LESTER HOLT (HOST): Today Donald Trump met privately with fundraisers here in New York as he tries to jump start the efforts in a campaign in which he's going to need some big money and Trump finds himself newly under fire tonight because of money. An investigation by USA Today, finding hundreds in business who accuse Trump of not paying everything they were owed. Sometimes tying them up in the courts for years. It's raising questions about Trump's history of business tactics. NBC's Hallie Jackson has details for us. 

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HALLIE JACKSON: Donald Trump often points to his business skills as proof he can “make America great again,” but a new analysis of those business dealings shows Friel’s not alone. A USA Today, network special report discovering at least 60 lawsuits plus hundreds of liens and judgments over the last three decades from people who say Trump and his businesses tricked them. Not just some of Trump’s own lawyers, but a dishwasher, a plumber, waiters and bartenders, lots of who you might call little guys. People like Michael Diehl. Back in the '80s he delivered to Trump Taj Mahal $100,000 worth of grand pianos but he says he only received $70,000 when the company refused to pay all of what it owed him. 

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JACKSON: Late tonight the campaign directed NBC News to statements made by the Trumps. Ivanka insisting it would be irresponsible for her father to pay contractors for work he didn't like. Trump himself arguing that's the kind of attitude the country should have. 

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