Inside the Trump International Hotel
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you everybody, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Melania, Tiffany, Laura. Thank you very much. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, we're very proud of our company. We've built one of the great real estate companies of the world. |
| 0:21.0 | With the notable exception of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, this is the most coveted piece of real estate in Washington, D.C. the best location. |
| 0:33.0 | That was then presidential candidate Donald Trump in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, taking time off to announce the opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington. |
| 0:44.0 | The event didn't get all that much notice at the time, given everything else that was going on. |
| 0:48.0 | But now that he's living in the White House, Trump's hotel, just a few blocks away, has become a legal albatross for the president, as evidence mounts that foreign governments, corporate lobbyists, and lots of others are spending big bucks there in an apparent effort to curry favor with his administration. |
| 1:04.0 | And next week, the Kuwaiti government will throw its grand national day celebration there, the third time it has done so, once again enriching the president's personal coffers. |
| 1:15.0 | As Washington awaits the completion of Robert Mueller's Russia report, and picks over the new book by acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, will dig into what's going on at the Trump Hotel, and why it represents one of the biggest legal and political threats of all to Trump's presidency, |
| 1:32.0 | and will talk with Virginia congressmen, who is demanding answers on why Jared Kushner still has his security clearance. |
| 1:38.0 | All that and more on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:48.0 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of Sucrup, well I'm not a crop. |
| 1:52.0 | By told the American people, I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. |
| 2:02.0 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 2:06.0 | There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else. |
| 2:14.0 | I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News. My co-host, Danny Clydeman, is off this week basking in the sun in Southern Florida. |
| 2:30.0 | So we have a guest co-host, our Yahoo colleague Hunter Walker. Hunter, welcome to Skull Duggery as a host. |
| 2:39.0 | Yeah, this is, I guess I'm a long time fan, but not a first time caller, but a first time host. |
| 2:47.0 | Right, first time host. So look, actually you just got back on vacation yourself from Mexico. How did you manage to get from Mexico into the US? |
| 2:57.0 | Well, you have any tips for all the thousands of people, tens of thousands of people who are trying to invade our country that way. |
| 3:05.0 | I haven't built the wall yet. So I guess I was still able to get through, because in the future the wall will definitely stop playing. |
| 3:13.0 | Right, of course. You will not be able to fly over the wall. |
| 3:16.0 | All right, look, this is shaping up as a momentous time for the Trump presidency. Multiple reports now that Mueller's report could be coming any day, at least submitted to the Attorney General. |
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