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cted, scott pruitt, do solemnly swear... >> reporter: it's not just pruitt. at treasury, the i.g.looking re secretary steven mnuchin's air travel, and the health and seman services i.g. is reviewing secretary tom price's chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting both an internal and an i.g. review, and all travels on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. n adeporter: in addition to boarding that more expensive tary aircraft int in june, cbs news has learned pruitt took nvis private plane from denver to durango and back on august 4 for a meeting that included state officials. an e.p.a. spokesperson told cbs that pruitt chartered the plane after his flight was significantly delayed, in order to ensure he did not misa critical meeting, and ethics officials were consulted. the colorado governor's office orfered pruitt a ride on his government aircraft, but the e.p.a. declined. do there needs to be an explanation of what that cost and why it was necessary. >> reporter: eric schaeffer is a former director of e.p.a.'s office of civil enforcement an
cted, scott pruitt, do solemnly swear... >> reporter: it's not just pruitt. at treasury, the i.g.looking re secretary steven mnuchin's air travel, and the health and seman services i.g. is reviewing secretary tom price's chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting both an internal and an i.g. review, and all travels on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. n adeporter: in addition to boarding that more expensive tary aircraft int in june, cbs...
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pruitt. the overall epa has never been more important. mr. chairman, i am deeply troubled by the direction of the agency under the trump administration, and i implore you in my republican colleagues to conduct true oversight of the damage being done to our bedrock environmental protections built through decades of bipartisan work. we need to do it before deep and lasting damage is inflicted across america. waging anepa is aggressive rollback of environmental and human health oversight. repealing or delaying rule-making, and attacking fundamental science. the trump administration proposed extreme budget cuts that cut to the heart of our local communities and threaten the health and environment of americans in every state. the trunk budget would/epa's billion, nearly $2.6 reduce the professional workforce there by over 3000 employees, and the damage will be done to our air quality, diesel admission reductions, let safety. emission reductions, lead safety. this is not acceptable. this needs over
pruitt. the overall epa has never been more important. mr. chairman, i am deeply troubled by the direction of the agency under the trump administration, and i implore you in my republican colleagues to conduct true oversight of the damage being done to our bedrock environmental protections built through decades of bipartisan work. we need to do it before deep and lasting damage is inflicted across america. waging anepa is aggressive rollback of environmental and human health oversight....
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scott pruitt issuing that order.cott pruitt, as the attorney general of oklahoma, had demanded the epa withdrawal those rules while he was running 30,000 that had received dollars from the american chemistry council. effectively, you had chemical industry funded politicians who made sure and were successful in helping the chemical industry, including arkema, lobby to delay and effectively for now, kill those safety rules. companythese rules, the arkema poured millions of dollars into lobbying right after the trump administration because the rules were going to affect the march 14? chemical companies, including arkema, were lobbying against these rules. by the way, journey obama administration and into the trump administration era through lobbying groups like the american chemistry council, arkema also lobbied on the rules other countries lobbied on the rules. exxonmobil, coke industries, the saudi arabian part government owned chemical conglomerate lobbied against these rules. they were successful. theampaign cash fl
scott pruitt issuing that order.cott pruitt, as the attorney general of oklahoma, had demanded the epa withdrawal those rules while he was running 30,000 that had received dollars from the american chemistry council. effectively, you had chemical industry funded politicians who made sure and were successful in helping the chemical industry, including arkema, lobby to delay and effectively for now, kill those safety rules. companythese rules, the arkema poured millions of dollars into lobbying...
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have you met with administrator pruitt? is it typical that you would meet with the administrator or leadership to go over recommendations. >> what are comptroller general likes to do is he likes to meet with all of the new cabinet secretaries and leaders of other offices. gl ways in the process of scheduling a meeting with administrator pruitt and i would go to that meeting as well. >> but that has not been done. >> we have not scheduled it yet. >> you are just like the energy and commerce committee. gentlemen, there is a very disturbing press report that came out a few days ago that the epa has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting hundreds of millions of dollars in grants. there's little environmental policy experience. [inaudible] it really does appear like this is being politicized. this is from the washington post on september 4. earlier this summer on the same day that senator lisa murkowski of alaska joined with two other republicans in voting down the gop health care bill, epa
have you met with administrator pruitt? is it typical that you would meet with the administrator or leadership to go over recommendations. >> what are comptroller general likes to do is he likes to meet with all of the new cabinet secretaries and leaders of other offices. gl ways in the process of scheduling a meeting with administrator pruitt and i would go to that meeting as well. >> but that has not been done. >> we have not scheduled it yet. >> you are just like the...
