they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt, and they love scott pruitt. >> and so which is it? should you be happy if you're scott pruitt? the president says when he travels, he hears great things about you, he's a good man, he's doing a fantastic job, or do you look at past people who have been called good men who are now former trump administration officials? in the case of pruitt, i would make the distinction that they're more frequent and the president connects him to the job performance. doing a fantastic job. >> and there is a real chorus of conservative activism hind pruitt. they're reacting both to reporters and i'm sure the administration that they don't want to see pruitt go. that suggests perhaps the president is listening to such things, that he'll end up staying on, at least longer than one might think. i talked to a senior administration official yesterday who made no bones about the fact they are looking into this. they are at looeeast saying the is a process beyond jus

only from scotts. our backyard is back. this is a scotts yard. >>> happening through the u.s. government, happens through the special counsel's office. they went after russia directly for their interference in the 2016 presidential election when in february they indicted 13 russia russians. this is a guy close to putin. robert mueller straight up indict that guy in february. those indictments by mueller in february ended up becoming the basis for the first significant u.s. government sanction against russia for the interference issue. it happened a few weeks ago. mueller was the one that picked the targets, named them and literally brought federal criminal charges against them then the trump administration just held on to that and said yeah, we'll sanction them, too. since then, robert mueller hasn't just charged, he also secured his first prison sentence in the russia scandal for a dutch lawyer who speaks flun fluent russian and in our country neither alex van der zwann, the lawyer or her father in law hermann khan are high-profile figures. the

scott pruitt running this agency. we have since learned there was an effort to buy him a $100,000 a month private jet membership to have a private jet on standby at taxpayers' expense whenever he wanted to go anywhere and he used an emergency contingency provision in the safe drinking water act meant to hire scientists in the event of a drinking water emergency, he used it instead to hire lobbyists and spokespeople and to give big raises, 30, 40, $50,000 raises to young staff members he brought with him to -- from oklahoma. we then learned that one of those staffers who he gave a $30,000 raise to, she had among her taxpayer funded responsibilities, the job of shopping for potential apartments for scott pruit in washington d.c. and as you no doubt have come to know, that has since led to revelations that at least for the first year in office, where scott pruitt lived in d.c. was in a swanky capitol hill townhouse coowned by an energy lobbyist who charged scott pruitt a princely sum of $50 a night to stay there but he o

scott: sure.ean, yeah, i get the movie poster, you know, "from the person who brought you 'the martian,'" i'd go see it in a heartbeat, absolutely. is there--you were talking about not going and seeing "the martian." when you were on, we had you on earlier a couple of years ago talking about "the martian," you said something about the film where you said, "you know, once they've made it a film, it's not yours anymore." and it was a very mature statement because a lot of people go and they say, "oh, it wasn't exactly like the book," et cetera. you're the book's author, and it wasn't exactly like the book, but you took this mature approach of, "listen, you know, i make something, i hand it off to somebody else, and they make something." andy: yeah, they paid me, they paid me for the rights, they get to do whatever they want, you know? it's as simple as that. and, but in the case of "the martian," you couldn't have asked for a better, more, like, more direct adaptation. scott: it's very close. andy:

>> with scott. oh, god, melissa. matter. >> reporter: but it had been years before, when melissa was first hired out of law school. detectives discounted it, saying it had nothing to do with melissa's murder, and was not relevant. and, of course, rothstein himself was grilled about melissa lewis' murder during depositions in civil suits brought by the investors. >> we asked him directly whether or not he was involved in any way in -- in the homicide, and he vehemently denied it. >> reporter: how did he take it? >> he was indignant. but he was also a great actor, because he was a sociopath. >> reporter: in the end, neither the police, nor the fbi could connect melissa's murder to rothstein, and his ponzi scheme. so what happened to his loyal aide debra? she pleaded guilty to money laundering and the judge came down hard. and you went away to federal prison? >> i did, with a 10-year sentence. >> reporter: the sentence was later reduced to four years. meanwhile, years had gone by and debra's ex-husband tony still hadn't

