn it was made clear the feud between the two must end and that official believes the feud is now in the past. we ll wait and see. back to you guys. what a feud. thank you. a source tells cnn boeing could make a key announcement today about its troubled 737 max jets. head we ll speak with a factory manager who raised concerns about the planes long before the two deadly air disasters. that s next.
the recent max accidents is completely unfounded. mr. pierson raises issues about the production of the 737 max, yet none of the authorities investigating these accidents have found production conditions in the 737 factory contributed in any way to these accidents. what do you say to that? well, i respectfully disagree. without investigating a factory where two brand new airplanes were built you can t make a statement like that. i would refer boeing back to the final accident report. there s mention repeatedly in the report of airplane issues with the flight control system, maintenance messaging, pilot messages, speed altitude and flags on their primary display. a lot of things going on and actually if you look at page 37 and 284 on the report, they talk in detail about a part that was installed originally by boeing. eric, you say in your 25 years of experiencing representing whistleblowers, the response to ed s concern was the worst you have seen.
cnn has learned that boeing may suspend or reduce production of its troubled 737 max jet and could announce that decision after the stock market closes today. the planes were grounded worldwide in march after two fatal crashes that killed 346 people. months before those crashes, a senior factory manager warned boeing management of problems in the production line. joining me ed pierson former senior manager at the boeing factory in washington, and joining us, his attorney, and ed, i want to start with you, because you worked in the factory that made all the planes of the 737 program for over ten years. you testified to congress since late 2017 you saw problems build up because of a delay in parts, employee fatigue, out of sequence work, breakdown in communications and schedule pressures. that s a lot more than just the faulty software which what is boeing blames for these crashes.
so explain your concerns and how boeing responded to them. sure. just to be clear, i actually worked at the factory for three years and worked for boeing ten years total and as far as what i saw was a factory in disarray and a lot of things going on as i mentioned to congress and those problems just continued to cascade for many months and that s when i brought my concerns to the attention of the senior management. what did they tell you when you brought that concern? i sent e-mails and met in person with the general manager and explained my concerns and asked him to consider shutting down the factory because i felt like it was just not worth the risk and i didn t really get that support. we did reach out to boeing for this story and their statement is boeing, the suggestion by mr. pierson of a link between his concerns and
to the bottom of these production problems. but it took it took, you know, over a year of arguing with these regulators and finally it had to be congress that told them they should do their job. ed, what do you make of the decision which does seem imminent that by the close of today there could be an announcement from boeing to halt or reduce production of the 737 max jets? you know, i really don t have a comment on that. i say i m really encouraged as eric mentioned that congress got faa to agree to do an investigation. talking to the employees, you know, that worked in the factory in the front line that s pretty important. i m encouraged by that and don t have comments about their production plan at this point. thank you for joining us. eric, thank you very much for being here as well. this is what happens when people come forward and speak their minds. appreciate both of you. thank you. the good stuff is next. searching for a way to help stop your cold sore?