Discussion on Security and Military Actions

Our duty's been great, by the way.

President Erdoğan's been great,

and I hope you had a good time. Any questions?

Mr. President, what was the security concern

that caused us to-

Which?

-change planes? What was the con-- security concern that caused us to change

planes?

Uh, we sent this one in so that the Air Force Base here,

it was in the same exact line. So you saw it.

Did you see the picture with-

We did, we did

... hundreds of pictures, hundreds of people. Let me see that.

It's higher. Well, you can't see it too well, but there are

hundreds of people out there.

So you-

So they wanted to see. So they came a little bit early

and we switched planes.

So you're saying there wasn't a security concern?

No, no, no. Why would there-

And there wasn't any other issue? No, no issue with the plane-

No, no. Except, except we sent it a little early.

Same line going back.

Sent-

Uh, we sent it a little bit early so that we could, uh-

That's-

-let them see the base. The whole base came out and saw the plane,

and then we

landed.

Do you know why they had us close our, our window blinds? That was not usual.

No.

Is that usual?

Well, yeah, because, uh, you're,

you know, probably on a dangerous flight because

if...

It's these bags that we have to deal with.

They-

So you think that Iran was possibly thinking of trying to-

Well, I mean, if they ask you to close your windows,

probably there's the other...

They didn't ask me to close mine, but if they did, I would've done it.

No, these are sick people.

Were you-

So I could see something like that.

I didn't, I didn't know they did that, but I could see something like that.

Were you aware of any credible threat by Iran against Air Force One?

Well, I have a threat all the time. I'm number one on their list, before

you.

But if I go, you go.

Mm.

Right?

But was there a specific threat today?

So perhaps, perhaps someday you wanna change

professions.

What do you have, Daniel?

Is it confirmation that there are strikes ongoing in Iran, sir?

Can we get a-

They just, we just hit 'em very hard,

and I'd say we hit 'em 20 to one. Every time they hit us,

we're gonna hit 'em 20.

And, uh, we did it last night.

They did a little something today, but it was really retribution

for last night. They hit actually three boats, not two,

and when they hit, we hit back much harder.

Are we risking to a full-scale military conflict, sir?

I don't know. I, I don't know. We'd win it very quickly.

It's another way of doing... We have many ways we can win,

but we've already won

militarily. They have very little, they have very little left, and they

wanna make a deal so badly. They called

a little while ago. They wanna make a deal so-