Virginia and white sulfur bring about people on the sptss short list for the Supreme Court. We got a couple ambulances coming by here. On that short list tick through them at the top of the list in no order, brett kavanaugh, on the d. C. Circuit he was the staff secretary under former president george w. Bush. Also amy coney barrett, she is sits on the seventh circuit currently and clerked for former Justice Antonin Scalia and at 46 the youngest of the top prospects, also amul thapar, on the sixth circuit, would be the first justice of south asian descent and also Raymond Kethledge of the sixth circuit. The president spoke with senator mike lee of utah today about his Supreme Court pick, although we do not believe that mike lee is on the president s short list. Whomever the president ultimately settles on, people here in West Virginia and the heart of Trump Country say they want the president to pick a centrist. They do not want an ultraconservative in the mold of some of the folks the president has nominated to the lower courts. Take a look at what people had to say today. I think he needs to wait and see who that person is and i kind of like what hes been doing, to be honest. Hes pretty conservative in my mind, but hes not so conservative that hes unreasonable. The president you mean . Well, no, im talking about joe. So West Virginias democratic senator joe manchin has a big role to play in this as does other red state democrats. Manchin was the first of three democrats to split with the party and support neil gorsuch, President Trumps first Supreme Court pick. Man ch manchin is in the throes of contested Senate Reelection bid, this is a state that broke for President Trump. Manchin has a choice to make, stick with the president or support the president as a way of muting criticism from his opponents who would like to see the seat end up in republican hands. Joe donnaly and joe manchin, Heidi Heitkamp under pressure to vote for the president s nominee and there are some republicans under pressure not to support a nominee who might support the overturning of roe v. Wade. The simple math a lot of people have in their minds may not be applicable in this senate confirmation. Thanks for that. Geoff, good to see you. Lets talk about a name thats emerging. You heard geoff mention her as a tom contender, amy barrett, one of the leading female candidates and reportedly already met with the president. Amy barrett is 46 years old, the mother of seven children, and a member of the federalist society. Thats the organization that is helping the president vet candidates for the Supreme Court. She clerked for Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia and taught at the university of Notre Dame Law School. Barrett serves on the seventh u. S. Circuit court of appeals, a position she has held for less than one year. She will face the same senate should she be nominated to the Supreme Court. Theyve heard from her and shes been vetted by them. Dianne feinstein drew criticism during barretts 2017 Circuit Court confirmation for questioning whether her catholic faith would take precedent over the law . I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And i think in your case, professor, when we read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. Thats of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country. All right. Another cause for concern for opponents is barretts affiliation with the group people of praise. According to the New York Times members of this group swear a lifelong loyalty called a covenant and are assigned to a personal adviser called a head for men and a handmaid for women. Barrett also wrote against the Supreme Court decisions in upholding the Affordable Care act. She wrote an opinion titled counting the majoritarian difficulty saying chief Justice Roberts pushed the Affordable Care act beyond its plausible meaning to save that law. A 2013 piece in notre dames magazine says in a lecture series, barrett said life begins at conception and roe v. Wade created a framework of abortion on demand. But, that its, quote, very unlikely that the top court would overturn roe v. Wades core protection of abortion rights. However in a Notre Dame Law School article barrett suggested she would not be shy in overruling Supreme Court precedence saying, quote, i tend to agree with those who say a justices duty is to the constitution and it is thus more legitimate for her to enforce her best understanding of the constitution than a precedent she thinks is clearly in conflict with it. This is not somebody who sounds like she is friendly to roe v. Wade. Joining us more to talk about this is democratic senator from maryland ben cardin. Good to see you. Thank you for being with us. The president says hes not asking any of these people about their position on roe v. Wade. But he doesnt have to because the senate will. Ali, good to be with you. Hes working on a list thats been prepared by a group that has an ajgenda and that is to reverse roe v. Wade, protections for women and Affordable Care act. The list thats being using is one in which they believe these judges will reverse precedent and affect your rights under the constitution. Senator, what is the best road for people who are concerned about this . Because right now there are a lot of issues out there that Many Americans are concerned about, but in the end, if Mitch Mcconnell and colleagues confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court before the midterm elections, a lot of those issues will be decided by the court. No question about it. We want the American People to focus in on what is at stake here. That yis, an independent suprem court that will protect your Constitutional Rights against the abuses of the president , against the abuses of congress, of corporate america. We want an independent Supreme Court and independent court that will follow precedent and what were concerned about this nominee could reverse the balance on the court for a generation to come. Yes, its about womens rights of choice, its about whats going to happen with the Affordable Care act and protection against a preexisting conditions, our environmental issues. So many issues that are at risk here. We want the American People to focus in on the person who is nominated by the president , whether that person is just going to do the president s bidding or that person will be an independent voice from mainstream judicial thought. Senator, on june 27th, you tweeted, i can assure you we have not forgotten about Merrick Garland. We know the abuses of what they did to president obama and his nominee for the Supreme Court was nothing short of outrageous. Its a sentiment many have expressed. What tools do you have . You cannot forget about Merrick Garland but what tools do you have at your disposal now that president says hes going to name a nominee next week and Mitch Mcconnell says hes going to have a vote on this before the elections . Well, look, clearly the republican leader is being hypocritical saying we have enough time, even though you have a few months before an election where he denied president obamas choice where we had 11 months before the election. Thats being hypocritical. We will use every tool at our disposal so the American People understand whats at stake here about the person nominated by the president. So i will take advantage of every opportunity i have in the United States senate to bring home the point to the American People that we need to evaluate this nominee, whether that person will protect your rights under the constitution or just going to do the president s bidding. Weve been talking about roe v. Wade a lot today because its important for americans to understand this not a strictly abortion related ruling, its about privacy and the governments role in your life as it relates to the 14th amendment. You didnt vote for amy barrett for the Circuit Court but she was confirmed by the senate, 5543. Mostly party line vote. Three democrats voted along with every republican including Susan Collins and lisa murkowski, both of whom have said they would have reservations for voting for somebody who might overturn roe v. Wade. The reason to focus on her, the literature is clear, she has articulated the idea shes hostile to roe v. Wade and Affordable Care act and things like that. How do you square that circle. How do three republicans and a few two democrats and three republicans who have said that theyre not in favor of this sort of thing, how are they going to square nis circle . I dont think they can. Roe v. Wade is much broader than abortion rights. Its about empowerment of women to make their own decision, justice in this country. Its a fundamental decision protecting Constitutional Rights and quite frankly, disappointment when were filling Justice Kennedys spot is not a position on the court of appeals, this is a position on the Supreme Court that will very much change the balance of the Supreme Court. So i think each of these senators, all senators, have to be accountable for what is at stake here. Thats why were asking the American People to please focus on this, focus on the issues of how what the courts decision will mean in your life. You were at a baltimore rally, at one of the rallies to defend children and families at the border. The government seems to be going the other direction. A court order theyre supposed to reunify children with their families and instead of giving the media updates whether the number has come down since friday theyre not releasing information. I suspect because the government is worried its not going to be able to live up to this court order and dont want us all knowing to what degree theyre not doing it. We feel like were going in the wrong direction here. Oh, absolutely. The government knows where each of these parents are. They know where all the children. Yet theyre not releasing any of the information. That is outrageous. This is the United States of america. This is the leading democratic country in the world. And were not releasing information. And we have a policy that separates parentses from their children at the border now were being told that were not even following a court order that said reunite as quickly as possible. This is just this is not what america is about. This policy never should have been. Its going to be eliminated. Parents have to be reunited with their children. Good to see you. Thanks very much for joining me again. Ben cardin of maryland. New investigation into the president s attorney, personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Monday the feds got their hands on the documents seized during the april raid of cohens businesses and home and more than 1. 