The Republicans speak concern about Trump's support for a new Air Force One from Qatar: NPR

The Republican legislators signal growing concern about the openness of President Trump's openness to accept a catar aircraft of $ 400 million in order to act as a new Air Force One, an unprecedented step that is affected with ethical and legal problems that even test its biggest loyalists.

The choir of the reservations that are expressed by the Republican legislators is a rare break with the president, who usually enjoys almost unanimously by the party.

On Wednesday, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, was one of those who deal with the idea. McCaul said that he had certainly received gifts in his previous role as chairman of the house committee for foreign affairs and believed that countries could give other countries, but a luxury -Boing 747 jet could go too far.

“It's pretty wasteful!” McCaul said in a short interview. “I would definitely sweep to make sure that there are no surveillance errors on it.”

Missouri's senator, Josh Hawley, said the step signaled that Qatar wants to approach the United States, but instead the relationships with militant Islamic groups should cut off. He argued that the president's aircraft should not come from a foreign nation.

“I prefer a large, beautiful aircraft in the USA that was manufactured in America in America,” he said.

National experts in security and aviation say that the offer, which was first reported by ABC News, will result in many risks. For his part, Trump said that the existing aircraft of Air Force One is old and expensive for maintenance, and he complained for a long time at the time when Boeing was needed to deliver a few replacement, for which he could pay 3.9 billion US dollars during his first term.

Shortly before he went to his current tour in the Middle East, Trump said that it was “stupid” not to accept the jet. On Tuesday evening he defended the plan again and said that the plane was not offered to the Ministry of Defense as a gift.

“Why should our military and thus our taxpayers be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars if you can get it from a country free of charge that wants to reward us for a good job,” said Trump on social media.

The move would require that the Qatar level will be retrofitted to display as a new Air Force, a complicated process that could extend for years. Trump said that the plane would be extraordinary after his term in office and then exhibited in his presidential library. He also said that he would not use it after leaving the office.

Some Republicans say the plan is anything but final

His comments followed the comments on Tuesday, including some of his biggest supporters, including Sens. Ted Cruz from Texas and Rand Paul von Kentucky, who say that the efforts represent security and legal challenges.

Some within the party, including the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., warned that the plan is anything but safe.

“I don't think there is anything official out there, that's a hypothetics,” Thune told reporters. “I am sure whether and if it is no longer hypothetical, I can assure you that it will be checked a lot of what this arrangement could look like.”

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said there were enough questions about the gift to trigger the break for the president.

“I have a lot of concerns,” she said. “I don't imagine that things will go forward, but maybe? Maybe you will see it differently than I do.”

Others in the party were less concerned and refused concerns

“Yes, 100% support it,” said Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, member of the committee for armed forces.

“For everyone who has security concerns, they are absolutely ignorant in intelligence. We are the best in the world, we understand what they could do and we understand how we find it better than any other,” said Mullin.

Democrats say

The Senate's Democrats are already planning to coat the plans to give away the aircraft, but some admit that this will probably fail. Democrats say that the gift is a clear violation of the abroad of the constitution that accepts the office owner of a present “any kind, whatever, from a king, a prince or a foreign state.

The Democratic Senator of Rhode Island, Jack Reed, the Supreme Member of the Senate Committee, said that the Democrats are planning to ask the Ministry of Defense, according to estimates to retrofit the jet – a number of which he argues that it could bring in the total price of almost $ 1 billion.

“These planes are so unique,” said Reed. “You have to make sure that nothing in the plane is a source of intelligence for someone else – you have to literally take it apart and put it together.”

He also found that “one of the other Ironien” was that the US manufacturer, which is probably needed to eradicate the aircraft for the president, is Boeing – the same company has already taken a contract to build new aircraft that were used as Air Force One.

Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. Therefore, he pointed out an upcoming voice to approve US weapons sales to Qatar to bring the Republicans into the recording.

“There is no doubt that a vote will be a deputy as to whether they believe that it is okay for a foreign government to hand over an airplane of $ 400 million to the President of the United States.”

The debate about the plane has enabled many Republicans to react. The spokesman for the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, R-La. Johnson said his focus was on the Reconciliation Act that the Republicans of the Republicans will say goodbye to the President's domestic agenda.

“There are authorities that polish the executive of the executive,” said Johnson. “I'm not me.”

Despite Johnson's remark, the congress actually has the authority to examine the executive. When the Democrats checked the house during the first term of the first term of trump, for example, they carried out the supervision of the Trump Hotel and kept his agreement on the rental and money from foreign dignitaries who had violated the ethics rules in the hotel.

Luke Garrett, Elena Moore and Barbara Sprunt contributed the reporting.