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Without what we did, they wouldn't even be talking to us. They requested a meeting through their surrogates and directly. And we're meeting, you know, good things can happen, I guess. Oil drop very big today. Stock markets as of about an hour ago was like through the roof. But no, they requested a meeting. They would not have requested the meeting of we were doing poorly. The only reason they want to meet is because we've been hitting them very hard. Everyone can see that's not true. Sources in Trump's own administration are telling multiple outlets that the attack plans were scrubbed, at least in part, because the U.S. is running out of some of its most critical defensive weapons. The stockpile of air defense missiles to protect American service members and allies in the region is dwindling after months of strikes. And while the U.S. refuses to say how many missiles it has left, two experts tell the Wall Street Journal. They estimate at least 1,500 Patriot missiles have been used since the war with Iran started. They figure that would leave less than 1,000 in the U.S. inventory, more than half gone. Those are missiles that take years to build and cost $4 million apiece, 1,500 of them. Think of that the next time they say there's not something in the budget. Trump says there's no problem. And if there is, of course, it's the last guy's fault. Now, we have plenty. We have a lot of ammunition, different types. You know, Biden gave a lot to Ukraine. And so we're building that up, but we have a lot. We have a lot of the mid-level stuff, too. I mean, more than we could ever use no matter what. But we have a lot. I'd like to have more, to be honest, but so much was given to Ukraine by Biden. Now, to be clear, dwinding stock piles are not the only problem here, obviously. Officials tell the New York Times Trump and his days are also uneasy about the prospect of a widening war in the Middle East, the alienation of key Gulf allies who are vulnerable to Iranian attack, a global economic crunch, growing energy and refugee crisis. Yes, no kidding. That's what we've all been saying. It's already happening already. It's a huge part of the reason why the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in history finds himself obviously. And again, to all observers, you, me, be able to cover this professionally. The folks in Tehran, the folks in Europe in the Middle East, finds himself totally boxed in by the misbegotten, foolish, and dangerous and reckless war that he launched. That and the weapon shortages and the fact that Trump does seem to recognize that an all-out invasion of Iran would be disastrous, which, thank goodness for small favors. He doesn't want to own those casualties or to be the president who sent gas to $7 a gallon. So what we get is the Trump bag of tricks, right? Bullying and bluffing, bloviating. And getting weaker every time his bluff is called. That's the thing. The more you see this play out, right? The more people just call the bluff. And you see it in his domestic agenda too, which basically right now boils down to one obsession, one obsession only.

The only thing he cares about in domestic policymaking has nothing to do with people paying lower prices or anything to do with anything that would help working folks or anyone, really. It's making it harder to hold free and fair elections that could threaten his majority in Congress. That's it. He wants the congressional majorities to pass the Republican Save Act, which would give his government vast power to interfere in elections. It would also make it very difficult for a whole bunch of people to vote. Earlier this month, he refused. Remember, he boycotted. He refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill passed both houses by huge majorities. He threatened to boycott any other legislation until Congress passed this pet obsession of his The Save Act. Now, here's the thing. It was a totally empty threat because the housing bill, which was passed by both houses of Congress, became law anyway after 10 days, even when not being signed because that's how federal legislation works. Today, he issued a new threat to his own Senate leader, right? Is it sounding familiar? Quote, John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to leave town until it passes the Save America Act, or far better still, terminates the filibuster where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including, and I quote here, a full and deep-throated Save America Act. Strange choice of words. What does that mean? I don't know. Also, a poor bluff. Imagine how weak the president will look. If he told all those senators in his own party, they better stay in Washington or else, and then they just didn't. Well, today he basically admitted his own weakness. On the same act, why do you want the U.S. Senate to stay in town? Why the stupid questions are you to ask? What a stupid question? The SAVE Act has to be done. They shouldn't leave town. I'm not going to stop them from doing it, but they should get the SAVE Act done. If they don't get it done, it's going to be a very bad thing for the party. And frankly, you know, if you look at it, the SAVE Act, it's going to be voted against by all Democrats, just so we know. We have some Republicans that I will not comment on. A few of them, probably four. that we probably won't get the vote. I'd like to comment on them, but I have too much sense to do it. Not only can he not keep his own party senators in Washington, he can't keep them from going on vacation, he admits he can't get them all to vote with him on this. And he just continues to rant at a body that won't do what he wants him to do because he doesn't actually have the power of the leverage anymore, which is also pretty remarkable, given how much Republicans on the Hill have basically done whatever he wants. Trump started this term projecting invincibility in large art because that perception can yield real power. But the thing about this cycle is that power can be unwound just as easily when the perception is shattered. The more people see that Trump could be stood up to, the more they see that his escalating rhetoric and his sort of weird bag of bullying tricks and coercion, don't bring them what he wants. the more his manifest impotence is laid bare for all to see. That doesn't mean he is not dangerous, and it does not mean that his fortunes can't change. If we've learned one thing over the last 10 years, it's that Donald Trump has proven he has staying power. It's also true, though, that his political capital, his political strength, it does wax and wane, and it is waning right now, before our eyes.

