national finance committee member al motter is here and chairman of the american conservative union match lap joints as well. good to see you both. good to be here. ed: matt, she said she will give you all these three things, unicorns, all kinds of great things, and she says it is two sense, she meant 2%. you will get all kinds of free things. they are so good at the messaging, two sense and every dollar, which as you say, actually a 2% increase in your tax rate, actually trillions of dollars over a long period of time. we tried this under obama. it s called socialism. he said he will get free birth control. we will make sure that health care is more affordable. my private insurance rates went from almost $2,000 a month. obamacare to almost $4,000 a month post-obamacare. socialism never works because in the end, when you promise free things to more people, they are not industrious to try to make their own changes in their life, and eventually, other people, usually in the middle
or does the average plane fly more flight cycles than 10 or 20 years ago? our maintenance procedures are so good, that planes are flying longer. but in this case, boeing yesterday really stepped to the plate and said they had expected the these lap joints, the overlapping areas where the skin is riveted, that they expected it to last for 60,000 cycles. they did not. and that s caused the emergency directive. what do you make of that, though? this is an engineering sophisticated as it gets. going from 60,000 cycles as the point at which you think there is stress on these joints, to 30,000, cutting it in half, what s behind that? doesn t that make you worry? i think we re in kind of new territory here. planes are flying longer than ever. and i think boeing, you know, did a best case estimate when they started making the 737, they made some adjustments to
the latest from japan. they were able to stop the water leak, but now there are fears that the whole reactor itself could burst. u.s. engineers issuing a troubling warning about the damaged reactors in japan on this american morning. good wednesday morning. it s april 6th. welcome to american morning. ahead this hour boeing, this morning saying they knew the lap joints on some of its 737 airplanes had problems. they just didn t think they would fail to quickly. we have the latest on that in five minutes. the rise of al qaeda, new training camps, new attacks by the united states, the headline, osama bin laden s network is gradually returning. and how about replacing that business suit with some pjs. more and more companies are letting their workers do everything they need to do from home. is it time for your old 9:00 to 5:00 job to clock out? those stories and more coming up. first to japan, a lot to tell
his challenger, assistant attorney general joanne cloppen burg has the backing of local unions. only a few hundred votes separate the candidates after yesterday s election. since the legal challenge to wisconsin s budget could be decided by the supreme court the winner of this election might actually cast the deciding vote. boeing now admits it knew about problems with lap joints and some of its planes, but it didn t expect the problems to happen until much later in the airplane s use. the faa has ordered emergency inspection of older boeing 737 planes after a southwest jet that had a fuselage rupture last week. we talked to peter goals, former managing director of the ntsb. we re in new territory here. planes are flying longer than ever, and i think boeing did a best case estimate when they started making the 737, they made some adjustments to how they connect the skin, they ve now gone back to the drawing board.
worldwide. diana alvear is now joins us from los angeles with the latest. reporter: peggy and mike, good morning. that southwest airlines flight wasn t just scary, it s prompting big changes in the way boeing inspects these kinds of aircraft. this is the five-foot section of fuselage that tore away while cruising at over 30,000 feet forcing a southwest airlines flight to make an emergency landing, a rare resent for a plane with an excellent safety record. we do not expect aircraft in service today to rapidly decompress in flight and have a situation where the airplane fuselage is ripping open. reporter: the tear occurred in a section of the aircraft not usually included in routine inspections. but according to boeing, the maker of the aircraft, the so-called lap joints did need to be inspected. our plan previous to this event was to recommend inspections starting at 60,000 cycles. obviously, none of the airplanes of this configuration are