chief scott pruitt.is scandals haven't come from him working to destroy the environment. they've come from his side husband also. normally when you find out about corruption in d.c. it makes you mad, millions in bribes! but with every pruitt revelation you go, what? >> this morning the controversies keep coming for e.p.a. chief scott pruitt. e-mails show pruitt had one of his people reach out to chick-fil-a. >> he used his position to get his wife a franchise with chick-fil-a. even more astonishing, it's all in writing in government e-mails. >> trevor: you know, i will be honest, this is not the fast fort hood scandal i saw coming out of the white house. if anything, i thought it would be trump getting in trouble for pardoning the hamburglar. in case you didn't know, the hamburglar is in prison. he was trafficking fentanyl. horrible story. ( laughter ) think about this for a second -- you're the head of a major government agency with influence over some of the biggest corporations in the world, and you d

secretary pruitt: if i may. i think what's important with respect to the scientific transparency, it doesn't apply to only certain studies. it applies to all third party studies. every type. many members on this committee i'm sure would be very concerned if a.p.i. went out and did a study, didn't provide the methodology, data, provided conclusions to the e.p.a. and the e.p.a. acted on rule making with respect to methane or other issues, there would be tremendous concerns about that. it applies to all third party science, irrespective of the source. it just simply says data, methodology, conclusions matter and the american people need to be able to consume that. mr. cramer: it seems to me. i appreciated the inquiry earlier, maybe you could elaborate, how personal data can be protected and is protected. nobody's asking for the names of pollution m of every source that's ever happened in the world. not asking for personal data. we're asking simply for the science to be revealed. you can protect the personal data, r

pruitt. he is pruitt. he is accompanied by holly grave who is the chief financial officer for the agency. thank you both for coming back before the subcommittee. just a reminder the colleagues will follow the early bird rule. we'll have six minutes rounds of questions. i anticipate that there will be substantial interest in hearing this morning. so i ask members to try to stick with the time limit. we can do multiple rounds but the administrator has a hard stop at noon. so we will be working meet that. we also have a couple of votes at noon as well. each year the subcommittee holds a hearing to examine the e.p.a.'s budget request. in some years the budget is the focus of the committee. in other agencies actions draw the majority of the question. i would suggest that the size of the audience this morning is an indicator of substantial interest in this year's hearing. so i look forward to the dialogue. administrator pruitt, when you were before the committee last year, you said that you would work to return

chief scott pruitt has resigned. >> he has resigned? >> mr. pruitt is the subject of at least 13 federal investigations. >> this is not a surprise, it's really been a long time coming. >> how did an ordinary british couple become exposed to a military grade nerve agent? >> residents here are once again on edge. >> all we want to know is are you safe. >> at least 17 people killed, 31 more injured in a fireworks explosion near mexico city. >> the hazmat situation, at baltimore's johns hopkins hospital after vials of tuberculosis were broken. prepared for the meeting, trust me, we'll do just fine. >> wildfires spreading >> here in northern california the battle against wildfires begins here at cash creek where water dropping helicopters are constantly filling up. >> teen life guards were a summer staple but now with too many openings, they are being replaced with a different age group. >> you are part of a nationwide trend. >> it's great. >> golodryga: good evening, jeff glor is off tonight, i'm bianna golodryga. this is our western edition. the

whose shied is scott pruitt -- whose side is scott pruitt on? the children in his state, one out of ten who has asthma, or devon energy? and we want to put him in charge of the e.p.a., without even having a thorough understanding of what his relationship was with these companies. well, my colleague doing his own ex-us a stiff research about -- ex-oughtive research about the campaign funding he had received and more support from companies like this, it creates an implication. well, let's get to the bottom of what's happening. let's see the e-mails before we vote. what do these say to these corporations? i asked him. he allowed polluting companies to write e-mails to the e.p.a. on his letterhead. did he let any of the children with asthma or their parents write letters that he then just put on his letterhead? people who were suffering from the poor air quality. later the director of government relations at devon energy e-mailed mr. pruitt's office. this we do know, to sproas gratitude -- to express gratitude to the attorney general forge for sendi

