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 macy e mazie hirono of . 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," "b

. >> 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

. >>> 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

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

>> 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

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, 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

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>> it is hard to understand, because scott pruitt is a smart guy. and he has done so many things that has brought unwanted attention to himself. just as kevin said, it is hard to understand why he would have engaged in so many activities that were clearly he should know unethical. >> one thing that is key goes to broader questions of conflict of interest. using public office to enrich himself, but this question of who he is meeting with and what he is saying. and this question of the calendars, those should be public records and important that those be preserved right? >> certainly. there is an integrity with the public records. and a slew of outlets depend on those records. there is no question that those are supposed to stay unadulterated and i am sure this is going to be added to the list of things that investigators will be looking at. >> do you have a sense of why he is been able to endure? >> yes, i feel like we have done a lot of reporting on this and our sense is there are two things. one is clearly that he has worked diligently to execute t

but pruitt's confirmation is not the end of the story.as the "new york times" reported, epa workers tried to block pruitt in an open show of defiance making clear pruitt will face strong internal opposition at the agency he runs. pruitt is scheduled to speak to epa employees on tuesday, the day his e-mails to fossil fuel companies become public. something tells me he's not in for the warmest of welcomes. br. introducing flonase sensimist. more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most allergy pills only block one. and six is greater than one. break through your allergies. new flonase sensimist. ♪ daddy! lets play! sorry kids. feeling dead on your feet? i've been on my feet all day. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles have a unique gel wave design for outrageous comfort that helps you feel more energized. dr. scholl's. feel the energy! i'm phil mickelson, pro golfe

they'll do it with pruitt.ir agenda is, they will swallow any kind of corruption, any kind of ridiculousness. it doesn't -- nothing will bother them as long as they get the policy they want. now, i spent 12 years on the appropriations committee. and what we would have done with what scott pruitt is doing now is the next budget would have prohibitions against spending money certain ways or it would have stuff cut from the budget, you know, to make up for what he has been spending this way. the congress is complicit in this by its silence. >> i was struck i think today cbs news had a story that republicans are ready to ditch scott pruitt because of the scandals, though they stand behind his deregulatory agenda. and i think that's what -- listen, when steve bannon, who's coming closer back into this administration, talked about s dismantdling the administrative state, or drain the swamp, they're talking about dismantling the protections that have made this a healthier country. there are two institutions interesti

but pruitt's confirmation is not the end of the story.as the "new york times" reported, epa workers tried to block pruitt in an open show of defiance making clear pruitt will face strong internal opposition at the agency he runs. pruitt is scheduled to speak to epa employees on tuesday, the day his e-mails to fossil fuel companies become public. something tells me he's not in for the warmest of welcomes. ♪ ♪ king arthur: ready! washington: charge! empress wu: charge! (in chinese) king arthur: charge! ♪ let your reign begin. evony, the mobile game. download now. anyone ever have occasional y! constipation,diarrhea, gas or bloating? she does. she does. help defend against those digestive issues. take phillips' colon health probiotic caps daily with three types of good bacteria. 400 likes? wow! try phillips' colon health. . can you tell us anything about the discussion -- >> no, it's classified and we can't tell you anythi. all i can tell you is the fbi director has no credibility. that's it. >> that was representative maxine waters expressi

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epa scott pruitt has spent $58,000 on private flights. pruitt used public money to have his office swept for office devices. the epa spent nearly $25,000 to build a soundproof communication booth. routinely flying first class. $1,600 flight from washington d.c. last summer, more than, almost can't believe this is true. more than $120,000 in public money was spent for pruitt to fly to italy. took a bribe on a sweet heart deal on a condo. lied to congress about using private e-mail. have i heard of that before? using private e-mail. pruitt bypassed the white house to give big raises. got in hot water over a rental of an apartment. and now he knows he once bought a house with a lobbyist. personalized journals that came in at the low, low cost $1,560. scott pruitt enlisted an epa aide to help his wife find a job with chick-fil-a. that must be some special lotion. i spoke last month to two reporters. was called a piece of trash by the epa spokesman. >> what happened in this phone call that you were told you were garbage. >> as one does when yo

