you have to be scott pruitt bad. >> you have to be scott pruitt bad and clearly the number is 13. we now know what the number is. >> we have a floor. >> we have a floor. thank god, we have a floor. >> we do. >> and so here's the thing that is so amusing and amazing about all of this, nicolle, is that scott pruitt didn't care and neither did donald trump to get to 13. let's not overlook that. thank you. >> he's not getting pushed out because he was corrupt. >> exactly. >> he's not getting pushed out because there were 13. he's not getting pushed out because he was weird enough to wear tactical pants in a phone booth. he's getting pushld out because he was getting bad pr for donald trump. >> as we were talking before, the president said you're getting way too much press now. >> above me. so here's the list. we put this up. so he ordered raises for two aides despite the white house rejecting the request. he spent $3 million of taxpayer funds on a security detail. biometric locks were installed in his office door. i don't know what that means. came under fire for renting the bedroom.

about sessions to pruitt. have had some kind of bizarre comradery over this other person even while pruitt is under fire and tells me that pruitt feels very confident in his standing with the president. you talked to conservatives on the outside a lot of them, i would venture to say, most of them still support scott pruitt and they want him in the job talking to the president, they urge him to keep him there and pruitt is confident. asking the president for favors. and the president is listening. he's not gone yet which goes to show that he's more angry with jeff sessions over one mistake in his mind that he believes triggered other things than the litany of other issues that pruitt brought on to his white house. >> never forget the president likes jeff sessions at doj because of immigration. president likes pruitt at epa because of the environment and the issues aside, rebecca, i mean, apparently pruitt only serve in the position for i think 210 days due to the vacancies reform act. what do you make of the fa

throughout it all pruitt held on. but trump canceled by republican officials that pruitt was making gains rolling back regulations stopped short of letting him go. >> i'm not happy about certain things, but he's done a fantastic job running the epa. >> reporter: just yesterday pruitt appeared to be in good standing with the president. attending the white house's july 4th picnic on the south lawn and receiving a shout out from trump. >> administrator scott pruitt. >> reporter: but flt frantic world. trump administration, 24 hours could mean the difference between a job and a farewell. at the same time, another department secretary facing a huge challenge. racing to meet a deadline as the crisis on the border gets worse. health and human services secretarial e secretarial f alex a sar saying 3,000 kids have been separated but saying it's closer to 2,000. >> multiple data sets has identified under 3,000 children in total, including approximately 100 children under the age of five. >> the white house facing a deadline fro

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 went too far. the child separation at the border, as much as the president was behind tough immigration policy and as much as his base identifies him, president saw that went too far. the idea all things are changed under trump, even he sees when things have gone too far. >> generally it's when he himself feels threatened. and it may be that he doesn't like the on particulars. i don't think that's ts case. because he's traded intensity, traded away breatheth. right. intensity is strong. breedth is very limited. so i don't think it's the controversy as amanda said a few minutes ago, it could be circling back to the mueller probe. anything that touches it gets subpenaed. i don't know this. i know it from experience. that if in fact there was some movement that could be part of a plot to shut down the mueller investigation, that's a very big deal. my prediction is based 0on what she just said, he's going to praise pruitt. he couldn't say a good word about tillerson when he left. >> we all remember tom

with scott pruitt a lot more than that. the defense the white house could provide for him in the wake of these scandals he was facing 14 federal probes was that he was doing what the president wanted over at the epa. he was rolling back those environmental regulation rs. he was doing those obamaeral guidelines. really doing what the president wanted. but that raised a question of if a staffer is doing something like that, something that administration finds useful, are they willing to overlook the scandals against him. and the blatant misuse of taxpayer money. you also can't ignore that the president has been attending fund raisers in recent weeks, one of them is the bill air harold ham, key figure in oil and gas, that is someone that the president was having fundraising dinners with. private residences here in washington. that is certainly someone who liked the work that scott pruitt was doing over at the epa. so it's a little bit more than just their personal relationship. it goes into the politics of what exactly he was

scott pruitt is out. president trump telling reporters he has accepted the resignation of his embattled epa chief, saying it was very much up to him, pruitt. and that pruitt didn't want to be a distraction. it's a surprising resignation, given that just 24 hours ago, pruitt was with the president at the white house fourth of july picnic. the president even giving him a shout-out. >> we're also honored to be joined by members of my cabinet. administrator scott pruitt. >> but today, pruitt writing to the president this in part. "it is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role, first because i count it a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also because of the transformative work that is occurring. however, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us." the unrelenting attacks pruitt speaks of are actually a stream of scandals which he created. a stream of scandals being investigated by his own agency. the list