scott pruitt is a crook. he's cost taxpayers millions and millions of dollars. >> what do you think the chances of that are? is this over? he resigns and it's over or do you think there's legal jeopardy for him? >> i think there's legal jeopardy. there's certainly legal jeopardy. does a politicized justice department follow up or will there be an independent investigation of some kind? there could have. he's damaged this country enormously. he's just been so blatant about his disregard for the law, as trump is as well. so i think trump -- i think what really happened is that he should have been fired in. in a normal administration he wouldn't have been appointed. but even in this administration he should have been fired months ago but he sees himself in pruitt. he likes the swash buckling, take what the hell you want and who gives a damn what the public says. they're both a great victims player. they cause themselves trouble and then blame somebody else. >> there was also the whole question raised by hans nic

pruitt under pressure. and left as the ethics scandals pile up against him. >>> storm watch. a major announcement coming from stormy daniels' lawyer about the man she claims threaten her to keep silent. >>> order to the border. national guard troops are deployed to the mexico border to help secure it until president trump gets his wall, but who's paying for? >>> also new developments from munster, germany, where a truck plowed into a crowd of people, killing two and injuring dozens more. >>> we'll start this hour with new reporting from axios this afternoon. jonathan swan reporting white house chief of staff john kelly threatened to quit acourting to sources familiar with the event. kelly reportedly blew up at the president at an oval office meeting the same day. a senior administration official tried to pour cold water on the report and said calling it a threat was "probably too strong. it was more venting frustration." this coming amid the president reshuffling his cabinet and escalating trade tensions wi

pruitt -- mr. pruitt chooses to defend and protect the needs of the biofuel industry over the needs of our children? that is not someone worthy of representing the american people. that is not someone worthy of heading this agency. and, you know, let's just stick to mr. pruitt's own words, not the words of oh, not the words of my constituents, but in his own words. this is what he said about the agency that he's been chosen to lead. mr. pruitt describes himself as, and i quote, a leading advocate against the e.p.a.'s activist agenda. he said this on his linkedin page. we bein accessed this in januarf 2016. on the role of the e.p.a., he said, an i quote, i believe the e.p.a. has a role to play in our republican form of government. air and water quality issues can cross state lines and can sometimes require federal intervention. at the same time, the e.p.a. was never intended to be our nation's front line environmental regulator. unquote. this was his testimony before the house committee on science,

they love scott pruitt. they feel strongly about scott pruitt. they love scott pruitt. >> the president's backing is so strong sources tell cnn he floated replacing attorney general jeff sessions with scott pruitt as recently as this week. sessions is a target of the president ever since he recused himself from the russia investigation. the president endorsed pruitt despite the headlines and allegations he sidelined top aides who pushed back on spending. more from cnn's sara ganim in washington. >> reporter: good morning, rene and dave. bad headlines continuing for epa administrator scott pruitt. this time reports that he sidelined officials after they pushed back or raised concerns of the pricey travel and overall management of the agency. two sources with the knowledge of the matter told cnn that career and political appointees who disagreed with pruitt were iced out. a story reported by "the new york times." in one case, an official was reassigned when he refused to drive pruitt through town with lights and sirens to avoid heavy washington tra

pruitt. if my colleagues in the senate really want to stop pollution, we can start by keeping scott pruitt from going to lead the e.p.a. our environment should not be for sale, should not be neglected, and should not be turned aaside from being the core mission of the a. e.p.a. and i think we all should stand firm against the nomination of scott pruitt to lead that important agency. with that, mr. president, thank you. and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president, it is an absolute honor to rise to speak in behalf of scott pruitt he has been a leader in the state of oklahoma and struggling to enforce the law in oklahoma as its written and as its consistent with the constitution. he's a statesman, he's a a dedicated public servant. as administrator of the earnings i fully expect -- as administrator of the e.p.a., i fully expect scott to be able to follow every law to do what's best for the present and for the fut

pruitt claims he did not know about the raises. and he said he canceled the bonuses when he found out about them. pruitt is also under scrutiny for renting a apartment from a lobbyist that represents fossil fuels.>> this individual doesn't have clients that have business before this agency. -- >> he does not represent exxon mobil. >> is firm has -- >> they do not represent them at this point. >> eric? >> thank you. meanwhile democratic and republican lawmakers are calling for pruitt to resign. four for the president to dump him. the president recently has endorsed him so what is the latest on this? quite explained outcome of the white house and the president seem to be standing by the president. yesterday sources tell fox news that he met with president trump in the oval office and they discussed some of these controversies according to a source, the presidential pruitt he did a good job and he wants him to continue. the press secretary, sarah sanders, says the white house is conducting a review. she would not go into hypothetical