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a new window into the paranoid world of epa chief scott pruitt.york times" combed through 10,000 documents released as part of a sierra club request. among the findings shows agency officials define perspective guests as friendly or unfriendly and questions presented him written by an epa official. which might seem par for the course with a guy with a $43,000 phone booth who traveled first class for months so he wouldn't be accosted by the regular people in coach. but now scott pruitt's bunker mentality has reached new extremes. according to axios, his chief of staff runs the operations but rarely knows where his boss is. all of us have been frozen out over time one political appointee told axios. everyone is miserable. nobody talks. it's a drywall prison. of course, it's rational to be paranoid when you have a lot you don't want people to know, like what you really did last summer on a $120,000 government-funded trip to rome. that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> tonight, tonight at long last, apparently senior white house staffers are urging preside

pruitt got herself a job starting with a groupd the judicial crisis network l the previous dozen pruittals that would normal result in investigations or indictment ofs but pruitt fe as long as nothing republican cares. some developments on that front are thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> the list of scott pruitt's scandals keepsrowing and today maybe some on the right have enough. right wing radio and tv shoest laura ingraham ham wrote hurting potus, got to. pruitt's friend jim inhofe who brought a snowball on the senate floor to prove global warning isn't real is having some >> afraid my good friend scott pruit has done some things that surprise. and i'm one who say this because frankly, he's a good friend of mine. i see these things. they upset me as much as they upset you. i think something needs to happen to change this. one of those alternatives would be for him to leave that job. >> maybe the worst sign for pruitt comes from his own epa spokesman who is no longe even trying t defend the straighter referring all questions to pruitt's outside counsel. i just hope pruitt had theoo sense not

accord k to the security office an individual who approached pruitt at an airport yelling "scott pruitt-ing up the environment." but apparently pruitt can avoid confrontations with those outraged by his policies if he's just surrounded by rich people. or you know, in a private sleeping pod. >> it was such a nightmare. i was on a plane and it was nothing like this. >> i'm sorry to hear that. >> thank you so much. wemost familiar companies,'s but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. . >>> a new piece out today. james risen points out a stark truth about the man currently occupying the oval office. quote, one year after trump took office, it is still unclear whether the president of the united states is an agent of foreign power. jim rise en join joins me now. it's a pleasure to have you here. you have b

finally today, the president gave pruitt something less than a full defense. >> scott pruitt is doing a great job within the walls of the epa. we're setting records. outside he's being attacked viciously by the press and i'm not saying that he's blameless. but we'll see what happens. >> we'll see what happens. that's usually the last thing you hear before trump gives you a nickname. it probably doesn't help mattress lotion scott that democrats in congress are now using props on the floor of the house. they were highlighting pruitt's ever growing list of scandals including lotion gate and signing a letter formally requesting the doj investigate him for potential criminal conduct. while the used mattress and fancy lotion and $1500 pence ancic failly scandals may be a little weird, some of them are possibly illegal and scott pruitt's not exactly denying it. >> look, my wife is an entrepreneur herself. i love, she loves, we love, chick-fil-a is a franchise of faith and one of the best in the country. so that's something we're very excites about. time you saw a dinosaur? never thought i'd

and with the resigning of scott pruitt yesterday, trump has had more turn overs.he panel. lack land, you have been reporting about this, i'm always sceptical of anything that portrays the white house, or things in the white house is getting worse or increasingly bad. and yet, it does seem this is the most acute kind of personnel crutch that they've had yet. >> well the relationship between scott pruitt and the white house was particularly fraught over the last couple months as scandal after scandal dropped. pruitt image kept getting worse, there was -- you saw john kelly in particular, the white house chief of staff, consistently sort of pushing and pushing trying to get pruitt out of there and get him replaced by his deputy, now acting administrator andrew wheeler, or anyone else who wasn't going to be saddled with all this baggage like pruitt was. any other official in that post would be pursuing the same agenda but wouldn't be bound down by all these scandals that have followed pruitt now for months. >> kristy, i wonder sometimes if people who are not supporter

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pruitt. what is the fate of that? i mean, that seems -- paris is one thing, but that seems like it is not long for this world and if it's not long for this world, that's a real problem. >> well, i think if he is confirmed, administrator pruitt will find that he has some real problems trying to dismantle the clean power plan. first, a lot of the states will go forward on their own. second, the supreme court has already determined that carbon dioxide is a pollutant so epa is obliged to do something. but the danger is that you have somebody who is an operative of the fossil fuel industry who is loyal only to the fossil fuel industry in this job. and in a million smaller ways he can compromise that agency, he can drive the good and honorable people out of that agency and what you have here is what i think is becoming a recurrent theme in this trump presidency which is that the koch brothers and their operatives are infiltrating the tru presidency. he won it and they're going to run it. and they are just inveterate climate

