epa to do its job. we rely on federal partners to ensure that factories and power plants have strong pollution controls. however, a few months ago, u.s. epa revoked the once in, always in policy that ensures major sources of toxic air pollution are always subject to strict controls. these toxic air pollutants include lead, mercury, and arsenic, which can cause cancer and damage the nervous system. under the new policy, these pollution sources can drop out of the program and increase their emissions again. states again will have to do their best to develop programs to clean the air and protect it, but it means diverting resources that could address other public health threats. achieving the goal of clean air is about protecting our communities. we achieve this goal most effectively in partnerships with the public, with industry, and with the federal administration. a key to success is a strong and vigorous u.s. epa, and this is why we appreciate congress' resistance to propose budget cuts to the agency a

epa is a disaster. it's killing us.lan 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 the maxwell smart cone of silence. >> you can't just go around acting like a big shot. >> from first class travel to 24-hour security detail to huge raises. could pruitt be the next to go? >> who is this man running an agency that he has been trying to dismantle for years? >> he had taken the lo

does epa's budget request for fiscal year 2019 include adequate resources for the epa to carry out its action memorandum? >> the on the this was just adopted to increase allocation. there are a series of orphan sites that make up our portfolio. they are the minority of sites. they are expensive. we have to use resources as the agency to achieve that. a continued emphasis on funding and the budget with respect to superfund is important to address those orphan sites. another approach we are taking is to get responsibility -- accountability to those parties. to make sure the companies are held accountable and that they pay for remediation in a timely fashion. both are very important. funding and accountability through the endorsement process. >> also, the previous administration has made the process less predictable. science that has traditionally supported aapproach to regulate pesticides has given way to politics and emotions. as a former commissioner agriculture for our state, this is important to us that farmers rely on.sippi i would like to personally thank you for visiting mississip

at the epa. >> i'm reading from the same line -- >> the epa office of criminal enforcement, forensics, and training has informed the oig that epa's protective service detail began providing 24/7 coverage of the administrator the first day he arrived at the epa. the decision was made by the office of criminal enforcement, forensics, and training after being informed that mr. pruitt recommended 24/7 protection once he was confirmed back in february. is that true? did you request it once -- right when -- >> i was aware of communications taking place. that was before confirmation. and the decision to provide 24/7 security was made, as indicated by this report, by law enforcement career officials at the agency. >> yeah. mr. pruitt, the plain language of the letter, i read it, is that you requested it. and there have been lots of rankings as the chairman and ranking know in the house and senate where you point to an august, 2017, report, document, by the inspector general which they've made clear was not a threat assessment but that it was a report. you've been pointing to that as justifica

epa administrator scott pruitt testified at a senate hearing on the annual epa budget. in addition to questions about epa operations, senators questioned him about his travel and whether he got a favorable housing arrangement from a lobbyist. this is over two hours. [indiscernible] >> good morning, everyone. today we're here to review the fy 2019 budget request for the environmental protection agency. i'd like to start by welcoming our witnesses. we welcome back to the committee, mr. 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 t

now betsy sutherland wrote some of that regulation over more than three decades at the epa. in her fiery resignation letter last yearhe condemned, quote, the trials of misovertruths and became one of hundreds to exit the epa. the agency has predictably hit back at her. betsy sutherland joins me now from washington. first, welcome to the program. >> thank you so much for inviting me. i'm really looking forward to this conversation. >> well, it is, we like to call it, an exclusive. we know you have written and you've done a few things in the interim since last year. why do you think first and foremost scott pruitt is on the job given, as i said, these 11 different investigations? i've got, you know, a stack of paper that sort of lists how many there are over everything from expenses, travel, security, condos, all sorts of things that are allegedly conflicts of interest. >> it's absolutely unprecedented, i can tell you, in the history of the environmental protection agency. our administrators are usually very serious, very scientific and lawyerly type people who don't have any

epa is a disaster.

