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 election and his alleged ties to a foreign adversary. Democrats appear to be reaching a breaking point. In an interview with chuck todd, georgia congressman, Civil Rights Icon john lewis became the first to declare openly what i believe many lawmakers have until now only suggested. I dont see this
President Elect as a legitimate president. You do not consider him a legitimate president . Why is that .
intelligence community? no, i don t think a lot of them are coming from the intelligence community. especially with regards to that dossier that dossier had been out there for months. i spoke to david corn. but you have to understand, my book came out four months ago and it was unclassified. it didn t have anything to do with it. so the media takes longer to catch up because you have the two rule verification and things like that and information the just leaking out now about what we can see sort of nefarious, may have parameters leading towards sinister and questionable enough to demand investigation to determine if any of these people have links to moscow. the only thing i feel definitive about is there has to be an official commission in which things are systematically declassified, investigated and presented in some fashion we don t make democratic determinations and immediate determinations based on leaks and counterleaks. malcolm nantz and matt taibbi, thank you. coming up,
hacking of the dnc e-mails and passing it on to wikileaks as well but there s a version where they do that and trump is basically the idiotic moronic beneficiary and wasn t involved in a conspiracy with the russians. we don t have any hard evidence that there s more than that. the thing of which there s the most evidence is the first order thing that they hacked it for whatever reason to sow discontent because they like trump, they hated hillary clinton. they want to sow division in the united states which all great power countries do. we do it. this would be an extraordinary episode but certainly there s no evidence that i ve seen that there s this other element where it s a manchurian candidate, there s a plot and that would be an order of magnitude much larger. and malcolm, i believe you are a you worked obviously in the intelligence community for years, you wrote a book about russia s involvement in this election and you are a believer
the thing of which there s the most evidence is the first order thing that they hacked it for whatever reason to sow discontent because they like trump, they hated hillary clinton. they want to sow division in the united states which all great power countries do. we do it. this would be an extraordinary episode but certainly there s no evidence that i ve seen that there s this other element where it s a manchurian candidate, there s a plot and that would be an order of magnitude much larger. and malcolm, i believe you are a you worked obviously in the intelligence community for years, you wrote a book about russia s involvement in this election and you are a believer
an american icon takes a stand against trump. when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, off moral obligation to do something. tonight, the shock waves from john lewis and why democrats are fuming after another classified briefing with fbi director comey. plus, new questions about team trump s explanation for their phone calls to russia. the only conversation that general flynn had was one to wish him a merry christmas. why republicans are targeting the ethics office that will oversee trump. the house takes another step to dismantle obamacare without a replacement in sight. repeal and replace is going great. and racial bias, excessive force and reckless shootings. today s doj report on the chicago police department when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. there is just one week to go