The president once said he was limited only by his own morality is a very severely diminished political figure. Fas Shakir is a senior advisor, Senator Bernie Sanders, executive director of more perfect union. Michelle Goldberg is an opinion columnist with The New York Times, and they both joined me now. Fas is someone who worked in the Senate for a while. I'm just curious what you make of this, because, again, they have been incredibly obedient and dutiful. He's kind of going to war with them and trying to sort of invent leverage he doesn't have, and they're basically just telling him like, nah, dude. You know, my observation, Chris, is that while he is weak and everything that you said is true, you know, he's engaged in two things that he needs to work to his advantage. One is... depression of the voter turnout. So whatever he can do to make sure fewer people vote, the Republicans are comfortable playing the charade with them. They may not pass the Save America Act, but if they can play the game of saying, hey, there's real concerns and threats with voting, we got to do all these shenanigans, maybe at the state level, to depress turnout, they're good with that. The second thing that Trump knows is at his advantage is the wealth of the oligarchs. He is the president of big business. He is the president of corporate monopolies. And you'll note that in the Iran stuff that you've talked about at the front, Chris, the voices that are not speaking out against the Iran war are big business. And in fact, the only thing that tends to compel President Trump, when he gets into trouble is when the Dow starts to dip, when the S&P 500 starts to move. Oh, you know, the oil inputs for some of my big tech oligarchs is a problem, not the condition of working class or small businesses in this country, but when big business stands up and they can move him. But they are not doing it on the Iran war, which is interesting to me. Well, they don't do it. Yeah, they're definitely not speaking out. I mean, I think we've seen no one speak out. The two things that he does clearly look at are the Dow and oil prices. And, you know, we keep saying, I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. He doesn't want gas at seven else. So the only, that has been a limiting condition. But it's also that limiting condition is part of what creates the strange pageantry we see, Michelle, which is like at one level. I'm horrified of the thought of some major escalation as I watch, you know, U.S. service members being put over there in big combat units, right? And reports coming out of the White House. The same time, you kind of sort of feel like we do know this is a bluff. Like, everyone sort of sees what you're up to because you keep doing the same thing over and over. And part of, I think, the difficult thing about talking about this, certainly the difficult thing about Democrats kind of making hay about it, is that nobody wants to goad Trump into doing something insane. Right. Exactly. Right. So this is he's doing, I mean, it is better that he displays kind of weakness and confusion.