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

pruitt. i want to thank mr. pruitt for making himself available for today's hearing. administrator pruitt and his team has worked tirelessly to bring the epa back to its core mission, protecting the environment in common sense ways with input from states, local government and tribes, an approach is which abreath of fresh air. nobody wants to take care of our backyards more than us and our states. that's why i want to thank mr. pruitt for doing what is right by having the input of those with interests there. mr. pruitt, thank you for coming here today, thank you for making the whole state proud. i appreciate you and i yield back to chairman walden. >> i thank they for his introduction of the witness. administrator pruitt this committee is charged by the house of representative with legislative and oversight responsibilities for the bulk of the statutes the epa issues. we are an authorizing committee and it's been ten months since wowor sworn in as administrator, an agency that turned 47 on mon

administrator, pruitt resigned.is way to great falls, montana, on his way to a rally, we will have that live. john roberts joins us from the white house with the latest. john, you can't take a break, you have to be on your toes at all times at the white house. >> your head is on

everything pruitt touches turns to shame. so shady, so shady in fact that even fox news called him out. >> president trump said he would drain the swamp. >> descraining the swamp, renting an apartment from the wife of a washington lobbyist. i don't think that that is even remote plee fair to ask that question. >> why did you go around the not give pay raises to two staffers. >> i did not, my staff did and i found out about fla yesterday. >> is somebody being fired nor that. >> that should not have been done. there will be account able. >> a career person or. >> i don't know. >> you don't know who disd it. >> this is something that needs to be corrected. >> do you take responsibility for them. >> i'm taking it. >> trevor: that's all, folks. i bet pruitt didn't expect those questions from that network. like he was probably like my dude, we're on fox. what the hell are you doing? come on, you ask me how big trump's dick s i say enormous and then we throw to a reverse mortgage comergses, come on, buddy, what's wrong with you. now

pruitt's nomination. this is from all sources. i received 1,880 letters opposing his nomination. pretty amazing. we don't get these kind of volume of letters, e-mails or faxes or letters. 1,800 opposed. other the past three months editorial boards across the country have expressed their own serious concerns about this tpho*eupl as well. i -- nominee as well. i want to share a few of those with my colleagues and the world this morning. back in december "the new york times" wrote these words and i will read them. this is december -- a couple of months ago. had donald trump spent an entire year sko*uring the country for someone to weaken the clean air and clean water laws to repudiate america's leadership role in the global battle against climate change, he could not have found a more proper candidate. that is a pretty bold charge. it goes on to say that he is a an aggressively bad choice. again, the e.p.a. wasn't created in a law signed by a democrat, it was by a republican. the clean air act clean water ac

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

pruitt. reducing carbon emissions is the result of smart vehicle emission standards, clean air regulations, and our federal efforts to incentive investments in clean energy, including natural gas and renewables, most of which your epa is now trying to weaken or repeal. you often remind the people that you are a former attorney general and you say that you, your quote, know what it means to prosecute folks. but under your leadership, epa has slowed actions against polluters. and though you have touted epa's recent enforcement successes, saying epa has collected billions of dollars in penalties during your time at the agency, you conveniently forgot to mention that more than 90% of those penalties are from cases prosecuted entirely by the obama administration. you say that you are, quote, getting the agency back to basics. but actions like the one you took just last week, just last week, to reverse critical prosecutions against hazardous air pollutants show that your epa is actually move us bac

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

pruitt should stay. and that is exactly why i'm concerned that the senate is not giving the deputy administrator nominee the scrutiny he should have. mr. president, andrew wheeler could become the e.p.a. administrator if scott pruitt is forced out or resigns. he should be vetted as if he were the nominee, and there are many reasons to question whether he belongs at the e.p.a. at all. just like mr. pruitt, mr. wheeler has spent his entire political career fighting e.p.a. regulations to protect the environment and protect public health. he has lobbied for many years on behalf of polluters that the e.p.a. regulates. the american people support clean air, clean water. mr. wheeler is out of step with the values and principles of american taxpayers. i know many republicans who support environmental protection, and we have had many decades of bipartisan support for public health, for environmental protection, clean air, clean water, folks don't want their kids to have toxic chemicals in their blood or in their