carl icahn gets scott pruit his job. scott pruit flies to morocco and what does he go for? to promote the company and persuade in persuade inexplicably to provide american gas to the benefit of papa carl icahn's pet financial project and if this is farfetched, this happened before he has to resign in a accept are the -- separate matter.separate matter. and in addition to his connection to carl icahn, scott pruit at the time was also living for $50 a night in the home of the principle lobbiest for the company. so all this to say, don't worry about whether the focus on the bonfire of scott pruit's ethics is distracting to his behavior at the epa. it's one in the same story. but as of tonight, he's still in that job. anybody know why? ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ it should be seasoned, seared, and delivered right to your table. come in today to create your own combo, startin

which direction does scott pruitt go? which direction will andrew wheeler, the heir apparent to scott pruitt go? it goes to coal and not wind, not solar, not renewable energy, not this greatest creation of blue collar jobs in two generations in a single job sector. 2% of all new workers in america last year were solar workers who got hired, and they are good jobs, but who are they? they are electricians up on the roof, they are people who are carpenters. they are putting to the the equipment. they are blew-collar workers, high paying, secure -- blue-collar workers, high paying, secure, long-term jobs. the president, however, looks to the coal industry with 50,000 coal miners and says, i'm going to put in place a man who is committed to protecting that industry while destroying coal and by destroying rather the wind and the solar and the renewable industry in general and by saying to the automotive industry, you do not have to any longer increase dramatically the fuel economy standards of the vehicles which we drive in thi

scott pruitt is not the only 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," "br

i think when donald trump watches ed henry interview scott pruitt and determines that scott pruitt isn't up for the job. it is when donald trump gets jealous of the attention that scott pruitt is getting, or the fact that scott pruitt has carried himself in such a way to act as if he's the president, as if he's the big deal. i think that is the thing. look, donald trump is more than happy to create scandals and controversies that other people have to fix for him. what he's not willing to do is to lose political capital, defending somebody else, and their scandals and controversies. that's why i think that pruitt is very -- on very thin ice, very tenuous right now. >> matt lewis, generjen saki, t y you. >>> at least one state says it is welcoming the help. does your moisturizing romine does. an mvp? aveeno® skin relief. with oat oil and natural shea butter, it softens very dry skin and lasts for 24 hours. aveeno®. it's a game changer. a heart transplant... that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prev

they love scott pruitt. they feel strongly about scott pruitt. they love scott pruitt. >> the president's backing is so strong sources tell cnn he floated replacing attorney general jeff sessions with scott pruitt as recently as this week. sessions is a target of the president ever since he recused himself from the russia investigation. the president endorsed pruitt despite the headlines and allegations he sidelined top aides who pushed back on spending. more from cnn's sara ganim in washington. >> reporter: good morning, rene and dave. bad headlines continuing for epa administrator scott pruitt. this time reports that he sidelined officials after they pushed back or raised concerns of the pricey travel and overall management of the agency. two sources with the knowledge of the matter told cnn that career and political appointees who disagreed with pruitt were iced out. a story reported by "the new york times." in one case, an official was reassigned when he refused to drive pruitt through town with lights and sirens to avoid heavy washington tra

starting with you senator scott. house what they have had to say about the shootings of unarmed black americans what the president said about african nations, fine people on both sides in charlotte, kneeling nfl players sobs, you know mexicans are rapists. so is the president a racist senator scott? >> i don't think he is a racist. can he be racial hi insensitive the answer is without question. he and i sat down at the oval office after the charlottesville incident we saw the world from two different vantage points. miep mine was a history based on reality my experience and my greater's experience, my mother's experience. i wanted to have that conversation. my criticism is why the white house called and said let's set down and have a conversation to see if there is a path forward that we could find. we did not come to an agreement on the issue of race. we did come to an fwreemt on how we could help those folks living in distressed communities. and that led to a legislative victory that will hopefully lead to more peo

