and a cigar on your bowling flight is john burnett, who's john burnett? well, i can tell you, john burnett is john burnett, is the man who is the engine of all the scrutiny. the boeing is now older. maybe boeing have taken the right off the ball actually building safe aircraft because they're so up to their fits in the weapons industry. and maybe they're completely preoccupied with send a weapons to ukraine. but parole, john barnes managed to suicide himself in a tragic case of f. a completely coincidental debt. you become the center of attention in a huge investigation and a multi $1000000000.00 company, which is flushing hundreds of millions of dollars a caution to the pockets of the lead in the united states. and of course, you just happen to wake up one day with a sun roof in the back of your head. no, the see here, boys. okay, so we're gonna fly back across the, you're not on a boeing aircraft. and we've arrived back in ukraine. the center of freedom. democracy, liberty. these are the boys fighting 1st level under liars, absolute vision of the alice

that was the least of his agenda. >> reporter: vicki stokes' son john burnett spent more than three decadesloved boeing. >> yes. >> reporter: rodney barnett says his brother, john, became concerned when he transferred to boeing's south carolina plant in 2010. >> what kind of problems did he tell you that he noticed in the factory? >> quality issues, procedures that wasn't being followed, shortcuts that was trying to be taken. >> reporter: barnett claimed he was retaliated against for speaking up. he left the company in 2017. >> he didn't go into a lot of detail, but i know he was like embarrassed at meetings. he would be called out. >> was his treatment at work -- did it wear on him? >> oh, yes. that would wear anybody down after -- i don't know whether it's seven or eight years. >> reporter: in a whistle-blower lawsuit, barnett alleged a litany of safety concerns. titanium shavings falling into electrical wiring, defective oxygen tanks, and managers urging him to cut corners. robert terk wits and brian knowles represent barnett. >> the retaliation john faced was something he endured consta

. >> the announcement coming weeks after whistlebloweks r john burnett was found dead of an apparentcide, which has been shrouded in mystery. >> burnett was a retired. 30 year quality manager who had been speaking out about the companhad bey cutting corners or the last two decades and was in the middle of adn deposition against boeing used to be. and when you raise your hand and say, we got a problem hereve ,it was say, yeah, you're right, we're going to fix it. after the merger with mcdonnell, doug, every time i raise my hand, say, hey, we've got a problem here. so every time t a wouldessenge r and ignore the message. >> boeing allegedly pulled out all the stops and tried to silence their employees from raising concerns. >> barnett's lawsuit claims o that after he spoke up to management, the company's response was to harass nt of , , to humiliate and make an example of them to dissuade others from pointing out their safety shortcomings. >> the suit goes ss.o far ashere to say that his former manager recruited another supervisor to spy on them. but now we may never knowe barn what wa

john sullivan is with me tonight. let's go out, find >> good evening. i'm erin burnett out front this evening. the breaking news trump appealing to a man he placed on the supreme court in an effort to end the cases again tim. and who is that? well, that person is justice brett kavanaugh. and in this 67 page filing of filed by trump's team today, the former president's legal team digging deep into brett kavanaugh was passed to make their case as to why trump should not be charged with trying to overturn the 2020 election. and as they go through this, they point to several statements made by kavanaugh, including this one. they quote, a president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president trump's team also going way back in time, going to a georgia law article that kavanaugh wrote in which he says, and quoting again prosecution or non-prosecution of a president is in short, inevitably, an unavoidably a political act well, a political act that of course echoes what trump has been saying since the start of the investigation is

at john deere.com slash, get in the seat at morgan stanley old hard work meets ball, new thinking to help you see untapped possibilities and relentlessly work with you to make them real >> erin burnett outfront next on cnn >> just one week before opening day, a stunning scandal is erupted in major league baseball. the interpreter for la dodgers player shoheiohtani, fired. i made allegations that he still millions of dollars from the japanese superstar to cover a gambling debt cnn sport's anchor coy wire, is on the story of coy. a lot of questions about this announcement. yeah, not just interpreter, right, boy, something like really close confidant and friend and what really stands out? how boris right now is that the explanation of how this all went down changed and it changed quickly. shohei ohtani, spokesman originally told an investigative reporter at espn that ohtani was covering the gambling debts of his longtime interpreter and friend, ippei mizuhara, to the cia four-and-a-half million dollars, but then ohtani's lawyers contradicted that on wednesday thank ohtani was the victim of massive theft. this all came to light because federal investigators are looking into any illegal