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It's Friday, May 4, 2018 from slated to the Gist I, Mike Pesca.

Today, amidst clarifying statements put out by top legal mine Rudy Giuliani,

there was a full-frooted endorsement of Mr. Giuliani's legal acumen by his boss, Donald Trump,

here, that now.

He started yesterday. He'll get his facts right.

So that was going on. But there are some other actions undertaken by the Trump administration

that came to light that the courts have deemed legal. But I think these legal undertakings are

much, much more troublesome than what we're talking about with Stormy Daniels. So I'll start at

the ending to this story, which is this. This is the headline I saw today. The government of Qatar,

Qatar, has bought a $6.5 million apartment in Trump Tower in New York City. Trump, of course,

does not hold his assets in a blind trust, even if he did, it wouldn't really work. I mean,

the towers say Trump. Towers are Trump. They're owned and run by Trump's kids. And Trump will

one day take control of all that when he's out of office. So the government of Qatar just gave

Trump $6.5 million. Don't worry. It's not like they're setting precedent because this is just the

latest purchase. It brings the ownership of the country of Qatar in that one building to four units

valued at $16.5 million. There's more. Now I could lay out facts and we could talk about like a

web of business dealings, but people like stories. So I'm going to pitch you a motion picture.

Interior, St. Regis Hotel, New York City, the silver-haired businessman in his 60s enters the room.

The camera freezes on him. Titles on the screen written as bullet points. The telemetry SFX

that you know and love has heard. Here's what we hear. And while that's playing, here's what we say.

Charles Kushner runs Kushner companies owned 666-5th Avenue, the most indebted building in New York City.

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