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have you met with administrator pruitt? is it typical that you would meet with the administrator or leadership to go over recommendations from gao? >> so what our controller general likes to do is meet with all of the new cabinet secretaries and leaders was other offices. gao is in the process of scheduling a meeting with secretary -- with administrator pruitt and i would go to that meeting as well. >> but that has not been done here in the first -- >> we have not scheduled it yet. >> you're just like the energy and commerce committee. it has yet to see the epa administrator. gentlemen, there's a very disturbing press report that came out just a few days ago that the epa has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the epa distributes annually. a seeni assigning the funding decisions to a former trump campaign aid. has competitively awarded grants to nonprofit organizations. it really does appear like this is being politicized. it says -- this is
have you met with administrator pruitt? is it typical that you would meet with the administrator or leadership to go over recommendations from gao? >> so what our controller general likes to do is meet with all of the new cabinet secretaries and leaders was other offices. gao is in the process of scheduling a meeting with secretary -- with administrator pruitt and i would go to that meeting as well. >> but that has not been done here in the first -- >> we have not scheduled it...
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separately pruitt's flights to oklahoma have attracted the attention of epa inspector general. it is not just pruitt, at treasury, ig looking at the secretary's air travel and health and human services ig is reviewing secretary tom price chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting an internal and ig review and all travel on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. >> in addition to boarding the more expensive military air craft in june, cbs news learned pruitt took this private plane from denver to durango and back on august 4, for a meeting that included state officials. epa spokesperson told cbs that he chartered the plane after his flight was delayed to ensure he did not miss a critical meeting. ethics officials were consulted. the colorado governor's office offered pruitt a ride on his government aircraft, but the epa declined. >> there need to be an explanation. of what that cost and why it was necessary. >> eric schaefer is former director of the office of civil enforcement and runs environmental integrity project. >> especially when, th
separately pruitt's flights to oklahoma have attracted the attention of epa inspector general. it is not just pruitt, at treasury, ig looking at the secretary's air travel and health and human services ig is reviewing secretary tom price chartered flights that cost $400,000. >> they're conducting an internal and ig review and all travel on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. >> in addition to boarding the more expensive military air craft in june, cbs news...
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. >> and pruitt as well. >> scott pruitt. we already know about steve mnuchin, right, the treasury secretary and his private plane issues. so the price thing is a sacrificial lamb that was easy for donald trump to sacrifice. candidly, you know, i think donald trump probably looked around at the negative headlines tom price was drawing, coincided with the fact that health care went down this week, trump although he probably wishes he can, he can't fire mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, but he can put the blame on tom price and price has brought it on himself. so in some ways it's an easy one for him. but the chaos that trump seems to want, right, he believes he thrives in, it does have an impact. it does lead to huge amounts -- and this is a historical amount of senior staff departure at this time. >> chris. >> yes, sir. >> let me play this for you guys because i think this is really important. he said he wasn't going to -- he doesn't -- you said that he couldn't tolerate when people, you know, bring him bad press. >> yeah. >> bu
. >> and pruitt as well. >> scott pruitt. we already know about steve mnuchin, right, the treasury secretary and his private plane issues. so the price thing is a sacrificial lamb that was easy for donald trump to sacrifice. candidly, you know, i think donald trump probably looked around at the negative headlines tom price was drawing, coincided with the fact that health care went down this week, trump although he probably wishes he can, he can't fire mitch mcconnell and paul ryan,...
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members, price, pruitt, mnuchin, shifting cost to taxpayers. calls.ouple more darline, independent line, hi there. like to es, i would comment, i believe $52,000 pay g million dollars in travel is not -- taking burden off the every r until he pays dime back. i work for the government reviously and everyone i ever worked for traveled via commercial airlines. he second comment, we can be paying for anybody's vacation trip, including the president, for our of us pay flights to and from vacation, if every ing golfing weekend, he needs to his his own oney to pay for that, even if it is on air force one that, is my personal feeling as a taxpayer. glad you raised this point, it struck me yesterday. the first headline after he etary price announced would pay the cost of reimburse didn't cost of his seat pick up on the fact he limit oday to reimbursing for the fact he was paying for his seat. not ines were edited, he's reimbursing for cost of flights o taxpayers, as you noted over a million bucks and climbing, he's only paying $50 grand. wants to see hi
members, price, pruitt, mnuchin, shifting cost to taxpayers. calls.ouple more darline, independent line, hi there. like to es, i would comment, i believe $52,000 pay g million dollars in travel is not -- taking burden off the every r until he pays dime back. i work for the government reviously and everyone i ever worked for traveled via commercial airlines. he second comment, we can be paying for anybody's vacation trip, including the president, for our of us pay flights to and from vacation,...
