US announces more than $243 billion in deals with Qatar

It’s a beautiful plane for a beautiful price and what’s wrong with that?”

the official said

Qatar doesn’t stand to receive anything in return for the possible government-to-government transfer,

said Ali Al Ansari, calling it “a reflection of the strong security relationship” with the U.S

If you're ordering a plane today it's not going to be on your landing strip for at least five years,

Owens said

We are happy to announce our agreement with Boeing and our partnership in the largest aircraft order in our history,

said Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Officer Badr Mohammed Al-Meer

We are deeply honored that Qatar Airways has placed this record-breaking order with Boeing, one that solidifies their future fleet,

Boeing commercial plane chief Stephanie Pope said

The corruption seems bigger and more brazen even than in Donald Trump's first term, when there was there were literally thousands of conflicts of interest and a lot of things that look pretty corrupt going on,

said Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

It's brazen corruption and hypocrisy,

said Tiffany Muller, the president of leading anti-graft lobby group End Citizens United

He and those around him seem to believe that his businesses -- and potential corruption around his businesses -- are something that the American people have can move past and are okay with,

he told AFP

This is Boeing's largest-ever widebody order and largest-ever 787 order,

it said

It is a government-to-government transaction. It has nothing to do with personnel, whether it's on the US side or on the Qatari side, it's the Ministry of Defense and Department of Defense,

he said, echoing the White House's reaction to the backlash

Qatar has been always a reliable partner for the US, has been always stepping up to help and support the US, because we believe that this friendship needs to be mutually beneficial for both countries, cannot be a one-way relationship,

Sheikh Mohammed said

We will not do anything illegal. If there something illegal here, there would be many ways to hide these kind of transactions when will not be visible for the public. This is a very clear exchange that’s happening between two governments,

he said

It is a government-to-government transaction,

Al-Thani said

Why would we buy an influence in the United States? If you look just in the last 10 years in the US-Qatar relationship. Qatar has been always there for the US, when it’s needed, whether it’s on the war against terror, whether it’s in the evacuation of Afghanistan, whether it’s on releasing hostages from different, different countries around the world,

Al-Thani said

Someday it will be like Ronald Regan. They decommission them,

Trump said

When it comes to Gaza, you have the Israelis there as well. On the issue of a ceasefire, Trump can put pressure on the Israelis, … but you still have the Israelis there making decisions. This is going to be a little bit more difficult to work out,

he told Al Jazeera

He said he hopes there would be a positive announcement ‘soon’, but we have no indication of what that might mean,

Bays added

His tone was pretty telling. He was very positive,

Bays said

I need to find out from the administration what exactly is going on,

Ernst added

Qatar has a relationship with China, a relationship with Hamas. That would scare me,

Scott admitted