owner of his businesses. he will continue to have an ownership stake. and that s the thing that emphasis, bipartisan emphasis, those who worked for george w. bush and president obama and others, and those who are including the head of the office of government ethics still in the government now, what all of them are saying is that by maintaining that ownership stake, there s essentially no way for donald trump to avoid questions about whether he is doing things in the interest of the american people or in the interest of himself. and that is a risk that i think donald trump has decided he s willing to take by not fully divesting his lawyer argues that he can t fully divest because it would require a fire sale and wouldn t be fair to him to have to fully sell his business. and as a result of that, there
will be these types of questions from his opponents throughout his presidency. here s the thing. so the heads of these departments will have to take all of that into account, right, whether the president of the united states will profit, won t that grind government to a screeching halt? it may not bring things to a halt but it s going to be a concern and going to hand the president-elect s political opponents a weapon they can use against him repeatedly over the next however long he s in office, four years, eight years, whatever it ends up being. of course, his nominees are held to a different standard because they are covered by the federal conflict of interest statute that excludes the president. so they have to divest. and they have to put their assets into blind trusts and there are all sorts of complicated rules that they have to follow. he doesn t. you can see a situation where
some of the cabinet officials may start thinking, i have to do this stuff, how come he doesn t? and it could be an issue that could cause ill will as the presidency develops. so i m coinkind of glad you brought up the house ethics office, what s far more interesting, jason chaffetz, has asked the head of the independent ethics office to appear before a house committee because he s upset that the ethics chief is criticizing donald trump s conflicts of interest publicly. the office of government ethics has long been a sleepy office that doesn t get a lot of attention, except am there are these confirmations that come up. but walter shaub has been far more public about ethics recently than in the past. he is he authorized and called for a tweet storm
and his wife have been giving a lot of exit interviews as their final days in the house behind me wind down. in an interview with 60 minutes set to air on sunday, the president was reflecting on his time in office. he says he and his team have not always been good at communicating the good things about his policy proposals. let s play some of that. part of the job description is also shaping public opinion. and we were very effective, and i was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. but there were big stretches while governing where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren t able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us.
reporter: how do doctors feel about obamacare? well, a little stuck because surveys show only 3.2% give oba obamacare an a grade and yet most of the major medical organizations are urging no repeal without replacement. worried about the loss of coverage for millions of people. i think the ama has is right. this is the biggest drop in the number of people without health insurance since the creation of medicare and medicaid 50 years ago. for people out there beneficiaries, 20 million of them, what would you say to them as a doctor? did we really solve the problem? co-pays are going up, deductibles are going up. are they giving you access to health care? as dr. hill and many other doctors see it, the same exact care now cost more than it should. i look at my office and i ve got a code or bill or some prior authorization, precertification, all of those things have raised the cost of health care to the point where physicians went, i m out. last year, hill got out. his practice s