epa, where pruitt was speaking about -- for some reason the epa said there weren't enough seats in theut that was b.s., there were plenty of seats in the room. let's look at in from two different perspectives. rebecca lieber, environmental policy and politics reporter. were you there at this summit earlier in the week? >> i was there early in the day when the epa opened it to all press but they closed it the next day, so they went worth on that. >> is it your impression that the inner workings of the epa have become more secret than they were under obama? >> the epa certainly had issues with reporters during the obama era, but all that has been taken to a new level in the trump administration and you could argue that it's the agency wide embodiment of the trump administration's attack on press. >> so the epa, borrowing from trump's playbook, or adopting his playbook. >> yes, i think scott pruitt had taken it and run with it for a taxpayer run agency. >> you said pruitt when he came into his office wanted to run the epa press shop like a campaign style media operation. is he succeeding?

the epa is vulnerable. >> the epa has not yet announced any new regulations but this could mean years of litigations and that means uncertainty that could heard automakers. >> this would affect later automakers. they are gearing up for those auto years. they don't like to see this uncertainty. >> in the short term consumers likely won't see any big changes. >> electric vehicle programs in california is based on a separate mandate the state has. there's a lot of separate incentives for electric vehicles. those will not be going away expect he says if that epa is successful in lowering standards consumers may see fewer toward -- choices in the show room if lawmakers can ease up on fuel efficiency standards. >>> the federal reserve will wrap up a two day policy meeting today that could change a key interest rate. the fed has been aiming for a 2 percent annual inflation rate for the last six years. inflation has been lower but it has hit that 2 percent annual rate. it's expected to stay at that level. the fed must decide if he will change his plan for increasing interest rates. most analy

the epa is not complaining. automakers are complaining about the tougher standards they'll have to meet starting in the model year 2022. they're calling for a single national standard. >>> texas is being joined by six other states in hay lawsuit challenging -- in a lawsuit challenging the legality of daca. this makes the future even murkier for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. the suit argues that president trump's creation of daca was unconstitutional and violated federal law. the case has been reassigned to a district judge who blocked the expansion of daca in 2014. the lawsuit could conflict with pro-daca rulings in several regions of the country. it could force the supreme court to decide the issue. >>> west virginia republican senate candidate don blankenship going after majority leader mitch mcconnell defending ad an in which he described mcconnell this way. listen -- >> one of my goals as u.s. senator will be to ditch cocaine mitch. >> yes, cocaine mitch. in a followup press release

then it the issue is epa has mechanisms now. e-15 got to the market without a big overhaul of the clean air act. epa has mechanisms now for certification fuels to get ought ridesed. i would say go through the process. >> thank you, and i'll return the balance of my time, and i again thank my colleague mr. tonko for goinging a second round and recognize him for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. nicholson, as i understand it, any and all cars on the road today can use premium yes, they can. >> so when gm creates this new vehicle, this new engine, they're recommending use of premium, but you're suggesting it runs better, but what's to deny the consumer from fuelling up with regular without damaging the engine? so basically if it's a choice of premium or regular, cheaper or more eck pxpensive, how do we guarantee any benefits of that premium use will be realized? >> thank you very much. i want to come back to mr. mckinley's pointment consumers could do that today. i don't know anybody that does that. it doesn't get you a

epa chief scott pruitt. that very same lobbyist now has a $40,000 a month contract with the moroccan government. pretty swampy huh? >>> the president's longtime doctor goes off claiming the president's men raided his office and revealed what we all expected about his glowing review of president trump's health. >> that letter that showed up in "times" about his health, he wrote it himself. you know that. >> yeah. >> he wrote it himself. >> that's for real today. we begin with robert mueller issuing a warning to the president, testify or else. now, the threat of a subpoena is adding new drama and adding new details. i have a great team to break all of it down. but first, i want to explain why this is such a big deal. up to this point, we had understood that mueller's team and the president's team were investigating a possibility of an interview. according to "the washington post" those investigations got very heated during a meeting back in march. that's when the protests, quote, president trump's lawyers insi

