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It's the NPR Politics podcast here to round up some of this week's political news.

Since it's Thanksgiving week and this episode is a few days early, I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the

White House. I'm Esma Khaled. I cover demographics. I'm Scott Horsley, cranberry connoisseur.

And I'm White House correspondent in Milan. And I'm Ron Elving, editor correspondent.

So I'm here in DC with Ron and Scott and Asma, you are in Boston celebrating early, huh?

I am. Where it is much much chillier. So hello from the Tundra. It's also cold here now.

That's nice. It feels like Thanksgiving. It does.

All right, a caveat that while we can't discuss every political story out there, there is much more

of NPR's coverage to be found at npr.org on your local public radio station and on the NPR-1 app.

Our colleagues have been doing some incredible work covering the transition and there's a lot

of great stuff out there. Okay, we're going to cover some of Donald Trump's latest cabinet

appointees today. But first, let's talk about his business entanglements. This week, there has just

been like a flurry of reporting by various news organizations. The Washington Post reported that

there's something like more than a hundred different business interests that Trump has in

various countries overseas. The New York Times reported that Trump had some Indian real estate

developers over to Trump Tower while he was working on the transition. Met with them. There was

a photo that they posted on Twitter. The executives who are developing the Trump Towers there in India,

one of multiple holdings Trump has in that country. Donald Trump has a sprawling business empire.

He's got golf courses and hotels and condominiums that stretch from Miami to Manila to Mumbai.

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