It will “probably” cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the Pentagon to transform a luxury Qatari jet into Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers Thursday.

Meink said it will likely cost less than $400 million to retrofit the Boeing 747 aircraft, the first price estimate given by the Trump administration since the U.S. military accepted the gift from Qatar last month.

Under questioning from Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) Meink declined to discuss details of how the plane will need to be retrofitted to become Air Force One, citing classified information, but he pushed back at reports that the transformation could cost upward of $1........

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