what is this defense of scott pruett? what does this tell you about donald trump's position and scott pruett's future. >> he would not fire scott pruett today. >> i can tell you -- >> what time is it here, we have three more hours on the west coast. >> i know i'm going out on a limb here, but i run a newsroom with 20 people we came in this morning, what's going to be the big news of the day? is it going to be scott pruett? great, at least we're clear into saturday, sunday, monday. the worst thing as a trump cabinet member, the worst thing he can say about you is that he has full confidence in you, that lasts about a week or so. we can do an average at this point. i don't think scott pruett is secure. not because he's not doing what donald trump wants him to do. i think donald trump doesn't like him when there's more noise coming from another part of the government than the white house. he indicated that with tom price. it looks like carson hung on by the skin of his teeth. he doesn't like the mess outside of the mess he c

only from scotts. our backyard is back. a scotts yard. >>> it was one of the weirdest con jobs you have ever heard about in government, the kind of thing you can't believe somebody actually pulled off, particularly for as long as this dude did. his name was john biel, worked for the epa for over 20 years, a leading being pert on climate change. while he was doing that expert work, he was pretending to be moonlighting as a cia agent. for more than ten years, john beal told his epa supervisors, i'm going to need time off because i've got highly secret work to do for the cia. apparently everybody just believed him. they apparently really believed he was involved in some covert operation and so best not to call too much attention to it by calling anybody and checking it out. it started as a few days here and there for my secret operations and then it turned into a six-month stretch where john beal didn't show up to work at all. then it was an 18-month-long stretch where he, again, just didn't show up to work and the epa was app

secrecy and security has been hallmark of scott pruitt epa.t is sort of mind blowing to hear him say that he had nothing to do with something that clearly is so core to him. amy: the office of this is illegal, expenditures more than $5,000 had to be approved. this was $43,000. there was a soundproof and the this one had not even been certified as soundproof. michael brune, if you could talk more about his record and how you feel the republicans versus the democrats dealt with pruitt yesterday will stop and are you calling for his resignation? >> we're most of kelly kline for his resignation. he is unfit to serve as epa administrator. we have been pleased by the number of republicans thus far in the senate but increasingly large number of republicans in the house that are also calling for his resignation. it is clear this is a person who should not be epa administrator. you should never have been appointed. you certainly should never have been confirmed. he should be removed from office as quickly as possible. as i said earlier, the scandals ar

secrecy and security has been hallmark of scott pruitt epa.t is sort of mind blowing to hear him say that he had nothing to do with something that clearly is so core to him. amy: the office of this is illegal, expenditures more than $5,000 had to be approved. this was $43,000. there was a soundproof and the this one had not even been certified as soundproof. michael brune, if you could talk more about his record and how you feel the republicans versus the democrats dealt with pruitt yesterday will stop and are you calling for his resignation? >> we're most of kelly kline for his resignation. he is unfit to serve as epa administrator. we have been pleased by the number of republicans thus far in the senate but increasingly large number of republicans in the house that are also calling for his resignation. it is clear this is a person who should not be epa administrator. you should never have been appointed. you certainly should never have been confirmed. he should be removed from office as quickly as possible. as i said earlier, the scandals ar

they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt and they love scott pruitt. >> we begin an hour of turmoil on wall street. the president is threatening china with a whopping $100 billion in additional tariffs. the dow down, you see it there, around 330 points. investors are rattled about talk of a trade war. farmers are rattled, too. but listen here, the president telling a morning radio show getting tough with china is long overdue and that a roller coaster market is a price worth paying. >> we've already lost a trade war. we don't have a trade war, we've lost a trade war. i'm not saying there won't be a little pain, but the market has gone up 40%, 42%. we might lose a little of it, but we're going to have a much stronger country when we're finished. >> jeff zeleny live at the white house for us. jeff, the president surprised even members of his own team with this new $100 billion threat of a counterpurnch. do they share his view that an end will justify the means? >> several advisers her

why not scott pruitt?ual, but remember, it's only 1:00 on friday so it's still possible we'll get news on that. you mentioned john kelly being concerned that pruitt's headlines can get worse. i don't know that that can happen. let's go rapid fire through a bunch of headlines about scott pruitt that happened just in the last few weeks. scott pruitt gets more security than any epa head ever. why does that matter? security costs money. scott pruitt had security at the rose bowl and disneyland. scott pruitt, when he could have flown commercial, he flew private jets. pruitt had a $50 a day condo linked to lobbyists. he paid $50 a day, but only on nights he stayed there. reviewing scott pruitt's conduct. next one, pruitt's security diesel asked to use sirens and lights throughout d.c. i wish i could do that. you probably shouldn't abuse that when you're an official with the trump administration. and epa officials sidelined after questioning scott pruitt, essentially saying when the epa race questions everything

