represented clients in proceedings before the trade commission and previously worked for -- third, robert scott senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy. he's published widely in academic journals and in the popular press including the stanford law policy review in the los angeles times. on my right were joined by a comedian and president of the local that represents employees. started working at the plant 11 years ago. he's seen the impact of global overcapacity firsthand. let's begin with discussion the more open for discussion from the audience. if you want to tweet you can he use the #, truth in trade. start with a question for everyone. let's say we just stepped into an elevator and will take us one minute to get to the floor. i ask you to tell me your thoughts, what is your one minute answer? >> i think the tariffs are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address a critical problem building up for the last two decades. massive amounts of overcapacity centered in china and other countries. these tariffs are important opportunity to build a wall around the unfairly tre

we have robert scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy at the economic policy institute. has published in academic journals and the stanford and law policy review and "los angeles times." and on my near right we are pleased to be joined by president of the united steel workers local that represents workers in worker. he started working at the plant 11 years ago making a lot of armor for soldiers in iraq and afghanistan and has seen it firsthand. we will begin with a discussion amongst the panelists and open it up for questions. anyone interested in tweeting truth today's panel use # intrade. and let's say that we just stepped into an elevator and take us one minute to get to the floor we are going to. tell me your thoughts on the steel and aluminum tariffs. what is your one-minute answer? >> i think that the steel and aluminum tariffs are a once in a lifetime opportunity to address a critical problem that has been building up for the last two decades and that problem is massive amounts of overcapacity in steel and aluminum centered in china and russia an

third, we have robert scott on my far left, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy at the economic policy institute. he has published widely in academic journals and in the popular press including in the international review of nuns, the standalone policy review and the "los angeles times." and finally on my knee right where pleased to be joined by kameen thompson, president of the united steelworkers local labor business employees at conshohocken, pennsylvania. kameen start working at the plant 11 years ago making a lot of armor for soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. he is in the impact of global overcapacity in the steel industry firsthand. so we will begin the panel was h some discussion amongst the panelist and will open up for questions from audience. for anyone interested in tweeting about today's panel you can use #truthintrade. that's #truthintrade son going to start with a question for everyone, and let's say that we just step two to an elevator and will take us about one minute to get to the fore that we're going to. i ask you to come your thoughts o

third we have robert scott, senior economist and director of trade manufactured. he has published widely in academic journals and the popular press including the international review of economics, the stanford law and policy review and the l.a. times. finally, on the near right we are pleased to be joined by the president of the united steelworkers association in pennsylvania. he started working at the plant 11 years ago making armors for the soldiers. he has seen the impact of global over capacity firsthand. we will begin with some discussion amongst the panelists and then will open up for questions from the audience. for anyone interesting in tweeting about today's panel you can use # truth in trade. that's # truth in trade. i will start. question for everyone. let's say we just stepped into an elevator and will take us about one minute to get to the floor were going too. tell me your thoughts on the steel and aluminum tariffs. what is your one minute answer. rob do you want to start. >> sure. i think the steel and aluminum tariffs are once-in-a-lifetime opportu

robert: will e.p.a. administrator's scott pruitt' unwavering support for the president he him with a storm of controversy. questions about his housing arrangement, first-classl. tra and president trump continues on his crackdown on undocumented immiesants. ent trump: we cannot let people continue to come through. until whave a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military. robert: we discuss it all with kayla tausche of cnbc. michael scherer of the "washington post," geoff bennett of nbc news ad susan glasser of politico. >> this is "washington week." corporate funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> on a cruise with american cruise lines, you can experience historic destinations along the mississippi river. the columbia river and across the united states. americanruise lines' fleet of small ships explore american landmarks, loca

i have pastor robert jeffersers darrell scott. thank you for joining us. robert, let's start with you. let's start with this thing people say a lot. how can evangelicals support donald trump. what's that all about. you have such a great take on this. let's see what you think of it? >> well, you know the president just posted on instagram a comment i made on fox and that was donald trump has become the most faith friendly president in history. more than ronald reagan or george w. bush. he's been the most pro-life, proreligion jury president of all. this is built on the fact of his policy, religious faith friendly policies. not that fact that he had a perfect path. none of us have had a perfect path. christ came to forgive us of our past. we love him because of his policies. the fact is everybody including president trump realized that christianity has been marginalized. alexis said america is great because she's good and if she every seizes to be good she will seize to be great. for the first 150 years this nation was built on christianity. about 70 years ag

