Both the Trump and the Kushner families have risen from arriving on American shores as immigrants to the height of U.S. politics. In their powerful political positions, both families have the ability to to blur the lines between public and private interests. Soledad O’Brien sits down with award-winning journalist Andrea Bernstein to discuss her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, and how we may be approaching the brink of a new age.
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