when the president announced scott pruitt?total delight. >> and did you have a hand in recommending scott pruitt to the president to be epa administrator? >> no comment. >> no comment. >> oklahoma's attorney general scott pruitt named the nominee of president-elect donald trump to lead the environmental protection agency. >> a leading critic of the epa now in line to take its helm. >> narrator: a dozen of bob murray's coal miners showed up at the u.s. senate in january for scott pruitt's confirmation hearing. >> how are you all doing? >> narrator: for pruitt, it was a chance to explain why a critic of the epa should run it. >> i believe there is a very important role for the environmental protection agency. in fact, its involvement in protecting our air quality and improving our nation's waters is extremely important, and the epa has served a very valuable role historically. we must reject as a nation the false paradigm that if you're pro-energy, you're anti-environment; and if you're pro-environment, you're anti-energy. >> na

scott pruitt is not the only scott pruitt in town. we've talked about andrew wheeler who, you know, worked for robert murray and helped draft that 16-point plan of regulations he would like to see undone, all of which were then undone. there are other people with these ties and at this point, i think the folks in the fossil fuel industry, in the dark money groups, want to start thinking about scott pruitt as more of a liability than an asset. >> thanks to you guys both. eric lipton, investigative reporter for "the new york times" and jay michaelson, columnist at the daily beast for your reporting and analysis. with me now is democratic senator mazie hirono of hawaii. good to see you. tell me what your take is on this. every week we tend to be discussing some other senior administration official who's on the line for something. what's your take on scott pruitt? >> i don't think he's long for his job. however, he's just one in a long parade of administration appointees for whom the words "conflict of interest," "ethical violations," "br

pruitt? >> i do. you. >> up next, drew griffin has a look at the controversy surrounding this cabinet member, pruitt under fire, the battle at the epa, starts now. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >> we are going to end the epa intrusion. new energy revolution. epa is a disaster. it's killing us. our plan will end the epa. >> a campaign promise being carried out about this man. >> i think that scott has done a fantastic job. i think he is a fantastic person. i just left coal and energy country. they love scott pruitt. >> let me be very clear, i have nothing to hide. >> you are unfit to hold public office. >> some call scott pruitt the biggest threat to the environment. >> doing great damage to the agency and to human health. >> scott pruitt is completely accomplishing longtime decades long conservative agenda items. >> now one of the president's top cabinet members surrounded by scandal. >> pruitt is now facing 10 investigations. >> pruitt had a $50 a day condo. >> phone booth that resembles

pruitt went too far. the child separation at the border, as much as the president was behind tough immigration policy and as much as his base identifies him, president saw that went too far. the idea all things are changed under trump, even he sees when things have gone too far. >> generally it's when he himself feels threatened. and it may be that he doesn't like the on particulars. i don't think that's ts case. because he's traded intensity, traded away breatheth. right. intensity is strong. breedth is very limited. so i don't think it's the controversy as amanda said a few minutes ago, it could be circling back to the mueller probe. anything that touches it gets subpenaed. i don't know this. i know it from experience. that if in fact there was some movement that could be part of a plot to shut down the mueller investigation, that's a very big deal. my prediction is based 0on what she just said, he's going to praise pruitt. he couldn't say a good word about tillerson when he left. >> we all remember tom

they feel very strongly about scott pruitt, and they love scott pruitt. now, so scott pruitt has had some problems with those working for him at the epa as well. >> he has. the "new york times" is reporting that a handful of epa officials were reassigned, demoted. their concerns had to do with epa spending on office furn tire, first class travel, demands for a bullet-proof vehicle. one of those epa employees was an early hire in the trump campaign but was placed on administrative leave without pay after raising concerns about pruitt. the a spokesman for the epa told the new york times that the agency disputes those allegations. >> randi kaye, thank you very much. during that shot on area force one, the president thinks between 2,000 and 4,000 american troops will be deployed across the border. now a texas sheriff is not thrilled. why he's against the move when we continue. when you say you need a heart transplant... that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the