. >> do you think lincoln and that old bird scott would have offered you command of the federal forces if you weren't capable? >> robertral scott. >> you know what's at stake. this nation truly is at war with itself. now, we are fighting to honor the ideals of our forefathers, which is why you must lead this army. >> robert e. lee married into a line of succession that goes directly back to george washington, and with the renown and respect that he commanded, there were some that thought of him as the second coming of george washington. >> unionists will say, "look at george washington. he said, 'prize the union above any local allegiance.'" >> [ echoing ] there's no massachusetts or virginia in this army. this is an american army. >> secessionists will say, "no, no. george washington fought against a union with the british." >> if we are to die, let us die as a free people, not as slaves to tyranny. >> i, too, wish to honor our fathers. to fight for freedom, as general washington did, in the service of my home country. >> so you will do it? >> no, general. i am a virginian. i hope never to draw my sword again except i

robert: embattled.p.a. administrator scott pruitt is fighting back against allegations of ethics allegations and questions over his spending habits. >> those are the type the -- those who attack the e.p.a. and me want to derail the esident's agenda and undermine this administration's priorities. robert: the president's pick to lead the department of veterans affairs withdraws from te nomination pcess following reports of professional misconduct. mr. trump hostedof lead france and germany this week who urged the president to preserve the iran nuclear deal. >> we should abandon it without having something substantial and mor substantial. robert: we cover it all with tara palmeri of abc news, yamiche alcindor of the pbs newshour, mark landler of the "new york times," and dan balze of "thshington post." >> this is "washington week." corpore funding i provided by --. oncegain, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. the imageshis week of state craft and stage craft were ground breaking. even as negotiations c

. >>> two top republicans giving a big load of confidence to robert mueller. senator tim scott and trey gowdy trying to shield the special counsel from some who want to discredit him. >> i'm glad we have bob mueller. congress has proven incapable of conducting serious investigations. congressional investigations leak like the gossip girls. they're terrible. i would be telling you that if i were staying in congress. they are not serious. >> it reinforces why it is important for us to make sure the investigation continues until it gets to the end. i hope to get there sooner than later. the reality is the more information we find the better and more confident the american people will be as a nation. >> voices of sanity. a different tone from wisconsin senator ron johnson who was on "meet the press." he thinks mueller was appointed too soon. >>> breaking overnight. a source tells cnn british investigators believe the poisoning of double agent sergei skripal likely had the approval of the kremlin. cnn's matthew chance is live in moscow. matthew, do they have any evidence of this poi

. >> laura: scott, robert bork talked about the political seduction of the law. he had given lots of speeches over the years about, and he disagreed with justice scalia on this about limiting the federal courts jurisdiction because of the allure, the political allure that all of the charges and of you can't trust them to apply the law they legislate from bench. >> my take is i don't know what you are talking about. well are three brans of gentleman no federal district judge that overrules another. checks and balances of the constitution laura you want to change you disagree. i want to restore. >>you want to change it. here is the checks and balances d. o. j. and everyone who loses at the federal district court level they go to the court of appeals or the supreme court you don't have to stay at the federal court level and issues of national importance or import have to go to qualified judges. >> you know the federal district. scott. you know a district court judge spends most of his time figuring out sentencing guide leans and how they apply >> that is not true. t

robert: will e.p.a. administrator's scott pruitt' unwavering support for the president he him with a storm of controversy. questions about his hou

