trip was curious because it was a little odd to see administrator pruitt being the ambassador for natural gas. >> just to be clear, the argument is look, this isn't in the upa's purview. it's an energy issue. why is he taking the trip to morocco to extol the virtue of american liquid natural gas? >> that's a real question that we still don't have a good answer to. maybe it has something to do with this or something to do with his general interest in domestic oil and gas. certainly pruitt is kind of on the president's front lines to embrace american energy. >> there's a memo epa from a deputy general counsel to the general counsel that beak exonerates pruitt and says it's fair market value and as such, everything is on the up and up. the thing odd about this is the memo is dated today. >> right. so one of the interesting things about the story, there was no prairie view or indications there was any review of this living arrangement. perhaps the administrator never thought it was a problem or would cause challenges down the road. it wasn't submitted to ethics officers till the news broke yesterday. it was at that time that ethics officials were briefed on the details of the arrangement. epa staff had to go get some of