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tv   Newsmakers Larry Kudlow  CSPAN  March 16, 2019 10:51pm-10:55pm EDT

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cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> on the president's chief economic advisor larry kudlow talks about deficits, trade with china, the future of the u.s. economy and why the u.s. reacted to the boeing jet crash in ethiopia later than other nations. pedro: why did the trump administration move so slow on this, and in retrospect should they have moved more quickly?
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mr. kudlow: i happened to be sitting in on the phone call between the president and the head of boeing. i don't know if you have had the experience of a presidential cross-examination, doing policy stuff in and out of their the time, you better be ready, and he had a lot of tough questions for boeing, a lot of tough questions for bolling i'm not going to go into the details of a private conversation, but the fact that we waited a day is of no consequence. i would not read anything into that. decisions were made at the department of transportation, secretary elaine chao who is a very brilliant woman working with the faa, we are still trying to find the black and open it. we had some trouble with the ethiopians. they wanted to go to a third party and this and that, but it will get squared away. we will learn many, many more facts. it has nothing to do with
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commercial considerations as far as we are concerned. with. everything to do safety considerations to be honest with you, i would not read a thing into that. -- it has everything to do with safety considerations. to be honest with you, i would not read a thing into that. pedro: do you think it will be fixed in a couple of days or will it take a while? can't address that. i'm not an expert on that. faa will not reopen the routes until we are 100% satisfied on safety. and boeing has come forward to make adjustments in flight plans and software and sensors and pilot training and all kinds of things. i am not blaming here. i'm just giving you a narrative that they won't be back on the runways until we are absolutely, 100% satisfied that they are
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safe. >> newsmakers would larry kudlow, the president's chief economic advisor, sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. its look atntinues the freshman class of the 116th congress. rossgin with republican spano. he served in the florida house of representatives from 2012-2018. was bornative spano: i in tampa. i could not have had a better childhood, i grew up in a small community and have been there my entire life. small business owner. he built homes. my mom worked with him in the business.

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