. >> laura: scott, robert bork talked about the political seduction of the law. he had given lots of speeches over the years about, and he disagreed with justice scalia on this about limiting the federal courts jurisdiction because of the allure, the political allure that all of the charges and of getting tangled up with. on the left and right. his view was, sadly you can't trust a lot of each judges to just apply the law faithfully in the constitution faithfully. they end up legislating from the bench. your take. >> my take is i don't know what you all are talking about. there are three branches of government. there is no federal district judge that overrules another federal district judge. checks and balances of the constitution which laura, you want to change because you disagree with their position. >> laura: change, i want to restore. >> you want to change it. here's the checks and balances. doj and anyone else who loses at the district court level, here's the thing, they can go to the court of appeals for the ninth circuit or whatever circuit. can go to the

this, for the 15 minutes on a newscast at the end of the week, we have already talked about scott pruett, robert mueller, tariffs and the stock market crashing, we haven't got to what's happening down the border which dominated a good part of this week news that secretary mattis is going to send 4,000 troops to the border, matthew? >> it's easy to see how that fell off the radar with everything else that's going on. this sort of stems from the president's anger over not getting money in the omnibus to get that wall construction going. and we know his obsession with the border quite well. so he sees this as a way to try to tighten things down there without a wall. deploying large amounts of national guard troops, perhaps in response to fox news reporting about border crossings, but this is a way for him to say he's taking action on the issues that are most important to him and his base even though his long promise solution doesn't seem to be coming together quite yet. >> big question. what's on the agenda next week? >> that's always a great question. i think they're eager to push a few legislativ

this is a scotts yard. robert: live from "america's news headquarters." white house says president trump has spoken with british prime minister theresa may and french president man well macron about the airstrikes and they all agree the strikes are necessary after an apparent gas attack that killed 40 civilians last week. tens of thousands of people gathering in a south african stadium to celebrate the life of winnie mandela in an emotional five-hour funeral, mama winnie as she was known, was married to nelson mandela for 40 years. she died at the age of 81. i'm robert gray. now back to "watters world." jesse: all the anticipation about the tell-all book from james comey fizzling. instead of giving the media the proof they were hoping for to show the president obstructed justice. it's full of scathing attacks. like this pun. this president is unethical and untethered to institutional truth and values. his leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty. i was having flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the mob. the si

our condolences to his three sons robert, richard and scott and his daughter stephanie. and, i know that president breed will be adjourning the board in our sheriff hennessy's husband jim's memory and i would like to add comments to that after president breed does that as well as a district 3 constituent and former president of the board doris ward who passed yesterday. the rest i will submit. president supervisor ronen. thank you. superirvisor safai. >> supervisor safai: i have a memorial. she was born in nica ragua. miriam will be remembered by her husband and children. her son kenneth passed away in 2015 by she leaves behind adoring grandchildren kristina, angela, and jason and her great grand children siena and nicolas. a rosary service will be held in her honor in evening at the church of the epiphany. family and friends are welcome so i just wanted to end the meeting this evening in her honor, miriam dunnawaa. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor sheehy. thank you, supervisor stenan. supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang: i would like a adjourn in memory. and also a

. >> jeff sessions, robert mueller, scott pruitt. the list goes on and on.nald trump on this list is part of what we try to do with the time 100 is we really consider it the time 200 because we try to get other influential figures to write about the influential figures. for donald trump, we had ted cruz. what's interesting about ted cruz is he really goes all in, saying donald trump is like a bomb thrown into washington and he is shaking things up for the forgotten men and women of america. which is interesting their relationship when you consider where they were just a year and a half ago. >> his nemesis at this point, robert mueller, written by preet, a u.s. attorney fired by u.s. trump. >> what's interesting about the pairings is he knows robert mueller so he can speak to his character and judgment choices. although mueller might be a polarizing figure right now. >> did you have any turnovers from people you approached about writing? >> i can't give specific names but it's such an involved process. >> come on. >> we have to go after so many different peop

scott pruitt. we've talked about robert mueller. stormy daniels. we're talking about tariffs and the stock market crashing. we haven't even gotten yet to what's happening down at the border, which dominated a good part of this week. news now that secretary mattis is going to send 4,000 troops to the border, matthew. >> that's right. it's easy to see how that sort of fell off the radar with everything else that's going on, but this sort of stems from the president's anger over not getting money in the omnibus to get that wall construction going, and we know his obsession with the border quite well. so he sees this as a way to try to tighten things down there without a wall, deploying large amounts of national guard troops, perhaps in response to some fox news reporting about border crossings, but, again, this is a way for him to say he is taking action on the issues that are most important to him and his base, even though his long promised solution, the wall, doesn't seem to really be coming together quite yet. >> matthew, big question, what's on th