3 million documents, an additional 22,000 by the way that still need to be released after review and theyve got until thursday to do that. These documents were reviewed by the Trump Organization and a courtappointed special master out of concern some of the material may be protected by attorneyclient privilege. The documents include papers that had been shredded and had to be pieced back together. Its about a dozen pieces of paper. Buzzfeed got the hands on the reconstructed pieces. Joining me is Senior Investigative reporter jason leopold. You didnt reveal last night when on with chris hayes how you got these, how do you manage to confirm the authenticity of shredded documents. We confirmed that through multiple sources, other people who are in the know and would be in a position to authenticate it. Thats pretty much all i can say on the sourcing issue. All right. Yeah. Tell me what you can say about how the fbi puts these things together. I mean, most people are fascinated. Shredded documents. The fbi gets them. They see a pile of shredded stuff and start putting it together. What do they do to put these things together . Ive learned in the sort of course of reporting the story small piece of the backstory is, that the fbi has software in which they can just scan these documents in to a computer and they sort of fit together like a jigsaw puzzle with chon words and phrases and sentences may fit together. Its still a painstaking effort. Some of these documents were shredded to the point where they were indecipherable but the fbi has that software that allows them to do that as opposed to say, you know, just sitting and taping each and every piece. Right. And i guess for people who dont know the difference between vertical shredders and crosscut shredders, he used a plain old vertical shredder doesnt cut it twice into little pieces. I dont know if the fbi can deal with that too. Whats interesting about this . A lot of stuff that i didnt understand the relevance of but theres definitely one Bank Wire Transfer receipt. Yeah. So the whats interesting about this, these set of documents, is the fact that when we found out that Michael Cohen had shredded documents and the fbi seized the contents of a shredder, obviously, there was speculation as to what that contained. There was smoking gun. He was destroying evidence. Whats most interesting is that it does not appear that there is a smoking gun in here. Theres a letter from a woman in california described as a lit gant who claimed that donald trump had harassed and blackmailed her, she was under government surveillance. There was a copy of a Wire Transfer to First Republic bank that was controlled by Michael Cohen. Thats probably the most interesting document in this cache because it fits with previous reporting about payments that were negotiated and made to various people who said that they were romantically involved with donald trump. Theres an invitation to a dinner reception in miami, florida, about the cutter business community. So i mean its as i mentioned yesterday, its hard to tell what is of interest here to investigators. In the course of reporting, particularly on someone like Michael Cohen, where every single thing that surfaces seems like a smoking gun or its damming, we felt that it was our duty to also show that theres nothing there. Some of it is not. Kind of puzzling why he would shred an invitation, okay. Good to see you. Thank you very much for your reporting on this. A Senior Investigative reporter at buzzfeed. Up next we will take you to thailand, a remarkable story. 12 school boys and their soccer coach found alive after being trapped in a flooded cave for nine days. They may have to wait. I dont know, i dont understand how it can be months, at least weeks before they can be rescued. The complications holding up their rescue and the measures taken to help them. Janis Mackey Frayer is on the ground in thailand for us. Youre watching msnbc. Experts say it could take weeks if not months to get 12 boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave complex out in thailand. It took nine days for experienced divers to finally reach the group and those divers had to chip away at rocks to create larger openings to pass through. Thats why this is an issue. None of the boys who range from is 11 to 16 know how to swim and the water levels are rising. The cave is six miles of narrow passageways that run under a mountain and the group is stuck in the middle. Janis Mackey Frayer is in thailand with the latest on the rescue efforts. Reporter a remarkable turn of events here. Thai Officials Say that all 12 boys and the coach are healthy, theyre in stable condition, being cared for by medics. The challenge now is getting them out. How many of you . 13. 