Inside Trump’s secret plane swap to evade Iranian threats

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  Good morning.

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  The details of President Trump's secret flight to avoid a possible Iranian threat have been revealed.

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  We'll speak to the Washington Post reporter who broke the story.

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  The larger of the two planes was designated as Air Force One,

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  was squawking Air Force One as a call sign,

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  despite the fact that the president was on the smaller plane.

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  It's Wednesday, August 12th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shumita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  The Secret Service pulled off an extraordinary feat of subterfuge last month,

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  covertly moving President Trump off of Air Force One and onto another plane

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  before he left a NATO summit in Turkey.

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  Trump was carried between jets after getting on,

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  leaving the plane full of staffers and journalists to take off without him.

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  The move was reportedly prompted by a possible Iranian assassination threat.

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  Fast forward weeks later, and everyone, including those in Congress,

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  are only just learning the full extent of what happened now from press reports.

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  The secretive nature of the plans long after they were executed

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