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Also have to look to other topics too. >> kurt, as somebody who has written stories about trump's conflicts of interest only to have his coincidentally stweegt about nonsense, also isn't he tweeting to get away from reporting like yours? >> well, you know, it's funny. i actually don't think that trump is that thought out. i really do think that he is just impulsive and that, you know, ultimately he's throwing out nonsense because that's what occurred to him at that moment. maybe i'm underestimating him. maybe it is an attempt to take the attention off of investigative reports like the ones i w...

Trump would hold his first post election press conference on january 11th, which he very well might do, but there's 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 doesn't 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 keeps falling for the banana in the tail pipe to use the old eddie murphy apal gnaloanalogy. why do ...

>> that wasn't news. the president-elect during the campaign said so. and then after the election suddenly they're asking, oh, why didn't 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 weekend to talk about russian interference in the election or -- conflicts of interest. so this surp...

Will soon have the power to order that cleric extradited back to turkey or not. news week's 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 erdogan is not an idiot. erdogan desperately wants the muslim cleric you were talking about, has been try...

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 you're doing, dealing with your drug problem, and that's been taken as an approval by him, by the president of the philippines of what he's doing, of these death squads. and guess what? trump has a building in the philippines, and the person who is the business partner is now the representative to the united states from the pres...