than that he tries in some manic show of strength to resume full-scale war. But because that's sort of everybody knows that and Democrats know that, the political scene is really underreacting to the scale of the national humiliation. I mean, you cannot imagine if the parties were reversed. And President Joe Biden or Barack Obama, you know, If Iran, if three servicemen or possibly four were killed in action during a skirmish and the president threatened some sort of retaliation and then didn't go through with it, you cannot imagine this kind of scale of howling you would see. And so instead, you know, Trump is like actually like a baby that everybody is trying not to make him have a tantrum. Yeah, and there's, and your point too fast about where the focus is. Do you want to say something? Go ahead. But just real quick, that in addition to what Michelle's saying, he's a $400 million big baby for the Republicans, because he is sitting on do MAGA, right, MAGA, Inc. hundreds of millions of dollars. That makes him the cash cow of the Republican Party. And so you do not want to cross him out of fear that he may dump that on you. In fact, many Republicans are worried he won't even spend a dollar, you know, that he may just sit on hundreds of millions of dollars and ride into a post-presidency in which he continues to, you know, have huge effect over the Republican Party. So they're actually kind of go to him and cajole him into spending those dollars on their behalf. And meanwhile, you know, it's important to think about the money. The money is that his, that is. what is making everything run. Every time when I see these fluctuations in the oil market, I keep wondering and worrying, is he making, is somebody around him making money off of these dips and rises with, we've seen that people are trading heavily on the truth social numbers. And that's all accruing to a massive cash advantage, which is really important to not to forget about. Yeah, and that point about the $400 million, I mean, he's obviously been raising money, I mean, from the inauguration, right? He's term-limited out. He can't run again. I think it is a real question of, like, is he really going to spend a lot of money because he wants other Republicans to win, or is he going to just walk off in the sunset with it. The regulation on that money is incredibly light touch, we should say these days. So, like, I'm not convinced he's going to be, like, dropping that on the heads of Democrats. But the other thing here, Michelle, is that, you know, we talk so much about him and attention, his ability to command attention, sort of direct it. Right now, I think if you ask any Republican, a senator in a battleground state, a frontline House member, a political consultant, they'd say the two things they don't want people to be thinking about is the Iran War gas prices and tariffs and generally affordability. And it seems like he is dead set on directing everyone. Like, when they announced their new round of tariffs yesterday, it almost felt like perverse. Like he was, that he's got some kind of. illicit thrill in constantly going back to the thing that people like the least. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, it was, you know, if you already the kind of re-ignition of this war that never ended was driving up gas prices, was driving up bond yields. And.

this was just sort of bound to add to that and he can't let it go. And I also wonder if at some point, I don't think it's come yet, but at some point there is going to be diminishing returns for some of these oligarchs, both because they're going to spend if Democrats take either House of Congress, they're going to spend the next two years answering questions and being subpoenaed. I just, I have a column up now that, you know, David Ellison, the Trump-aligned oligarch who was about to take over Warner Brothers and with it, CNN, there's now, that deal now is in jeopardy. And part of, you know, it's in jeopardy because of a lawsuit, but also because people are starting to find their, find their courage. And not only that, I think this dynamic, right, the sort of the kind of vicious cycle or virtuous cycle, depending on which way it's going, Faz, which is like he's, when you see that you can cross him and nothing, like, he is weaker. And there was this weird kind of Jedi mind trick they were all doing, which is like Donald Trump is going to reign forever and nothing ever is going to come after him. So do what he says now. But, you know, the more time ticks by, the more that something out. past him becomes more tangible, even to oligarchs or any kind of interest group that's trying to calculate its own self-advantage, FAS. For those Democrats out there campaigning, I mean, just remember the people are with you. They are fed up with this corruption. They want a different direction. I do tend to think, like Michelle was saying, there's a great opening for campaigning on the idea of how you are going to go after the oligarchs because they know, people know they've cozyed up with Trump. They've made a bet. And so do you want to tax oil windfall profits? Do you want to tax sports betting and a huge gains off of crypto? Do you want to tax mergers and transactions, as Michelle was talking about? Those are all great opportunities. for hopefully progressive-minded Democrats to say, not only am I going against Trump, I'm going against an oligarchic class that has tax benefits that accrued to their advantage. When you put us into power, I'm going after it. Faz Shakir, I'm Michelle Goldberg. Great to have you both. Thanks so much. Thank you. Coming up, Sarah Elizabeth Warren on the truth about the Americans in Trump's war with Iran. That's next. There are moments that define who you are and who you're becoming. And when those moments arrive, what you drive should rise to meet them. The Rangerover Sport commands attention from the very first glance. Every line, every detail, engineered for impact. Inside, refinement takes over. with sculpted 22-way heated seating with available massage and a 13.1-inch touchscreen that puts everything within easy reach. But the Range Rover Sport isn't just about luxury. It's about uncompromised performance, too. Delivering a powerful, agile drive that feels as confident as it looks. And with nearly endless ways to personalize, from interior finishes to wheels to unique colors and accessories, your Range Rover Sport becomes unmistakably yours.