scott pruitt is out.dent trump telling reporters he has accepted the resignation of his embattled epa chief, saying it was very much up t

pruitt at the epa for environmental reasons. and he likes having jeff sessions at the justice department on immigration policies, so maybe those two guys won't be moving anywhere anytime soon. but thank you all very much for a great conversation. just ahead, a top conservative congressman speaks out about a report claiming he ignored allegations of sexual abuse. >>> plus, the dangerous and difficult effort that's underway to rescue a boy's soccer team from a flooded cave in thailand. >> how many of you? >> 13. >> 13? brilliant. ♪ you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. add-on advantage. ♪ south l.a. is very medically underserved. when the old hospital closed people in the community lived with untreated health problems for years. so, with the county's help we built a new hospital from the ground up and having citi as an early investor worked as a signa

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

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

pruitt is pushing back on that. scrambling for options, more than a thousand people are involved in the desperate rescue to get 12 boys and the soccer coach outside of the cave. the biggest question is now is how to get them out but when. we start this hour with a battle that's intensifying over america's highest court. president trump is at his golf club in sistterling, virginia. the escalating debate fuelling more divisions in an already fragile political environment. one of trump leastrump's leadinr is already joining the action. kelly o'donell, what do we know of the short list and who's facing criticism? >> reporter: good to be with you, craig, we know there are seven names on the active working short list. it includes some of the judges that's been interviewed by the president and also senator mike lee of utah who had a phone call with the president. there is a lot of speculation who may be the short list. among them is brett cavanaukava and amy coney. the two of them are perceive as front runners. the stakes

pruitt. but mr. wheel comes in this same agenda of pulling back obama era regular lage, working closely with different coanies. that to me may be the big story goesthat the pruitt agenda on without pruitt. and perhaps even more effectively. some people have said some of the regulations are the rollbacks. they face legal challenges and it has been overshadowed by all the controversy around scott pruitt. you have someone who is coming very close to the coal industry who understands the regulations and rule making very well willo better at carrying out the president's agenda of ro ting back thesengs and being more pro-business. >> i think one of the points to make about sco pruitt's demise is that people have failed for very different reasons in this administration. rex tillerson failed because of his inability to develop a relationship with the president. in scott t pruitt's caset was never a problem. he had by all accounts a robust relationship with the president. the esident stood by him beca

decision was up to pruitt. is that what your sources are telling you in the white house? >> the decision was not up to pruitt. there was no specific final straw per se. what tipped the balance, two things, the embarrassment surrounding kaitlyn collins story about how it was many months ago this had happened, pruitt had pitched himself as jeff sessions replacement again, appealing to trump's vanity and basically in a mold of sicnk cofancy you could see in that resignation letter. and scrubbing up from the meetings. that tipped the balance. a source from the administration officials said that focused people's minds because that brought it to a different level. this all did begin according to two of my sources, that report about him attempting to buy a mattress from the trump hotel. that brought it into a different area. >> it was a mattress. >> the best part of that is you will never say that to me on set again. it was the mattress that was the first one. i think it was a snowball effect. trump is willing to put

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

he ousted scott pruitt. this story matters for many reasons, but among them is the fact it shows reporting, pressure and accountability still can work in donald trump's washington. it may not be a coincidence that donald trump put this news out today, which is of course a traditionally sleepy period after july 4th. if donald trump has to cave, maybe he wants to do it during a holiday news week when he thinks fewer people may not notice. but that's just the optics part. the substance is far more important. and the substance tonight that i can report to you is scoot pruitt is out. donald trump tweeting it today. he told reporters while everyone knows the controversies with scott, within the agency, he said, we were extremely happy. that is largely false. he was under fire precisely because people within the epa blew the whistle on his contact from making an aid find a job for his wife to spending $40,000 on a soundproof phone booth to trying to get a discount on a used trump hotel mattress to the bizarre er ra