robert mueller. there can be little doubt about scott pruitt's willingness to do that, singlce he seems to have ethical standards for how he conducts himself in his current job. he's under fire tonight for moving into a lobbyist's house when he arrived in washington and paying only $50 a night for his accommodation in the lobbyist's house, although there is no public proof that he actually even paid that. there's no proof that he actually paid anything. no copies of any canceled checks, for example. and the lobbyist's first represents companies with interests involving the epa, including the oil giant exxonmobil. even fox news correspondent ed henry wasn't buying scott pruitt's story about living in the lobbyist's house. >> this was like an airbnb situation, ed. >> it's not. it's a block from the capital. >> it's like an airbnb situation. >> so you only paid for the nights you were there? >> that's exactly right. >> but that's kind of a sweetheart deal -- >> no, it's not. >> your house in oklahoma, you pay a mortgage on that, and when you don't sleep there -- >> unfortunately, yeah. >> when you don't s

robert b tiny. the justicesg: voted 7-2 against scott, and they did something the founders never imagine -- they invented a constitutional right to own slaves. >> the decision man to hundreds of pages including comments like knee grows were beings of an inferior order and might just fully and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. i cannot imagine that anything would be worse. yes,dred scott was to say they sent all men were created equal, but they did not mean it. any --annot possibly be you cannot possibly be a citizen of the united states of america if you are black and descended from slaves. >> on may 20 6, 1857, they walked in enslaved and walked out free. they did not get it through the court put from the hand of the children of their original owners. and harriet were simple people. the fact that they were born in slavery did not deny them humanity, nor the human desires anyone else would have. the chief justice thought he was going to resolve the slavery controversy forever by basically saying stop arguing about this question. it's settled. but he was wrong. you do not simply settle a con

show you portions of those hearings including testimony by dea acting administrator robert paterson, fda commissioner scottttlieb, doctor and sugar of the cdc and doctor christopher jones, director of the national mental health substance use policy laboratory. >> over the past 15 15 years or nation has been increasingly devastated opioid abuse. an epidemic fueled for significant. of time by the overprescribing of potent prescription opioids for acute and chronic pain. this indiscriminate practice created a generation of opioid abusers. presently estimate of more than 3 million americans. over the past few years we have begun to see a dramatic and disturbing shift. as a result of the increase awareness of the opioid epidemic, prescription opioids have started to decline, obviously somewhat a success. but organizations in particular the well-positioned come in particular position basic and drug cartels have built filleds point by producing and distributing cheap powdered heroin often mixed with illicit fentanyl and of the fentanyl related substances. and selling it to the users in both traditional powdered f

will show you portions of hearings including testimony by dea acting administration robert patterson, fda commissioner scott gottlieb, doctor and of the cdc and doctor christopher jones director of the national mental health policy laboratory. >> over the past ten years our nation has been increasingly devastated by opioid abuse. and it's an epidemic fueled for a significant period of time by the overprescribing of patent prescription opioids for acute and chronic pain. this indiscriminate practice created a generation of opioid abusers presently estimated at more than 3 million americans. over the past few years we've begun to see a dramatic and disturbing shift. as a result of the increased awareness prescriptions for opioids have started to decline obviously somewhat a success. organizations in particular well-positioned mexican drug or tulsa fill this void producing and shipping cheap powdered heroin often mixed with illicit sentinel and other personal related substances. in selling it to users both in traditional powder form and in some cases pressed into counterfeit bills made to resemble illicit phar

scott pruitt is really leaning on that. >> that is something that, again, has been reviewed by ethics officials here. they said it is market rate. these are career ethics officials. >> joining me now is robert costa, nbc political analyst and national political reporter from the "washington post." so bob, let's talk about this interview that scott pruitt has done. he's done a couple things the last few days. the epa is mounting a pr blitz, reaching out, i'm sure they are reaching out to you and me to say, he has the support of x senator or y senator. but here's a little bit of the interview between scott pruitt and ed henry at fox. >> that's the night you were there. >> that's exactly right. >> that's a sweetheart deal. your house in oklahoma, you pay a mortgage on that. >> yeah. >> and when you don't sleep there, you still pay the mortgage, right? >> yes. but this is a tremendous -- i wasn't using the facility, ed, when i wasn't there. >> so this condo controversy has put pruitt in the spotlight. has the white house calculus changed? yesterday i was sitting in the briefing room and sarah sanders did not profess confidence that the president had in scott pruitt. he could be in trouble. >> h