they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt. and they love scott pruitt. >> i bet they do. the president standing by his man tonight, publicly expressing confidence in the epa administrator, scott pruitt, now under fire amid mounting ethics scandals, including his $50-a-night condo rental arrangement, courtesy of a top energy lobbyist. that comes at the same time that "the new york times" reports certain epa officials were penalized for questioning pruitt's spending and management. according to that paper, some of those officials had very close ties to the trump white house and to republicans on the hill. also new, "the washington post" reporting tonight two epa officials confirmed that pruitt endorsed the idea last month of giving big pay raises to two close aides. nbc news has also learned that president trump as recently as last week had been considering replacing attorney general, jeff sessions, with scott pruitt. but administration officials tell us that's unlikely now, given recent reports about pruitt's conduct. and today

>> i was going to say trump has scott pruitt's back because scott pruitt's behavior is not unlike donald's behavior. donald trump is the person who's ultimately gotten away with the most wrongdoing. again, as i said earlier, he does not care about what scott pruitt has done. what he cares about is the repercussions of what scott pruitt has done and continues to do. it's the headlines. it's the taking away from trump making the headlines. it is not the act of wrongdoing. there's a reason why so many in this administration are behaving the way that they can because the example's being set at the top. >> evan, i want to give you the chance to answer, as well. why do you think that trump still has scott pruitt's back after this? >> donald trump likes scott pruitt because he's gotten results. donald trump forgets that you could put anybody in there because the republican party for the most part holds scott pruitt's views and would be able to execute what he has done. donald trump could have somebody who's a no-drama person running the epa, getting all of the results that scott pruitt has gott

the reason scott pruitt stays at the epa and doesn't go to doj is that scott pruitt is so busy deliveringon, on deregulation, on mining, on basically just the complete destruction of our environment that the donors want him to stay at epa and they don't want him moved over to doj. so this idea that, like, he's -- that he may not move pruitt over there, that's, that's behind the trump organization wants him to stay there. >> and joy, ron's point is really powerful, because that's what you keep hearing. and that's what the president keeps hearing. >> absolutely. and i think what we have to realize is that donald trump admires vladimir putin in every way, includie ing encouraging t proliferation of american oligarchs. what scott pruitt is busy doing is hawking liquefied natural gas for his landlord's client in morocco, taking luxury trips, treating his office as if it's a personal fiefdom for his own enrichment and luxury. his whole cabinet is acting that way. the happiest person in the cabinet has got to be ben carson whose $130,000 desk now looks like a pittance compared to the way scott p

they love scott pruitt. they feel very strongly about scott pruitt.itt. >> let's get more on breaking news from one of the correspondents who broke the story, cnn's pamela brown who joins us from the white house. explain what you learned about the president and pruitt. >> reporter: we've learned as recently as this week, the president floated replacing attorney general jeff sessions with embattled epa administrator st scott pruitt. even as pruitt faced this growing list of negative headlines about ethics concerns. at one point, it was said that the president was trying to protect pruitt. this reveals how confident he remains in pruitt, despite a dizzying number of ethics issues. pruitt has remained in trump's good graces for the most part. though a source familiar with the matter said the president's confidence in him has faltered some earlier this week in light of some of the ethics issues that continue to surface. he is hesitant, however, to fire him, because he likes entertaining this idea of replacing sessions with him eventually, and that he will