13. Yes. 13. Brilliant. Reporter prayers from around the world answered by a miracle. All 12 missing boys and their coach found alive after being trapped in the flooded cave system for nine days. Their first words to the two british divers that found them more than a mile under ground. Thank you. Reporter the boys ranging in age from 11 to 16 still wearing their soccer gear, sitting on a mound in a cave, tired, hungry, barefoot, and almost total darkness, but alive. You have been here ten days. Ten days. You are very strong. We are happy too. Reporter on dry land, jubilant cheers from relieved family members and rescuers. The fact that all of them survived really says someone in that group has to be a morale leader. Someone telling them, were just going to live hour by hour, half a day by half a day. Reporter finding the children is just the first step in what is still considered a very risky rescue effort. None of the boys know how to swim. And they need to be taught how to negotiate tiny, underwater passages. Rescuers working out how to best get the boys out, briefed on using full face masks. Experts say it could be weeks if not months until they can get the frightened boys out safely. Medical divers are being sent in to evaluate their health and food is also being brought to the kids who have not eaten in over a week. Rescuers are fighting rising waters, strong currents and mud. And the threat of more rain later this week. American military specialists joy thai special forces in the effort. Its just amazing to see the hugs and donations and just the thanks. It really just gives me chills. Reporter the boys are more than a mile deep inside a chain of caves. Rescuers have been using huge pumps around the clock in an effort to reduce water levels. Relatives desperately waiting since the boys went missing are overjoyed that theyve been found. We think its one of the most wonderful things that has happened in our world for a very long time. Reporter the divers who found the boys, trying to give them hope. Many people are coming. We are the first. Reporter more than a thousand people are involved in the rescue effort and theyre looking at every possible option including drilling new entries to the cave system. The biggest thing working against them is the weather. Theres rain in the forecast and water levels could rise about six inches every hour. Relatives have been keeping vigil. They were overjoyed at the news but now a new sort of weight is taking shape. Thats janis Mackey Frayer reporting from thailand for us. Up next reports that President Trump plans to roll back obamaera guidance on affirmative action telling schools they shouldnt consider race in the admissions process. I will be joined by someone who coauthored the guidelines and how betsy devos is revamping the mission of her department stripping away the safeguards that protect economically vulnerable students. Youre watching msnbc. Come here, babe. Ok. Nasty nighttime heartburn . Try new alkaseltzer pm gummies. The only fast, powerful heartburn relief plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. Oh, what a relief it is about the Colonial Penn program. Here to tell you if youre age 50 to 85 and looking to buy Life Insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. What are the three ps . The three ps of Life Insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. A price you can afford, a price that cant increase, and a price that fits your budget. 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Joining us to talk about this is a woman who played a role in the drafting of the guidance when she served as the chief of the Educational Opportunity section of the Civil Rights Division during the Obama Administration. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. This is a world in which people want to think about this in terms of theres either needs blind or affirmative action, but the truth is somewhere in the middle that people still get into universities on the basis of their merits but certain things are considered that allow certain otherwise marginalized groups or groups that have been disadvantaged to be considered. Correct. And the middle has really been laid out by the United StatesSupreme Court multiple times and so just in 2016, two years ago, the Supreme Court said once again, for the fourth time in a number of years, in the last 15 years, that its in the Vital National interest to make sure we have ways to promote diversity and address racial in schools. For everybody who says dont worry about roe v. Wade its settled law, i want to put up cases, 1978, 2003, 2016, the one you referred to, fisher versus the university of texas and another 2003 case. Four times. And since the directive that you were responsible for, the Supreme Court has ruled in the 2016 case. So the bottom line is, one would argue this is established law and the Trump Administration is undoing it. Correct. So the law hasnt changed. And so we have decision today, theyve confirmed theyre going to take down the guidances and i dont know what the impact will be on colleges and universities and what the impact will be on k through 12 schools. One of the important pieces here is that not only are they taking down the guidance for Higher Education theyre also taking down guidance that helps schools figure out how to address segregation and promote diversity for our youngest children. What does the directive do . Universities what does this guidance mean . Is there a penalty if universities dont abide by this . No. What the guidance was trying to do in 2011 and what it would continue to do now, is to help schools and colleges and universities explain how it is they can promote diverseny a way that complies with the law. And that means that when the federal government is looking into any complaints it may receive, it would also look to that kind of guidance and how it examines those kinds of complaints. There are a lot of americans who say somehow they have been pushed to the back of the line. It wasnt a situation that they faced in the beginning. Certainly even in a lot of altright online communities, this issue is front and center. This is used as an excuse to say white students are