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No diversity. >> tucker: ooh, white men, worst kind.te then there was kurt eickenwald.. how could we forget kurt eichenwald, who dropped this on twitter, "i hope every g.o.p-er who voted for trumpcare see a family member get a long-term condition, lose insurance, and die." when asked why he wanted people to die for his political beliefs, eichenwald added this, "because i want them to be tortured." keep in mind, he works at msnbc now. his venom exceeded by singer and actress bette miller. she twe...

Nothing about the topic that she is supposed to be overseeing, you know, a very large department and dealing with, you have to stand back and say what kind of government is this going to be? you have it in instance after instance. you have, you know, the secretary of health and human services who has some very serious issues. youve got -- youve got the head of housing and urban development, carson, who knows nothing about it. devos clearly is not qualified. and when you have an administration wh...

>> yes. >> what your thoughts are on them. >> i was just asking to clarify -- >> well, this is a subject that is -- has been debated in the education community for years. >> new information continues to cast doubt on the cabinets fitness for office. just before facing the senate finance committee on thursday, it was reported that the treasury secretary nominee did not disclose almost $100 million dollars in assets. joining me now, "newsweeks" kurt eichenwald. my beef with her is she doesnt know ...

The most yawning gaps between the quality of the trailer and the quality of the film of anything thats ever been put out by hollywood, now im really terrified. kurt eichenwald, thanks a lot. >> thanks for having me. coming up in our next hour, michael moore joins us live to talk about how donald trump is doing in his brand new job. more "a.m. joy" after the break. its just a date. i can stay.

Celebrity and its going to be fine. im sorry, that was being too snarky. you mentioned in passing hhs, thats tom price. lets play a little of tom price being asked by al franken about his tobacco stock purchases. take a listen. >> how do you square reaping personal financial gain from the sales of an addictive product that kills millions of americans every decade with also voting against measures to reduce the death toll inflicted by tobacco? >> well, its an interesting question, senator, and it...

Also have to look to other topics too. >> kurt, as somebody who has written stories about trumps conflicts of interest only to have his coincidentally stweegt about nonsense, also isnt he tweeting to get away from reporting like yours? >> well, you know, its funny. i actually dont think that trump is that thought out. i really do think that he is just impulsive and that, you know, ultimately hes throwing out nonsense because thats what occurred to him at that moment. maybe im underestimating him...

Trump would hold his first post election press conference on january 11th, which he very well might do, but theres every reason to be skeptical after the one he promised on december 15th and the one from melania trump on her immigration status on and on, claim after claim made on twitter that doesnt pan out. dig beneath the head loilines a you get to the real truth about the trump. joining me are msnbc political analyst joan walsh, jameel smith and kurt eichenwald. it does feel like the press ke...

>> that wasnt news. the president-elect during the campaign said so. and then after the election suddenly theyre asking, oh, why didnt you tell us that maybe the russians were trying to help our candidate? well, come on. >> joining me now, the "washington post," kathryn ham pell, april ryan for american urban radio networks and author of "mothers and race," kurt eichenwald. thank you all for being here. curt, i feel i have to go to you first. i feel we have dragged you out of your home every wee...

Will soon have the power to order that cleric extradited back to turkey or not. news weeks senior editor kurt eichenwald joins us now. take us through that situation in turkey and exactly where the conflict comes in. >> did was sort of a shocking situation, because you had, the first time donald trump spoke to the president erdogan of turkey, he said oh, i have, you know, you should, my good friends at, my business partner down that are, send you regards. they hold you in high regard. and erdoga...

Connection. i was asking them, i actually kept going back, because one of the things the story talks about is how the president of the philippines, duterte, is basically presiding over a mass slaughter of drug users. and trump in his call to him said i really like what youre doing, dealing with your drug problem, and thats been taken as an approval by him, by the president of the philippines of what hes doing, of these death squads. and guess what? trump has a building in the philippines, and th...