they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt.itt. >> let's get more on breaking news from one of the correspondents who broke the story, cnn's pamela brown who joins us from the white house. explain what you learned about the president and pruitt. >> reporter: we've learned as recently as this week, the president floated replacing attorney general jeff sessions with embattled epa administrator st scott pruitt. even as pruitt faced this growing list of negative headlines about ethics concerns. at one point, it was said that the president was trying to protect pruitt. this reveals how confident he remains in pruitt, despite a dizzying number of ethics issues. pruitt has remained in trump's good graces for the most part. though a source familiar with the matter said the president's confidence in him has faltered some earlier this week in light of some of the ethics issues that continue to surface. he is hesitant, however, to fire him, because he likes entertaining this idea of replacing sessions with him eventually, and that he will

scott pruitt is out. president trump telling reporters he has accepted the resignation of his embattled epa chief, saying it was very much up to him, pruitt. and that pruitt didn't want to be a distraction. it's a surprising resignation, given that just 24 hours ago, pruitt was with the president at the white house fourth of july picnic. the president even giving him a shout-out. >> we're also honored to be joined by members of my cabinet. administrator scott pruitt. >> but today, pruitt writing to the president this in part. "it is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role, first because i count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also because of the transformative work that is occurring. however, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us." the unrelenting attacks pruitt speaks of are actually a stream of scandals which he created. a stream of scandals being investigated by his own agency. the list

pruitt. we got the news of these top staffers' resignations today, the day after news broke that scott pruitt had directed yet another senior epa staffer to ask the chik-fil-a corporation for help getting his wife a chik-fil-a franchise. by way of illustrating life at this government agency right now, i want to show you the response when reporters got news of the first top staffer quitting mr. pruitt's staff today. this is from the atlantic.com, quote, when reached by foam, johan wilcox, an epa spokesperson would not comment. he said, quote, you have a great day. you're a piece of trash. consider not just what the trump administration has done to the epa, consider what they've done to the job of covering the epa as a reporter, on the taxpayers' dime. you have a great day. you're a piece of trash. joining us now is lisa friedman. she's a climate reporter for "the new york times." ms. friedman, thank you very much for join us. i'm sorry that your job has become marginally more hostile than it h

with scott pruitt a lot more than that. the defense the white house could provide for him in the wake of these scandals he was facing 14 federal probes was that he was doing what the president wanted over at the epa. he was rolling back those environmental regulation rs. he was doing those obamaeral guidelines. really doing what the president wanted. but that raised a question of if a staffer is doing something like that, something that administration finds useful, are they willing to overlook the scandals against him. and the blatant misuse of taxpayer money. you also can't ignore that the president has been attending fund raisers in recent weeks, one of them is the bill air harold ham, key figure in oil and gas, that is someone that the president was having fundraising dinners with. private residences here in washington. that is certainly someone who liked the work that scott pruitt was doing over at the epa. so it's a little bit more than just their personal relationship. it goes into the politics of what exactly he was

bottom line, scott pruitt is out.ehind me on capitol hill is terribly surprised. after a series of bad headlines over recent weeks and months making him look bad and reflecting poorly on the trump administration. bottom line, there will be a new epa administrator picked by president trump the i think a lot of republicans on capitol hill will be breathing a sigh of relief. >> trace: mike, we talked about this, for color on this, may have come out of the bloo here, a lot -- blue here. a lot of people and controversy, but yesterday for the fourth of july he was at the white house, he was there, he was -- he seemed in good spirits from everybody. and apparently, the decision was made some time this morning. as we said, president trump is now on his way to montana. he is campaigning for matt rosendale there, campaigning against jon tester. the president releasing this tweet above air force one. i want to, if i can, quickly, want to read this, again. i now have it. it says, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as

