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for federal aid. crowd funding shut down a fundraiser. it says since marijuana is illegal on the federal level, processing the payments is technically consider the money laundering. another kind of of reminder that business is booming, yet the federal prohibition on marijuana makes it very difficult. >> very complicated. >> thanks for joining us. >> i'm dave briggs. "new day" starts right now. see you tomorrow. made that state, i thought it was sickening, actually. >> this is going to be trump's benghazi. >> i don't want to is see the death of americans turned into is some sensationalized partisan fight. >> we don't know exactly we're at in the world militarily. >> we didn't know we had 1,000 troops in niger. did you? >> no, we did not. >> we want the full accurate story and we want to get it
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right. >> we're going to score a big legislative accomplish here on tax reform. >> you want the best tax package that can actually pass. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn cammarata. >> welcome on our viewers around the united states and around the world. 6:00 here in new york. lawmakers demanding answers on the deadly military mission in niger. congress is set to hold its first hearings this week. and leading senators admit they are stunned to learn how many u.s. troops are in the west africa an nation. the senate also getting ready to grill president trump's secretary of state and defense secretary next week as they take up the long awaited debate about using the military against isis. >> remember, when it comes to
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accountability, the blame should start with them. it has punted to presidents when it comes to owning military action. they haven't held a vote since is the iraq war. they have hidden and now must be held to account. meanwhile, frederica wilson said it is trump's benghazi is and is demanding an apology from the white house chief of staff. the white house defending general john kelly's actions while the president resorts to name-calling again. senator john mccain getting in on the skwrult game. blasting wealthy americans who got bone spur deferments for serving in the war. joe johns live at the white house. >> reporter: chris, there are so many questions bubbling up about that ambush in niger as well the
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american mission in that congress. congress is set to hold its first hearing this day on the issue while many other questions continue about the president's condolence call that started a controversy last week. >> the call was a very nice call. it was so nice. >> reporter: president trump refusing to back down about the nature of the condolence call with the widow of la david johnson. frederica wilson firing back. i'm sick of him giving people nicknames. he doesn't want me to give him a nicknames. >> reporter: shifting the focus back on the investigation into the ambush in niger that killed johnson and three other soldiers. >> i want people to understand what actually is happening in afri
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africa. this is going to be trump's benghazi, trump's niger. >> reporter: the congresswoman joined the johnson family in laying sergeant johnson to rest on saturday. in a new interview, president trump describes the chief of staff's reaction to the congresswoman's rebuke. >> he was so offended that a woman would be -- that somebody would be listen to go that call. he actually couldn't believe it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. >> will son said she overheard the call because it was on spooker phone when she was riding with the family to receive johnson's casket. the congresswoman has known the johnson family for decades. the women of the congressional black caucus calling on general kelly for falsely declaiming wilson bragged about securing funding for an fbi building in 2015. >> even someone that is montana
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we were stunned. >> reporter: she called it blatant lies. >> not only does he owe me an apology, but he owes an apology to the american people because when he lied on me he lied to them. and i don't think that's fair. >> reporter: backlash coming after sarah sanders. >> if you want to get into a debate with a four star marine general, i think that is highly inappropriate. >> reporter: leading lawmakers to question the u.s. military's involvement in the african nation. >> i didn't know there was 1,000 troops in niger. you've got to tell us more. >> reporter: senator john mccain mocking president trump for avoiding the draft in the vietnam war, obtaining five deferments, including one for medical reasons. >> we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest
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income level found a doctor would say they had a bone spur. >> reporter: the pointed attack coming after the president called into question mccain's status as a war hero during the campaign. today the president is expected to award the congressional medal of honor to a vietnam veteran credited with saving the lives of 60 personnel during four days of intense fighting in 1970. it's not clear if the president intends to address the media today. chris and alisyn, back to you. >> joe, appreciate. happy monday. let's discuss and bring in our panel. david drucker and a.b. stoddard. david drucker, let's start with the sound of what the senator said this weekend which shifted the entire focus of execute any on what's going to happen going forward to account for situations like niger. chuck schumer, senator from new
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york. here's what he had to say. lindsey graham, republican, schumer a democrat. both on the same page. >> i can say this to the families. they were there to defend american. i didn't know there was 1,000 troops in niger. john mccain is right to say because this is an endless war without boundaries, you've got to tell us more. >> he didn't know we had 1,000 troops in niger. did you? >> no, i did not. >> let's deal with how terrible this is. it is is their job to vote on these. they haven't held a vote since 2002 for the iraq war. why aren't they to blame for what happened in niger? you want to look at trump and how he deals with the families of the fall especially, fine. they won't hold a debate. they did one in 2002 for the iraq war. they have never touched it again. they got burned. lawmaker after lawmaker will say
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we're going to take it up. we're going to talk bit. they never do a damn thing. obama put the troops in there in 2013. schumer didn't know? graham talks about our role around the worrell all the time. he didn't know? why isn't it on them? >> it is is on them. kopblg provides oversight and congress ultimately grants authority to a president to engage in major conflicts. we have talked to members on of congress on both sides of the aisle. they are always very, very hesitant to sign up for a new authorization for use of military force. >> why? >> for reasons you said. they are worried about getting burned, worried about signing on for something that sounds like one type of action that a president presents and over years, over months, evolves into something else completely different. they have no control over. and it is a political calculation on this part.
