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again. there s way too much invested. i promise you this, within a year everybody will be flying it without any problems, forgetting about what might have happened in that case. bold predictions from richard and natalie, thank you for joining us on new day. all right, john, five people sentenced to death for the murder of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi. those closest to the saudi crown prince were spared. we ll speak with one of khashoggi s former colleagues who says this sentence was a whitewa whitewash. going back to the doctor just for a shot. with neulasta onpro. .patients get their day back. .to be with. . family. .or just to sleep in. strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study.
an anomaly, and that s what the new incoming ceo david calhoun said to us in an interview early this year. there was the sense that this might have been a one-off. now, you know, assumptions and other problems came to light before the ethiopian crash, but the decision was made to work on a fix and to struinstruct pilotw to use an emergency procedure to recover the plane. richard, could there be criminal liability at the end of all this? highly unlikely. the bar would need to be set so high and the actions taken by officers of the company so grave that it s not a runner. it would be most unusual. corporate criminal liability, that s another one that often is looked at. again, the bar is set so high, you have to prove so many different things that it s not going to be a runner. civil litigation, of course, left, right, and center, huge number of claims all over the place against boeing, even
for the company, and lawmakers have said that they aren t satisfied. richard blumenthal, the senator from connecticut has said that he wants mr. calhoun to testify, so the pressure is still very much on for boeing. richard, you know, when i was in business school, boeing was lauded. they won the beverage award for quality multiple times, and so this is sort of striking to see this fall from grace for this storied american company. one of the big debates we re having now, the business round table saying ceos should value long-term value creation over short-term shareholder value. is this part of a process perhaps that boeing let some quality standards fall due to an emphasis on share price by the ceo? not due to share price. i wouldn t say, the share price has been very good over the last few years, so it wasn t share price. it was market share that they were going for. had introduced the a 320, it was
cnn s business editor at large and host of cnn s quest means business richard quest who covers aviation for us. great to have you both with us. richard, let me start with you. there s a semantics to exit packages and there s been a bit of a debate between the company s official line that the ceo resigned and what seems to be the case that he was fired. at stake could be as much as $75 million in compensation for the former ceo. so what s the truth, and if the payout s there, how could shareholders stand for it? well, it will be structured. it s not the first time that a ceo has left a top job under a cloud and walked off with a large payoff. to actually fire him for cause so he wouldn t get any of his contractual benefits, that s not the case. he hasn t really done anything wrong. my guess is they re very deep into his contract. there is a term that says if he resigns and the board asks him