scott pruitt running this agency. we have since learned there was an effort to buy him a $100,000 a month private jet membership to have a private jet on standby at taxpayers' expense whenever he wanted to go anywhere and he used an emergency contingency provision in the safe drinking water act meant to hire scientists in the event of a drinking water emergency, he used it instead to hire lobbyists and spokespeople and to give big raises, 30, 40, $50,000 raises to young staff members he brought with him to -- from oklahoma. we then learned that one of those staffers who he gave a $30,000 raise to, she had among her taxpayer funded responsibilities, the job of shopping for potential apartments for scott pruit in washington d.c. and as you no doubt have come to know, that has since led to revelations that at least for the first year in office, where scott pruitt lived in d.c. was in a swanky capitol hill townhouse coowned by an energy lobbyist who charged scott pruitt a princely sum of $50 a night to stay there but he o

scott pruitt is drawing attention. he has enemies because he's deregulating the epa which a lot of american believe it protects americans from the corporate america. why make all this noise about it. donald trump can't afford to have another cabinet secretary undergoing a cabinet secretary hearing. he's had so many because he's had to fire so many of his people. for the man who will bring us the back, he hasn't. he's created deeper swamp than we ever had. we need to sweep it clean nap can be the only reason. you couldn't have said it better. the role model is at the top. that's what's happened. it's okay if they cheat the taxpayers and kill the environment and make it to the point that all of us will suffer. science has gone out the window at epa and animals are in danger. people are in danger. we need to stop this. >> the fake media is pushing hard i'm going to replace ag jeff sessions with epa chief scott pruitt. who is doing great job but is totally -- you can replace those words with anything including about the ru

decision was up to pruitt. is that what your sources are telling you in the white house? >> the decision was not up to pruitt. there was no specific final straw per se. what tipped the balance, two things, the embarrassment surrounding kaitlyn collins story about how it was many months ago this had happened, pruitt had pitched himself as jeff sessions replacement again, appealing to trump's vanity and basically in a mold of sicnk cofancy you could see in that resignation letter. and scrubbing up from the meetings. that tipped the balance. a source from the administration officials said that focused people's minds because that brought it to a different level. this all did begin according to two of my sources, that report about him attempting to buy a mattress from the trump hotel. that brought it into a different area. >> it was a mattress. >> the best part of that is you will never say that to me on set again. it was the mattress that was the first one. i think it was a snowball effect. trump is willing to put

did not like the idea for pruitt here. do you see a continuation of these policies. >> of course. and that is why it is strange that pruitt was able to hang on as long as he could. look at this, this is our list of all the people in trump's orbit who have disappeared since he became president. long list compiled by our white house unit. >> departures from the administration. >> from the administration. cabinet officials to staff. this is an administration that bleeds people. they just go. remarkable that he hung on as long as he did. joins a long list of people who have joined in and since been departed. >> all right. thank you all for being with us. also coming un, set your dvrs because the president says he is planning to announce his supreme court pick on monday at 9:00 p.m. probably not coincidentlily there. sources say we should expect someone straight out of central casting. bob mueller faces a difficult addition. launches blistering attacks on everybody from german chancellor angela merkel to senator warren. this is

now the feelings were further deaned after pruitt -- deepened after pruitt did interviews with fox news as well as "the washington examiner," which senior administration officials said only made matters worse. one source said if more negative headlines about pruitt come out, that could be the final straw. >> i have seen a couple in the last few minutes. this idea that he maybe wants to replace jeff sessions at the justice department with pruitt, this underscores the president's focus and preoccupation with the issue of sessions and rosenstein and the russia probe. >> reporter: that's right. in fact, even if he's not tweeting about it, behind the scenes he's talking about it. that chatter continues about ousting both of them. multiple sources familiar with the thinking tell me and my colleague caitlyn collins, that his advisers have tried to thwart this by convincing him that by doing so, firing sessions, it would be damaging in the midterms given how popular he is with conservatives. the same advisers have argued that firing rosenstein could delay the completion of the special counsel,

inmate robert pruitt charged with his murder. pruitt's attorney hints that his client was framed. there were others who would have more reason to want neagle dead. >> there were those who had a motive to have officer neagle silenced. he was in the process of writing a letter of grievance concerning several things. >> after neagle's murder three officers were arrested. >> officers martinez, he was in charge for gathering witness statements, asking what did you see type of thing. he got indicted the same day i did. >> martinez was caught in a sting operation carrying $60,000 of what he believed to be prison drug money. he was convicted and sentenced to eight years probation. did he not respond to al jazeera's request for comment comment. >> what other motive would there be for someone to kill neagle. >> some say that he was on to something that was been og there? >> can you elaborate. >> i don't knowin 2013 nine more employees were arrested for receiving bribes to allow drugs and cellphones to enter the prison. the federal indictment note agriculture of corruption. >> there was stil