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>> scott: very interesting.ant to say that him being with the baltic leaders is important to show that we are standing in solidarity with those who oppose russia. when he said about germany was very, very good because he's right. connecting there and paying billions of dollars that's a good point. he brought it out like over the president can. >> kennedy: this is one of those areas with the president took a nontraditional view of something that many people have internalized and taken for granted for a long time and that obviously is nato spending. but he also touched on immigration. >> trish: he touched on a lot of things and i think we always get a kick out of watching these because he has almost a kind of stream of consciousness with some of the areas that he is getting into. >> kennedy: you never know he's going to go. >> trish: the nato stuff is good and i'll tell you why. and they have gotten away for far too long was not paying in their quote unquote fair share and it's time that we change that. and they a

they love scott pruitt.y feel very strongly about scott pruitt, and they love scott pruitt. >> can also tell based on that interview that the president was taking in the first day of the masters. just a short time ago, "the wall street journal" came out with this report. john kelly urged the president just last week to remove pruitt from his post. a few moments ago, before we came on the air here this afternoon, house minority leader nancy pelosi adding her voice to the chorus of folks calling for pruitt's resignation saying in part, quote, epa administrator scott pruitt's tenure has been a part of the trump administration's culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence. pruitt must resign. let's bring in rick tyler and political analyst and jason johnson, politics editor at the root. also an msnbc contributor. rick, let us remind our viewers and our sirius satellite listeners of just a few of the issues plaguing scott pruitt. $50 a night condo lease. his use of taxpayer dollars for private travel. his us

scott, when you see this, this is her side of the story that we're hearing. we're hearing other sides of the story from andrew mccabe, david shulkin, rex tillerson. does it matter that they're speaking out at this point. as we know, this is a divided country and people hear what they want to hear. >> they're free to speak, just like anybody else is. i would say in a case of mccabe, his problems are related to an internal investigation at the department of justice conducted by a career fbi people. and he's going to have due process on what happened to him. i don't disagree that -- how he was fired and the way the president treated him was rough treatment. it was rough political treatment. but as it relates directly to mccabe's career, he's going to get a chance to go through a due process situation there and argue his side of the case. all of these people who leave government have every right to argue their side of it for their own personal public relations efforts. but the facts will stand on their own merits once they all become clear. we don't know everythi

pruitt, his support of scott pruitt is very much like roy moore, everything that scott pruitt is accused of, donald trump is accused of. trump has monetized the white house, he has made 1.2 billi$1. in terms of political groups who have rented his properties. if you look at the variety of scandals like tom price and ben carson and ryan zinke, et cetera, you realize there's a culture in this white house where administration officials feel they can use the white house as a free platinum card paid for by the taxpayers. and that comes from a culture created by trump where he views personal gain as the highest form of public service. >> i think you put it so perfectly, and add to that, the fact that scott pruitt was trying to do to the epa that donald trump is trying to do to the doj. basically the career people, the nonpartisan people, stood up to pruitt and they were demoted or they requested new jobs under pressure related to the spending problem. the difference is the bureaucracy is fighting back, we learn about this in the times and the post, from our colleagues here in the nbc washingto

scott pruitt is drawing attention. he has enemies because he's deregulating the epa which a lot of american believe it protects americans from the corporate america. why make all this noise about it. donald trump can't afford to have another cabinet secretary undergoing a cabinet secretary hearing. he's had so many because he's had to fire so many of his people. for the man who will bring us the back, he hasn't. he's created deeper swamp than we ever had. we need to sweep it clean nap can be the only reason. you couldn't have said it better. the role model is at the top. that's what's happened. it's okay if they cheat the taxpayers and kill the environment and make it to the point that all of us will suffer. science has gone out the window at epa and animals are in danger. people are in danger. we need to stop this. >> the fake media is pushing hard i'm going to replace ag jeff sessions with epa chief scott pruitt. who is doing great job but is totally -- you can replace those words with anything including about the ru

they love scott pruitt. they feel strongly about scott pruitt. they love scott pruitt. >> is it the bottom of the ninth for mr. pruitt? joining me is david k. johnston author of "its even worse than you think." david, you have scott pruitt living for $50 a night, but even ed henry was not buying that on fox news. they did a good interview with him, they were tough on him. politico reporting that the lobbyist land lady had to change the locks on pruitt. that the arrangement was only supposed to be temporary, but he overstayed his welcome. he's being called the kato kalen of washington. your thoughts? >> scott pruitt is clearly a man who doesn't have a moral compass. he has a long history of these kinds of improprieties. somehow on the very modest income of an oklahoma state legislator he lived a much better lifestyle than you would expect on $34,000 a year, and as attorney general when his only income was a quarter mile ona year salary, he got a mortgage for more than $650,000. scott pruitt is a man who in any previous administration, even the sca