. >> tonight, scott pruitt is out. epa administrator resigning in disgrace among 15 ongoing investigations. >> i love. we love. >> what happens now and what tipped scott pruitt's exit. >> we put a bigger swamp creature in there. >> scotus decision winds down. >> the president's three alleged finalist for the supreme court vaktcy. >> he is one of the smartest people i've ever known and one of the nicest people i have ever known. >> i am chris hayes and the last time i was at this desk, i interviewed a die hard trump supporter. >> training the swamp and not only did we not drain the swamp, we put a bigger creature in there. >> 48 hours after that interview, after pruitt was spotted at the white house, the president accepted pruitt's resignation. exploiting his office for perks and personal gains. pruitt's extraordinary list prompted debates among historians. hard to think of any politician whose record is more extensive. trying to get his wife a franchise. the d.c. apartment he rented for $50 a knife with a wife of energ

scott pruitt, in the president's eyes, scott pruitt was successfully deregulating the epa by replacingople with political people, with a mission, you know, that just isn't in keeping with what the epa had in the past. but it is the president's new mission of reducing regulation. >> reporter: scott pruitt is gone from the epa but his legacy will long endure. what he did in terms of rolling back obama-era and even bush era and bush 41 era environmental protections, that was a core goal not just of this administration but a lot of congressmen. conservatives who have long thought the epa was overzealous, overregulatory. when you talk to conservatives on capitol hill, yes, they hold their nose on some of the things president trump has done, particularly with tariffs and going the other way on free trade. we've most recently seen that with the tiff and back and forth with the chamber of commerce, a core long-standing republican group. but conservatives always tend to praise trump on two things. number one, neil gorsuch, and now potentially a second supreme court nominee. two, the dismantling

it sounds like scott pruitt is serving scott pruitt. >> what's your reaction to that, clarence?s your assessment of what he's doing and when you're hearing conservative commentators like that and saying scott pruitt is not serving anybody but scott pruitt? >> it's a different experience hearing eric bolling criticizing a fellow conservative like that. i can't say it's not well deserved. everyone knows about scott pruitt's attitude. he's a former attorney general who has one head for the law and another for ethics. he seems to be entirely blind or tone deaf to ethics. we've seen it repeatedly. and we have a situation where he is being confronted by a citizen out there in the regular dining world. and i've editorialized against this sort of a demonstration in public, i can't say that it wasn't well deserved in pruitt's case. >> so to be clear what do you make of what chrkristin did and what others have done in this administration? >> i'm old enough to remember the original sit-ins down in north carolina that started the '60s phase of the civil rights movement. you protested by sit

pruitt to tell him the time had come. the president also told reporters he's narrowed his supreme court picks to about five people. a source familiar with the selection process told nbc news it's down to three, these three. at tonight's rally in grape falls the president was teasing up his big reveal. >> as you know there's now a vacancy on the supreme court. and if you turn in monday at 9:00, i think you're going to be extremely happy. right? and they're all great. they're all great. >> now, from there you can say things went off the rails. among other things the president went after maxine waters, elizabeth warren and the nfl. >> we turn away thousands of people. they never say i'm a great speaker. i've broken more than john elten records. and by the way, i don't have a musical instrument. i don't have a guitar or organ. no organ. e el elton has an organ. yes, she's a low iq individual. pocahontas, they always want me to apologize for saying it and i here by -- oh, yeah, i want to apologize. pocahontas, i apologize to y

. >> scott pruitt, administrator of the epa. >> reporter: embattled epa chief scott pruitt out tonight after months of mounting ethics scandals and questions about his behavior. president trump announcing on twitter, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency, praising pruitt's work rolling back obama era regulations at the epa, but making no mention of the dozens of ethics questions facing him. pruitt writing in a letter to the president, your confidence in me has blessed me personally. adding the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizeable toll. pruitt had been under a cloud of scandals for months, constantly facing questions about his security detail, pricey first class travel and cozy relationships with lobbyists. pruitt was back in the headlines just this week. a cnn report revealing he and his aides kept secret calendars to hide contentious meetings. an aide testifying before the house oversight committee that pruitt asked her to find his wife a job with a salary of o

president trump says pruitt chose to resign because he felt he was a distraction.lus, president trump holds a campaign-style rally in montana and unleashes on some of his favorite targets. new overnight, secretary of state mike pompeo has landed in north korea. he is hoping to fill in some of the details on the agreement between president trump and kim jong-un. ♪ >>> good morning, everyone. it is friday, july 6th. i'm ayman mohyeldin. we begin with new information about the ongoing rescue efforts to raise 12 boys and a soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in thailand. we learned a tiefr who was once a member of thailand's elite navy seal unit has died during a rescue operation. rescue teams have been working around the clock for days trying to figure out how to get the group out of the cave, but clearly the conditions are too dangerous. joining us live from chiang rai, thailand, what can you tell us about the setback, janis mackey frayer? >> reporter: this is a reminder of the dangers that this operation involves in trying to take these 12 kids and their coach ou