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and even the sort of legality of the entire thing. Pentagon officials told lawmakers the strikes in international waters off South and Central America had not reduced the purity of cocaine, which I guess was one of the ostensible goals. In the past year, U.S. forces have attacked at least 67 boats. They've killed 221 people, and yet the availability, purity of the drug in question remains the same. Even by its own metrics does not seem to be successful. Do you think Democrats will be conducting oversight into these strikes if they take the Senate back? Oh, yes, I do. I think that a big shift if Democrats are able to take back the House and the Senate, obviously legislation is part of it. For those of us in the Senate, it's going to be nominations, confirmations, and the Supreme Court. But it's oversight. This is a huge job. of the United States Congress. What is astonishing is that none of this has happened already. And the reason it hasn't happened already is the Republicans have had their spine surgically removed. They just, they are afraid to do anything that might. anger Donald Trump. And so one of the big shifts is we will have investigations. We will have the power of subpoena. We will be able to bring in people and put them under oath. We will be able to get the documents. And part of that will be about just getting to the truth of what's happened, but it also means accountability for those who are involved. Every single poll says that the top issue for voters is cost of living, affordability, things feel too expensive, and that sort of bleeds over to other anxieties people have about the economy. One of the top things, groceries come in number one, and then energy in the housing. Basically, one, two, three, most of the polls I've seen, even though housing's a huge chunk of people's income. The craziest thing happened here, which is that you and Tim Scott and a bipartisan coalition of both houses managed to pass this housing bill. It passed by huge majorities. I had you on the program the day it passed. And then the president threw a tantrum, refused to sign it, and it became law anyway so that... He can't really, like, get any credit for it or say, like, look, at least I signed this housing bill about affordability, but it still became law. I haven't talked to you since then, but it's really one of the oddest developments I've seen. And I wonder what you think about how that all went down. So, you know, you have to remember Donald Trump, this actually, I guess, shouldn't have surprised us except that it was so damn dumb. But Donald Trump has said all along that he thinks affordability is a hoax. It doesn't really exist. Ho-hum. He has made clear he doesn't care about.

families in America. He doesn't care about their cause. He doesn't care about how they're struggling. And frankly, he clearly doesn't care about Republicans in the House and the Senate, who at least could have stood up and said, you know, we got one thing done besides tax breaks for billionaires. But no, Donald Trump didn't bother doing that either. And I actually have a theory now. And my theory is there was nothing in it for Donald Trump. There were no gold statutes for Donald Trump, no gold bars for Donald Trump, no naming opportunities for Donald Trump, no arches for Donald Trump in this housing bill. This was just a housing bill that has nearly 50 provisions in it, all of which are about building more housing and bringing down costs. and for the first time ever in American history, beating back private equity and saying they can't come in and buy up all our houses and turn us into a nation of renters. So I guess we've learned the lesson. If you want to get something, if you want Donald Trump's signature, you need to give a little something to Donald Trump to make it happen. Yeah, he even said, it was very funny. He even said, like, he started talking about it being boring and just kind of like, oh, you know, housing, whatever. Like, it wasn't, it didn't, it just didn't interest him. He's very manifestly bored, I think, with policy. Final question for you, you've been going around. I know that you're going to be campaigning in the midterms here. How do you feel now? We're going to talk to Troy Jackson just a minute. Democrats have a nominee in Maine. There's a very contested primary in Michigan, but pretty soon that nominee will be said. How do you feel about how things are shaping up in the Senate? Oh, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good about Troy Jackson. You'll get to talk to him in just a minute. You'll see why I'm feeling good. He's the right guy for Maine. But I'm also feeling good. I'm feeling good about Michigan. I was just there, as you know, I was just there a day before yesterday, on the ground campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed. And the energy, the people who... just can finish the sentences, you know, get money out of politics, get more money into people's pockets, and get health care for everyone. People get it. They get how the corruption links up to their higher costs, and they are ready to go out and knock on doors and make it happen. And, you know, here's the thing. On the issues, it is clear. There are folks all over Michigan who are there with him. But the money is pouring in from the outside. Big Pharma does not want someone who's talking about how to bring down the cost of health care. Crypto doesn't want someone who is talking about how to have a fairer system. And that's APAC is coming in, spending a lot of money there. $60 million committed for what to try to stop him from becoming the Democratic nominee. So I see this, and the way I kept hearing it framed, it's the many versus the money. And we're seeing that in Michigan. And I also got to say we're seeing it over in Minnesota in the primary there, where we've got this terrific candidate, Peggy Flanagan, I've known her 10 years.