epa is saying. u.s. epa is saying 70 parts per trillion is acceptable in drinking water. folks that are looking at a lot of the more current data, for example, the state of new jersey, are suggesting the levels as low as 14 or even lower. i believe people are thinking that this particular report that atsdr has prepared is also going to suggest that those number's ought to be a lot lower than they are. amy: what is firefighting foam? historically, it has contained a combination of these , nowcals, pfoa, pfos possibly some of these newer replacement chemicals that were priestly thought to hopefully be safe, but may present some of the same troubling characteristics as the older materials. what is happening now is the chemicals used in those foams are being found in drinking water around military bases, country andoss the worldwide. new zealand. these chemicals have been released through the foam released into the environment and are now contaminating water all over the planet. amy: in march, washiton state govern jay inslee signed the nation's first law banning firefighting

. >> we should point out that we didn't even learn about the event from the epa. from a service that cnn subscribes to that essentially tells you a daily list of events throughout washington, d.c. this is an event about harmful chemicals in the public water. so we attended the event this morning. i can tell you our cnn photographer showed up at about two hours early when he arrived there he was told that he was not invited and he needed to leave. as he was leaving, the a.p. reporter was on her way in. our photographer briefed her on what the situation was. she entered the building and just about five minutes later our cnn photographer saying all he saw was an arm opening the door and shoving her out. so the point she was having trouble keeping up with her steps. that reporter then told our crew that she informed them, she wanted to speak with the press office first because she was there to cover this event, a very important topic and at that point she was shoved out of the door. myself and one of our producers here at cnn, we tried to enter through another door th

the reason you're seeing so many leave the epa. getting pushed out necessarily just tired of waking up to firestorm after firestorm. same with sources at the white house. i don't know of anybody else that donald trump who wants this epa administrator still there. pruitt is smart enough to know as long as he maintains a camaraderie with president trump, his job is perfectly safe. >> and i make the argument, beyond the camaraderie, he is doing what the president said he wants him to do. the president sees a lot of epa regulations that came about, particularly under the obama administration as job killers, and he sees that you've got ahead of the epa who's dismantling them. >> this is actually an interesting point. glad you brought this up. if you dig deeply into what specifically scott pruitt has done at the epa, he has instigated the rollback of a lot of obama-era regulations. right about that. for the most part they're tide up in litigation. not many things have actually been implemented. this is a case of, you know, donald trump l

we're in agreement with epa that all of tetra tech work areas must be reevaluated. the navy will be releasing a draft work plan within the next month. this will allow us to retest and certify the property is safe for transfer. the navy is taking action against tetraeffect for its unsatisfactory work. we are in the process of contractual remedy force the noncompliant work. additionally, we have provided the department of justice with our findings to aid in the investigation. earlier this hospital, two tetra tech employees received criminal sentences for their part in the fraudulent work at hunters point. both the navy and department of justice are committed to pursuing and persecuting contractor fraud to the fullest extent of the law. we have been and will continue to be open and transparent with the local community on the environmental work at hunters point. we hold four community meetings, bus tours of the shipyard and provide the latest information on the website. last year, we hired a radiological technical expert, the head of the oregon state university school o

she was head of policy at the apa -- epa. sen. udall: we try to make sure these people come to work. she came to work for three months? admin. pruitt: i interacted with her multiple times in that process. sen. udall: those three months? admin. pruitt: she was attending meetings with me and others in the agency. sen. udall: she worked the whole time, that is your testimony? admin. pruitt: that is not what i said. months of: during the november through january, was she working for you? admin. pruitt: she was employed at the agency and there is a review of the process on going into the record will bear that out. sen. udall: my time is up. >> senator van hollen. sen. van hollen: we will put the documents in the record. the decision to provide a 24/7 was made by the office of forensics,forcement, and training, after being informed mr. pruitt requested 24/7 protection. i know you keep trying to say it was their idea, but it says they made that decision after you requested it. i did not direct that decision to be made. you remember my co

