matthew. welcome, everyone. beyond the fact that scott pruitt is doing what donald trump wants, rolling back regulations, why is the president content to keep him on board after all of the scandals we've been seeing in the last few months, especially the last week? >> well, a couple of things, he's not just doing what he wants in terms of regulations and other things. there is still a lot of support for pruitt among the president's base. second, this is not someone who would be on the president's list of cabinet officials that he may be okay with or kind of want to see go or not really feel strongly one way or the other. this is someone he likes and he's a little be defiant. he does not like, as you know better than anyone, to be told what to do, to feel pressure from the media, from his critics to do something, and he's -- so he's -- >> but he faced that. >> digging his heels a little bit. >> he faced that with dave price and other decisions he's made. >> tom price was not doing -- >> tom price, sorry. >> he wasn't getting the job done. >> dave price is the weather man