Somebody who's really delivered for working people on the minimum wage and school lunches built this grassroots campaign all across Minnesota, volunteers door to door. We were there together with lots of babies and mommas doing a huge event on universal child care. But she's getting outspent enormously. with crypto money, with A-PAC money that is coming in against her. So again, the many versus the money. And that's how these races are lining up. A lot of super PAC money. Yeah, there's an unprecedented in record-setting amount of super-back money in these primaries from state to state and in House races. We're going to see even more in the general, which is something to keep in mind, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Still ahead, the new Maine Democratic Senate nominee, Troy Jackson, the aforementioned joins me live right here about what it's going to take to win this race. That's next.

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Sure. Well, thanks for having me, Chris. I mean, you know, most of us in the logging industry just wanted to make a living. We just wanted to provide for our families. You know, in 98, the exchange rate went up like 50, 55 cents on the dollar. Of course, Canadian workers have health care, you know, have prescription drugs. And it got really challenging for us. And so... A group of us started getting together, trying to get our elected officials, Olympia Snow, Angus King, Susan Collins, to help us. And what we found from that is that they didn't want to do anything to help us. They wanted to work for the billionaires and the big landowners. And that's what forced us to, you know, push the issue by going the border and blocking it. And that's, you know, what I found from that is that... You know, I grew up thinking that if you played by the rules, did everything right, you know, you would be rewarded, you know, government would work for you. That isn't the case. You know, what I found from that is that it all comes down to who has the biggest checkbooks, who writes the biggest checks. That's the power, and that's why I ran for the legislature and been fighting it ever since. There's a pullout. The recent polling has you up by Susan Collins within the margin of error or, you know, right around there, three points. You were able to raise $2 million from about 30,000 donors in the first 24 hours after your nomination. Obviously, Susan Collins is formidable. She said, actually, her state was like, I've known Troy Jackson a long time, and I know you've known her a long time. Why do you think you win this race?

Well, I think people across the state are fed up with someone that caters to the wealthy elite in this country, you know, the billionaires. And that's what, you know, Susan's been doing. You know, right from the first time that... You know, we reached out to her. It was about making sure that the wealthiest people got the brakes. And I think that, you know, now more than ever in this state, people are really frustrated. I mean, more than ever, they're willing to step up. They're willing to, you know, push back against, you know, this. belief that you can't get out of the line, that you can't say anything. But now it's gotten so bad in this state with health care, with the hospitals closing, with child care, with, you know... prescription drugs with the collective bargaining issues that people are stepping up and say, you know, no more of this. And I've never seen anything like this as far as the movement, the amount of people. And, you know, while Susan's got the billionaires, you know, we get a lot of everyday working class people. And you can go to jacksonfermain.com and make sure that we have the resources to win this race because we're on the right side of it. There was this awful shooting in Biddeford, Maine, of a young man who just seems like trying to live his life had gone through and sort of applied for asylum, shot and killed. There was a sort of intervention in which Susan Collins and sort of standard fashion said, you know, she talked to the Secretary of DHS and they were going to stop these traffic stops. And then immediately Donald Trump... reverse that decision. So, no, we're going to keep doing them. I wonder what you thought that episode said about what kind of influence Susan Collins actually wields and who he wields it for. Yeah, well, we heard all about that this winter of the power, Susan Collins. I mean, back this winter, they were yanking people out of their vehicles, taking people out of their houses, you know, with no warrants, anything like that. And then they were falsifying the reports going down to the judges in Boston. Susan told us that, you know, she used her power to pull ICE agents out. Clearly that's not the case. You know, we had a young man that was... had a three-year-old daughter, you know, a family. I was trying to do everything he could, you know, and it makes me think of all kinds of people I know, makes me think of, you know, my own life, you know, just trying to play by the rules. And he wasn't even the person that they were looking for. And they murdered him in the streets of Bitterford. And Susan didn't.