. >> tonight, scott pruitt is out. epa administrator resigning in disgrace among 15 ongoing investigations. >> i love. we love. >> what happens now and what tipped scott pruitt's exit. >> we put a bigger swamp creature in there. >> scotus decision winds down. >> the president's three alleged finalist for the supreme court vaktcy. >> he is one of the smartest people i've ever known and one of the nicest people i have ever known. >> i am chris hayes and the last time i was at this desk, i interviewed a die hard trump supporter. >> training the swamp and not only did we not drain the swamp, we put a bigger creature in there. >> 48 hours after that interview, after pruitt was spotted at the white house, the president accepted pruitt's resignation. exploiting his office for perks and personal gains. pruitt's extraordinary list prompted debates among historians. hard to think of any politician whose record is more extensive. trying to get his wife a franchise. the d.c. apartment he rented for $50 a knife with a wife of energ

> because he likes scott pruitt and he loves loyalty and pruitt is doing the bad stuff in the epa but trump said he only hires the best people and thus from from his administration in his cabinet secretaries are the most corrupt and the most unqualified group of people we've seen in our nation's history. and the other thing, and i think in any other administration whether it is democratic or republican, he would have been fired already. he would have been fired by now. pruitt would have never lasted this long. we have to remember, pruitt is the person who lied during his hearing about private e-mail account. >> take a listen to senator john kenny, republican of louisiana talking about pruitt. >> some of his behavior has hurt the president of the united states. and it's hurt the president's credibility and the credibility of all of us. and it would be way cooler if he would behave. and ethics matter and impropriety matters and the appearance of impropriety matters. >> that is jonah goldberg -- that is the help me help you. john kennedy saying, please cut it out. >> it is so easy to lum

pruitt says he later rescinded them.be clear, when you are talking about hiring friends and former business partners, it is not necessarily uncommon in politics except after this case, it comes weeks. there is an added scrutiny in his past business dealings and relationships. we did see today at least two public letters to the epa and inspector general calling for investigations. so we are likely to hear about this in the coming weeks. >> thanks very much. just ahead discussion about whether the minefield of ethical questions of scott pruitt will amount to anything in the long run. ♪ directv now gives you more for your thing. your letting go thing. your sorry not sorry thing. your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing. get the live tv you love. no bulky hardware. no satellite. no annual contract. try directv now for $10/mo for 3 months. more for your thing. that's our thing. visit directvnow dot com ( ♪ ) (sustained horn honk) advisor: (on phone) jane, this is jim from onstar, i've contacted help

good thing you rushed the vote on scott pruitt. pruitt does end up taking fall because of this growing scandal around him, he will be falling for a much greater height because of the way republicans rushed him into the cabinet. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. "first look" is up next. >>> shannon, shannon, shannon glenn, this is not a tv program. shannon, you don't just get to yell out. we are going to have you sit down like big boys and girls. >> glenn, glenn, who here hates glenn? that shows that everybody raised their hands because everybody hates glenn. >> it was a slow of unity at cpac. steve bannon and reince priebus denied reports of

scott pruitt. poor judgment bad. secretary treasury steve mnuchin, bragging about debt soouner brands ms. mnuchin was wearing. the best people. accused spousal abuse bad. fired white house secretary rob porter. critics say the administration has taken most of it on himself. take dr. jackson. the president all but showed h imthe door. >> what does he need it for? to be abused by a bunch of politicians that aren't thinking nicely about our country? i really don't think personally he should do it but it's totally his decision. >> the president said he wasn't aware of the allegations. the question is why? how did he get the job? the president was impressed by his press conference, the one where he talked about just how incredibly healthy the president is. >> he has a lot of energy, a lot of stamina, hands down. he's in the excellent range from a cardiac standpoint. his overall health is exexcellent. his heart exam, like i said, was in the excellent category for his age and sex. i think he will remain fit for duty for the

