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Trades, pardons spark questions over presidency profits

Season 2026 Episode 68 | 7m 12s

The Pentagon is denying a report by The Financial Times that Defense Secretary Hegseth’s stockbroker was seeking to make large investments in major defense companies in the days before the U.S. and Israel struck Iran. That report is raising more concerns about the people in and around the Trump administration who seem to be profiting in unusual ways. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports.

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