who is the epa working for? the president or the people?> i think it's fair to say, that these reporters are just trying to do their job, as we all are who cover this agency. and it is at the end of the day, a public agency, and i would argue, one that should be open, you know, so that we can just write about what's going on there in the very most basic sense. >> it water contaminants, i think everybody would like to know about that. "the washington post," brady dennis, brady, thank you very much. >>> next up, follow the money, the details of an eye opening new investigation, entitled the prince, the president and the new fortune seekers. verned thou. commanded armies... yielded to no one. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. my name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 5 times more detail than other dna tests. order your kit at ancestrydna.com during the fall, everyone who has medicare may be eligible to choose a new medicare health plan. but you may be able to choose a new plan ri

we've got a big, new demand tonight and reporters blocks from an epa event. one grabbed by her shoulders and shoved out of the building. is the trump administration taking its war on the press to a new level? and good evening, tonight, the breaking news. michael cohen's long time business partner flips. according to the "new york times", the business partner is a russian immigrant who has been michael cohen's partner for years and has agreed to cooperate with a feds as a witness. this is a potentially explosive development at this hour because it add more pressure on cohen to flip. according to the times, michael cohen's business partners there, his nickname is the taxi king. we're talking about a possible 100-year prison sentence. he could avoid that, prosecutors in state and federal investigations. no saying what he or anyone else would reveal to avoid the fate of a 100-year prison sentence. the president's personal lawyer, friedman knows a whole lot. cohen's taxi cab business is under scrutiny by prosecutors and friedman, the king, 800 cabs. this is accord

the epa is vulnerable in that respect. >> reporter: this uc berkeley professor says the epa has not yet announced any new regulations, but it could mean years of litigation. that means uncertainty that could help -- hurt automakers. >> automakers are gearing up already for those model years and getting their factories together and their investments. they don't like to see the uncertainty. >> reporter: he says in the short term consumers won't see any big changes likely. >> electric vehicle programs in california is based on a separate mandate that the state has. there are a lot of separate incentives for electric vehicles. those will not go away anytime soon. took to get the epa is successful in lowering standards, he says consumers might see fewer choices in the showroom if automobile makers are allowed to ease up on fuel efficiency standards. >>> the federal reserve will wrap up a two day policy meeting today that could change a key interest rate. the fed is been aiming for a 2% annual inflation rate for the past six years. inflation is it that 2% level that means they must now decide

priorities writing in part, quote, it is clear that the epa is more concerned with protecting the epaal summit from the public than it is from protecting the public from harmful chemicals let's talk more about this. eugene, good to talk to you once again. >> good morning. >> what is your reaction to the epa's second day in a row of barring reporters here and do you think this is ultimately going to harm scott pruitt even more? >> certainly in the public opinion, i mean, scott pruitt is someone who has not received the best press over the last several months and it seems as if this could be a decision motivated by curtailing whether or not that's actually true or not, that's certainly the perception and doesn't help get out a more positive narrative of what the epa is doing to help americans. in fact it just seems as if they have information in dealings that they want to keep from readers. >> so let's talk immigration here as well. president trump really doubling down, shall we say, on his plan to toughen up on immigration including as last month sending a national guard troop to the b

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the epa won't say why pell was kept all the schedule.une 9, 2017, administrator pell had dinner with over a dozen leader from the holy see, and on june 29, 2017, cardinal pell-this trip is already under scrutiny for its $120,000 price tag. and reporting that it was organized by an activist friend of pruitt's. his justification -- >> the trip to it tally was a g-7 trip. >> reporter: the epa claims scott pruitt did not know that cardinal pell was coming to the dinner, that does however seem to be contradicted by these documents, in addition epa hasn't said who paid for the dinner, but did say scott pruitt paid for his own meal. >>> still much straight ahead, in the newsroom, but first, when this week's cnn hero saw children begging in the streets of vietnam, he went from tourist to altruist. he left his home in new york and now works year round in vietnam to give young people's the skills to move out of poverty. meet neal bermis. >> we have kids with all kinds of difficult backgrounds, we have kids with aids, we have some that have been tr