but that's what scott pruitt gets.can't tell these days when the president starts to praise somebody more or less, whether that person is nearing the exits or not. what does it look like, what does a scott pruitt resignation look like? is it a resignation, a firing, a moving of scott pruitt somewhere else? >> i can tell you all of us are holding our phones close to see what's going to be tweeted. but, you know, the general thinking i think around this is -- and look, we've talked to people close to mr. pruitt who think he could be gone as early as tomorrow. we've talked to people who think he will stay until he wants to leave. however it happens, we're told pretty consistently that, you know, the president will let him leave with dignity, perhaps in a way that he wants to leave, perhaps after a regulatory victory. one thing to note is that the epa intends to submit a new version of the clean power plan. that was former president obama's signature climate plan, to the white house for review this week. that's a pretty bi

the president saying that scott pruitt's resignation up up to scott pruitt. the two of them had been talking about this a couple days now. pruitt felt that he had become a disadministration and he didn't want to distract from what the president is trying to do. >> it was death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts. scott pruitt gave his resignation to president trump today. he told the president, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family are unprecedented and taken a sizable toll on all of us. pruitt was beset by controversy. first class travel, a security phone booth. renting his daughter from a lobbyist, inappropriate staff raises. asking chick-fil-a for a franchise for his wife and asking his staff to get body lotion to a mattress. the inspector general had launched 14 ethics investigations. the white house described the allegations as troublesome. yet even on his way out the door, president trump lauded him in a tweet saying within the agency, scott has done and outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. yesterday, pruitt showed

he was the deputy to scott pruitt.ruitt, injure wheeler is a former coal lobbyist. >> someone representing the coal industry. is it possible that prewitt found out about his recognition -- resignation via tweet? >> it is very possible. was never an inner circle guy. you didn't see him conversing with the president very often. i don't know the donald trump will continue a relationship but given scott pruitt's relationship -- interest in random rating himself i wouldn't be surprised if he figures out a way to do pretty well in private industry. >> what is the unfinished business for the administration at the epa? >> there is so much that they have only started doing in terms of the deregulatory initiatives. .hey have to finish they are working on the rollback on methane regulations and water pollution rule. there are still frankly some conservatives who are pushing the epa to take on the endangerment ending to redo the epa's landmark conclusion that carbon dioxide emissions were a danger to public health and welfare. wha

scott pruitt had been a leader of the epa.ics from both sides of the aisle whether it was for his misuse of epa funds, decisions that he had made but in particular a lot of it was it was again, as far as scott pruitt and the criticism coming at him from both sides of the aisle he needed to go a lot of it was because of miss spending and misuse of funds and now it looks like president trump is tweeting about this but i don't have the e-mail and i'm being told that president trump is tweeting right now i'll get that to you in just a moment but again as far as scott pruitt goes just to be clear this isn't completely unexpected. this is something that's brewing in washington. here is the tweet from the president i'm just getting it now. the same thing. i've accepted the resignation of scott pruitt he's tweeting basically what i read to you earlier a moment ago. that he's accepted the resignation of scott pruitt so he's putting it out on twitter with a statement from blake burman via the white house obviously all of this is just no

who told pruitt and how that it was time to go? was it pruitt on his own volition? was it others? if someone actually dictated that he had to go, we need to know that story because we need to applaud and celebrate that rare occurrence that somebody said, enough, you need to go. >> jonathan, it's my understanding no one said enough. it was about bad p.r. >> it was death by a thousand cuts. it was no particular breaking point here. >> certainly not on the ethical front, on the p.r. front maybe. >> the president finally got tired of the headlines more than anything else. he just was -- he actually applauds the work he has done at the epa. >> he doesn't care about the ethical stuff. >> he thinks he's one of his most effective cabinet members. he was getting stuff done. he thought the charges were overblown, it was a media witch hunt much too much was being made of this. >> laura ingraham started attacking him. >> that did tip the scales. certainly his chief of staff had been advocating for pruitt to be out. staff was. that played a role. eventually trump was there is too much with thi