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in august pruitt took a $5,700 air charter from denver to durango, colorado. on wednesday president trump was asked to address travel costs of other members of his cabinet including treasury secretary steve mnuchin's use of government and military planes and $400 wrapped up by his hhs secretary tom price. >> i was looking into it and i will look into it. i will tell you personally i'm not happy about it. >> inspectors general at the epa, the treasury department and the department of health and human services are looking into it. the epa office approved all of pruitt's noncommercial travel and, charlie, a spokesperson says he's taken one charter and thre there have been no further flights. >> thanks. >>> we learned yesterday that a number of tech companies will testify in public sometime next month. members of congress are pressing for an explanation of how russian internet trolls used social media and ads like these during the 2016 presidential election. jep pegues is on capitol hill. jeff, good morning. >> good morning. congressional investigators are still t
in august pruitt took a $5,700 air charter from denver to durango, colorado. on wednesday president trump was asked to address travel costs of other members of his cabinet including treasury secretary steve mnuchin's use of government and military planes and $400 wrapped up by his hhs secretary tom price. >> i was looking into it and i will look into it. i will tell you personally i'm not happy about it. >> inspectors general at the epa, the treasury department and the department of...
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administrator pruitt has no interest in transparency and that should be unacceptable to every member of the committee. he repeatedly disregards oversight inquiries and that should be unacceptable to anyone who believes we have an oversight responsibility. the trump epa has proposed aggressive cuts to environment and human health protections, dismissed scientists and proposed budget and staffing reductions. these actions taken in totality serve to directly undermine the ability to protect human health and the environment. a robust and effective epa is key in responding to natural disasters like hurricane harvey. epa has 143 personnel supporting response efforts for hurricane harvey and established unified command with state and local partners. that number is going to increase as after hurricane katrina about 1,600 staff and contractors work in the gulf coast region assisting with response. in addition to thousands of additional employees supporting response efforts in epa headquarters and regional offices. the employee cuts and byouts we need to ensure the epa will have employees in p
administrator pruitt has no interest in transparency and that should be unacceptable to every member of the committee. he repeatedly disregards oversight inquiries and that should be unacceptable to anyone who believes we have an oversight responsibility. the trump epa has proposed aggressive cuts to environment and human health protections, dismissed scientists and proposed budget and staffing reductions. these actions taken in totality serve to directly undermine the ability to protect human...
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. >> and pruitt as well. >> scott pruitt. we already know about steve mnuchin, right, the treasury secretary and his private plane issues. so the price thing is a sacrificial lamb that was easy for donald trump to sacrifice. candidly, you know, i think donald trump probably looked around at the negative headlines tom price was drawing, coincided with the fact that health care went down this week, trump although he probably wishes he can, he can't fire mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, but he can put the blame on tom price and price has brought it on himself. so in some ways it's an easy one for him. but the chaos that trump seems to want, right, he believes he thrives in, it does have an impact. it does lead to huge amounts -- and this is a historical amount of senior staff departure at this time. >> chris. >> yes, sir. >> let me play this for you guys because i think this is really important. he said he wasn't going to -- he doesn't -- you said that he couldn't tolerate when people, you know, bring him bad press. >> yeah. >> bu
. >> and pruitt as well. >> scott pruitt. we already know about steve mnuchin, right, the treasury secretary and his private plane issues. so the price thing is a sacrificial lamb that was easy for donald trump to sacrifice. candidly, you know, i think donald trump probably looked around at the negative headlines tom price was drawing, coincided with the fact that health care went down this week, trump although he probably wishes he can, he can't fire mitch mcconnell and paul ryan,...
