Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180112:19:33:00
Next to the embassy, we put it on the market and sold it for half a billion dollars which then we now we could get that much for the embassy which we did. so we raised total of billion dollars and looked at 60 locations found one on the south bank of the river. and projection at the time was we could build a new embassy plus purchase the property for the same amount of money. so really no projected cost to the u.s. taxpayer. second, lastly, and i'll be quick, something i'm very proud of, we have been building a lt of embassies but undistinguished architectic ukly. and i went to the state and s...