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there is another side. when you talk to members that are very dialed in to this, they believe that the authorization for use of military force covering the greater war on terror after september 11th, twup, is sti 2001, they do not believe another is necessary. they are very happy to debate it. some of the more hawkish members are concerned if you start something like this and it doesn't go the right way, it becomes legally questionable. they don't want that to happen. >> that is a good assessment. they have been pushing for air new aumf. is this mission proof? who is authorizing this in niger if the leading senators didn't know what was going on there? >> right. i think that we have all become aware that we are not going to
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be invading countries anymore and we're running covert operations in yemen, somalia and all sorts of places and have been for years. a co-equal branch of congress in government to be accountable and aware of it. the public might not know exactly where every installation of special forces or other troops are. but we are counting on john mccain and lindsey graham and members of these committees to know exactly what's going on. and that really is -- it is is just astonishing to hear senator graham say that senator mccain and secretary of defense mattis will be working out a system here. it's a little late for that. aumf, chris is right, david is right. there are all sorts is of reasons why they are afraid to get into this. the idea that they, as a co equal branch, would not have the
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knowledge and be kept abreast of all the pertinent information about how many people are there, where they are, how much countries we're in, to what numbers. it's really, really shocking. >> all right. listen to what the "new york times" has to say. congress repeatedly dugged efforts by senator mccain, and others to put the war against the islamic state which has blood popular support but no specific congressional authorization, on a firm legal footing. president trump, like his predecessor, insists that legislation passed in 2001 to authorize the war against al cada is sufficient. it isn't. they are concerned that they say it might not be legally sufficient. it is not a reason to run away from a debate. it is a reason to have a debate. it is clearly laid out they declare war.
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if you are a i don't like what's happening with these conflicts, hold a debate. we have to go long and broad, hold a debate. if you are a constitutionalist, it is in there as a defined duty. tim kaine, a good man, he comes on the show, he has not pushed this hard enough. it has never been an urgency. so i don't know how they look at these families and say we really care about you and the way the president handled this phone call, it is morally reprehensible. but what their moral agency. how can schumer have forgotten obama put them there. >> he didn't know how many, he said. >> he did not own it as a reality. why isn't it on them. of course he is going to say i want more power. every president would. that's why this worked so well for congress. who is going to says, no, i
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don't want the power. it's on them. >> of course it's on them. part of what this congress is going to have to deal with is the president has given the pentagon, general mattis and his commanders more attitude and authority to act up the chain. i don't think our government has ever gap elled with this. and this is bush, obama, trump, in the congresses that served currently. thiss n think of the first iraq war. aumf to get iraq on it of kuwait. war dup. war on over. this is, as lindsey graham said, an ongoing war without real end. it is a war against a group, its affiliates. >> it is not against a sovereign. >> there's not a way necessarily to end it. when i was covering the debate
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whether there should be an aumf to deal with the islamic state, a lot of what they were dealing with is isis different than al qaeda. the experts will say no. it is an affiliate of al qaeda evolved into some other group. this is to say this is a complicated issue. >> they made it complicated. >> there is not pressure from vote stories deal with this. if there were, it would have been dealt with in a much different fashion. >> let's deal with the politicization of all of this. the congresswoman said this is trump's benghazi. she has been saying it since then as well. is that the right parallel? how does that work? how is that the right comparison? >> i don't think it is. i thought as i pointed out to you the other day, when she said that in her first interview i think with you, and it was early politicization of this poll
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really an unfortunate episode, benghazi was a situation where an unsecured compound where they had asked for additional security came under attack and the administration came out with sort of an untrue version about what happened which was revealed to be false and embarrassing about a video. it was insensitive. in the end, there was no real wrongdoing that was blamed on the highest levels of the obama administration. but this is a situation where we're running these operations. they're messy and dangerous. they often are covert. and this is what our military does. we are not at the point where we will call this a secret, covered, hidden up affair. i don't think that's fair. >> a.b., david, thank you both very much. senator john mccain mocking president trump for avoiding the draft during the vietnam war
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senator john mccain taking another swipe at president trump without naming him.