pruitt was esidng rent. t' this is another step in the president's regulatory agenda. >> reporter: pruitt's saving grace may be that he's seen by the president and other white house officials as mr. trump's most effective cabinet secretary. he started rolling back more than two dozen obama-era environmental regulations, including mr. obama's signature vehicle emission standards and clean power plan. he also successfully advocated for the president to pull out of the paris climate accord. another factor working in mr. e uitt's favor: white house thficials say the president doesn't think he can get someone as effective as pruitt confirmed. that said, the president has been known to praise an official one day, and fire them by tweet the next. jeff. >> glor: julianna goldman, thank you very much. the pacific coast is bracing for another round of heavy rain. there is a chance it could trigger mud slides in california. meteorologist eric fish certificate tracking this wild weather, eric? >> it has been a very acti

pruitt. thank you for being here this morning, however, i fully expected that you, mr. administrato administrator, as a proud oklahoman, would have been here sooner. all right, in all seriousness. in all seriousness, mr. administrator, i hope this is the first of many appearances, regular appearances before our energy and commerce committee, your predecessors came before this committee frequently and i can tell you that it wasn't because they liked being berated every other fife mve minutes fo few hours, it was because they understood they had a responsibility to be accountable to congress. so i expect moving forward you will provide administration witnesses, response to letters and technical assistance quickly when we ask. i know members have a serious concern about the direction of the epa in the past year, which is why there's so much interest in today's hearing. members will raise questions about how you have chosen to be a steward of taxpayer funds, who has had access to you and the grow

pruitt. mr. pruitt intends to prevent the e.p.a. from protecting public health and the environment by reducing the budget by two-thirds. trump transition team member myron ebil made these plans clear. mr. pruitt will cut and then cut some more and then cut some more until the agency we trust to keep us safe is no bigger than when richard nixon was president. so what exactly should we cut? which aspect of public health in our environment are in need of less protection and research? well, let me tell you about some of the things e.p.a. has accomplished since its creation. the e.p.a. helps protect us from toxins. from 1948 to 1988, 30 million homes were treated for termite infestation with two related, very long-lasting chemicals, heptachloro and cordate. they're among the 12 worst known persistent, organic pollutants. a rogues gallery called it the dirty dozen. a long-time study found americans have these chemicals in their flood and their fat and the higher the level, the more likely a person is to suffer from dementia, type 2 diabet

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

scott pruitt is hiding. >> reporter: a watchdog group filed a lawsuit to get access to pruitt's e-mailhe fossil fuel agency. thursday, an oklahoma district judge ruled pruitt must turn over 3,000 e-mails by next tuesday. >> he's been hiding information from the senate. and from the american people, about the true extent of that relationship. how deep his ties go to the industry that he would be basically charged with regulating. >> reporter: he's filed least a dozen lawsuits against the epa. and in his confirmation hearing senators revealed pruitt used oklahoma state stationary and signed his name drafted by lobbyists those letters sent to agencies criticizing environmental resignations. democrats pushed the vote to allow time to review e-mails. >> it's not the worst thing in the world to take a few extra days to properly vet someone who will have immense power. >> reporter: but senate republicans refused to delay. it's pretty clear what's happening, they want to move them as solely as possible. on the ones they have deemed controversial, they want to give heir left-wing agitators enou

the epa chief, scott pruitt, has resi resigned. president trump stood by pruitt as he relentlessly rolled back environmental regulations, carrying out the president's agenda. but claims of legal and ethical violations mounted, about that $43,000 phone booth, first class travel, 24/7 security and his use of his staff and his position for his personal benefit. the balance finally tipped, and tonight, the president has accepted his resignation. shuffling his cabinet one more time. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl starts us off at the white house. >> reporter: he was front at center at the white house fourth of july picnic just yesterday, but now, scott pruitt, one of the most 'embattled cabinet secretaries ever, is gone. in his tweet announcing pruitt's resignation as the head of the environmental protection agency, the president said, "within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job, and i will always be thankful to him for this." but pruitt's tenure has been beset by scandal after scandal, including a story a

i just spent -- they love scott pruitt. they love scott pruitt. thank you very much, everybody. >> can we talk about syria, mr. president? syria? >> clearly, jeff, it was hard to understand the audio, the quality not very good. they'll try to clean it up and get a better sense. one of the pool reporters did send us a transcript. let me read from the transcript precisely what the president said when he walked to the back of the plane and had this q&a with reporters. first question -- on amazon. so we'll see what happens, the post office is not doing well with amazon. we're going to see what happens. the playing field has to be level for everybody. i'm going to study it, we're going to take -- take a look at that. then the questions on stormy daniels started. question -- did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? the president -- no. question -- why did michael cohen, the president's private attorney and longtime friend, make it? answer -- you have to ask michael cohen. michael cohen is my attorney. you'll have to ask him. question -