the epa ended up footing the bill for that expensive nap.payers $2,500 bucks to replace the front door they busted down. the news has been by far the one of the stranger scott pruitt scandal even notwithstanding the secret phone big time. but now "the new york times" filled in blanc with emails they ob trained the epa through the freedom of information act request. we know what time scott pruitt security detail charged dlu the front door. at 5:20 p.m. on march 29th. official writes quote, redacted is on-site. breaching redacted door to gain access. 37 minutes later the whole thing is done and dusted. 5:57. all good except for a couple of doors we have to pick up the tab for. so scott pruitt tells his staff he is sick. leaves the office. several hours go by. no one can track down the base. so a last ditch effort to make sure he is not in serious distress at 5:20 p.m. they bust down his door and find him sleeping in his bed. that's the time line. and frankly, it just makes you want to ask a million more questions. because look at this. a watch

call or go on line today. >>> this morning yet another scandal surrounding epa chief scott pruitt.eport says that he took this $100,000 trip to morocco. well, it was partly arranged by a lobbyist. >> that friend became a registered foreign agent for the moroccan government in his role in this trip is raising new questions this morning. cnn's renee march has more. >> reporter: we're learning that pruitt's trip to morocco was twice as expensive as originally thought this all according to the "the washington post." back to that lobbyist involved in arranging that trip. richard snowkin not only helped arrange the trip but he participated in meetings during the trip including meetings with industry. then just months later the moroccan government hired him to work as a foreign agent. it raises questions, did he get the job because he successfully organized this trip for pruitt? it's also very unusual for lobbyist to be involved in planning a trip for the head of a federal agency. there's a lot more pruitt news today. just in the last 24 hours we learned that two key aides abruptly left t

the epa footed the bill for that nap.ce the front door they busted down. this has been by far the one of the stranger scott pruitt scandals, not w standing the secret phone booth. but now the "new york times" has filled in the blanks with e-mails they obtained through the epa through a freedom of information act request. we know what time scott pruitt's security detail kaccame chargin through his front door. 5:20 p.m. redacted is on site and breaching redacted door to again a access. 37 minutes later the whole thing is done and dusted 5:57 p.m. all good except for a couple of doors we'll have to pick up the tab for so he tells his staff he's sick, he leaves the office, no one can track down the boss and a last-ditch effort to make sure he's not in serious distress, at 5:20 p.m. they bust down his door and find him sleeping. that's the timeline. and it makes me want to ask a million more questions. look at this. a watchdog group called american oversight obtained the phone logs for scott pruitt's desk phone in his office a

epa chief scott pruitt still in the news, facing new questions about his travel, his home and campaign payments. and you know what today is, jobs, jobs, jobs day. 164,000 jobs added in april. the unemployment rate now at just 3.9%. extraordinary. what's not extraordinary is wages, not up as much as we thought. not up as much as we hoped. we're going to get to all of it. but first, let's go to alexandria, virginia. that is where a hearing is getting under way for a president's former campaign manager paul manafort. he's going to try to get all of the criminal charges against him dropped. nbc news has a reporter in the courtroom and as soon as we have details on today's proceedings, we're going to bring you there. now we have got to get to the other big story, the fallout. rudy giuliani says he and president trump, they're in lock step, even as giuliani drops tons of new information about the president's legal troubles. in the process, he seems to have carved out a new legal strategy and a new communication strategy all in just 36 hours. i have a great team here to break it down. first,