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>> one aspect of the conflict, by the way, that i will never, ever is we drafted the lowest income level of america and the highest income level found a doctor that would say they had a bone spur is. that is wrong. that is wrong. if we're going to ask every american to serve, every american should serve. >> let's bring back our panel. david drucker and a.b. stad tkord. president trump had five deferments, four for college and one because he had a bone spur in his heels. skwrpl were skwrpl, what is this play, here? is he just getting in everything he ever wanted to say to president trump? is it strategy sncc. >> i don't know that it's strategic. despite his illness, he is as
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spry and cranky as ever. as he might say. he let me have it a little bit. he said, see, i haven't changed. i'm still screaming at you. i said that the sort of disagreement between him or this battle of war of words with him and president trump continues. i'm sure the president will respond. but look, john mccain is concerned about the president's leadership when it comes to matters of foreign policy and even matters of domestic policy. that's what his speech a week ago was all about. every time the president went after him, he found a way to hit pack. that's who mccain is on a more traditional level politicians. >> look, we know what's going to happen. they're going to banter back and forth and we're going to cover it. mccain is that concerned about the president's thinking of foreign matters, you know what he should do, right, a.b.?
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ask for that debate on the aumf. let's turn into something a little bit more policy relevant. dana bash getting in on it. tax cuts sound good but they add to the deficit and add to the debt. this is something mcconnell said he wouldn't do. >> are you making a promise to milwaukee it revenue neutral? >> no. actually, we're not. that's a rather conservative estimate of how much growth you will get out of this tax reform which reduces rates for the middleclass which makes it considerably less likely that jobs go overseas. it produces more jobs and opportunity. >> a.b., you can waste hours and hours like i have trying to research whether or not tax cuts actually spur economic growth. it goes back and forth and basically takes you nowhere.
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politically, what does this mean, adding to the deficit versus delivering on tax cuts? >> well, it's been clear to republicans that president trump is not worried about 9 deficit or the debt. he wants full steam ahead on the deepest cuts policy and promising the middleclass a miracle, which is quite a promise if it doesn't turn out that way. republicans in the panic over their fear of failure are uniting around this. and even we are seeing conservative republicans who always fought to cut the debt, to shrink the definite is sit. in an effort of sort of how to win, we'll know more later on
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when we have details. they are making everybody happy. they say everything has been so conservative. >> the political will here to get something done is actually rather extraordinary. because of the health care collapse, republicans are looking at a midterm election. their own voters will wash their hands of them and say you can't get anything done. there is no point in supporting this majority. that's why you have begun to see conservative caucus us within the house and senate republicans to come around on ideas for fiscal matters that normally wouldn't happen. >> previous predictions be damned. remember the cry from
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republicans during obama's time about the deficit. we can't pwaeul out different companies. we can't pay for a bailout. we need to get the deficit down. i heard this drum beat every single day. now they're like, ah, what's $1.5 trillion? >> situational politics. guess who cares about it? the party not in control of the purse. there is also this too. republicans really do believe that with some sort of tax cut or plan, even if it's not what they had hoped, they will increase over the time the rate of growth. the stock market has reacted favorable. they really do want to deliver on that. if they all stick in their corner and don't compromise, they get absolutely nothing. that is not what they want. >> good news for two out of three sides. you have the republicans, the president, and the democrats.
