July 09, 2026
Trump Uses Air Force One to Depart Turkey
Becca Wasser, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins CNN This Morning to discuss why President Trump flew home from Turkey on the old the Air Force One—and not his new Qatari aircraft. "What I'm hearing, between all of this, is really the lack of three things...it's about security, it's about communications, and it's about survivability."
Watch the full interview on CNN This Morning.
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