Trump Tweets Advice for Boeing; Getaway Driver in Deadly Robbery Could be Granted Parole
AVLON: It's time for "CNN Business Now." Boeing continues to face a safety crisis as its 737 Max fleet remains grounded after two deadly crashes. Now, the president's tweeting advice to the company this morning. CNN's chief business correspondent Christine Romans joins us now with more.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Just what every company wants to do, waking up with a tweet from the president, right? The president offering some unsolicited business advice to Boeing this morning, bright and early, tweeting, what do I know about branding, maybe nothing, but I did become president. But if I were Boeing, I would fix the Boeing 737 Max, add some additional great features and rebrand the plane with a new name. No product has suffered like this one. But, again, what the hell do I know? Well, Boeing's crisis pushing the airlines to cancel flights into the summer -- the busy summer travel season. American Airlines extending its flight cancelations now through August 19th. About 115 flights a day will be canceled. Last week, Southwest extended its flight cancellations until August. Boeing announced earlier this month it was cutting back production on all 737s from 52 a month to just 42. Meanwhile, testing continues on the plane's software update. Since the Ethiopian Air crash, Boeing's stock is down 12 percent. The company's lost $24 billion from its market cap, guys.</s>HARLOW: Wow. Geez. This is a herculean turnaround if they can do it, Romans.</s>ROMANS: Yes.</s>HARLOW: I know you'll stay on it. OK, so this story now. Judith Clark was convicted of murder in the death of -- deaths of three people, including two police officers in an armored truck robbery in 1981. Nearly 40 years later, she could be granted parole. My friend and colleague, Jason Carroll, here with us for more. This is quite a story.</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, getting a lot of national attention. A lot of folks wondering what is going to be happening here. Whatever decision is made, it could come as early as today. Advocates for Clark says she is the model example of what rehabilitation can do for a person while in prison. But there are a number of people who say releasing her would set the wrong example.</s>CARROLL (voice over): More than three decades, but in all that time, few here in Rockland County, located about an hour north of New York City, will ever forget what happened that violent day on October 20, 1981.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It seems like it was yesterday.</s>CARROLL: Back then, Michael Page was a 16-year-old teenager. His father, Peter, a Brinks security guard. His father and two Nyack police officers were killed during a robbery. The heist carried out by members of a radical anti-war group called the Weather Underground, and the Black Liberation Army. Those connected to the crime have served or are continuing to serve severe sentences, including Judith Clark, who at the time was a young mother and also a getaway driver for the robbery. Clark called herself a freedom fighter during her trial and demanded to represent herself, then refused to show up for court. A judge sentenced her to 75 years to life on felony murder charges. But that was not the end of her story. Early in her incarceration, she was put in solitary confinement after prison authorities found letters detailing her escape plan. Now, after nearly 40 years behind bars, Clark and her supporters say she is not the woman she once was.</s>JUDITH CLARK, SERVING 75 YEARS TO LIFE: There have been generations of youngsters who have come in here and said, oh, well you were down with the real thing. And I'm like, nope, I was a knucklehead just like you were. I just had a different rhetoric, you know. And beware when we think that we're so right that we don't have to think about who's at the other end of our anger.</s>CARROLL: Clark has trained service dogs used by law enforcement, taught prenatal care and created an AIDS counseling problem while becoming a chaplain behind bars. A webpage set up by her family on her behalf lists a number of supporters, including state and local leaders who say she has been rehabilitated and should be paroled. For her part, Clark says she is remorseful for the role she played that led to the deaths of three people.</s>CLARK: I could use that time to begin to ask myself, who am I and what do I really feel and how in the world did I leave my 11-month-old baby in her crib and tell her I'd be back and go off and rob a Brinks truck? How did I do that?</s>CARROLL: In 2016, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo commuted Clark's 75 year sentence, allowing her to be eligible for parole 39 years ahead of schedule.</s>GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D), NEW YORK: It allows her to go before the board and make her case. And then the board, which are experts in making these determinations, will hear the case and they will decide whether or not they believe she should be released.</s>CARROLL: In 2017, the parole board rejected her first bid. Victims' family members say Clark should stay right where she is, behind bars. Each year since the crime, they hold a memorial service in Nyack, New York, to honor those no longer here.</s>MICHAEL PAIGE, SON OF SLAIN OFFICER: This is the worst day of my life. Dad, we miss you and we love you.</s>CARROLL: Well, Clark's attorneys have submitted statements from some 2,000 people who support her release, that includes religious leaders, politicians, like Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez. Her fate now rests in the hands of three people who are part of a parole panel. I spoke to a representative from corrections who has been there for many, many years. He says given this case, given its history, it's very difficult for them to predict what's going to happen next.</s>HARLOW: Wow, it's fascinating and important -- and important to also hear from the family members of those -- those victims.</s>CARROLL: They are outraged.</s>HARLOW: Yes. Jason, great reporting. Thank you so much.</s>CARROLL: Thank you.</s>HARLOW: Ahead, this is really fascinating, so Georgetown students are voting to create a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves sold by the school to basically pay off Georgetown's debt. Now it's up to the university if they're actually going to enforce it. That's ahead.