how does pruitt survive these scandals?rely there is someone else qualified to dismantle the environmental regulations that president trump could pick the lead the epa how is scott pruitt surviving? the reason he's been able to survive is he is implementing and executing on a policy prescription that very much matches donald trump and a lot of his supporters' agenda. so he's following through day to day with accomplishing the roleback of regulations as you say. what it does, though, of course, is it pits it against this pledge to drain the swamp so you have the swampiest of swamp creatures apparently we're learning more and more each day that he is that. he is achieving a policy that the president wants to see implemented. >> this is so far beyond the swamp. it's like a tsunami meets a swamp. it's a swampnami. >> is there spelunking? >> you watch the drew piece, there are questions of the law here. eventually the law is going to catch up to scott pruitt. if they're scrubbing the calendar, that appears to be a violation of t

sct pruitts out as the chief of the epa. >> pruitt has beenlagued by scandals throughout his tenure,ted his resignation. let's get right tocott flack main with details. >> reporter: despite more than a dozen probes ando inquiries i possible ethics violations, president trump has consistently praised scott pruitt for his role within the epa, citing pruitt's role in dismantling government regulations. this evening the news 4 i-team has confirmed the inspector general of the a will continue investigating mr. prewitt's travel and use of taxpayer resources despite his resignation. pruitt's low-cost capitol hill rental apartment from a fossil ouel lobbyist and he reportedly asked an aide line up a job for his wife. critics also point to excessive spending on travel and on security and more recently a report that pruitt lobbied for president trump to fire attorney general jeff sessions and to install him. andrew wheeler, the epa's deputy chief, will become acting administrator monday, the president says. a federal watchdog group says wheeler who served as recently as last year as a lobbyist

let's start off with scott pruitt here. interesting laura ingraham of foox ne fox news tweeting "pruitt is the swamp, train it." it's the second time she has been called for pruitt to be fired. apparently there's starting to be concern that maybe these ethics issues can be used the political attack ads. does she need to say this on air for the message to start getting through to the white house? >> happy fourth. >> happy fourth. >> i don't know. i think sometimes we can exaggerate how much a single fox news host, how influential they are. it does show cracks among trump's most vociferous supporters and kind of amazing that it took this long for people who support president trump to see pruitt as a liability. that graphic that abby put up with her shop there, the list of scandals against pruitt, i don't think any of us could remember it all. >> and that's a snapshot. >> there are ten just there and that's a week's worth of news in pruitt's scandal world. i'm become a little facetious. and i don't understand this argument tha

pruitt is accused of egregious things by washington standards. >> pruitt's extraordinary list of ethical scandals prompted a debate by historians whether he's the most of corrupt cabinet member in u.s. history. howie: was pruitt toppled by good investigative reporting? alan dershowitz said many liberals on martha's vineyard are shunning him. he calls it mccarthyism. this is "mediabuzz." this is a fox news alert out of thailand where rescue efforts are under way to free the by their coach who are trapped in a cave. reporter: the concern is the rain. it's pouring down and it creates more urgency to get the remaining 8 boys and their coach to safety. four have been brought to safety. they are getting medical attention in a hospital. all oxygen tanks set along that route were used just to rescue those boys. it will take another 10 hours to prepare crews for the next stage. it took less time to get the boys out than anticipated. they said it would take 11 hours to get the boys to safety. we are learning it took 7 hours 40 minutes. the international divers from around the world and the local d

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pruitt's security detail broke down the door of it condo when it was believed pruitt was unconscious. using private e-mail to talk to oklahoma's attorney general. also the news that pruitt bypassed the white house to give big raises to two of his favorite aides. you'll remember scott pruitt got in hot water over a $50 a night apartment he rented for a lobbyist in d.c. and now we know he once bought a house with the lobbyist. 2 silver if you wanten pens and journals that came in for the price of $1,560. can you go lower? how about, oh, i don't know, getting a government employee to try to buy you a used mattress. pruitt directed agents of his security detail to drive him to multiple locations in search of a particular location on offer at ritz carlton hotels. that must be some special lotion. in the wake of some of those scandals i spoke last month to eric lipton of the new york city and elena plot. and it was elena who was called a piece of trash by the epa spokesman. what happened in this phone collin which you were told that you were garbage? >> as one does when you're a reporter yo

scott pruitt resigning. he never mentions the seismic scandals only citing the pressures on him and his family for reasons for leaving. what do you make of the person who will replace him? >> donald trump said he would drain the swamp, that catchphrase that caught a lot of attraction during the 2016 election. and of course what we've seen in scott pruitt is that the swamp can come in all shapes and sizes can actually be in the republican party as well. and when you have essentially a bureaucratic spending taxpayer money on first class sfloigts and soundproof phone booths in their room and living for cheap with lobbyist in rooms, i mean it's hugely questionable to say the very least, which is why you have all these outstanding complaints and investigations against him. and at some point i think probably quite a while back now, you know, that switch would have flipped and the president should have said we can't have this in the party, especially within the environmental protection agency. because what donald t