pushed aside by other students because of directives like this. Whats your best argument in favor of affirmative action in the University Admissions process . So for right now were in a time across america where there are deepening divides and tensions. What we know from decades of experiences when we have a process where race isnt the only factor, race is one among many, many factors, so this is important to understand. This is not meant to say if you are not otherwise qualified in any fashion, you get the space in university . Right. This is not quotas and not some people getting a preference because of their race. What this is, were going to take account of lots of things people bring to the table, their perspective and experiences and when that happens and when we have campuses where everyone feels welcome and where they are open to people of all different backgrounds, we all win. You have noted that you think this change is part of a plan to divide people coming on the heels of the separation of families at the borders. Whats the connection . In my mind this is a continuation of an effort to foment divides and separations in america because what this signals when the law hasnt changed, is simply this administration decided these are not goals it wants to continue to pursue which is to promote diversity inclusion. Try to address segregation and the divides in this country is not something it wants to pursue. For that reason i think of it as part of this longer term effort to divide and to separate and thats part of the kinds of policies weve been seeing over the last couple weeks. Thank you very much for joining me on this. Shes the former chief of the Educational Opportunity section of the Civil Rights Division at the department of justice. Affirmative action isnt the only thing the Trump Administration is going after in the world of Higher Education. In a new report nbc news looks at the steps that education secretary betsy devos is taking to end protections for students in debt to for profit schools. Let me be clear you heard that. To end protections for students in debt to for profit schools. Even the ones that go out of business. Shes expected to rework the rules requiring for profit schools to equip students with minimal employment skills to qualify for federal aid. Let that sink in. Those for profit schools typically target lowincome or minority students and critics claim there are people who go there and receive absolutely worthless degrees and end up thousands of dollars the debt. Supporters for profit colleges say they meet the demand for nontraditional and vocational training. A spoke denies saying devos is doing whats best for students not targeting schools on their tax status. Leveling the playing field, not tilting the scales. For more on how the Education Department is doing this im joined by nbcs National Political reporter heidi pressbala. Good to see you. Good to see you too. Tell me about this. So, two things about this in terms of why American Voters should be concerned. The first one is, because exactly what you mentioned, that these schools tend to target specifically lowincome individuals, individuals who are economically distressed, target them to take out massive amounts of debt and in many cases are left with worthless degrees. Secondly, is the taxpayer angle. A lot of these students, since they are lowincome qualify for pell grants, qualify for federal loans and where does that money come from . U. S. Taxpayers. Before the Obama Administration cracked down on these for profit schools, increased the standards, required them to at least have a minimum in terms of providing gainful employment to these individuals, and allowed individuals to also get out of their debt when they had been defrauded by schools, prior to that these schools took in billions of dollars they still do by the way, but about 32 billion in 2010. Today about 16. 6 billion. And there are still even with these stronger stringent there are still bad actors. We cited one school in particular from a 2012 Senate Report and it says according to the recruiting manual, for recruiters, this is what you should look for in your profile for students. Quote, welfare mom with kids, pregnant ladies, recent divorce, low selfesteem, lowincome jobs, recent death, mentally physically abused and i could go on. This is a school still in operation. It has attracted some of the most unscrupulous dealers around because its a great business. If you and i started a school knowing we could attract students who would get loans to be there, the inflation rate for this education was increasing, regardless of the quality of education, whats the connection with betsy devos undermining the rights of students in this case, given the fact that we do have a president who ran one of these schools, targeted specifically for this, attracting people, giving them worthless degrees and getting them into debt . Its a question of the culture and current administration, because it is no coincidence that betsy devos has also taken in a number of officials who previously worked for these for profit schools to be her top advisors. Robert itel, an attorney to bridgepoint which was actually fined 23 million, it settled, 23 million with defrauded students. There is a culture in this administration, you could argue with those officials, advising her and the president himself having the history of paying off students who