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has an 18-person security detail, that these are all justifiable costs. >> scott pruitt is paranoid, and needs to be investigated because she's charging taxpayers $25,000 for a sound-proof room in his building. the way we do it, we close the door and talk in lower voices and that handles it. you don't have to charge $25,000 to the taxpayers. the prior administration sebelius did not take the private jets, tom price did. there's a big difference. >> do you think this is ultimately the message comes from the top, that people are getting signals from the president of the united states about what is and is not okay? >> absolutely. as anthony scaramucci said, the fish had rot at the top. and what we have is the president who is enriching himself and his family at taxpayer expense. he has all these businesses all over the world and foreign countries and foreign nationals are staying at his properties and paying him. whenever he goes golfing or stays at one of his properties here in the united states, his entire entourage goes there, has to pay lodging and buy food and drink, that's all tax
has an 18-person security detail, that these are all justifiable costs. >> scott pruitt is paranoid, and needs to be investigated because she's charging taxpayers $25,000 for a sound-proof room in his building. the way we do it, we close the door and talk in lower voices and that handles it. you don't have to charge $25,000 to the taxpayers. the prior administration sebelius did not take the private jets, tom price did. there's a big difference. >> do you think this is ultimately...
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. >> scott pruitt said now is not the time to talk about this. [ laughter ] >>> and steve bannon unleashed. >> you couldn't be more dead wrong. america was built on her citizens. >> what we learn from the man who was trump's chief strategist. >> did steve bannon warn the president that firing james comey would be the biggest political mistake in modern history? >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from naples, florida. i'm chris hayes. irma may have been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it continued to wreak havoc as it crawled up the gulf coast of florida today. bringing flash floods to downtown jacksonville, florida, where storm surge and high tide pushed the st. john's river to record levels. but most of florida bore the brunt of the storm yesterday as irma came ashore with triple-digit winds and torrential rainfall, knocking out power to 6.5 million customers across the state, around a third of the state's population. here on the west coast of florida, where we are, the damage thankfully fell short of the worst forecasts, but it's still expected to take months, if not
. >> scott pruitt said now is not the time to talk about this. [ laughter ] >>> and steve bannon unleashed. >> you couldn't be more dead wrong. america was built on her citizens. >> what we learn from the man who was trump's chief strategist. >> did steve bannon warn the president that firing james comey would be the biggest political mistake in modern history? >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from naples, florida. i'm...
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we, as the public, need to demand that people like scott pruitt talk about climate change. the fact that scott pruitt runs the epa, someone who is denying and denouncing basic science in this country, is a very scary and should be very scary to people. in: reading from your piece "the new yorker," you write -- not "as rainfall totals in houston were topping 40 inches, secretary of state rex tillerson told congress he was planning to eliminate his department's special envoy for climate change. lamar smith, republican who represents parts of san antonio, chairs the house committee on science, space, technology, said the better part of his career harassing climate scientists. in a recent op-ed, "at site sponsored by the heritage foundation, he celebrated the effects of global warming arguing there were producing beneficial changes to the earth's geography." you talk about a town hall meeting in april, joe barton, chair of the energy commerce committee, repeated the old denier "clouds are the cause of climate change." in june, house republicans introduced a bill to prevent fede
we, as the public, need to demand that people like scott pruitt talk about climate change. the fact that scott pruitt runs the epa, someone who is denying and denouncing basic science in this country, is a very scary and should be very scary to people. in: reading from your piece "the new yorker," you write -- not "as rainfall totals in houston were topping 40 inches, secretary of state rex tillerson told congress he was planning to eliminate his department's special envoy for...