do anything to stop that. I mean, she's the chair of appropriations. I mean, she just gave them $70 billion to go out and do their rogue agency, you know, stuff. And it's just... It's wicked sad. And that's what we see with Senator Susan Collins. She won't stand up for the people in Maine. She won't stand up for the people in the country. I mean, we're losing health care. We're having people that are murdered by ICE. Hospitals are closing. You know, and all she cares about is giving income tax cuts to the wealthiest people in this country. And people know that. People see that. And, you know, this whole thing about, you know, people not being able to live in the state of Maine, live in this country. It's going to come back on her because she has the power as the chair of appropriations to shut this off and she won't do it because she's afraid of Donald Trump. Troy Jackson, you got a start in politics almost 30 years ago with his father and that wildcat labor logging action in Maine now the Democratic nominee in the Senate of Maine. Thank you, sir. Appreciate your time tonight. Yeah, thank you, Chris. I really appreciate it. Still to come, one of the reporters targeted by Trump's Department of Justice has brand new reporting on the growing cost of Trump's bribery plate. Seriously, this one blew me away. He joins me next. Every week, it seems we learn more about Donald Trump's flying bribery palace, and the whole project seems at once more ridiculous, more self-indulgent, more corrupt. Now, in a new investigation, the New York Times finds that Trump's push to speed delivery of an upgraded Air Force One led to ballooning costs and tradeoffs in safety features. This administration spent hundreds of millions in dollars on top of the 400 million they have already publicly acknowledged, including, get this, we learned this from New York Times, for the purchase of not one, but two other 747s they used to train crews and supply spare parts. The Pentagon has tried to mask the total price tag. So we don't know exactly how much taxpayers are spending on a plane that's slated to go to Trump's presidential library when leaves. And the administration has never really explained how this is all being financed. But according to times, they appear to be using $934 million, almost a billion bucks that they transfer from a nuclear modernization program called Sentinel last summer. In fact, Trump has been obsessed with getting a luxury aircraft befitting a king of the United States no matter the financial costs or the security risk since before he referred to office. The Times reports, quote, just weeks after his re-election in 2024, he sent the soon-to-be head of Doge Elon Musk to speed up, the years-long transformation of the two Boeing jets originally intended to replace the Air Force One fleet. Elon Musk concluded the project had gotten bogged down by security concerns. Now, after all this, Trump's new Qatari-gifted jet is out of service while the security features they initially left off are being installed, leaving Trump to fly today on the old Air Force One. Poor guy. Tyler Pager's a White House correspondent, has been all over this story. He was among the reporters subpoenaed by the Department of Justice over their coverage of Air Force One. He also just received an award by the White House Correspondents Association for other reporting well-deserved, I would add. Tyler, great to have you on the program. Thanks so much for having me, Chris.

