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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...

Businesses, right decision. trump has done nothing of the sort but he's apparently done enough for chaffetz. >> it seems to me donald trump is bending over backwards to do everything he can but he has to abide by the law and he's exempt from most of these conflicts of interest so i thought it was very premature of the office of government ethics to be in the spin room saying hey, i hate this. >> democrats including chuck schumer responded to chaffetz' letter with outright. "mr. chaffetz's attempt to bully mr. shaub out of doing his job are absolutely despicable." joining me now, senator jeff m...

Because of it being a five-year term but i must say it will be very very disturbing for a president to put someone in that office who isn't a professional committed to enforcing ethics laws and will make -- certainly make a lot of noise about it and consider where whether there's some kind of legislation we can pass that puts boundaries in 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 ...

A. >> i wish circumstances were different and i didn't feel the need to make public remarks today. you don't hear about ethics when things are going well. you've been hearing a lot about ethics lately. >> walter shaub, director of u.s. government ethics delivered a speech decrying the steps donald trump has taken -- or not taken, he got a letter from gop representative jason chaffetz chair of the house oversight and government reform chairman who earlier this week vowed to continue his investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. now chaffetz's letter was not a show of support to a fellow eth...

Chaffetz accusing shaub of blurring the line between public relations and official ethics guidance hinting he may investigate shaub for speaking out about trump's conflict of interest. chaffetz, who demanded shaub appear for a closed-door interview cited a tweet storm from november in which shaub told trump oge is delighted you've decided to divest your businesses, right decision. trump has done nothing of the sort but he's apparently done enough for chaffetz. >> it seems to me donald trump is bending over backwards to do everything he can but he has to abide by the law and he's exempt from mo...