From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.
Last month, President Trump made a dramatic exit from a visit to Turkey.
He switched his plane at the last minute to an older Air Force One,
which caused confusion and prompted concerns about the safety of the president's planes.
But this week, we learned that was all a ruse.
And so today I'm joined by Maggie Haberman, who tells us the story of a third plane,
how Trump got on it, and why the administration worked so hard to keep it all a secret.
It's Wednesday, August 12th.
Maggie Haberman, welcome back to The Daily.
Rachel, thanks for having me.
So Maggie, our colleague Tyler Pager was on the show a few weeks ago,
and he told us the story that is probably by now a little familiar,
which is that Trump switched off of a jet he had gotten from the Qataris,
and he switched to the old Air Force One plane because of a credible threat.
And what this did was it prompted a lot of concerns that the Qatari
jet was not properly outfitted with whatever safety measures it would need in order to carry the president safely.
Now, the administration, as we know, was not happy that we reported that.
Some of our colleagues got subpoenaed.
And all of this made for a very dramatic story.
And now we have come to learn that we didn't actually know the half of it.