Ex-US deputy envoy: Qatar airplane gift controversy overblown

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00:00But Ellie, overshadowing Donald Trump's visit is the controversy over the gift of a luxury

00:06plane from Qatar, with some Republicans expressing concern and critics saying

00:11this could violate constitutional gift rules and that could amount to foreign influence.

00:18What do you make of this? I think I think it's a whole lot of

00:23creating something out of nothing. Leanne, I'll tell you why, because first of all,

00:29this airplane, even though they're trying to present this as something that's been given to

00:33the president of the United States, is actually going to go to the Department of Defense.

00:38And at that point, the Department of Defense would apparently pick the airplane apart and

00:43retrofit it and do whatever they need to do to secure it and make it possible for use by the

00:48president. So I think I think what it really indicates, Leanne, is perhaps a hesitation on

00:55the part of the American public about the relationship with Qatar.

00:59No wonder what roughly happened between the nation and ban conservative Bret связ happy and

01:05those two themselves from different states. And that's really an opportunity for the

01:08Government who are having because of the flight that has beenanting away from the

01:12woh originally met. So there's a limitation on the which I expect to avoid

01:14because the part of the channel is running through the nå, that's the lanz signal I think

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