president, the kushner company was seeking financing to pay off the $1.2 billion mortgage. >> you've never been up here? >> i've never been up here. it's quite the view. >> we're starting to piece all of this together at the very top of 30 rock with bloomberg reporter caleb elby, who tracks the empire of donald trump and his entire family. >> that's the kushners' building right down there, shorter than some of the others. what's the deal with 666 fifth avenue? >> this was the kushner's family's big bet in 2007. they paid a record-setting $1.8 billion for this building. >> in 2008, things fell apart. >> yeah. it basically sparked a decade of rolling problems for the family where they were constantly trying to figure out how to handle this massive debt that they had acquired. charlie kushner, jared's father, had an idea to knock down this building and build another in