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born and raised in the bronx you may
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know that i tend to break it up a lot
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and i grew up knowing all about
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uh big new york city public figures and
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i read the papers and the tabloids every
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day and i remember when they finally got
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the mob boss john gotti
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he was convicted for a whole bunch of
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crimes the thing is john gotti was
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basically a public
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criminal for over 20 years before they
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got him we everyone knew
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what he was up to it was called the
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teflon don because charges didn't seem
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to stick to him
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a nickname that has since been applied
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to another infamous don
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and in the end gotti was finally
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convicted because prosecutors got his
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lieutenant
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sammy the bull gravano to flip and
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testify about the
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many murders they committed together
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good evening this time the wise guy
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smirk disappeared
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john gotti the modern godfather the
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so-called teflon don
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he always escaped the big convictions in
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the past but not today
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guilty of murder and racketeering 12
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counts and now facing
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a long time in jail the best evidence
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that gotti was a mob boss
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came from his own mouth over fbi bugs
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100 years from nowhere
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now there's a reason it took forever to
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nail gotti he was careful
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and they set up all kinds of ways to
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shield him right
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from criminal liability and you need
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solid evidence or good witnesses or both
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to convict in that kind of case
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complex high-profile case now all that
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is something to remember when you read
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reports the manhattan district attorney
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has convened a grand jury to hear
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evidence
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and weigh potential charges against
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donald trump
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or that the new york attorney's general
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office which is cooperating with the
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manhattan d.a
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is criminally investigating trump's
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right-hand man and cfo alan weisselberg
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that those two offices are seeking to
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turn mr weisserberg
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into cooperating witness against mr
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trump and the trump organization
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now alan weisenberg certainly knows
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trump's business as well as anyone in
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the world he was first hired as an
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accountant
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by trump's father fred more than 40
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years ago and he's been the chief
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financial officer of the trump org for
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over 20 years
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and now prosecutors might have another
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key piece of leverage to get him to
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spill the beans on donald trump emails
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that according to david corn of mother
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jones tie weisselberg
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to the trump inauguration committee a
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committee that is currently being
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investigated by the attorney general
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washington dc
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for essentially drifting funds to
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benefit the trump family
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and david corn washington bureau chief
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of mother jones joins me
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now david great to have you tell us uh
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tell us what these emails are and what
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they indicate
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well first just we have to remember
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there's a scandal that hasn't gotten a
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lot of attention
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that's about the trump inauguration
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committee it's called the presidential
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inauguration
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the pick is what people refer to it as
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and it's being investigated it's a civil
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investigation not a criminal
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investigation not criminal yet
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by the d.c attorney general carl racine
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for basically
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taking what was charitable money it's a
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non-profit and using it to enrich
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guess what the trump family by
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overpaying
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uh payments at the trump hotel for
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events that were held in
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events that weren't held at the trump
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hotel and for holding a lavish party for
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the trump family costing hundreds of
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thousands of dollars
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basically the attorney general of dc has
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accused the trump family of using the
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inauguration
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to grift to line their pockets with
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hundreds of thousands of dollars this is
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corruption
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from not even the first day of the
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presidency but you know
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starting the day before the presidency
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the week before
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and so in that investigation it turns
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out there was a court filing that nobody
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paid attention to they came out a year
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ago
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that had emails in it that showed um in
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april
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of 2018
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uh yeah 20 2017 excuse me right when
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when there were questions about the
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trump finances the trump immigration
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finances
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what did they do they said alan
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weaselberg
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should be in charge or at least
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overseeing
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the internal audit so this is really
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weird right because it's a non-profit
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that paid a lot of money to the trump
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organization probably improperly
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that's what we know now and they went to
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the guy who runs the money and the
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numbers of the trump organization said
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you oversee the audit you look at what's
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going on here
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uh there's no good explanation for this
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no and so no one
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picked up on this until i found these
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emails this week
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so we should also just set the context
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here which was always the case that this
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inauguration they raised and spent
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two or three times what the obama
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inauguration was for
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what was manifestly a smaller affair
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and it's always been a bit of a
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head-scratching thing like where'd all
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the money
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go we
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107 million dollars they raised you're
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right it's
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twice the 53 million that obama raised
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it's unclear still where the money went
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and they had a lot of trouble with
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afterwards putting together their final
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financials
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and the reports and there was a lot of
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back and forth um stephanie uh
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winston walkoff writes about this in in
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her book melania me
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because she worked for the pick um and
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so we have alan weisselberg
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who's in charge of the company that
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that's getting some of the questionable
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payments
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now overseeing the audit uh and
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to top this off a couple of weeks ago uh
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carl arsene
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tried to extend the discovery in the dc
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case in order to take his deposition so
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they're finally on to him down in dc
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and they want to bring him in for
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questions wait so they want to bring in
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weisselberg to depose in this case
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in this case they now want you know they
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went to the judge and said
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we need more time for discovery because
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we want to bring him in
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so again it's a civil case not a
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criminal case but it shows
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yet again he's in the middle of what
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seems to be
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uh at least it's an alleged example of
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trump drift
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yeah i mean he's it sort of points to
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the fact i mean you've got you've got
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this situation in which
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the allegation is that the committee is
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essentially skimming off the top for
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trump oregon you bring in the trump org
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accountant
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who would be on the receiving end of
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those payments essentially or overseeing
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them to
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to run the audit but it's also another
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example of like he's in the middle of
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all this right i mean he is the guy
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he's the guy they've been saying it
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forever we know that psy vance and
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letitia james's offices
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have their eyes on him we know they've
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talked to his we've investigated his his
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kids
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uh according to reporting he do you see
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him as the central figure based on
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all your reporting here uh other than
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someone in the immediate family yes
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right because
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you know what what is trump being
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investigated for various types of tanks
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fraud
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through trump organization various types
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of business fraud
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it's a closely held company it's run you
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know with just a few people there's no
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middle management very very little trump
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organization
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so it's it's donald trump senior it's
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his three kids
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junior eric and ivanka and it's and it's
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uh
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ellen weisselberg and a few others so he
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knows where everything is
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he was involved in the trump foundation
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remember that was shut down too for
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rampant gross illegality right i mean
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there's nothing that goes on in the
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trump
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business world that he's not involved
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with so he is the rosetta
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stone yeah i should say three of his
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four children
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uh three of his four children tiffany
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trump i see you got your back david corn
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great reporting thank you thank you
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chris
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you
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