fox news that special counsel robert mueller has told president trump's legal team that the president is not considered a criminal target. good morning to you. i'm jon scott. >> those comments apparently came last month as mueller's team was negotiating a potential face-to-face interview with president trump. john roberts is live on the north lawn with more. what can you tell us? >> good morning. we have know it's about a month ago during a meeting about a potential interview between the president and robert mueller that special counsel made the assertion while the president is part of the investigation, he is not a subject of a criminal probe. on the surface of it, though, the statement doesn't really mean a whole lot. the president really can't be the subject of a criminal probe because the president cannot be indicted. if there is evidence a president has committed crimes it's congress that has to take that up and then there is also the idea that a person might not be a target of a criminal probe one day and suddenly the next day they are the target of a criminal probe. trey gowdy, the government oversight committee former prosecutor himself says he th

chairman robert melton announced these have been decided will be replaced with another independent chief. >> scottnderneath veneers who will try to work with employees to an ruffled his if you will. disney world is actually doing some hiring. >> doing a lot of hiring. 3500 positions. disney is doubling its hiring bonuses for some summer jobs are part-time including full-time positions. a chef can get a bonus of up to $3000. a the housekeeper bonus of $1250. jobs include lifeguarding bus driver. disney holding its annual spring hiring event now through may. gerri: jobs market tighter than a drum. we are seeing an often irreverent industry. >> railroad workers can get up to $25,000 in signing bonuses as railroads struggle to fill jobs in this tight labor market. according to the listings canadian pacific offering $25,000 to electricians to inspect, repair and maintain locomotives and $10,000 to $20,000 to train crews. owned by berkshire hathaway giving them $16,000. of course come a catch of these bonuses. they are paid out after time after meeting certain milestones like competing training there on

scott and trey gowdy. they are the co-authors of a new book, unified. and let's talk about news of the day. we have learned that robertd president trump's legal team that he is the subject not the target of the mueller probe. is that significant and should the president sit down with robert mueller given that? >> i'll take that in reverse order. i think he should sit down with special counsel mueller. i think he is well positioned to answer some of the questions that the american people have. i don't think that those terms target versus subject -- only word that matters is a defendant. if you are not a defendant, whether are you the target or sunday, i know the fbi gets really caught up in those two words. but as a former federal prosecutor, they are meaningless to me because one witness can take you from being a subject to a target. and unless and until you have interviewed everyone and looked at everything, no one has been implicated and no would be has been expull indicated. soer read the articles and i just smiled because they are meaning rs to me. >> isn't it risky for the president to sit down with mueller? >> o

robert mueller's investigation to proceed. there is speculation several weeks ago that maybe scott pruit, the head of the epa who was oklahoma'sormer attorney general could step into the role of a.g. that seems to have quieted down. i don't think that means the president's frustrations with sessions diminished. that's very valuable real estate and i can't imagine that did not get him more worked up about session. >> i a kngree. what about hope hicks? if she was that important, wouldn't the president have fought harder to keep her there, or does she have the kind of personality from what you know that she could stand up to him and say i am out of here. >> well, i think, you know, with the case of hope hicks and i know her well, i covered them during the campaign and white house, he views her, the president views her as like a surrogate daughter, very front of and close to and it would be tough for him to really draw the line and treat her like a staff, and i think when she made the decision to come back to new york, he realized that he was not going to talk her out of it. it was a fairly graceful exit. now to the question of sh

after a weekend of white house officials continuing to defend scott pruett, saying the president does have confidence in him. and there's robert mueller and the continued questions in the wake of the president's tweet storm over the weekend. two dozen tweets from the president. i kept getting the flashes on my phone all weekend. >> can i get you to hold that thought? we're getting some breaking news. stand by, we're getting breaking news with regard to that waffle house shooting in tennessee over the weekend. we all got alerts on this one as well. awful story. several people killed, this deranged man ends up running out of there, after four young people lose their lives. runs out nude, and there's been a manhunt ever since. nick valencia, if you can hear me, you're live. what's the news you have now? >> reporter: on the metro nashville police department, murder suspect travis ryne king is in custody, arrested just moments ago. we were reporting live now, reporting live on hln a few minutes ago, when we saw an increased activity. there's a command post just behind here on the camera, we saw a dozen or so police vehicles, as wel

