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To the Point

Trump’s family ties

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Trump White House is rife with apparent conflicts of interest. Only Congress or Special Counsel Robert Mueller can determine whether they’re real. What’s at stake for America’s national interest when foreign governments are trying to manipulate Jared Kushner?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello again. This is an update of some potential scandals facing President Trump, first from apparent

0:07.9

conflicts of interest involving his family. Later on, we'll hear about information compiled by

0:12.9

Christopher Steele, the former British spy, about Russia's involvement in the last year's elections.

0:19.6

It's traditional for Republicans to demand that government be run like a business.

0:24.5

President Trump is accused of making that family business.

0:28.0

When his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, were named senior members of the White

0:32.4

House staff.

0:33.6

One comedian who took notice was Stephen Colbert.

0:36.9

Kushner will become the head of something called the Office of American Innovation.

0:42.0

Vague, but still better than the original title, The Bureau of Obvious Nepotism.

0:48.9

But...

0:53.1

Kushner's job will be to lead a team to fix government with business ideas.

0:59.0

And you know he's got great business ideas, like being born into a wealthy real estate family

1:05.0

or marrying into a wealthy real estate family. Why hasn't the government tried that?

1:15.7

Well, now it's more than a year into the Trump administration, and the government is trying that.

1:22.7

And questions about the Kushners have piled up. Have they used their White House clout to advance not just the interests of the United States,

1:28.9

but their own interests as well? A case in point, financing for their signature property, the high rise at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Here's Ryan Grimm with the Intercept, an organization

1:34.8

that prides itself on adversarial journalism. Ryan Grimm, great to have you.

1:39.1

Oh, great to be here. Well, tell us, if you will, about the financing of 666 Fifth Avenue and the government of Cotter.

1:48.5

Well, it has been desperately needed.

1:50.8

This was a signature, as you said, property that Kushner himself purchased.

1:57.2

It was his biggest and splashiest buy in 2007. He set a record in Manhattan

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