epa, he must have thought the epa was a different thing.ke, "gentlemen, welcome to the epa. we fly first class, pay no rent, and no one pays any attention." and then like a day later the government says, you're under ten investigations, ass[ bleep ]. now all of trump's various scandals are obviously weighing on a republican party that is now facing a potential wave election in november. and they're causing tensions within the party too. take outgoing tennessee senator bob corker, a frequent trump critic who has praised the democratic candidate to replace him in the senate, governor phil bredesen. last week trump tweeted in support of the republican candidate in the race, marsha blackburn. but on sunday, when corker was asked about that race, he could barely muster a kind word about blackburn. his own party's nominee in a very awkward interview. >> they were asking me about governor bredesen. he is my friend. i'm not going to campaign against him, but i am supporting our nominee. >> can you tell me why republican marsha blackburn is better t

and it is in fact lower than what epa has previously said.t a health advisory for this class of compounds for a couple of them in 2016. this is an area of rapidly developing research. shortly after that epa health advisory came out, new research came out finding effects at even lower levels of exposure particularly related to the immune system effects. this study found for particularly vulnerable populations children, infants, breastfeeding moms even lower level of exposure than epa previously said could be dangerous. >> so that he seems like a pretty important thing. lower levels of exposure to this chemical in the water for children and babies and moms breastfeeding. that could be harmful. now, this makes its way to the white house and i want to read from the unidentified white house aide. the public media and congressional reaction to the numbers will be huge. the impact to epa and defense departments will be extremely painful. we can't seem to get them at hhs to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be. what ha

pruitt under fire, the battle at the epa. that's tonight at 9:20 p.m. fin >>> finally, we want to say thank you to a cnn situation room original. after nearly 13 years working with our team, our supervising producer is leaving washington. he's leaving our staff. there you see him right there. give us a big smile. but he's staying in the cnn family fortunately. he is going to help launch cnn's new program, cuomo prime time. we're sending him, his wife, their daughter, off with all of our very, very best wishes. he's tell iing me to wrap up because the end of our show. vaughn, good look to you. we love you. only, only the best. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, no apoloap. refusing to condemn a cruel joke about john mccain. what's so hard about saying i'm sorry? and the president's chief of staff knock backing down about undocumented imgranls that some say are racist. plus, rudy giuliani in court today. only thing, client wasn't trump. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm kate bolduan in for

by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the epa building.the ap, the agency apologized for how the journalist was handled an invited her to attend the later session. when asked about it at the briefing just hours later, sara h sanders approved of how they handled the reporter. >> we'll look into the matter. i've seen the reports. i know epa put out a statement. >> is there any situation where you feel, the white house feels it is appropriate to physically touch or physically handle -- >> i'm not going to weigh into random hype threat ickes that may or may not exist. >> questioning by our friends anita kumar and hallie jackson there today. criticism over this incident mounted quickly, as you can imagine. and please remember, as we tell this story, you're paying for the epa, and they work for you to protect you. senator tom udall, democrat from new mexico, called on pruitt to personally apologize, and richard painter, the former bush white house ethics lawyer put it this way, quote, cnn and ap reporters banned forcibly removed by guards. just

>> this is the epa's national summit on harmful water contaminants linked to water.ournalists from cnn, associated press, were not allowed inside. a.p. says its reporter was not only denied entry, but grabbed by security and forcibly shoved out of the building. the epa didn't comment about anyone physically removing a journalist, but said the plan was to allow 10 reporters inside, saying, quoting, this was simply an issue of the room reaching capacity, which reporters were aware of prior to the event. a report by the hill said that during the conference, a handful of seats remained vacant. another reporter told politico there were dozens of empty seats, and cnn also showed pictures of space for cameras. for the record, fox news was not there. instead we decided to use the pool camera, which was provided by cbs. but all three organizations not allowed in, later released statements. cnn said, quoting, we understand the importance of an open and free press, and we hope the epa does too. the associated press called it, quote, alarming and a direct threat to the public's

the epa prevented the ap, cnn and a and e!m attending the event and harmful water contaminants. the epa says guards of the summit prevented it passing through a security checkpoint inside the building, it says when their reporter asked to speak to an agency official, security guards grabbed her by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the building. cnn said in a statement its reporter was also turned away from covering the event after multiple attempts to attend. >> epa spokesman told the news organization that they were not invited to the event and there was no space for them, but gave no indications of why they specifically were barred. in a statement to nbc news, wilcox says this was simply an issue of the room reaching capacity which reporters were aware of prior to the event. we were able to accommodate ten reporters, provided a live stream for those we could not accommodate, were unaware of the individual situation that's been reported. later in the day, wilcox released another statement saying the associated pres

