news week's senior editor kurt eichenwald joins us now.ough 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 trying to get him from the obama administration, the obama administration says we're not going to extradite until you giv us some evidence, so erdogan, hearing about the importance of this business partner to donald trump, orders the arrest of the senior officer with that company and says he was also behind the coup. so, you know, and what i have been told by people who are directly connected into erdogan's surrounding staff is that he knows exactly what he is doing, that, you know, the way somebody put it, it was now erdogan has something that

kurt eichenwald joins us right now.his attack last thursday was not the first time this had happened. at least been tried by someone but what do you remember happening last thursday? >> very little. one of the problems of having a seizure is your memory gets pretty obliterated. my wife dealt with it. she heard that something was going on. >> just takes a single flash. >> no, takes a repeated strobe. i mean, unfortunately, i can't tell you what it looks like because if i see it and it's causing a problem, i don't remember it. but the -- from what was described to me this was a multicolored strobe that was going at a to cause a seizure and it succeeded. >> we're showing it right now. it says you deserve a seizure for your posts. so you're saying that leads to you believe clearly this was in this person knew what they were doing. >> they knew what they were doing. actually my wife took that photograph to make sure we had the evidence of what happened. you can't tell from the still image that it is flashing constantly and s

eichenwald, we should point out, has epilepsy. he says the tweet had flashing colors and said he deserved a seizure and twitter has since suspended the person's account and eichenwald and his lawyers are trying to find that suspect. >>> north carolina's so-called bathroom law may soon be a thing of the past. lawmakers are holding a special session to reconsider the controversial measure. the law requires transgendered people to use restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. it also reversed laws expanding protections for lgbt people. the bill led to lawsuits, boycotts and millions in lost revenues for that state. >>> when we come back, a police officer's cruiser hit by a car. see the new video and why police say this was deliberate. >>> and the stunt on the nfl field triggering a huge spike in salvation army donations. brows? why do people put milk on cereal? oh, are you reading why people put milk on cereal? why does your tummy go "grumbily, grumbily, grumbily"? why is it all (mimics a stomach grumble) no

nice work, kurt. >> thank you very much. >> kurt eichenwald. >> now we have to take a brick. this for one moment. guess who walked into trump tower? the one and only kanye west. cal perry is outside trump tower. no time for daily intelligence briefings. no time for a press conference to dig into donald trump's business plans and answer questions. but president-elect trump, he has time for yeezy? >> yes, so i was hoping you weren't going to ask me anything about kanye west specifically. it's not my area of expertise. kanye west is here, and it was just confirmed to the media by hope hicks that donald trump is meeting with kanye west. there were any number of reasons he could have been here, but he is meeting with the president-elect. now, i can tell you, kanye west has been a donor for the democratic national committee. he donated twice, once $1,000, once $15,000. he was supposedly a hillary clinton supporter. but in 2015, while accepting an award, he shocked his fans and said he didn't vote, but that if he had, he would have voted for donald trump. here he is today, at trump

curt eichenwald had aggressively covered donald trump's campaign for "newsweek."n the reporter said he has received two tweets with flashing images which have triggered seizures. eichenwald plans to subpoena twitter to release the identity of the most recent user who sent the message. that person's account has already been suspended from the site. eichenwald will appear on "good morning america" this morning. >> it is 6:27 and winter officially starts tomorrow and it will come in with a bit of a warmup. dave murphy will have your accuweather update. >> dirty conditions at a dentist's office in berks county might have exposed patients to serious diseases. the health alert is next. >> ♪ at t.j.maxx, marshalls and homegoods, we've always believed the holidays should be about joy. where days are filled with magic, not madness. it's why we have amazing prices on thoughtful gifts, everyday. let's bring back the holidays. >> braking now on "action news," an injured woman is left on the side of a road in north philadelphia. police want to know who she is, how she got ther

kurt eichenwald has been on a terror. there are new allegations that at least in one case a foreign government may have already taken action to threaten the private business interests of the president-elect as a way of trying to get something that that foreign country wants from the u.s. government. again, this is "newsweek" reporting. it's not out yet. we have an advanced preview. this is exclusive to us. it's a serious allegation but it's not a complicated one. it starts with something called the trump towers, towers, plural, a twin building complex in turkey that the president-elect didn't build himself but he's being paid a lot of money to allow his name to be put on the building, trump towers. the company that built the towers is being called dogan. this is the dogan family. the guy next to trump, he's the pataki tree yark and founder of the company and is described as a figure head. he's basically passed the business onto his family. the other guy in the other picture is the son-in-law of the founder. he's married t

>>> well if you missed it earlier in the show we had on news week's curt eichenwald. wild on twitter recently so we invited him on to ask what that's about recently. here's how it went. do you believe that you're practicing journalism? >> when did you stop beating your wife. what are you talking about? >> well, i'll show you what i'm talking about. i read your twitter feed and that is the kind of stuff i'm reading on it. at one point you ask of conservatives why do they hate america, you describe trump as stupid and lazy. you refer to dumb ass trumpers, you say that to kelly fitzpatrick, fu. >> hold on. one of the things i want to make sure of, you have a habit of taking a lot of things out of context. >> my point is that you ought to label yourself as what you are, an advocate. >> let's stop for a second. >> i've got 100 of them. >> give me an example. >> i'm trying to right now. >> let's play the game another way. i spent a little while just sort of doing some research on you. this is what i came up with. tucker carlson false hoods. >> i want you to answer this ques

joining me, cristina beltran, whitehouse ethics lawyer, eric eichenwald and mother jones. i'll come with a table, cristina. what do you think of auctioning off a dinner with his sister and people saying they wanted to use it to get access. >> it's appalling and shocking and amazing and completely tip kalg of this administration. one of the problems we have is the fact that we have a political system that already had problems with access and influence and people trying to buy influence. one of the really problem is, citizens have identified a real problem, which is that we have problems with access and influence in our politics but this is the response. saying this is honest and straight forward and blatant and okay. and people who recognize legitimate problems and going for something that feels blatant and come policit. >> let's listen to sean spicer on cnn. >> this is a totally transparent process. that people that he has trusted, made it clear how much he values the input of his family, put their names on the transition policy. >> it's not like there is anything nefariou

curt eichenwald has been reporting on this for months. it hasn't been illegal what he's done.going forward? without a doubt but the conflict of interest and you can speak to this better than i am, unless it's breaking a law, it's people are unhappy. if donald trump fulfills a lot of his campaign promises which signs are pointing to he does, people could say, guess what, he's putting me back to work, that's a good thing. >> but back to ari's point about perceived conflicts of interest, is there any way out that didn't fit into what we believe the way it's supposed to be done, doesn't entirely adhere to how he thinks he has to do nothing? >> the most important thing is he puts trump organization in independent trusteeship. that means not your children or friends. >> he's not going to do that. >> i'm not going to predict. we've made mistakes as the media, overpredicting. what we should do is independent trusteeship that matches what other presidents had to have done. and number two, has to divest. i spoke with an ethics who said he'll perjure himself and if he doesn't divest from