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ms. lund: i wasn't. mr. inman: who was? ms.und: the manager of the 737, the vice president general manager was evan clark. he is no longer with boeing? ms. lund: correct. mr. inman: i notice he's in none of her interviews. i will come back to that in a little bit. a couple easy questions for now. has the door plug always been made in malaysia? mr. ackerman: yes. mr. inman: why? mr. ackerman: it is part of the spirit supply chain. we have parts manufactured all around the world and they have capability of building the door. mr. inman: you have the capability in wichita should build a door. mr. ackerman: we could probably build everything that goes into a 737 but it limited by space a. chair homendy: i want to go back to questions on inspections, process inspections, line inspections. going back to 2023. let me cut to the chase. on what i am asking. after this occurred, boeing worked with the faa and there were inspections of door plugs on other aircraft. there were identified and corrected number of washers installed at various

ms. lund: i wasn't. mr. inman: who was? ms. lund: the manager of the 737, the vice president general manager was evan clark. he is no longer with boeing? ms. lund: correct. mr. inman: i notice he's in none of her interviews. i will come back to that in a little bit. a couple easy questions for now. has the door plug always been made in malaysia? mr. ackerman: yes. mr. inman: why? mr. ackerman: it is part of the spirit supply chain. we have parts manufactured all around the world and they have capability of building the door. mr. inman: you have the capability in wichita should build a door. mr. ackerman: we could probably build everything that goes into a 737 but it limited by space a. chair homendy: i want to go back to questions on inspections, process inspections, line inspections. going back to 2023. let me cut to the chase. on what i am asking. after this occurred, boeing worked with the faa and there were inspections of door plugs on other aircraft. there were identified and corrected number of washers installed at variou

reporter: can you tell us about the condition of evan, paul, alsu, and vladimir? calls in the oval office? ms. jean-pierre: i'm not going to get into details or into specifics or speak about their health. obviously, they will be landing here in short order, in a couple of hours, so you all will be able to see -- at least you'll see them for yourselves. but i'm not going to speak to their health from here, not from this podium. reporter: the president had described that they had gone through a lot. ms. jean-pierre: they have. jean-pierre: they were imprisoned, unjustly so. reporter: did they talk about that in their phone call in the oval office? ms. jean-pierre: i'm not going to get into further details to what -- what the national security advisor shared here today. i'm pretty sure that whn the time permits, they will -- i'm sure at some point, they -- if they wish to, they'll speak for themselves. reporter: so, germany got 12 citizens back on this. were they negotiating with the russians? and was this two negotiations that merged or did this generate out of the

today's a joyous day for the safe return of our colleague evan gershkovich, the case represented manykremlin, new tension with russia, now that he's home we are planning on giving ms much time and space as he needs. we look forward to seeing him in the newsroom when he's ready. welcome to come on here anytime. fellow at the american enterprise institute, julian turner. mark, you heard president biden today talking about answering the question, the statement by former president trump. his response was why didn't he do it when he was president? >> by the way, it's hard to talk about this stuff right now because we are happy that evan gershkovich is back, our colleague's back. it is hard to get into the back and forth, but i'll tell you he did do it when he was president. donald trump freed more hostages, american hostages, in four years than barack obama and joe biden did in eight when he was president. he did it without doing any ransoms for hostages, turning over terrorists, sending plain loads of cash to tehran. all of it creates an incentive for more hostage taking. and joe biden ca