they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt and they love scott pruitt. >> we begin an hour of turmoil on wall street. the president is threatening china with a whopping $100 billion in additional tariffs. the dow down, you see it there, around 330 points. investors are rattled about talk of a trade war. farmers are rattled, too. but listen here, the president telling a morning radio show getting tough with china is long overdue and that a roller coaster market is a price worth paying. >> we've already lost a trade war. we don't have a trade war, we've lost a trade war. i'm not saying there won't be a little pain, but the market has gone up 40%, 42%. we might lose a little of it, but we're going to have a much stronger country when we're finished. >> jeff zeleny live at the white house for us. jeff, the president surprised even members of his own team with this new $100 billion threat of a counterpurnch. do they share his view that an end will justify the means? >> several advisers her

jon kelley speaking with pruitt this morning.ut when asked, the white house wouldn't say if the president still has confidence in pruitt. abc news, washington. >>> speaking of pruitt, he is saying he plans to roll back emission standards in california in an ongoing battle between the state and the feds. pruitt said the agency is re-examining california's waiver under the clean air act to see if we can set our own, more stringent car emission limits. the state is threatening to sue if that happens. pruitt says the epa is working to determine appropriate emission standards and says ones established under the obama administration are too high. >>> grinder, one of the world's most popular social networking apps for gay men, is promising to change the way it shares information. the move was triggered by privacy concerns. gripder users are outraged after finding out their hiv status was shared with other tech companies. grinder says the information was encrypted and never shared with advertisers. san francisco supervisor worries the mo

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

iowa republican senator joni ernst who has been critical of pruitt's position as ethanol said pruittas swampy c. you get hn washington, ouch. she has been in a meeting at th white house. we are hoping to have her on in just a moment. one more commercial break. n dad. liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is thiwrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel is as easy as datels, done!t the lowest price... simply enter your destination and dates... and see all the hotels for your stay! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to show you the lowest prices... so you can get the best deal on the right hotel foyou. dates, deals, done! tripadvisor. visit tripadvisor.com >>> welcome back. time for the lid. the panel is back. sahil, and lonnie. we are hoping that senator ernst will be joini

or for pruitt to resign.fectiveness here, maybe not so much of the 63 democrats because that could be put into a partisan lens, but members of the president's party saying it's time for pruitt? >> all three republicans who did sign it are in swing districts. they're under a fair amount of pressure and trying, i think, not only to preserve their own political positions but not to give the democrats one more issue to beat up on republicans over. this is very, very damning. the damage will go beyond the trump administration, and to see republicans signing on suggests that there's -- this at least the perception of a branding problem, that others who are running on the democratic ticket in these midterm elections are going to suffer from the misdeeds of the scott pruitts of the world. he's got his own sort of political future. it's a mixed and interesting one where he's got prospects not only back in oklahoma but possibly on the national stage. we shouldn't write him off by any means. he apparently is talented 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

also, pruitt's problems. the epa chief with expensive travel and cheap rent is now the subject of a new review and there are new reports that the white house is not happy with how he is handling this controversy. and status update. things seem to keep getting worse for facebook. millions more user's data compromised. ceo zuckerberg set to answer questions on the hill. how much responsibility does the government even have to protect you from malicious actors? we'll get to those stories in just a minute. we start with new questions today about just how president trump plans to deploy those troops to our border with mexico. the president just left washington a few moments ago, bound for west virginia. he did not take questions from reporters there as he boarded air force one. at this point, it is unclear where those troops would be deployed a long the nearly 2,000-mile-long border with california, arizona, new mexico and texas. the troops would be national guard units and they would serve in mostly a support cap

pruitt's record. competitive enterprise institute is in some ways funded by the fossil fuel industry, but scott pruitt was a friend to the fossil fuel industry, to put it mildly, in oklahoma. there is a famous incident of him basically copy-pasting an email or concern directly from the e.p.a. at the hearings he said he understands it is an incredibly important job especially when it comes to the rule in regulating co2. >> jeremy mentioned the 14 lawsuits. i'm proud my organization is a co-playoff with attorney general scott pruitt in several of these lawsuits. these are meant to shrink e.p.a.'s overreach, its illegal regulatory overreach. i think, when you look at oklahoma, oklahoma is a big oil and gas producer. they're proud of it. they produce the energy we use. of course, scott pruitt supports that industry. it's oklahoma's major industry, and it helps the entire nation. so i think, if you look back at what president trump said in the campaign, he said, i want to get rid of the regulatory rampage

