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Anderson Cooper 360

Plane Expensive

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Breaking news on that free plane from Qatar. It may cost three-quarters of a billion dollars or more, to retrofit it for the President. Plus, what a Los Angeles judge ruled in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are seeking freedom decades after they were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, breaking news and that free gift plane from Qatar,

0:05.0

turns out it may cost three quarters of a billion dollars

0:08.0

and more to retrofit it for the president.

0:10.0

Also tonight with President Trump in Saudi Arabia,

0:12.0

look at the growing Trump family business in the Middle East.

0:15.0

And later, day two and stunning testimony

0:18.0

in the trial of Sean Dedy Combs as his one-time girlfriend takes the stand about what she says he did to her.

0:24.1

Good evening, thanks for joining us.

0:25.3

We begin tonight, keeping them honest with breaking news about that 747 the Qatari royal family is giving to President Trump,

0:31.5

which he will keep, he says, for his library after leaving office.

0:35.1

We learned today that it could take two years and three quarters of a billion dollars or more

0:39.3

to bring the plane up to Air Force One standards.

0:42.3

Now that's according to a person familiar with the matter.

0:45.3

$750 million or more to take it apart, check for surveillance devices,

0:49.3

then refit it with the defenses, communications gear,

0:52.3

and all the rest of Commander-in-Chief needs.

0:55.0

In short, all the gear already on the 747, he flew to Saudi Arabia for a day of pomp and ceremony,

1:00.0

fighter escort included, and which he'll fly in just a few hours to Qatar for more of the same.

1:06.0

His current 747, though, aging, already has all of that, and so will the new 747, Boeing

1:12.2

is building, which is years behind schedule, as the President has pointed out, but which

1:16.2

the company now says it could deliver in the next two years.

1:19.4

In other words, about the same delivery time as the one the President says he'd be stupid

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