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Them of those points, alex. i think also when you look at we raised during this campaign things like reparations, which he did not answer in the debate at all the other night and we've had, when i had action convention this year, 14 candidates came. he was not running yet. every one of them said they would sign a bill for a study on reparations that's being proposed. he's not talked about any of the specific ways he would close the race gap and i think that he can get there, maybe today he wanted to just set a tone. but he's going to have to do more than tone setting because of his own history...

Scrutiny. i mean, we have four just recently that we can put on the screen and talk about here in terms of ethics concerns and being scolded. >> yeah. >> where does all of that go from here, though? yes, we know this has happened. yes, they've been summoned and scolded, but does anything come out of that? >> well, i'm going to go ahead and call this one right now. where it goes from here is downhill and it gets worse. and that's because of the tone setting from the top. you know, there was a report that the white house scolded these individuals, as you said. well, i'm not sure the white house ...

Is this different this time? >> it's a little different, my reporting tells me that the whirlwind, getting the cabinet through, having all of these different controversies with general flynn as kristen laided out, has now passed. it's a different phase. he's facing a major congressional speech next week. he has to start to get things done on tax reform, on health care, he's going to cpac which hasad this controversy with milo and the alt-right and try to define himself as a president. and that's what people inside the white house are telling me. this is a chance, new phase, congress next week ...

About keith ellison's fight against former dnc chair howard dean to lead the dnc, both speaking in denver to be the running to be the next chairman of the party. lots to talk about with our national political reporter for politico. hi, eli. >> how are you? >> living the dream. especially fresh off the plane from cincinnati for the president-elect's kick off to the thank you tour. you have a piece out. you said it was more to you an i told you so tour. interesting distinction. can donald trump afford that tone setting up the administration moving forward? >> well, ji don't know. he's gotten awa...

Hillary clinton not to debate whoever her opponents are, and it will be a more marginal issue. you had rand paul on the republican side come out with a speech on race last year and it was really tone-setting for the party that is trying to broaden its tent. i think a lot of people for a general election will want to try similar efforts, and i do think it's mostly going to be discussed within the democratic primary and you have republicans discussing it because criminal justice reform has been a big topic, too. >> so this will play out -- >> also, are there more of these kinds of episodes, and ...