. >>> then another day, another scott pruitt scandal. >> i think scott pruitt is doing a great job. >> new signs tonight that pruitt's job could actually be in jeopardy. >>> and after year of president trump, guess what republican candidates are campaigning on? >> we don't need to investigate our president. we need to arrest hillary. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. while the presidential families gathered over the weekend to mourn the death of former first lady barbara bush, the current occupant of the white house was golfing, rage tweeting, and attempting it appears to influence the testimony of a potential witness against him. first lady melania trump attended the funeral on saturday, posing for a photo with the obamas, the clintons and two generations of bushes. but her husband stayed behind at his estate in florida where he had plenty of time to catch up on twitter and cable news, two of his favorites, and where he somehow seems to have come across this story published friday on his allegedly abusive treatment of longtime aide mic

he ousted scott pruitt. this story matters for many reasons, but among them is the fact it shows reporting, pressure and accountability still can work in donald trump's washington. it may not be a coincidence that donald trump put this news out today, which is of course a traditionally sleepy period after july 4th. if donald trump has to cave, maybe he wants to do it during a holiday news week when he thinks fewer people may not notice. but that's just the optics part. the substance is far more important. and the substance tonight that i can report to you is scoot pruitt is out. donald trump tweeting it today. he told reporters while everyone knows the controversies with scott, within the agency, he said, we were extremely happy. that is largely false. he was under fire precisely because people within the epa blew the whistle on his contact from making an aid find a job for his wife to spending $40,000 on a soundproof phone booth to trying to get a discount on a used trump hotel mattress to the bizarre er ra

scott pruitt is still in his job. she's gone. but we have new information with the senior counsel that may show this to be an even bigger problem than it's already understood to be. this information come from the committee where carper is the ranging democrat. a staffer on the committee tonight gave us some of the background of what led to this request from senator carper. just so you know, this is exactly how carper put it. "i write to request the inspector general conduct an immediate review of the epa efforts to prevent fraud related to employee -- i am additionally informed that ms. dravis was likely compensated as a full-time employee throughout that time. now we can report that what led to this sort of remarkable claim is that this committee, the environment committee in the senate, was contacted by multiple sources on this matter over a period of four to six weeks, multiple sources contacted the committee via calls, e-mails and in-person meetings, all raising the same issue about samantha drafis being the senior counsel at

so as goes pruitt and zinke and carson. and john kelly is saying get rid of him and the president is completely disregarding his chief of staff. >> that relationship changed at least a few weeks ago where donald trump has wanted for a long time to be free to make the decisions, especially on administration, that he wants to make. he knows that the narrative and the media that john kelly was brought in to bring the president to heel. you've seen the succession of people that donald trump has moved out. he moved out mcmaster, he moved out rex tillerson at the state department. scott pruitt has a constituency, he's popular with republicans. mcmaster was never like a base guy. this is going to be trickier for trump. but john kelly, you know, he's sticking to the same message but if the president wants him to stay, pruitt may be hanging on. >> thank you very much. and next, donald trump unhinged today talking about conspiracy theories and mexican rapists. >> women are raped at levels that nobody's ever seen before. >> plus the p

there it doesn't seem like pruitt has risen to the level, trump is not happy with pruitt.e his job. some of these other folks like tom price, health care had failed. he felt like he had failed. rex tillerson, he was upset with constantly. shulkin had embarrassed him. we'll see if pruitt gets there. being locked out of your $50 rental because you weren't paying the rent and you were staying too long. i don't know if that breaks his back. you heard hogan. he couldn't say whether he would be there or not. on the president knows. >> what do you think? >> yeah. i think we crossed a line in the last 24 hours from the swamp of corruption to the swarm of of that a athleticic. the getting locked out. changing the locks. trump typically pushes people out when they become story too much. in all the other cases, at some point he became disappointed and thought they weren't loyal to him anymore. it feels like he's staying up too much band width. >> i think pruitt has put enough policy points on the board for trump and for the conservative base that that is why he has houng as long as h