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another is the news pruitt bypassed the white house to give big raises to aides that pruitt brought with him from oklahoma where he repeatedly sued the epa as attorney general. in an interview on trump tv last week, pruitt claimed he had known nothing about those raises. >> if you're committed to the trump sandy, why did you go around the president and give raises to two people. >> i did not. i found about it and for that? >> that should not have been done. >> who did it? >> there will be some accountability. >> acareer person? >> i found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action. >> okay. so i didn't do it, staff did it and i found out about it yesterday. well, it sure looks like that was a lie and pruitt has been caught red-handed. one of those aides that got the raise had written an e-mail to hr where she definitively stated pruitt approved of her getting a raise. despite these ballooning scandal, trump has stood by his epa chief who one imagines is now hoping everyone gets distracted by today's headlines and forget all about his cascade of ethical lapses. but those ethical

pruitt's aide told a congressional committee about this in may.n news about in came out this month and it blue up into mattressgate, she resigned. it wasn't enough for scott pruitt that the woman resigned after it came out. that wasn't enough. he wanted revenge. that's thing two. after the break. that, karen? liberty mutual doesn't hold grudges. how mature of them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. ...ancestrydna can pinpoint where your ancestors are from... ...and the paths they took, to a new home. could their journey inspire yours? order your kit at ancestrydna.com. >>> we learned about scott pruitt's desire for an old trump mattress thanks to one of his former top aides who resigned shortly after her testimony about the inciden

. >>> plus, reigning thing 1 thing 2 champion scott pruitt is next. >>> thing 1 tonight, scott pruitt still has a job as head of the epa despite an ever-growing slew of scandals like one of our recent favorites involving an old trump hotel mattress. as you may recall, scott pruitt asked a top aide in charge of his scheduling, a government employee paid with public money, with helping him secure a used trump branded mattress from the president's washington, d.c. hotel. the trump home luxury plush euro top, to be specific. it wasn't enough for scott pruitt that the woman resigned after it came out. that wasn't enough. he wanted venn vens. that's thing two. >>> we learned about scott pruitt's desire for an old trump mattress thanks to one of his former top aides who resigned shortly after her testimony about the incident went public. sources tell the daily beast that pruitt was livid over hupp's testimony which he felt had been humiliating and he proceeded to mount a campaign to blacklist her in the conservative movement, a move that former senior epa officials have described as -- and t

. >>> then, the new scott pruitt scandal involving a cover-up and an accused catholic cardinal. >>> and on the anniversary of his last tough interview -- >> i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> how the president has spent a year inside the trump tv bubble. >> and joining me now by phone, the president of the united states. >>> when "all in" starts right now. >> i will say fox ratings are phenomenal. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. every single day we learn more about what the members of trump world were up to after winning the election as they moved to take power in washington. and everybody day we learn that robert mueller is way ahead of us. abc news reporting today that mueller has been questioning witnesses about millions of dollars given to the president's inauguration from donors with ties to russia, saudi arabia, united arab emirates and qatar. those donations, let's be clear, are not illegal. inaugurations aren't regulated the same way campaigns are, so we don't know exactly why mueller is interested

so they advised pruitt's aides to cancel the get-together. they went ahead with it anyway.it was a irregular from the start. >> so you have this -- there's an internal debate to proceed with the meeting with card until pell. you have people going back and forth on whether they should do it. and basically, they urge him to cancel. they have the dinner anyway. okay. we also know from the documents that they knew exactly what they were doing, they were having dinner with this guy on purpose, it's in an internal schedule, right? we have a document, you have a document in which they have on the schedule, dinner with cardinal pell. >> no. there's e-mails from may of 2017, where they are debating this trip, it's going to occur in june, about having a dinner with cardinal pell. although it was on dampbt night and different restaurant. but as early as may 2017, they planned to have the dinner with them. >> they have the dinner, it's a very expensive dinner and a nice restaurant, the cardinal was a fascinating guy. he's a roman catholic cardinal at the vatvatican. he's a climate chan

finally today the president gave pruitt something less than a full defense. >> scott pruitt is doings. outside he is being attacked very viciously by the he is were. i'm not saying he is blameless but we'll see what happens. >> that's usually the last thing you hear before trump gives you a nickname. it probably doesn't help mattress lotion scott that democrats are using props on the floor of the house. two congressmen were highlighting his list of scandals including lotiongate and signing a letter with four other house democrats formally requesting the dodge investigate the epa secretary for potential misconduct. it may be weird some of them may be illegal and scott pruitt is not exactly dying it. >> my wife is an entrepreneurers had. i love -- she loves, we love, chick-fil-a is a franchise of faith and it's one of the best in the country. so that's something we were very excited about. it took guts to start my business. but as it grew bigger and bigger, it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on

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