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Such madness . There are still more dead inside. An out of control inferno developing a california warehouse. Firefighters saying its too dangerous to retrieve all the bodies of those still unaccounted for as investigators try to figure out what happened ask who is to blame. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. President elect trump still continuing to build his cabinet and today we learn hes bringing one of his former campaign opponents on board. Ben carson was announc...

Duterte is a man that trump seems to admire. First here at home, new additions in the russian probe seem to put out from allies that people in the Trump Campaign were nothing but coffee boys. We now know George Papadopoulos, who trump calls a lowlevel volunteer, edited a policy speech that trump gave in april of 2016, according to the new york times. Papadopoulos was also in regular contact with Campaign Aide Steven Miller when he was told that the russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the for...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday that he would be retiring from politics after his current term and signaled that his daughter would run for president in 2022.

Theyre two steps from being a racketeering enterprise. so when you have a situation where duterte, who has compared himself to hitler, who in his december 2nd phone call with donald trump, you know, donald trump supposedly told him youre handling the drug dealing -- your drug problems the right way, killing people, i mean, donald trump, if he says president duterte, we stand against what youre doing, were standing against your mass murder, then whats going to happen? duterte will say, well, my r...

>> today donald trump landed in manila where he met another of his strongman idols, philipine president robert duterte. he praised dutertes fight on drugs. it is unclear whether trump will bring up any human rights questions with duterte, but it also brings up questions about the trump tower he loves to brag about in manila. kurt, ill start with you. usa today wrote this about donald trump back in may. president trump makes more money when he embraces regimes that violate human rights. from the ...

>> duterte is a man that trump seems to admire. first here at home, new additions in the russian probe seem to put out from allies that people in the trump campaign were nothing but coffee boys. we now know george papadopoulos, who trump calls a low-level volunteer, edited a policy speech that trump gave in april of 2016, according to the "new york times." papadopoulos was also in regular contact with campaign aide steven miller when he was told that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton in...

New projects there. but those arent the only places where potential conflicts loom. in the philippines, home to a trump tower, newly elected leader robert duterte has been criticized for competeexecution drug offenders. >> its not my problem. >> reporter: the state department has condemned the killings. >> we continue to be deeply concerned about reports of extrajudicial killing by heads of the philippines. >> reporter: but trump hasnt condemned them. the two men recently spoke. trump praised du...

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