scott pruitt is standing strong in his job. defense of scott pruitt. jimmy (shouting): james! he's survived record rain and a supplier that went belly up. so while he's proud to have helped put a roof over the heads of hundreds of families, he's most proud of the one he's kept over his own. brand vo: get the most out of your money, whether you're using quickbooks smart invoicing to get paid twice as fast or automatically tracking your mileage. smarter business tools for the world's hardest workers. quickbooks. backing you. ithe race for governort. has turned into a scam. gavin newsom's trying to elect a republican who was endorsed by trump. and villaraigosa's being bankrolled by a handful of billionaires. it's everything that's wrong with politics. and none of it is helping struggling families. here's my pledge to you. i'll keep our budget balanced. invest in affordable housing. fight for universal healthcare. and stand up to donald trump. as governor, you can trust me to do what's right- because i always have. a crazy bit of breaking news. scott pru sit still employed. he rem

. >> scott pruitt, administrator of the epa. >> reporter: embattled epa chief scott pruitt out tonight after months of mounting ethics scandals and questions about his behavior. president trump announcing on twitter, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency, praising pruitt's work rolling back obama era regulations at the epa, but making no mention of the dozens of ethics questions facing him. pruitt writing in a letter to the president, your confidence in me has blessed me personally. adding the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizeable toll. pruitt had been under a cloud of scandals for months, constantly facing questions about his security detail, pricey first class travel and cozy relationships with lobbyists. pruitt was back in the headlines just this week. a cnn report revealing he and his aides kept secret calendars to hide contentious meetings. an aide testifying before the house oversight committee that pruitt asked her to find his wife a job with a salary of o

. >> scott pruitt, do you support pruitt? >> the tonight democrats and republicans calling for pruitt to be fired. >> there's a change coming. there's a change coming. > when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. one of the most infamous members of donald trump's cabinet, the one living in a lobbyist's house in washington, d.c., epa head scott pruitt now appears to be hanging on to his job by his finger nails after a swirl of negative stories increasing the perception the trump administration as a whole is an ethical mess. according to politico, the white house has been actively considering firing pruitt behind the scenes possibly following the release of an inspector general's investigation noose pruitt's lavish travel which we've covered here but which for the record is not even the scandal of the moment. because this morning, the white house claimed that pruitt is still in the president's good graces. an administration official telling the news trump called pruitt to keep fighting and t

good thing you rushed the vote on scott pruitt.s end up taking fall because of this growing scandal around him, he will be falling for a much greater height because of the way republicans rushed him into the cabinet. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> rachel, i have worked on tv dramas where we have tried to write cliff hangers at the end of a particular season or episode, but the cliff hanger you just left us is better than anything we could come up with in tv drama. >> and when the republicans decided they were just going to put a brick on the gas pedal and jump out of the car, they could see the cliff and they did this an

pretend you don't even really know scott pruitt's name. this is the first you have ever ard thermighbe any negati whatsoeve concerning scott pruitt and his time as a cabinet official. even if this was it, even if this was the only negative news story that had ever broken about him, ask yourself if you think it seems feasible that he still has this job tonight after this warertafternoo so it's a simple story. scott pruitt got sworn in to be head of the epa in february last year, february 2017. then march, april, may -- three monthster, may 17, ofngor stt uitt at e ep sent this e-mail. from sydney hupp to dan cafey at chick-fil-a. meeting with scott pruitt. good afternoon. hopefully this e-mail finds you well. administrator pruitt asked me to reach out to you and see if you might be willing to get a time set up for the two of to you have a meeting. if there is something i can work with to help get that -- if there's something i can work with to get thatitated i would greatly appreciate it. so this is an executive at an american fast food com

