This is a key weekend for Boeing, the Justice Department, and hundreds of families.

The U.S. government is waiting to see if major airplane manufacturer Boeing accepts its deal to plead guilty to criminal fraud in connection with two

deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 both 737 max jetliners that killed 346 people.

Lawyers for the victim say Boeing would also have to pay more than $240 million in penalties

and agree to an external monitor.

It stops far short of imposing more serious criminal charges

and larger penalties that some have asked for. Boeing is supposed to decide this weekend

on whether to accept the deal or go to trial.

Before we unpack the details of that deal,

we're joined first by Zippora Curia,

whose father was killed in that 2019 Boeing crash.

Zippora, welcome and thank you for being with us.

We don't yet know what Boeing is going to do,

but what is your view?

Do you want to see Boeing accept that plea deal?

At this point, there's a question as to whether what we want to see matters as the families.

I think we would want the plea deal not to have been offered to them in the first place, but would love for them not to accept the plea deal so we could go to trial.

And then hopefully there would be a journey or like some hope of justice, but I not expect I do not expect them not to plead

guilty because I don't think any deal can get any sweeter than this sweetheart

deal that they've come to an agreement of all the extension of the pre-

agreed Sweetheart deal that they've had with the DOJ.

Tell me why you think it was a mistake for the Department of Justice to offer this deal in the

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