they feel very strongly about scott pruitt, and they love scott pruitt. now, so scott pruitt has had some problems with those working for him at the epa as well. >> he has. the "new york times" is reporting that a handful of epa officials were reassigned, demoted. their concerns had to do with epa spending on office furn tire, first class travel, demands for a bullet-proof vehicle. one of those epa employees was an early hire in the trump campaign but was placed on administrative leave without pay after raising concerns about pruitt. the a spokesman for the epa told the new york times that the agency disputes those allegations. >> randi kaye, thank you very much. during that shot on area force one, the president thinks between 2,000 and 4,000 american troops will be deployed across the border. now a texas sheriff is not thrilled. why he's against the move when we continue. when you say you need a heart transplant... that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the

only from scotts. our backyard is back. yard. >>> jitters on wall street amid the fear of a tariff war. u.s. soy beans, cars, airplanes. stock market on the left side of your screen. right side, live pictures from the press briefing room at the white house where we should see sarah sanders momentarily. lot for her to discuss. we bring in senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny, standing by in that briefing room along with a couple of others here. jeff zeleny, first to you. we saw larry kudlow, top economic adviser do some of the rounds today, trying to maybe quell fears that this is the opening salvo of some sort of trade war, despite the president's tweet, which does seem contradictory to the message from larry kudlow, which is don't overreact. >> that was larry kudlowe's debut, if you will, on the government side of this. he was out doing interviews this morning on the north driveway at the white house, talking openly about how this is a process and it's not the end of the negotiations but indeed the beginning. it is

scott, welcome back. >> thanks, scott >> you know, you say that the margins are going through a reset, is how you term them. that's what the markets seem to be upset about the other day why is it a reset and a favorable way? >> well, you go through cycles, and i think that we're getting closer to the bottom of the reset. such that earnings revisions will no longer being gone down when we entered 2018, our estimates were below the street. that was one of the factors in leading us to downgrade the stock. now with the further reset after 1-q, investments in cloud, youtube, privacy protections for the youtube product and otherwise, eps estimates are now more in line with us and we don't think that's going to be an issue going forward on top of that, you have very compelling valuation in the security where if you strip out the cash, this business is going to have $120 billion in cash by the end of 2019. if you strip that out of the business, you're talking about a company that's growing 20%, that's cheaper x-cash than companies like colgate, clorox, coca-cola, 3m, mcdonald's. and pepsi co

i just spent -- they love scott pruitt. they love scott pruitt. thank you very much, everybody. >> can we talk about syria, mr. president? syria? >> clearly, jeff, it was hard to understand the audio, the quality not very good. they'll try to clean it up and get a better sense. one of the pool reporters did send us a transcript. let me read from the transcript precisely what the president said when he walked to the back of the plane and had this q&a with reporters. first question -- on amazon. so we'll see what happens, the post office is not doing well with amazon. we're going to see what happens. the playing field has to be level for everybody. i'm going to study it, we're going to take -- take a look at that. then the questions on stormy daniels started. question -- did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? the president -- no. question -- why did michael cohen, the president's private attorney and longtime friend, make it? answer -- you have to ask michael cohen. michael cohen is my attorney. you'll have to ask him. question -

it's scott pruitt.s guy is -- he's spending the government's money like a sound cloud rapper who has just gotten a record deal. he's like little oil pump. i mean, like, he's got charter planes and flying first class, and he has a $40,000 soundproof phone booth, which is like, what is that? it's like something from birdman's cribs episode or something. it's so extravagant. then it's on the news that he has this like room situation where he's renting a room from a lobbyist. >> airbnb hostel. he's like that's the going rate in washington, d.c. when i take my dogs to daycare, it's $55 a night per dog. like that can't be real. >> yeah. so what we love about comedians is you guys are smart, but you pick up on certain things. >> uh-huh. >> you're picking up on the $50 part. we've been covering this in the news and covering more just the ethics scandal of it. you're making the point at like 50, why not ten, why not one? >> also his adult daughter is living with him, which seems to be a theme in the administrati