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days before scott pruitt was named administrator. just days before a judge in an oklahoma orders the release of documents while he was attorney general to reveal the interactions head of the epa this is incredibly important information into process other u.s. senators and literally to be released within days and mitch mcconnell went to the floor to force the nomination through. if they waited a few more days even republicans. with the oath of office. but i don't have to tell you with that fundamental issue but i will tell you that but that chapter on jeff sessions will that sums up of chapter what could be summed up that has not the already been said? especially by david duke still necklaces' then. >> he has exceeded expectations as. >> banks for everything said that was a teenager. so we could have members of congress is more difficult with cabinet agencies because they are not directly elected so what can we do as citizens to fight against and resist of the cabinet appointees?. >> so what i do in the book was on the radio show she
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into at least one chartered flight and three military flights taken by the head of the epa scott pruitt. those flights cost tax payers $58,000. pruitt is also being scrutinized for spending $25,000 on a private phone booth for his office. >>> speaking of tax moan the president announced a plan to cut taxes. he's promising a middle class miracle. >> they're not the only ones who would benefit. we have the details and questions mounting surrounding the plan. >> good morning. you're right the president is proposing massive changes to the way all americans do their taxes. the proposal runs nine pages leaving so many questions. >> reporter: president trump is promising an overhaul of the u.s. tax code, the biggest in decades and middle class will benefit. >> our framework includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low income and middle income house hods, not the wealthy and well connected. it's not good for me believe me. >> reporter: there is clearly one way the wealthest americans benefit from the plan through the elimination of the estate tax something that's only paid
into at least one chartered flight and three military flights taken by the head of the epa scott pruitt. those flights cost tax payers $58,000. pruitt is also being scrutinized for spending $25,000 on a private phone booth for his office. >>> speaking of tax moan the president announced a plan to cut taxes. he's promising a middle class miracle. >> they're not the only ones who would benefit. we have the details and questions mounting surrounding the plan. >> good morning....
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pruitt flew from tulsa to oklahoma, epa says, there were no commercial flights.stioning the entire reasoning for that trip. the epa says the purpose was to meet with a group called the panhandle arrogators association. senator whitehouse says he couldn't find a group by that name, similar name been but that website was door the man for some five years. however jake, the epa insists that this group does exist and the purpose of this trip was to speak to people in oklahoma who are impacted by one of epa's egglations. >> oklahoma where he's from, of course. >>> nals politics, the crisis in puerto rico and the trump administration defending the federal response, despite almost half the people without drinking water and most of the island without power and despite, of course, 16 deaths in puerto rico. today acting secretary of the department of homeland security called recovery efforts a good news story. >> i am very satisfied. i know it's a hard storm to recover from, but the amount of progress that's been made and i really would appreciate any support that we get. i
pruitt flew from tulsa to oklahoma, epa says, there were no commercial flights.stioning the entire reasoning for that trip. the epa says the purpose was to meet with a group called the panhandle arrogators association. senator whitehouse says he couldn't find a group by that name, similar name been but that website was door the man for some five years. however jake, the epa insists that this group does exist and the purpose of this trip was to speak to people in oklahoma who are impacted by one...
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state of jeopardy with us for going to agencies for years in newly appointed to the eighteenth scott pruitt decided to end the discussion once and for all by saying that hey it's a good pesticide we're going to let it go there's a very good reason why this pesticide has been in limbo for so long scientific reports on the toxicity of this compound were showing that it had the potential to severely damage the brains of children and reports were shown that thousands of people across the globe were dying every year because of exposure to this chemical tonight we'll tell you the story on how a major chemical company duped the public again duped the e.p.a. in order to keep their highly profitable toxin on the market in your body and later in the show a company with jared kushner formally head is the c.e.o. he was in charge of the company well now it's under fire for seeking the arrest of people who can't pay their rent in baltimore maryland so don't go anywhere america's lawyers starts now. in nine hundred sixty five dow agro sciences bought a pesticide called clear pyra photos brought it to the
state of jeopardy with us for going to agencies for years in newly appointed to the eighteenth scott pruitt decided to end the discussion once and for all by saying that hey it's a good pesticide we're going to let it go there's a very good reason why this pesticide has been in limbo for so long scientific reports on the toxicity of this compound were showing that it had the potential to severely damage the brains of children and reports were shown that thousands of people across the globe were...
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and new revelations about the epa administrator, scott pruitt's frequent trips home to oklahoma paid by tax payers, and now he's under fire for installing a $25,000 secure private phone booth in his office, something previous administrators didn't have. a spokeswoman says pruitt, a vocal critic of the agency before he took the top job needs the secure phone booth so his calls are not subject to hacking from the outside. now democrats and republicans on the house oversight committee want to know more. they have launched an investigation. they want to see travel records and the cost of those trips since inauguration day. the white house and two dozen federal agencies have less than two weeks to turn these do >>> in the meantime, the president is hoping to score his first major legislative victory. >> the president unveiled the proposal in indianapolis, insisting the cuts would be good for the meiddle class. rates for individuals would be lowered and simplified from seven to three brackets and the size of the standard deduction uld double. >> so the plan is facing an uphill battle if co
and new revelations about the epa administrator, scott pruitt's frequent trips home to oklahoma paid by tax payers, and now he's under fire for installing a $25,000 secure private phone booth in his office, something previous administrators didn't have. a spokeswoman says pruitt, a vocal critic of the agency before he took the top job needs the secure phone booth so his calls are not subject to hacking from the outside. now democrats and republicans on the house oversight committee want to know...