screw it was pretty deep -- scott pruitt was pretty deep in the special interest. it feels super strange. i feel like i am on a bad trip honestly. host: you think scott pruitt was a major influence on the president's decision? caller: who knows. the dude seems to kind of listen to himself in respects to donald. host: theodore in newport beach, california. the u.s. with withdrawing from the limit accord, announced by president trump. -- climate accord announced by president trump. the phone numbers are on the screen. on twitter, looking for your teeth -- tweets @cspan. -- notely no-trump evidence donald trump can negotiate a better deal. saturday for america and science. nice to have a candidates science -- promises. how can we save jobs if there is no clean air to breathe by 2040? and we don't need to support the test thatcredence want us to fund junk science. the independent line, jack. caller: i wanted to comment as an independent who voted for hillary. it is interesting withdrawing from this agreement hearing from trump's speech saying if the democrats wanted to

pruitt's job may become tenuous again. look, if another story drops, if another wave of headlines hits, the president a certain point may grow frustrated and say the distractions are not worth it. remember, he has a number of confirmation hearings that have to happen on capitol hill in the coming weeks. and adding pruitt to that list is already -- seems untenable for a lot of the republicans here. >> peter, let me bring you in here. chief of staff john kelly urged the president to fire pruitt, according to "the new york times," with that suggestion falling on deaf ears. what do the past few weeks tell you about kelly's status in the west wing? >> well, kelly's status is -- seems precarious to some degree. it doesn't seem like the president is listening to kelly. we also reported that -- at the "journal" that some saying pruitt should go, he's a liability. it's not clear the president is listening. what's also interesting about the pruitt situation is that the entire staff at the white house, from what we're told, is also o

you don't need scott pruitt to do that. can find lots of republicans who would do exactly what he's doing right now. so i don't understand why the president still keeps him in. and it is baffling to me that he is still at the epa. >> we were checking your twitter feed, and just a few minutes ago you tweeted at the president saying, "democrat wave continues to get stronger so now i'm thinking please don't fire scott pruitt, he's such a great symbol of the corruption and fraud, waste and abuse in your administration." i tried to read that dripping with sarcasm which i'm sure was your intent. the president's base doesn't seem to care. why is this an issue that could help democrats? >> one reason i wrote that tweet is i realized the president tends to do the opposite of what rational people tell him to do. so i thought i would do some reverse psychology and see if that would work. keep in mind, his base will do what the president tells them. he could tell them, look, wednesday is not even a day of the week, and they would say o

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. >> 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

scott pruitt resigned, citing unrelenting attacks. cbs reporter is at the white house with more. >> reporter: as you know, four months president trump has called -- has been called to fire scott pruitt. it appears that the many accusations of corruption in the investigations into this accusations finally became too much. president trump tweeted the news that he has accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency. speaking on air force one, the president said the decision has been in the works for a few days and that there is no final straw, that scott pruitt felt he was a distraction. in his resignation letter he said the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented, and have taken a sizable toll on all of us. inspector general is in the midst of five audits, including pruitt suspending on security and travel. and democrats have seized on the $43,000 soundproof booth in his office, which he defended before congress. >> i was not involved in the approval and if

embattled epa chief scott pruitt resigns. president trump tweeting the resignation. pruitt facing a long, growing list of ethics scandals, from his sweetheart apartment deal to his first class flights to that $43,000 phone booth in his office. >>> race against the rain. new images tonight from inside the flooded cave. the around the clock rescue effort to save 12 boys and their soccer coach. a new sense of urgency with more flooding rains just hours away. >>> escaping the flames. the massive new wildfire forcing hundreds from their homes. dozens of fires burning at this hour. ginger zee tracking the dangerous heat, and the new tropical storm forming late today. will it become a hurricane? >>> deadly fireworks explosions. more than a dozen killed in back-to-back blasts, including police and firefighters responding to the scene. plus, the fireworks stunt gone horribly wrong. >>> the mother that took on that carjacker. the crook taking off with her car. her kids in the backseat. what she says she was forced to do. >>> and good evening. it's great to have you with us on

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