>> donald trump is -- is happy with scott pruitt because what scott pruitt has done is hand over theal protection agency to the industries that the environmental protection agency is supposed to regulate. among the -- in some ways, i'm less concerned about him getting the secret service to go get his laundry as ridiculous and pathetic as that is, as the fact that we now know he was having secret meetings with industry representatives because this is a man not interested in regulating industries that pl-- that pollute the environment. he's interested in handing over industries that pollute the government. that's why donald trump is so happy with him. i suspect what will happen is that donald trump eventually will decide that he's become a political liability, and he will look for someone else who does the same thing as scott pruitt in terms of not protecting our environment, but is more discreet in terms of his personal corruption. >> if according to the official at the white house they're inching toward this tipping point, what is the tipping point for scott pruitt, peter, what does

way to scott pruitt, i think that becomes immensely difficult.just point and eba secretary. that has to go through the senate, and thatis has to go through the senate, and that is where it could be compared. -- epa. he that is where it could be compared. —— epa. he could be complicated and ta ke —— epa. he could be complicated and take months. —— it could be. eric ham is a political analyst and author on the republican why now? as the scene, scott pruitt is under investigation. he is under 13 investigations. i think where he went too far was with this issue as it relates tojeff sessions, the embattled attorney general. and that led to the president. and so wildly was willing to look over many of scott pruitt‘s ethical lapses in controversies, the fact that this final controversy landed right at the president's doorstep, that was a bridge too far. as any cabinet member knows, your first order of business is to do no harm, particularly to be president. and this is an issue where the president finally saw the writing on the wall and had to urge scot

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

>> is scott pruitt at a tipping point? cnn has learned he's suggested replacing jeff sessions himself. >> and a youth soccer team remains trapped in a thai cave. no clear way out. diving is considered a huge risk, but more rain could force rescuers to act, literally bracing against time. good morning, everyone. welcome to a special holiday edition of early start. >> it's july 4th. happy 4 of july. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we start with president trump and the first lady who celebrated at the white house hosting military families for an afternoon picnic. no shortage of headlines. members of the senate intelligence committee breaking with their house colleagues. the senate panel says the intel community was correct in its assessment. russia tried to boost president trump's election by meddling in the election. they said there was no reason to dispute the conclusion that putin tried to help the election chances. that confirmed by the entire national security team even though the president himself has repeatedly refused to say r

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joins us with the latest >> fks on both sides not surprised scott pruitt is out. considering he's facing at least a dozen federal ethics probes, telling reporte aboard air force one that he had been talking about his exit from the administration fr, ote, a couple of ys, in blames the unrelenting attacks on himself a family as having taken a toll.r, ea house democrats asked vestigate pruitt for criminal conduct. allegations range from violenting corruption laws to question aut excessive on first like a 20 m armed security details all the wayo aides completelying personality chores >> you don't want to give opponents ammunition >> theot issue is that scott pruitt showed bad judgment. it's because he was effectiveobn his j as epa administrator and articulating and advancing an ay, andrew wheeler, pruitt's deputy a former co lobbyist wil. ng will he remainhelm of theth goes to a confirmation process. one thing we do know that is scott pruitt's last day at epa administrator is tomorrow.n one since the deadly shooting at the capital gazette in annapolis maryland. fi peo

administrator, pruitt resigned. president trump tweeting on his 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 swivel 24/7 at the white house. this is not a surprise, been a long time coming. what has been a surprise, how scott pruitt held on to his job as long as he did given the controversy swirling around him. 14 different ethics investigations. in his farewell tweet, scott pruitt, you can tell why he held on, president trump appreciated what he's doing. i accepted resignation of scott pruitt as administrator of the e.p.a. scott has done an outstanding job. i will be thankful for this. e.p.a.'s andrew wheeler will take over on monday as acting administrator of the e.p.a. andy will continue on with our great and lasting e.p.a. agenda. the e.p.a. is very bright. scott pruitt issued his resignation in the form of a lette