we're joined now by david sirota. investigation is headlined "boeing supplier ignored warnings of 'excessive amount of defects,' former employees allege." david is also editor at large for jacobin. welcome back to democracy now! thank you for joining us from denver. lay out what you just exposed. >> a few days -- a few weeks before the debacle over portland, oregon, court documents were filed by those shareholders that included allegations from safety officials, employees at the subcontractor, that basically allege a culture of defective products, a lack of quality control, and i retaliation -- culture of retaliation against workers who were trying to sound the alarm. these workers say they had found, as you said, excessive defects in the construction and production of these fuselages, that they tried to sound the alarm with corporate officials and managers, including that and ceo of the company. they were retaliated against raising those alarms. some of the specifics of the allegations that relate to what we are now