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the good news is if they do deficit spending they can make this a mid classed plan. that's what the president promised. that's not what it is on paper. the president has a win also, a.b., because you have mcconnell following behind, looking at the way the president always wanted him to. we see it on taxes and health care. listen to what mcconnell said his guidance is on what to do as senate majority leader here. >> will you bring the alexander murray legislation to the floor for a vote? >> what i'm waiting is to hear from president trump what kind of health care bill he might find. if there is a need for an interim step to stabilize the market we need a bill the president will actually sign. i'm not certain yet what the president is looking to here,
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but i will be happy to bring one to the floor. >> the president gets a lot of criticism for not knowing how to work his congressional power. what did he figure out to have mcconnell looking up at him, waiting to give guidance? >> well, i think mcconnell has shaved. he is becoming mr. kumbaya on trying to push through passes. i do, from other conversations about what the reaction was in the senate last week, know that he was trying to chide him ever so gently about milwaukeeing himself clear about what he will sign because of the whiplash they went through last weaken couraging senator alexander, repeatedly leading him on and backing off the bill 24 hours later. that's why he said we're happy to move on health care if we know what it is we're supposed to move on. it is clear in that interview
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that muck connell is at a point with the on outside pressure of steve ban bon that he is with the president now super sunny side up. but on that health care answer i noticed he is really sick of being blamed for the failure of health care repeal and waiting for an indication. >> thank you both very much. >> all right. a new front line in the fight against isis. a little known city in eastern syria where the head of the terror group may be hiding out. cnn takes you there next.
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our senators may not be aware of where american troops are but you could be. cnn will take you to the front lines of the next battle field in the war against isis. a little known city in eastern
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syria where you have dozens of jihadist fighters hold up by russian-backed forces on one side and u.s.-backed forces on the other. some think al baghdadi may be hiding there. what do we know? >> reporter: we know, chris, they have lost mosul, iraq, and raqqa in syria. you mentioned the small town. the story is about the potency about the terror group and more about what happens in the resources and the land, who takes it? is it u.s.-backed forces or the russian-backed syrian regime? this may be where isis leader al baghdadi is hiding but wishes he wasn't. they pound remnants in the city.
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banking hard and keeping out of the russian's way are u.s. jets. assisting these u.s.-backed kurdish fighters just the day before. isis, collapsing and leaving listen am cold war standoff. isis may be helding out in deir ezzor. but they have been kicked out of this area by american-backed/kurdish forces. this puts them literally meters away from the syrian regime who are backed by russian air power. we are told they have held face-to-face meetings with russian military officials to make sure they don't clash around here. ms. cow and u.s.'s forces literally meters away. the kurds are so relaxed that
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fishing is this afternoon's task. with hand grenades. five years in and syria is ground to dust. and this is what they're still fighting over. it is up clear who is left inside deir ezzor. 10,000 a day dot the skyline. they try to filter them. last week a suicide bomber struck. yesterday they found 30 isis fighters. they are followed around by the horror of what they fled. the simple question, are the last to flee the most loyal or the least fortunate. we saw everything in the village, he says, air strikes, children and elderly dying just last week. the children couldn't stop
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crying from fear. i could only stand there. what could i do? i don't know if our home is still standing or even who is bombing us. there are no super hero powers here. just dust and bad dreams. when i hear the shelling, he says, i hide on the ground. the hardest part about living in the desert is no home. the stream is endless like the bombing they flee and this war which keeps finding new chapters and aside very saers around them. >> you put beautiful words to the pain, nic. you focus on the kids because in a big way that's what this is all about. who will control their future, those families or some oppressive force. how important is the battle in this little place? >> reporter: well, what's incredibly risky here isis --
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well, they are kind of out of the picture. a suicide attack earlier you heard. there will be rag tag insurgency for many years to come causing severe problems. the bigger question now is who takes care of the territory they once controlled? the u.s.-backed sdf swooped in. it was something they were pretty pleased about. that is going to cause a problem with the syrian regime who are pretty nearby. we lost people fighting for it. we're going to hang onto it. this is the key question now. how do you divide the spoils as it was between the syrian regime, who think the whole country should be theirs, and the coalition power above them who think they should be able to keep that which they fought for.
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four people were injured and one killed by a rocket they thought by the iranians or syrian regime or russia. chris, alisyn. >> nick paton walsh, thank you for helping us understand what's happening there. the four u.s. soldiers killed in niger. some lawmakers knit they didn't know the u.s. had troops there. what is the u.s. doing there? we discuss next.