roberts carefully in the press conference. she referred to national interests. this is one of the opt out for prime ministers. the core scott operation. in this case, she will get the support of the house. there isa get the support of the house. there is a range of opinions and —— opinions in the house of commons. let's talk about the decision the russians admit, just having been confirmed in the last few minutes, that they will be a un security council meeting in new york this morning. what has that potential for any kind of progress on this given the succession of un security council meetings on syria? what are the chances something can be carved out of this? the expectations must be low. both america and russia have used every two hours in recent weeks over resolutions. —— have used their veto powers in recent weeks. they might get the support of the security council. it's notjust the veto holding powers that code. beneath the majority of the security council to support action. 15 member countries. —— powers that count, you need to get the majority of the security council. three of the five veto holding powers have taken

robert mueller's team. >> peter alexander, thank you. >>> let's turn now to the controversy swirling around one of president trump's cabinet members. epa chief scott pruitt is facing ethics questions over his travel, use of a condo linked to lobbyists. chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has the details. >> reporter: the embattled epa administrator getting up. a potpourri of headlines putting scott pruitt on defense with questions about links to a lobbyist from whom he rented a cheap capitol hill condo and raises. exploring a private jet leased to the tune of $100,000 a month. at least one republican congressman wants out. >> he's acted arrogantly. he's embarrassing this administration, the epa, and it's just time for him to go. >> reporter: but two administration officials tell nbc news the president himself called pruitt less than 24 hours ago with one source, he said keep fighting, we have your back. a spokesperson says pruitt is focussed on advancing president trump's agenda, and under his leadership, the epa is doing just what the president wanted. >> one of the worst examples of federal regulation. >> reporter: pruitt rolling back

scott pruitt. why sources say the president is angry with him. coming up. >>> breaking overnight. special counsel robert mueller cleared by the justice department to investigate whether former trump campaign chair paul manafort colluded with russia. >>> president trump on attack ripping democrats for not protecting dreamers and slamming the justice department and fbi as quota e an embarrassment to r country. >>> and villanova rolls to its second college basketball title in three years. the hero of the game came off the bench. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm rene march. breaking overnight. a classified memo revealing special counsel robert mueller is authorized to pursue collusion charges against the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort. the documents highlights payments to manafort from the ukrainian government which have links to russian politicians and operatives. the memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. >> the payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. manafort

scott schools. he's the senior most careered attorney at the justice department. "special counsel robert muraler has asked to interview me as part of the investigation to interfere in the 2016 election. i do not submit, special counsel mueller ewould have the ability to subpoena. i served as acting attorney general -- you see it says february 2011. you think he means 2017 but that typo is unexplained in terms of the letter. and as head of the national security division from april to the present and writing january of this year. as the acting deputy attorney general, i was responsible for the overall department of justice. and i was also responsible for the investigation of the russian government's interference in the 2016 eelection. this concerns activities in the bounds and scope of my duties in the department of justice. i have no reason to believe i'm a subject of target of the investigation. so dana boente is not a subject or a target. that means he's a witness for the investigation. that means he's notifying the senior career in justice that he's been called in to give witness testi

robert mueller. we're going to continue to broing ybring you the play by play. >>> and scott pruitt is calling washingtonic, as he faces a growing list of potential ethics violations, including a $50 per night deal on a condo owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist. >> pruitt says his political adversaries are trying to stop him from cutting regulations. he told the "washington ex examiner," quote, there are people that have long in this town done business a different way and this agency, the epa, has been the poster child of it. so do i think it is because we're leading on this agenda and there are some who want to keep it from happening? absolutely. do i think they will resort to anything to achieve that? yes. >> what are you talking about? >> let's just get something clear. when we're talking about -- >> nothing to do with the epa's agenda. >> -- the beltway swamp and pay for play, people would say swamp-like activity would be to live in the condo of a lobbyist and pay wildly under market rent, and then the organization that that lobbyist represents, their deal getting approved. that is the swamp that