what has scott pruitt done? well, what he's done is he has said we're going to take a look at it for another five years. that's what he posted on his website. and there's no evidence that they're doing any review or anything. there's no evidence that chlorpyrifos isn't dangerous and should be banned. but that's the record that he has at the environmental protection agency. he has also tried to suspend methane and smog regulations on oil and gas wells. he tried to roll back murky pollution rules for power plants and wants to delay rules to protect guest pesticide exposure and formaldehyde emissions. but mr. pruitt's actions have not -- it's absolutely clear that mr. pruitt's actions have not respected the rule of law and fortunately they have been blocked by the courts. now, mr. wheeler's environmental record is not much better. it gives no confidence that he will put teeth in safety first. mr. wheeler has called the paris climate agreement a, quote, sweetheart deal for china. he has fought limits on greenhouse g

i think some of that, jim, was talk created by scott pruitt about scott pruitt being the next attorneyt that doesn't mean it couldn't come true. i think i'll add to a.b.'s point that i think two things donald trump doesn't like. number one -- well, actually four. numbers one, two, and three bad headlines that he doesn't create. number four, what he views to be as overweaning ambition, people who aren't doing -- not taking care of their business in one place and already trying to move on. i don't see -- i'm with chris christie, i don't know how scott pruitt survives this because again it's not one bad headline. a.b. just ripped through about six bad headlines. you know, i think what you're seeing here is probably a finding someone to take scott pruitt's job. it seems to me more of an if -- a when not if in terms of him going. >> john, speaking of headlines, "the washington post" calls scott pruitt a swamp monster today. >> yeah. and usually you have to wear a costume to accomplish that. no, look, chris's point is that the president's powers of projection are really profound. when you ge

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scott pruitt is still there.there's any appetite in congress to take this on or at least make him answer questions for stuff? >> that's a legitimate question. the way i look at it is this gives us tangible evidence of the extent to which this white house, and for that matter, almost all the republicans in congress, are willing to overlook unethical behavior in order to accommodate the anti-environmental pro-polluter policies of scott pruitt. the reason they overlook his ethical lapses is they like what he's doing. he's putting profits ahead of public health. and it's the same philosophy that led to the flint water crisis and water problems all over the country. i have a community in this northern part of my district that has contaminated water, they can't drink their water. one of the residents yesterday asked me, where is the epa, and the answer is this is where the epa sits right now. it's pa thetic. >> appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> stay with us. we'll be right back. epower than the lex

republican support for epa administrator scott pruitt is eroding.allegations of ethical lapses, everything from first class flights to pricey security detail on personal trips to a sound proof phone booth and questionable staff pay raises. >> you can't just go around acting like a big shot -- >> reporter: even his mentor, senator jim inhoff is concerned. >> there are serious allegations against him i want to check out and i'm doing it. >> reporter: his saving grace for his supporters so far has been drastic roll backs of obama-era environment regulations, including this week telling a new york radio station that he plans to reorganize how science is used to create rules and regulations. >> a lot of science that we use to form the basis of rules actually are done by third parties. meaning folks outside of the agency. >> reporter: but ahead of back to back congressional hearings on thursday, where pruitt is sure to face tough questions, there seems to be waning support for pruitt from inside of the white house, too. >> we're continuing to review a num

scott kelly, thank you so much for joining us. scott: my pleasure, thank you. jane: there you have it -- the same but different. it is the show that is taking broadway by storm, and for once we are notalking about "hamilton." it is the stage of 81-year-old acting legend and former british politician glenda jackson. the two-time oscar winner abandone serve in parliament.to now she is back with a new play and she sat down with tom brook to talk about it all. tom: a bigvent on broadway -- glenda jackson returning to the new yoy stage. >> teat me like this? tom: starring in playwright edward albee's "three tall women." rehearsing for her role as an elderly woman looking back on her life, jackson is part of an all-female cast of three. glenda: the opportunity to work with two other actresses is really quite rare. women are still not regarded in the main by contemporary dramatists as thdriving dramatic engine. 's part, youne woman have got it and you don't have any other actresses to work with. so it is such a treat to have the three of us on the stage. tom: glenda j

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