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Replacement in sight. Repeal and replace is going great. And racial bias, Excessive Force and reckless shootings. Todays doj report on the Chicago Police department when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There is just one week to go until donald trump becomes the president of the United States. He has not even taken office yet and already trump is historically unpopular. His transition, arguably clouded by more serious scandals and controversy than all eight years of the Obama Administration combined. As questions mount about the circumstances of trumps elect...

Seriously and it's happening on the senate side where they're trying to ram through nominees without getting the standard ethics report that mitch mcconnell himself demanded for president obama's nominees in 2009. >> are you confident all of those ethics clearances will happen before -- i know some of the hearings have been postponed. it did seem that was a mini battle the democrats in some senses won in so far as a bunch of those hearings have been postponed? >> it seems like we've made some progress but i wouldn't declare victory yet because the challenge, for example, with devos is a vast c...

Place to back it up. >> what do you make of -- congressman chaffetz has carved out a role for himself in the house, the oversight committee. the idea behind the oversight commit see the a deep constitutional idea, the tension between article one and article two branches of the united states government that congress over sees the executive. do you feel that he is -- does he sound faith to feel that role as he talks about what's going on now? >> the best way to get the house republicans to attack something is put the label "ethics" on it. so it's not really -- it's oversight to try to destroyer ...

Co-workers up in anchorage alaska and spent several hours interviewing a very cooperative esteban santiago. he'll be in court tomorrow morning, gregg? gregg: phil keating live at the ft. lauderdale airport, thanks. arthel: several of president-elect trump's cabinet picks will go before the senate to start confirmation hearings. the office of government ethics warning it has not had enough time to finish screening some of the nominees. now democrats are pushes for gop lawmakers to delay the hearings until the ethics reduce are done. bryan llenas is live in new york city newsroom with more. >> r...

>> yep. >> so this is just so backwards and the notion that we have lost contact with them is kind of other worldly and creepy. >> e.j., you had -- there's a lot of -- kellyanne conway was on another network complaining that president obama had multiple nominees approved on january 20th, but they had completed their ethics questionnaires. we are now in a situation where several of donald trump's appointees have yet to complete their background checks, their ethics clearances are which are customarily required, and again they said we seem to have lost contact with them. >> that is an amazing ph...