Eric Lipton

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Fresh Air · How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

I mean, a terrible potential scenario.

So they actually put like special shielding around all of the electrical wires and electrical components so that if there were to be an electromagnetic pulse, which can result from a nuclear weapon, that it doesn't lose electric power, which would obviously imagine what would happen on a plane if it lost electric power.

That's an unbelievably complicated task.

You have to basically expose all of the walls down to the wiring and then cover all of the wiring to put a shield around the wiring so that it is not disrupted by an electromagnetic pulse.

That takes, in and of itself, is a massively time-consuming task that could not be done in the short period of time that Trump had to retrofit that plane.

Yeah, I can't talk about it too much under instructions of lawyers, but my family and I were coming back from dinner on a Friday night, and as we arrived home, the FBI agents were sitting parked near our house, and they came out of their cars and to the front of our house as my kids were outside playing with actually little sparklers after July 4th.

And they presented me with this subpoena and said that I needed to report to court to testify about our work around the Air Force One.

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, you know, the New York Times filed a motion in court to quash the subpoenas.

It was very beautifully crafted.

It was all about the freedom of the press and the important role that we play in society and democracy.

And I was very proud of the intense effort that the paper put to articulate those arguments.

But I can't get into the specifics of the case really at all, other than the fact that after those motions were introduced, the subpoenas were withdrawn.

Clearly, this was to intimidate us.

But our response after we received the subpoenas was just to recommit to investigating more, spending more time on the story.

We immediately initiated two weeks of deeper reporting, and we did a super comprehensive story that identified further security shortcomings on Air Force One.

So we were not intimidated, and we just were committed to the story and

And I'm really proud to work at a newspaper that has the resources and the determination to pursue stories regardless of people trying to get in our way.

So the United States needs certain metals to manufacture all kinds of products.

But tungsten is particularly important because it is an incredibly hard and heat-resistant metal that is vital for missiles and other military uses.

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