iowa senator joanie ernst is one of a number of farm state republicans upset with scott pruitt anyway. she says scott pruitt lied to her about the renewable fuel standard, an important thing for iowa farmers. beyond that, though, she sounded today like she was starting to get a little fed upith the ostentatious part of what scott pruitt is doing at that agency as well. >>>. >> i will remain highly critical of administratorpruitt. only do we gree on the rfs but there are a number of other transgressions that we have seen coming out of that office directly tied to administrative pruitt and the way he spends money and the way he misuses basically his office. my words, nobody else's, but he is about as swampy as you get here in washington, d.c. and if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look at his own cabinet. >> he is about as swampy as you get, iowa senator joanie ernst, republican senator calling on president trump essentially to fire epa admtrator scott pruitt today saying as part of her remarks it's up to the president but essentially she hopes he fires him. a

speaking yesterday at an energy policy forum, senator joanie ernst said it is as swampy as you get ining to the allegations. >> the problem is i have known him so long, i c him doing something like that. but nonetheless, there's a lot of smoke and there might be some fire. >>> we are less than a week away from president trump's historic sit down with north korea's kim jong-un in singapore. now we know where the meeting will take place. yesterday, press secretary sarah huckabee sanders tweeted the e capella hotel on sentosa island. another notable individual will be in singapore at the time of the summit. >> coincidence? >> take a guess who it is, dennis rodman. he traveled to north korea and met with kim multiple times in the past several years, even g kim trump's ghost written book "the art of the deal" for his birthday last year. rodman's agent had no comment for confirmation when asked by nbc news about the report. question is how is he preparing for the meeting to help world peace. >> i was going to say if the deal goes through and they reach an agreement, dennis rodman could be t

chuck grassley said pruitt has betrayed the president, joanie ernst said he's as swampy as you can getyou how is it in the face of all that we've learned, how is it that president trump continues to have confidence in the administrator, assuming that he still does? >> once again, i haven't had a chan speak with the president d "washington post"'s new report. we continue to have concerns and look into those and we'll address them. thanks, guys. >> so we're going to take it from there. a lot to get through. but i think the dominant theme here is the fact that the president of the united states disinvited the philadelphia eagles, the super bowl champion nfl team from what would have been potentially a huge gathering today. yoheard sarahanders say on friday they thought they had at least 80 members of the eagles team coming. that changed. they, being the eagles, tried to change their commitment. she kept saying trump feels the fans deserve better and she finally said it's a political stunt by the eagles. you heard april ryan trying to get in there and ask the follow-ups and will the presid

but again kristen gillibrand, patrick leahy joined by joany ernst, republican senator from iowa tonightthe defense department to undo this decision to have military lawyers prosecute these cases on the border for jeff sessions's justice department. we'll let you know if anybody joins this effort or indeed if secretary mattis responds. stay with us. ♪ ♪ legendary jockey vÍctor espinoza is insatiable when it comes to competing. ♪ ♪ so is his horse. ♪ ♪ when it comes to snacking. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that's why he uses the chase mobile app, to pay practically anyone, at any bank. life, lived victor's way. chase. make more of what's yours. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. my gums are irritated. i don't have to worry about that, do i? actually, you do. harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. crest gum detoxify works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. and, now there's n

and that child's mother's name is today senator joany ernst and her daughter, libby lew, who is now going to the military academy. but we have people who are separated from their families on a consistent basis. everybody who's deployed, who has children, is separated from those children for long periods of time. a lot longer than they're separated from their children when they sneak into america and break our laws. i honor them. i respect them. i revere them. that's touched my heart for all these years. having seen that. and i've never heard a word of complaint out of either the mother or the daughter or the dad for that matter, mr. speaker. and so i wanted to remind the body of this separation. it's not unique to criminal aliens. it's just that seems that our sympathy is a bit misplaced when we should be thinking about the separation and thankful that they're willing to endure, it the separation that takes place from our army, our navy, our airmen and our marines and all of those who are serving and protecting our god-given liberty. and what that means to our country. and so i think of a

that's joanie ernst, one of the most conservative republicans in the senate.s there signing up for the defense of pruitt on this one. so i think when the criticism starts coming from within the party and you don't always see that with republicans in the case of the trump administration and certainly the president himself, but when you start seeing it in this case, i think the story takes on different dimensions. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. >>> still ahead, president trump has lashed out at attorney general jeff sessions multiple times on twitter, and his anger has reportedly been noticeable inside the white house as well. we have those details coming up on "morning joe." directv now gives you more for your thing. get all the good stuff about tv without all the bad stuff. yes! you can still stream your favorite shows. yes! with no annual contract. wait, what? it's live tv. yes! with no satellites. what? and no bulky hardware. no bulky hardware! isn't that great news? yes! nooooo! nooooooooooo! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. more for y