Let me just start with the Elon Musk detail, because I think that's new and we didn't know. Trump has been very Air Force One obsessed from his first term. He had a model on the desk. He's like, he's like very into planes. What do we know about what he had Elon Musk try to go do early in the days? I think even pre-Dodge to try to like speed up the Air Force One, the new Air Force Ones. Yeah, Chris, you're right. Trump has been obsessed with getting a new plane. He was unhappy with the decades old Air Force One fleet that presidents have been flying on since George HW. So he dispatched Elon Musk to try to go figure out what was taking so long with Boeing, who was contracted to... build new Air Force ones for the president to fly on. And he was disappointed that in his second term, he was unlikely to be able to fly on those new planes. So he initially sent Elon Musk to see what was going on there. It was ultimately decided that those planes were bogged down in security concerns that Elon Musk had complained about. He said that there were too many issues, too many security things going on, that they then... but move their attention from trying to speed that up to finding new planes that could serve as what they call a bridge plane for Trump during his second term. So then they get the Qatari plane. Now, the background of that story is amazing. I mean, Trump basically says they offered him for free. Later reporting indicates that he solicited it from them. And it's like, could I have it free? They thought they were selling it to him. And it basically was like, well, I would kind of like to just have it. Then they face the same issue with the Qatari plane, right, where they're trying to rush it to get into service. But there's like an enormous retrofitting. What do we know about how that process went? Yeah, I mean, if you just take a look at how long it's taken to build these new Air Force ones, which are retrofitted 747 planes, it's taken years because Air Force One is not just the plane the president flies on. It's basically a situation room, oval office combination in the air. The president needs to be able to respond to any sort of disaster or emergency from the air. So there are many security communication features that are added to the plane. Through our reporting, through documents, to interviews, we've identified multiple things that the Qatari donated jet does not have. For example, you're showing it right now on the screen, this lower entryway door that is used in emergency situations. For example, I flew with when I was covering President Biden, and he flew into Israel shortly after October 7th. There was a whole security briefing on the plane for us as the reporters, and this is something that he would have used a lower entry door. He then used it throughout his presidency or later on his presidency. That sort of went with age concerns, but this is easier and quicker to access. You don't have to wait for a jet bridge to come over. You can just get out. The Qatari Donate Jet does not have that. There's also advanced missile defense, advanced missile capabilities that.

the new Katari Donate jet is not visible. There's backup capacity that is not also part of that bridge plane. And the other thing, Chris, that I just want to point out is that the White House has said the plane is going into service again to be retrofitted and, you know, hypermaxed. Officials we've talked to said there is no way in just a one month timeframe, which the White House has outlined roughly how long the plane will be out of service, that you could cut open another door and add that or add some of these other capabilities that are not on the cuttery donated check. Again, it has taken years for Boeing to, and they're not even done, to make this new Air Force One fleet. And Trump has done that in a timeline of a few months. Okay, and the final 30 seconds here. The concede in the beginning was we're getting a plane donated. You guys are telling what looks like maybe $900 million spent between retrofitting the Atari plane and buying two others for parts and training. Yes, this was not a cheap endeavor by any stretch of the imagination. And it's understandable. Again, Air Force One requires a lot of security features to protect the president and enable him to do his job in the air. We don't have a full cost of what it has taken to retrofit this Katari jet. But we do know it is hundreds of millions of dollars more than the 400 million that has already publicly identified being used to retrofit this point. Great, great reporting. Tyler Pager, check it out in the New York Times. Thank you for your time tonight. Stay tuned. It's Monday, which means one thing. Rachel Maddo's coming up. Don't go anywhere. That does it for All In. You can catch us every weeknight at 8 o'clock on MS now. Don't forget to like us on Facebook. That's Facebook.com slash all on with Chris. Snoring, gasping for air during sleep, daytime sleepiness. I'm Shaquille O'Neill, and this shouldn't be anybody's experience. Ask your doctor about Zep bound to hepatine. The first and only FDA approved prescription medicine for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea in adults with obesity. Zep bound is a prescription medicine used with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity to help adults with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, OSA, and obesity to improve their OSA. Zepbound is approved as a 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, or 15 milligram injection. Zepound contains chrezepotide and should not be used with other chazepotide containing products or any GLP1 receptor agonist medicines. It is not known if Zepound is safe and effective for use in children. Don't share needles or pens or reuse needles. Don't take if allergic to it, or if you or someone in your family had medullary thyroid cancer, or if you've had multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. Tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. Stop stepbound and call your doctor if you have severe stomach pain or a serious allergic reaction. Severe side effects may include inflamed pancreas or gallbladder problems. Tell your doctor if you experience vision changes before scheduled procedures with anesthesia.

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