. >>> also just in, cnn reporting on the embattled epa chief. why president trump may now be entertaining the idea of firing scott pruitt. stand by, we have new information. but let's begin with the biggest foreign policy decision of the trump presidency so far. about an hour from now, the president announces whether the united states will pull out of the iran nuclear deal. sources say he's expected to announce that he will reinstate sanctions against iran. that would be the first step toward withdrawing from the agreement. but those sources also caution that nothing is final until the announcement by the president is made one hour from now, 2:00 p.m. eastern. cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us live. jim, we know the president spoke with the french president emmanuel macron earlier in the day. macron is trying to persuade him to stay in the iran deal. what are you hearing about that conversation? >> wolf, what we're hearing about that conversation and other conversations is that all indications are at this point that

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an interior staffer combined with the former epa official to leak damaging information about the epa. the spokesperson for the agency calls the report false. >>> also developing, "the washington post" says pruitt drew up a dozen countries after he hoped to become the secretary. one trip to morocco where a contract was formed. >> and pruitt paid $65,000 for the campaigns. pruitt made purchases and received reimbursement from the campaign rather than the campaign pay directly for the expenses. that makes it difficult to tell if the purchases were legitimate since there is so little detail and the campaign finance filings. spokesperson for pruitt says the payments were standard reimbursements. >>> pat rconroy back on the job after rescinding the resignation. paul ryan accepting the decision. ryan facing questions about asking the priest to step down after seven years of praying at the start of house sessions. >> conroy says the chief of staff wanted a chaplain who is not catholic. the speaker plans to meet with fr. conroy next week. now nancy pelosi asking for an explanation. >>> a speci

the epa ended up footing the bill for that expensive nap.oor they busted down. this has been by far one of the stranger scott pruitt scandals, for the withstanding the secret phone booth. "the new york times" has filled in the blinks with e-mails. they obtained through a freedom of information request. at 5:20 p.m. on march 29 belgiumth, an official writes, quote, redacted is on site and breaching redacted door to gain access. 37 minutes later, the whole thing is done and dusted. all good except for a couple of doors we'll have to pick up the tab for. okay. so scott pruitt tells his staff he's sick, he leavies the offic, several hours go by. a last-ditch effort, at 5:20 p.m. they bust down his door and find him sleeping in his bed. that's the timeline. it makes you want to ask a million more questions. take a look at this. a watchdog group called american oversight has obtained the phone logs from scott pruitt's desk phone in his office at the epa. on the day he reportedly went missing. the day his door got smashed down a little after 5:00,

intelligence has not identified any specific credible direct threat to the epa administrator.w some instances were scary. people writing aggressive and threatening postcards and e-mails and some of the threat investigations are less worrisome. this one for instance. a news week magazine cover taped to inside of an elevator at an epa building, a mustache which is hand drawn on the face of administrator pruitt. now the news week cover was this one from this year. we don't know what it looks like about a mustache but our "all in" artist rend orring says it should be something like this. and that was recommended for closure by the case agent special agent. a review of the printsout yielded the print out did not contain any threatening information. well said, case agent special agent. well said. rescue workers only trust dawn, because it's tough on grease yet gentle. i am home, i am home, i am home when it comes to travel, i sweat the details. late checkout... ...down-alternative pillows... ...and of course, price. tripadvisor helps you book a... ...hotel without breaking a sweat.