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were in the west africa an numbers in the they are there. >> i can say this to the families, they were there to defend america. i didn't know there was 1,000 troops in niger. john mccain is right to say you have to tell us more. >> you heard senator graham. he didn't know we had 1,000 troops in niger. did you? >> no, i did not. >> what do you think matters to american families? that they are there to do the right thing or that the two senators didn't know they were there. are you surprised they didn't know we were there? >> i'm not surprised at all. they can assume there is a presence in the contested areas
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where we want to deny sanctuary to our enemies. essentially, different forms of terror. but the number is surprising. >> you're not supposed to know right no. it is okay for you to not know the specifics. but for senators schumer and graham to not know, what do you make of the use of authorization for military force? >> as spider said, we need to deny swank swear around the globe. we have isis migrating into central africa. it is is an area we need to monitor. that's where i think this should be taking place. >> it is about who drives the
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bus here, spider. of course the military executes the plans. of course the politics just gets in the way of the execution of those plans. we understand that execution. but in terms of who drives the bus and whether this is supposed to be debated, what is your take on who is controlling strategy. >> you hit the nail on the head. as you framed it, politics gets in the way. it is a part of the fabric how we engage with the military. those that are in our congress must have that authority to provide some overwatch and some input in a full some way in terms of what we do with our military. it is not a casual conversation coming in and saying, look, this is where we are engaged. this is what we're doing on a
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routine basis in the different sinus of our congress so senators mccain and schumer can say, wait a minute, i want to dig into it a little deeper what you are trying to achieve. we must be completely apprised of what the objectives are so we can have these good conversations. >> right. the problem with the process is that type of information is supposed to follow what has been signed off already. they haven't signed off since the war in 2002. is the mission and the complexity and design of what we are doing around the world with our military the same as it was in 2001? >> chris, it has come full circle. the initial mission in afghanistan to deny sanctuary to terrorists groups such as taliban and al qaeda in the 9/11 attacks and they did so in
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afghanistan, al qaeda did. and then we gravitated to iraq, which which was a wholly different kind of mission. now we're back to the deny sanctuary, as spider said, to terrorist groups that want to do us harm. there is a real need to disrupt enemy formations that are trying to plan attacks against the homeland or against the west. and it's the idea of fighting the enemy on their five yard line, not our five yard line. this is a defense mission going on in niger. so we have several of those missions happening around the globe. >> absolutely.
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they are very dangerous. they are called advise and assist. when you're on the ground, there is a danger. dealing with an enemy in close quarters as these troops had to suffer through. another thing that happened that i want your take o. spider, let me play this sound from the press secretary about what's the right thing to do as far as a general. >> if you want to get into a debate with a four star marine general, i think that's something highly inappropriate. >> now, both of you have told me this different ways but i always dismissed it as seeking favor. do you think it is improper to get into a debate with a four star general? >> i think sarah sanders shaodz if you want to have a debate with a four star general, get after it. there is nobody that is sack row sapbgt. we need someone willing to
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challenge assumptions to power. she was totally off base when she made that. i'm sure general kelly said i will give you a for initiative but e. >> what does it mean? our civilian leaders do not deserve definite republicans. >> no. i agree with spider on this. your question is why are we allowing a congresswoman to stand on the backs of four dead soldiers. i thought there might be one last refuge of reverence here and that is military deaths.
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we are continuing to use the military killed in action kpwapt deaths as a political weapon is appalling to me. >> it is important when you say everyone, you better include the president of united states and commander in chief. nobody is keeping it alive more than he is. thank you very much for both your perspectives on this as always. appreciate it. alisyn. >> another story is security deta detail. and now getting more protection. hi.
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so the already unprecedented 24/7 security detail for the epa is getting beefed up. the price tag is skyrocketing. why? what have you learn, renee? >> when you hear it, it sounds like the security bubble may be around the cia chief or the fbi director. but this is the epa administrator. he is responsible for protecting the environment and regulating pollution. and cnn has learned that the agency is beefing up the 24/7 security for pruett. they are hiring more agents and installing new security equipment for his office. take a look at all of this. the epa is in the process of hiring and training 12 new agents for a team that again provides him with 24/7 protection, according to a source familiar with all the decision. based on the dollar figures in the job postings for the security positions, salaries
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alone will cost at least $2 million. and they are also growing the fleet so each agent can have one. they are stepping up security inside the building, outside pruett's actual office. documents show that the epa made arrangements for access card readers and an alarm. cost, $16,000. they have considered biometrics. it is up clear at this point, though, if epa is still considering that or if that technology has already been installed. the spokeswoman declined comment. >> hold on a second. twelve new agents for scott pruett, each with their own vehicle, and added security
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inside the building where he works. so why? why is this necessary? >> 12 added are on top of some already on top of his detail. we did speak with the inspector general's office. they tell us that he has received more threats than any other epa administrator. all that being said, there are members on capitol hill who are saying this may not be the best use of tax payer dollars and they have asked the inspector general to investigate whether this beefed up level of security is actually necessary. >> renee marsh, please keep us posted with what you learn on this. thanks so much for your reporting. lawmakers say they want answers on how and why four u.s. soldiers died in niger. the president is still playing politics.
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