>> it's been a series of embarrassing slip-ups by scott pruitt. in the last five days, we've done five different stories. it turns out the lobbyist was lobbying that rented the condo to him even more than we thought. there's a coal executive who gave him seats that you had to make a million dollar donation to get access to. the bed, to get the used bed, and now the resignation of his people and the chick-fil-a. that's five days worth of stories. it's just no wonder the press office there feels under siege. but we aren't making these stories up. we're just reporting them. there has been a bit of tension between the reporters and the press shop. we're trying to do our jobs. i would rather be writing about environmental policy. but pruitt keeps his focused on his management. >> alain na, let me ask you this. there is a sense in we keep having more and more stories. i'm going to read a partial list. there's a sweetheart condo deal, $3 million spent on a massive security detail unprecedented, use of security detail for personal trips, first class trave

pamela brown is "outfront." >> scott pruitt, sir, you support scott pruitt?e's going to be great. >> reporter: president trump stopping short of endorsing his epa administrator scott pruitt today who was just the latest cabinet member to be under fire. >> what an exciting day. >> reporter: pruitt making carefully choreographed remarks at the epa today where he didn't take questions from reporters. last week, cnn confirmed pruitt was renting a condo for $50 a night connected to a prominent energy lobbyist whose firm represents companies under epa regulation and the owners were political supporters of pruitt when he was an oklahoma state official. and a series of new reporting raises more questions about the ethics of the rental. "the new york times" is reporting the epa approved the pipeline expansion of a canadian energy company at the same time pruitt was renting the condo owned by the lobbyist. the "times" says that canadian company is a client of the same lobbying firm. democratic senator sheldon whitehouse sending a letter to the epa inspector general tod

goodbye scott pruitt.e news of these top staffers' resignations today, the day after news broke that scott pruitt had directed yet another senior epa staffer to ask the chick-fil-a corporation for help getting his wife a chick-fil-a franchise. by w of illurating l this government agencyight now, i want to show you th sponse when reporters got news of the first top staffer quitting mr. pruitt's staff today. this is from theatlantic.com,

the president saying that scott pruitt's resignation up up to scott pruitt. the two of them had been talking about this a couple days now. pruitt felt that he had become a disadministration and he didn't want to distract from what the president is trying to do. >> it was death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts. scott pruitt gave his resignation to president trump today. he told the president, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family are unprecedented and taken a sizable toll on all of us. pruitt was beset by controversy. first class travel, a security phone booth. renting his daughter from a lobbyist, inappropriate staff raises. asking chick-fil-a for a franchise for his wife and asking his staff to get body lotion to a mattress. the inspector general had launched 14 ethics investigations. the white house described the allegations as troublesome. yet even on his way out the door, president trump lauded him in a tweet saying within the agency, scott has done and outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. yesterday, pruitt showed

why not scott pruitt?ual, but remember, it's only 1:00 on friday so it's still possible we'll get news on that. you mentioned john kelly being concerned that pruitt's headlines can get worse. i don't know that that can happen. let's go rapid fire through a bunch of headlines about scott pruitt that happened just in the last few weeks. scott pruitt gets more security than any epa head ever. why does that matter? security costs money. scott pruitt had security at the rose bowl and disneyland. scott pruitt, when he could have flown commercial, he flew private jets. pruitt had a $50 a day condo linked to lobbyists. he paid $50 a day, but only on nights he stayed there. reviewing scott pruitt's conduct. next one, pruitt's security diesel asked to use sirens and lights throughout d.c. i wish i could do that. you probably shouldn't abuse that when you're an official with the trump administration. and epa officials sidelined after questioning scott pruitt, essentially saying when the epa race questions everything

do you support scott pruitt, sir? >> i hope he's going to be great. >> reporter: overnight, the president called pruitt. his message, according to an administration official? keep fighting, we have your back. but privately, sources say the president is frustrated with all the controversy. white house lawyers are now investigating pruitt's living situation, after abc news reported on his alleged sweetheart real estate deal. pruitt renting a room in this d.c. apartment last year for just $50 a night, far below the cost of similar units. the owner, the wife of a lobbyist, who has energy clients doing business with the epa. today, new questions about that relationship. while pruitt was living in the apartment, the epa green-lighted a major pipeline project for a canadian energy company represented by that lobbyist. in a statement to "the new york times," the epa says any attempt to draw a link between the deal and the living arrangement is "patently false" and insists the lease on the apartment was "consistent with federa

