your concerns or will the president-elect be given free rein? well, what i ve seen today is that the united states house of representatives oversight committee is swinging into action to defend the president-elect against the concerns of the office of government ethics. the chairman of the committee wrote a letter to the director of the office of government ethics starting an investigation of o.g.e. the united states house of representatives investigation of o.g.e. alleging that o.g.e. is politicizing the process merely because o.g.e. is taking the position that the president should divest his businesses, which is exactly the position that i and many other republicans as well as democrats have taken. and the office of government ethics is taking that position. and now the house of representatives oversight committee has also made a veiled threat to pull the appropriation
foreign, you have congress dealing with these ethics issues right now. it seems silly and paul ryan trying to prevent his caucus from defunding of office of ethics right out of the gate but yet was almost powerfless to do so. in the end, they decided not to do it and they stepped back. specifically, when you have donald trump coming in right now who has all his own ethics questions and talking about draining the swamp in washington, don. don, can i this is one where i have strong opinions. there are a lot of news this week and i think this has gotten a little buried. you have this guy who runs the office of government ethics. this is a sleepy agency that in most presidency, you never heard of. he works with nominee s to make
with the president-elect trump. he s on board now. tell us what he says about working with this new administration? a couple of things, don. he was honest with his relationship with donald trump and acknowledging that he was the target of those tweets as we know where donald trump does not like what he sees, he will go after and attack you viciously. paul ryan says he was used to that during the campaign. he did say that he had several conversations with donald trump when it comes to entitlement and reforms and how they re going to replace obamacare. paul ryan says that s not going to happen. when the issue of russia was discussed tonight, he went directly at vladimir putin and he described russia as a global
stop to do your job and stay on the story. his whole thing, i watched anderson last night on the network, it was beautiful. kellyanne conway what s happening to her? it is just amazing. anderson would not let up. that s the job here at cnn and all the other network. the american people are pretty upset at how trump got into this and was not at the beginning treat inside the way he should have been treated. he got to say things and phone into shows from bed. and would you ever let me be on a show from bed. depends on if you are running for president get that thought off your head. if i ever run for president don t ever let me phoning in from bed. this is the media fell down
i ve never seen a pib servant go before the cameras and call out the guy who s going to be his boss in a few days the way that the director did yesterday. and i think that s something that we in the media need to pay more attention to and of course we ll be following it here on cnn. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. thanks, don. up next, in his final days in office president barack obama surprised his vice president joe biden with a very high honor. biden is so surprised and moved he has to turn away to compose himself. [ applause ] for millions of baby boomers there s a virus out there. a virus that s serious, like hiv, but it hasn t been talked about much.