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scott pruitt has spent more than $58,000 taxpayers dollars, almost all to single day of travel in his home state of oklahoma. health care reporter for politico who helped break the story. you've been doing amazing reporting. thanks for coming on. how big a deal do you think the president's comments are? >> i think they're notable. president is not rushing to defend secretary price's use of private planes. on the other hand though, seen this in the past where trump will say we'll see when he wants to dodge something. it's fair to say price is on thin ice but lose his job? don't know that yet. >> beginning was drip, drip, drip. one weekend, $50,000 of cost and then got another bill, $300,000 up to $400,000. what is the story ahs is telling now why he needs to spend that money? >> most of the time is tom price is very busy man with a lot of commitments and he needs to get to places and commercial aircraft is not best or most efficient way to do that. and to that we've responded by finding commercial available to many of the cities almost always at much less cost to the tax payer. not giv
scott pruitt has spent more than $58,000 taxpayers dollars, almost all to single day of travel in his home state of oklahoma. health care reporter for politico who helped break the story. you've been doing amazing reporting. thanks for coming on. how big a deal do you think the president's comments are? >> i think they're notable. president is not rushing to defend secretary price's use of private planes. on the other hand though, seen this in the past where trump will say we'll see when...
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. >> what are pruitt and various others involvement?this is something he doesn't wants his private secretaries booking private jets. pruitt had a number of private flights back to his home state of oklahoma. the reason price stands outs, among all of those, price first of all did it more often. that one startling flight that really captures the imagination. $25,000 to book a private jet between washington and philadelphia. as you know jeff, i know you like that acela corridor, can you get to philly by jumping on a train. the idea that would you drive out to dulles to get a private plane is quite extraordinary. >> jonathan, puerto rico has gained a lot of attention but some say attention too late for many in the white house. the president is scheduled to visit on tuesday. what are we expecting from that? >> the president is going to visit. he's also, they've appointed a three star general as you oh to oversee the relief operations, the u.s. naval ship comfort is on its way to provide additional assistance. there are a lot of resources an
. >> what are pruitt and various others involvement?this is something he doesn't wants his private secretaries booking private jets. pruitt had a number of private flights back to his home state of oklahoma. the reason price stands outs, among all of those, price first of all did it more often. that one startling flight that really captures the imagination. $25,000 to book a private jet between washington and philadelphia. as you know jeff, i know you like that acela corridor, can you get...
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administrate pruitt spent on private jets but the worst offender is h.h. secretary price who has already racked up $400,000 in flights in private aircraft he flew to tennessee, for all of six hour, much of it spent having lunch with his son. he jetted to an island off the coast of georgia for a trip that featured far more recreation than government business. clearly when it comes to travel on taxpayers' dime the price does not matter to tom price. eth exs and personal responsibility doesn't matter to tom price. doing what's right doesn't matter to tom price. and that's why he meeds to resign immediately. don't take my word for it. here's what president george w. bush's top ethics official said about price's travel habit. i quote, to use a charter flight on something that combines personal and government business i think is highly unprofessional and really inappropriate. those are strong words. but how terrible it is for someone to use private jets, tom price himself. let's see what tom price said. in 2009, he described government officials taking private p
administrate pruitt spent on private jets but the worst offender is h.h. secretary price who has already racked up $400,000 in flights in private aircraft he flew to tennessee, for all of six hour, much of it spent having lunch with his son. he jetted to an island off the coast of georgia for a trip that featured far more recreation than government business. clearly when it comes to travel on taxpayers' dime the price does not matter to tom price. eth exs and personal responsibility doesn't...