scott. and the other one is the great american broadcaster robert trout.k back and andy was sitting about three pews behind. at the end of the service, he was back. afterward, i asked him whether he had left and he said this got so boring. i went across the street to the bookstore & copies of my book and came back. scott kelly, great reporter and writer. just a solid reporter. kroft -- m -- >> the writing is riveting. sawyer? >> great interviewer. i think an amazing fit for 60 minutes, but wants to move on. >> anderson cooper. >> i love him. he is so good. i think he handled the stormy over isthings -- delightful. incredibly curious and a natural reporter, which is interesting. i don't think most would describe her that way but being the only boss she has ever had, that's what i would say. bill: she came in, i got an opera hug. michael: bill whitaker. jeff: absolute joy. i'm going to say even though he's right here, probably one of the best if not the best hires i ever made. we hit the ground running and he has been an amazing addition to our broadcast. mi

scott pruitt in town. we've talked about andrew wheeler who, you know, worked for robert murray and helped draft that 16-point plan of regulations he would like to see undone, all of which were then undone. there are other people with these ties and at this point, i think the folks in the fossil fuel industry, in the dark money groups, want to start thinking about scott pruitt as more of a liability than an asset. >> thanks to you guys both. eric lipton, investigative reporter for "the new york times" and jay michaelson, columnist at the daily beast for your reporting and analysis. with me now is democratic senator mazie hirono of hawaii. good to see you. tell me what your take is on this. every week we tend to be discussing some other senior administration official who's on the line for something. what's your take on scott pruitt? >> i don't think he's long for his job. however, he's just one in a long parade of administration appointees for whom the words "conflict of interest," "ethical violations," "breach of the public trust" do not seem to enter their minds at all as they brazenly do the things that hav

scott pruitt. sources tell us president trump has begun the initial steps of preparing for a possible interview with special counsel robert mueller's investigators. this is the first sign that president trump and his legal team remain open to an interview. fred pleitgen is live with all the breaking news there. fred? >> reporter: yeah. pretty big developments happening overnight and indeed the entire weekend. as far as the air strikes, the syrian government said the israelis were responsible. the russians are saying the same thing. israeli warplanes flew flying over firing eight missiles. five were intercepted but three hit the base killing several people on the ground. you know the israelis suspected it might be iranians on the ground. it is only eight miles from where i'm standing now. it happened in the night from saturday to sunday. syrian government helicopters were flying over the hill, dropped canisters and all of a sudden people got severe respiratory problems. and dozens of people were killed as a result of that. the opposition blames the syrian government. they issued a strong rebuttal saying they were not respo

scott, who is also a veteran, in this spitfire later on this afternoon. great stuff. thank you so much. a lovely spontaneous arrival back at begin hill. you saw robertwith those events later on. time for the headlines now on bbc news. labour denies having any official links to facebook groups forjeremy corbyn supporters — where anti—semitic comments have been posted. comedian eddie izzard joins labour's ruling committee — after a senior party official is forced to resign. pope francis delivers his traditional easter blessing. 0vernight, he urged believers to break out of their routines and renew their lives. sport now, and we have a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good morning to you. britain's world heavyweight champion anthonyjoshua is already looking to his next challenge after unifying three titles after beating desert park in cardiff. never before have two heavyweight champions met to unify heavyweight champions met to unify heavyweight belts in the kind —— in the uk. in the ring, joshua dominated throughout, earning a unanimous points decision. there is likely to be clamouring for him to face deontay wilder next. he is ready focusing

robert mueller gets fired. he's not getting fired, the president has no plans to fire him. >> how about scott pruitt? i know you said the president has full confidence in his -- >> we have confidence in scott p pruitt. >> is that really draining the swamp given the headlines that he's faced and the optics which by the way downed tom price back in the day? >> there's much that this administration has been doing including draining the swamp including setting new restrictions on employees and the revolving door on will be byists that work in this administration. there is more work we can do but i think scott pruitt is doing a great job and we look forward keeping him there as epa administrator. >> thanks for coming on and answering questions. appreciate it. i want to bring on shelby holiday along with political reporter for new york one grace rau. pleasure to have you here and in person as well. reaction to what we just heard? >> that was a great interview. think it underscores the challenges of being a spokesperson for the president when he fires off tweets like he does and sort of confuse everybody an

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