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

. >> kurt eichenwald, i ask you to keep beating that drum. great reporting, great piece. uch. >> kurt eichenwald. >> now we have to take a brick. before we do, i want to go back for 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

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

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 surprise that everyone is feeling now that this issue was happening, this sort of shock, why didn't the administration tell us that the russian hack was going on. how does that slammed with you, sir? >> it's totally absurd. i mean, you had the director of national intelligence issue a letter on october 7th that said this is happening. you had a -- actually, a large collection of former national security experts who issued a letter to us, to the media, saying, "you're being taken. stop doing this." now, they were issuing that under -- with the express permission of the cia. because the cia can't make that kind of recommend thanks. they did it, trying to get us to stop. and we didn't. and i was reporting -- i know david was reporting that this was going on. in fact, before