he's connected to interior secretary david burnheart too and club foundation, a group he once representedald trump became president ingram enjoyed easy access to trump administration decision makers who oversee his interest. scheduled obtained by cnn show at least 11 meetings, phone calls or emails with top administration officials including scott pruit who was secretary of the interior. and cnn has learned that in august of 2017 mike ingram met up with his old lobbyist friend and then deputy interior secretary david burnheart, the first of at least five meetings with him. this secret meeting not on any public calendar was a private breakfast held at his hunting lodge in montana. just weeks later he got the unusual call from washington and the villages was on track again. a lawsuit by environmentalist filed this year has the project on hold. ingram will not talk to cnn. he has hired one of washington's most powerful lawyers to speak on his behalf lanny davis. >> he's close to trump, there must be political unfle wednesday. -- >> this guy has unprecedented access to david burnheart on augu

we know that he, david burnheart took a secret meeting at the montana huns lodting lodge with arizona diamondbacks. i say this was a secret meeting because david byrnehardt is the number two official in this agency. it's subject to requests under the freedom of information act. this particular meeting, though, when he meet the diamondbacks' owner at this hunting lodge, that was left off his official calender. nevertheless, thank you, journalism. it was turned up that that meeting took place. the company run by the diamondbacks' owner ultimately confirmed that, yes, the meeting happened. they have also admitted that what they talked about at that meeting was, of course, that big housing development and golf course development that this guy wanted to build in benson, arizona. the one where he had just been told right before the election that it wasn't going to happen. that more environmental work needed to be done before he could get the permit to go ahead because the scientists in the federal government looked at it and said, you know, there really might not be enough water there to do