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Correspondent at vanity fair. i threw the question out there. answer it. go around the table. gabe, what are we doing? >> what are we doing? clearly trump has a master ability to figure out what buttons to push, and clearly at a time when there are clouds swirling around his administration, whether it's the mueller investigation or the debacles he's stepping into with north korea, he will tweet a cultural issue that gets everyone talking. they are bright, shiny objects that get people chasing things that aren't necessarily in the interests of the country. >> eric? >> i love the fact with rosea...

This week we learned they even share the same lawyer. at a hearing monday it was revealed that trump's personal attorney michael cohen's mystery third client is sean hannity. hannity fired back at his critics with a response that sounded all too trumpy. >> am i surprised by any of this? no, of course not. this is what the media in this country does. i never retained his services, i did have occasional brief conversations with michael cohen. my questions exclusively almost focused on real estate. maybe the media could try and start focusing in on the biggest abuse of power scandal or maybe the ...

Seemed to glorify everything about this person's lifestyle and his view of the country that we live in. the statement that the "new york times" gave you -- gave the show in response to your inquiry did not come across in that article at all. >> you know, eric, charlie wertzel, the reporter who actually did the story, confesses in his writeup about why he did it, that he actually didn't get much out of the article. t they interviewed the guy several times and he didn't feel the story. he still did it anyway. this focus on the appearance, on where he's shopping did feel like he should be in a fa...

"time magazine" and then the trump organization had to admit that it was a fake news story. so we have a president that is so offended by fake news media that he hangs a fake magazine all over his clubs. >> his obsession to be onlegend. there's an annual tweet asking why he's not man of the year. this year he actually pretent tended that he declined. >> they had never spoken to him. >> they had never spoken to him. >> right. his office is wallpapered with magazine covers of himself going back to the 1980s. his office is almost like this relic of a 1980s nightmare which he's never graduated fro...

Media's favorite conspiracy theory, uranium one. among other topics in the trump/pirro were a few other parts of trump's obsession. hillary clinton. barack obama. trump listens to pirro, shawn hannity, and conspiracy theorist alex jones among others which means from their lips to trump's ears the far right fringe has moved into the center of american political power. joining me is msnbc political contributor, tim o'brien. eric bowler and michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy. i will go to you first on this, tim, as the trump biographer at the t...