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scott pruitt to take a year off after dismantling the e.p.a. goes much quicker than expected. was a tough job and all wednesday f.d.a. confirmed strong doses of l.s.d. found to make trump presidency more tolerable. two weeks from now no. secret service struggling to afford required twenty four seven testicle hollers are you ok and now that the courts have agreed rigging the primary election is toad's fine in october you'll rig. d.n.c. announces chuck schumer will win the twenty tornadoes are growing all the days of our brothers in. charge joe but all week every week we publish breaking news on twitter at least camp and at redacted i don't miss it until next week good night a good bye. to all the food we don't leave. everyone in the world should experience. that you get all the old the old. the old according to just. the world cup i am sure there are. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last term. caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things th
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scott pruitt to take a year off after dismantling the e.p.a. goes much quicker than expected. was a tough job and no wednesday f.d.a. confirmed strong doses of l.s.d. found to make trump presidency more tolerable. two weeks from now no. secret service struggling to afford trump's required twenty four seven testicle hollers are you ok and now that the courts have agreed rigging the primary election is toad's fine in october you'll rig. d.n.c. announces chuck schumer will win the twenty two on the democrat we always have a president. back charge show why all week every week we publish breaking news on twitter at least camp and at redacted i don't miss it until next week good night ok bye. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin my body gets and support is that it cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity and does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that it this applies more. to put the money on your ca
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secretary steve mnuchin and scott pruitt spent public monoprivate jets. it is your money and you can think of better things to spend it on and they promised this kind of thing would happen under his watch. >> when it comes to washington, d.c., it is time to drain the damn swamp. drain the swamp. we are going to drain the swamp of washington. we are going to have fun doing it. >> when we win on november 8th, we are going to drain the swamp. >> we are going to drain the swamp of government corruption in washington, d.c. >> it is time to drain the swamp. >> a drained swamp makes for a good airstrip. megan murphy of cnn business week. maggie, it's interesting, tom price getting the we'll see treatment from president trump right now. we'll see if he keeps his job. that's something he said for jeff sessions and what he will do with robert mueller. >> he is really unhappy, the president. this began with the initial instinct with this president in particular, there is a negative story regardless of what the substance is. this is not true. they are out to get us.
secretary steve mnuchin and scott pruitt spent public monoprivate jets. it is your money and you can think of better things to spend it on and they promised this kind of thing would happen under his watch. >> when it comes to washington, d.c., it is time to drain the damn swamp. drain the swamp. we are going to drain the swamp of washington. we are going to have fun doing it. >> when we win on november 8th, we are going to drain the swamp. >> we are going to drain the swamp of...
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surgeon general i don't know if you are if you do that you get the point and in fact this week scott pruitt head of the e.p.a. said quote science should not be something that's just thrown about to try and dictate policy in the last year did they say. yeah we should let science always get the way of our any article laws for example just because it says ingesting lead can cause brain damage vomiting and seizures. doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. we should let cities like flint michigan experiment. that's why we here at the p.s.a. didn't do anything about the lead poisoning even though we knew about it nearly a year before we issued an emergency order let them expire or bad so you know maybe the seizures would awesome dance teams who knows who knows. but sometimes our government does listen to science and that's normally when good things happen for example science showed us that the drug m.d.m.a. or molly is actually great for curing p.t.s.d. and just this week the s.t.'s designated m.d.m.a. as a breakthrough therapy for post-traumatic stress. was a big deal in that and that could help a lot
surgeon general i don't know if you are if you do that you get the point and in fact this week scott pruitt head of the e.p.a. said quote science should not be something that's just thrown about to try and dictate policy in the last year did they say. yeah we should let science always get the way of our any article laws for example just because it says ingesting lead can cause brain damage vomiting and seizures. doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. we should let cities like flint michigan...
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of single payer today on the cusp of having real universal health care in this country last brian pruitt and doug christian in tonight's politics. donald trump is a cable news president he just goes where the ratings are so after seeing the mainstream media's positive coverage of his debt ceiling deal with the democrats he's decided to give this whole bipartisan thing another shot tonight he's having dinner at the white house was six lawmakers three democrats three republicans the main topic of conversation will reportedly be tax reform too soon to tell of course where the trump's newfound interest in bipartisanship is anything other than a ploy for positive press coverage but what about his push for tax reform is it really about making the tax code simpler and easier or is this another bout of class warfare against working americans joining me now is richard wolfe a visiting professor at the new school co-founder of democracy at work and the author of numerous books including capitalism is crisis deepens essays on the global economic meltdown professor wolfe welcome back. thank you tom
of single payer today on the cusp of having real universal health care in this country last brian pruitt and doug christian in tonight's politics. donald trump is a cable news president he just goes where the ratings are so after seeing the mainstream media's positive coverage of his debt ceiling deal with the democrats he's decided to give this whole bipartisan thing another shot tonight he's having dinner at the white house was six lawmakers three democrats three republicans the main topic of...