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Dick Durbin: Trump Taking Plane From Qatar Is 'Complete Recklessness'
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5/14/2025
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) slams President Trump for accepting a plane from Qatar to be Air Force One.
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This administration is famous for, but it is also completely negligent and, as far as I'm concerned, reckless.
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To think that Air Force One, where the President is asked to function as our Commander-in-Chief in a situation room,
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making life-or-death decisions, is on a plane given to us by a foreign government with 200 miles of wiring in it,
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is an indication to me of complete recklessness on the part of the President.
00:27
He is so dazzled by the notion of putting this plane in his presidential museum, he's forgotten his responsibility to this nation.
00:35
Senator, are you concerned about a risk of espionage, a bug in the wiring?
00:38
I certainly am. 200 miles of wiring in this plane.
00:42
We're going to go through every square inch of that to make certain that Qataris or some other government
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doesn't have access to the most important decisions made by our President.
00:51
This is irresponsible.
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Peter Schumer just called on Pam Bondi to testify before Congress about her decision of behind this approval.
00:58
Have you had any conversations with Senator Grassley?
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No, I've not spoken to him about it.
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But remember, she was a paid agent of the Qatari government, a lobbyist, before she became Attorney General.
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We have questions that we've asked about how she cleared her ethics statement on her relationship with Qatar.
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And I think that this plane deal is really going to put it that front and center.
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What about the fact that Schumer says that he's going to place a blanket hold on all judiciary noms?
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That's obviously going to have an impact on your committee, potentially.
01:29
Well, of course.
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Any senator can do that.
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And I think there's good reason for Chuck to ask this administration to give us the details about this outrageous deal.
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Senator, what do you think of what we're seeing from the Wager Means Committee?
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Senator, what do you think of what we're seeing from the Wager Means Committee?
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