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W.r.i. Southampton at $91.00. 900 point one. Fairfield out 88.5 and w one p.r. Dot org Im Patrick Scahill in for Diane Orson Happy Thanksgiving the time is 6 oclock. Good morning president trumps hotel in Washington is profiting his hotel in Soho New York is struggling now his name will come off the marquee as his company sells it Its Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. Coming up how President Trumps election and his many feuds cost him business I know and Im Steve Inskeep the president more full...

The polarizing politics is, you know, taking a real toll on the trump brand? >> yeah. you know, what i always think about with these men so far its been men but little larry did this too, the big league players in politics have toughness. obama was amazing how much he was attacked and yet you see him with his family and who he is as a guy. same with trump, probably some negative vibe on some of what happened, but the trump brand has been that youre going to fail a bunch of times, but youre going...

So much so that the trump soho hotel was announced on "the apprentice." the trump international hotel and tower in soho is the site of my latest development. this 50-story building will be the first condominium hotel in the city with world-class accommodations. >> so why is the trump organization walking away from this world-class accommodation? well explain. en you have type , you manage your a1c, but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowers a1c, and...

Name off that troubled building and sever all ties to it. joining us now is andrea bernstein. great to see you. >> thank you. >> night before thanksgiving. a lot for me to ask you being here. really appreciate. just a new york point here -- i though where the trump soho is, i do not think of that as soho. >> its west of soho. near the mouth of the holland tunnel. >> the aspirational name. >> like the number of floors of trump tower is higher than they are. >> you round up to the nearest thing th...

Investigation by the district attorney in manhattan. last month, a joint investigation by the new yorker and wnyc revealed just how close donald trump jr. and ivanka trump has come to being indicted over fraud at the trump soho. they came very close to being indicted, but the manhattan d.a. dropped that case. they said it has absolutely nothing to do with the visit and large donation he received from donald trumps long-time personal lawyer while he was considering that case. a big part of the tr...

Perhaps has deals, contracts with, associated with, and now the trump soho hotel, managers there kind of separating ways with trump. what is behind all of that? and early, before, you know, their contracted deal is up? >> i think theres a few things going on. youve seen the trump brand perform differently in different regions and countries. frankly, you know, the lower west side of manhattan soho a place you have a lot of upper middle class democrats, not his core brand consumer. >> it was doing...

Accommodations and views oh lower manhattan and the hudson river. when completed in 2008, this beautiful $370 million work of art will be an awe-inspiring masterpiece. >> that was the voice of donald trump praising his trump soho hotel project on "the apprentice," that was back in 2007, but now the current owner of the luxury condo hotel is parting ways with the trump organization. this is where nba superstar lebron james refused to say. insiders say the hotel has struggled to stay afloat since ...

Months and also the trump organization will no longer manage the building day-to-day. and a restaurant has closed in the last year. there have been -- theyve struggled to fill the hotel and to sell the condominiums actually in that building. and a lawyer for the restaurant that closed in this last year said -- attributed it to the election, attributed it to the trump brand that he says has taken a turn for the worst since president trumps election and in light of his divisive presidency as many ...

Do we see that this is an occasion, particularly since so much is at stake, that he will be reaching across the aisle to try to negotiate for what he wants, tax reform? >> well, a couple times hes been a able to get anything done is because of his alliances with chuck and nancy, as he likes to refer to them. not because hes worked well with the gop congress thats actually in control. usually when the democrats were in control under obama, we got a lot legislatively done. republicans have failed ...

Described as a checqic arty neighborhood, soho. this is a low rise neighborhood. it is zoned for warehouses and low buildings. this is 43 stories high. so, to build it, they had to create this kind of new kind of hybrid. people can only live there four months a year, then they had to rent it out. people didnt want to buy that. even if there wasnt a financial crisis, it was a very tough product to sell. >> and in terms of that proud investigation this is very interesting reporting, it was you guy...