where is pruitt in that list? >> well, you know, i think he is very high maybe tops the list of people who both have ethical challenges, have abused taxpayer dollars but also as i said, have taken and turned upside down the mission of their agency. and i think that really demonstrates the conflict he has that he's working for the polluters and lobbyists rather than for the american public and you know, particularly for the health of the american people and particularly children. so you know, it's some have had ethical challenges. some have done things that were really untoward not in the public interest. pruitt exemplifies the you know, place where the beams cross. >> so are you surprised, not surprised by his ability to endure? tom price you know, had a sort of down fall over the amount of travel he was doing. pruitt has done lots of travel, racked up real costs first class, $120,000 to italy, $40,000 flight to morocco. the condo deal. he's at war with his own administration he's running. how has he been able to

the white house said no, pruitt did it anyway.kind of thing signals to trump not so much corruption as the threat of another ambitious person in the circle. >> unmatchable analysis, howard, thank you so much. i have nothing to add. great man, thank you so much for that great analysis. >>> up next, senator mitch mcconnell is sounding the alarm bell about a potential wipeout, you know, wipeout, like a tsunami coming at the republicans this november. but can democrats get enough momentum to actually do it for 2018? can they get to the 218 they need in the howwhite house to impeach this president? everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ i'm all about my bed. this mattress is dangerously comfortable. when i get in, i literally say, ahh. introducing

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scott pruitt, the attorney general of that state. his office and the top lawyer at the corrections department they decided with this execution date bearing down on them, they were going to figure it out. never mind the protocol, in every mind the rules. lawyers from scott pruitt's office and the corrections office got online and said they just started browsing around. they started basically randomly looking around online to see if they could figure out how long it takes for various drugs to kill people. these are not medical professionalings of any kind who have any expertise. i want to read you litally. wikileaks or whatever. i did my own research, i looked online, you know, what passed the key, wikileaks, wikileaks or whatever it is. that's where they say they found the information. they looked around online. the attorney general of the state is not supposed to be involved in a process like that. picking the actual drugs, that is not the attorney general's purview. nobody in the attorney general's office is expected to have any exp

pruitt is accused of egregious things by washington standards. >> pruitt's extraordinary list of ethical scandals prompted a debate by historians whether he's the most of corrupt cabinet member in u.s. history. howie: was pruitt toppled by good investigative reporting? alan dershowitz said many liberals on martha's vineyard are shunning him. he calls it mccarthyism. this is "mediabuzz." this is a fox news alert out of thailand where rescue efforts are under way to free the by their coach who are trapped in a cave. reporter: the concern is the rain. it's pouring down and it creates more urgency to get the remaining 8 boys and their coach to safety. four have been brought to safety. they are getting medical attention in a hospital. all oxygen tanks set along that route were used just to rescue those boys. it will take another 10 hours to prepare crews for the next stage. it took less time to get the boys out than anticipated. they said it would take 11 hours to get the boys to safety. we are learning it took 7 hours 40 minutes. the international divers from around the world and the local d

. >> the new propaganda push to safe scott pruitt. >> scott pruitt is standing strong in his job. >> plus, new evidence of a russian attempt to hack state voter systems. >>> and rebecca trayce traister on the # glaring difference between samantha bee and roseanne barr. >> americans are finally paying attention. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes with two big foreign policy moves just today, the president is turning away from the western democracies that have for decades been america's closest allies, aligning the u.s. instead with autocrats and strongmen who practice the type of leadership that this president admires. in the process he is reshaping our relationship to the rest of the world. the president announced today his june 12th summit is back on fulfilling a long time goal. north koreans meeting with the u.s. president without securing concessions in return. the announcement came after the president welcomed a top aide of kim jong-un to the white house later bragging to the press corps about their strong relationship. >> it was ac