say that they were defrauded by trump university. Heidi, good to talk to you. Thank you for being with us. Thanks, ali. Nbc news National Political correspondent. Coming up, from lawn mowers to pizza, sleeping bags, ketchup, canada slaps tariffs on a slew of products from trump loving red states. What this means with one of our closest allies. Youre watching msnbc. The Trump Administration is attacking canada over its decision to impose tariffs on nearly 13 billion worth of american goods. Weve been very nice to canada for many years and theyve taken advantage of that, particularly advantage of our farmerses and at the g7 the president proposed that they get rid of all tariffs and drop all barriers an have really great trade and they refused that and escalating tariffs against the United States does nothing to help canada and it only hurts american workers. White House Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders made those comments after canada placed tariffs on these u. S. Products in retaliation for the tariffs that President Trump imposed on canadian steel and aluminum. Canadian officials said the tariffs focus on goods produced in states that donald trump won in 2016, including pizza, whiskey, ketchup, mustard, yogurt, maple syrup, refrigerators, beer kegs, boats, sleeping bags, playing cards, ball point pens and more. Joining us to talk about how this is playing out north of the border an anchor at the Canadian BusinessNews Networks bloomberg. Good to see you my friend. Good to be here. How is it playing north of the border . Are canadians riled up about this . So, theres a certain amount of riling going on. Canadians, were tough to rile, but there is the rhetoric does hit home. Were seeing canadian politicians playing into it by retaliating with tariffs, even though, of course, as you know, the tariffs hurt us. This is the classic cutting off your nose to spite your face but feels good the way these things can as small children will tell you, and it plays well politically. So many people that i talk to who are very reasonable people who understand how business and economics work, will say, well you have to hit back at a bully. And you kind of say, well why is that . Why is it the right thing to do . The truth is, it feels good, looks good politically, looks strong, even though theyre not wrong about this, it hurts everybody. Whats the other option . If the United States imposes tariffs and uses a specious National Security argument which is wrong and that does ultimately hurt Canadian Businesses and im using canada as an example here, for everyone else the u. S. Has done this to, whats the response that does make sense . Well, it would be the one that stays true to your values, stays true to what you profess to believe in, and relies on the rule of law. So im not saying that this is a politically saleable position, but if youre already out there arguing free trade is better for everybody and tariffs are inordinately bad, dont put them in place, say what youre doing is wrong, President Trump, were not going to put retaliatory tariffs in place because it will only hurt our government, our citizens, our business. We will go to the World Trade Organization and use the mechanisms at our legal disposal to show what youre doing is wrong and we will win this based on the high ground and what we truly believe. Thats not the way politics work, as you know. So we dont get that. What we get is instead this titfortat with real costs. Steel and aluminum, were in the very short summer period here, and the price of beer, those aluminum cans, is already being affected by the aluminum tariffs. Those are real jobs that are already on the line. So this isnt you know, you can sit around a Cocktail Party and discuss what the right thing to do is, real jobs are at stake. Lets at least have the moral high ground. That is one position that we and the europeans could take in the face of all of this. The argument that i would hope would come out of this or the debate that i would hope what woo come out isnt going to be the right one, for decades, economists and journalists have argued that freer trade is good for gdp growth, corporate profitability and good for those things, but for manufacturing workers who earn a good wage in the west it has not been great. We havent addressed that. There are many canadians that think canada got the short end of the free trade stick. I think youll find most have bought the free trade argument. When you take wealthy nation likes the u. S. And canada aptnd put them against mexico the cost of labor and wage they make is so much lower there should be a leveling. We have seen a small one. The wages of the mexican labor have come up, they havent come up in a meaningful way. For that to happen our wages have to stabilize or go down. So i think youre right. There is a dark side. The bright side to free trade and this is where i think this notion of dropping all tariffs saying were going to do away with all of them, thats a very appealing one. Whats says lets actually compete on what were good at. That blue collar job of auto manufacturing is going away. A. I. , robotics, mexican labor, whatever it is, its going away slowly. What are the new jobs . The new jobs come from competition, innovation, new business formation, spurred by trade and makes us hungry and strong. We dont get that if you protect industries. They mold away until the jobs are gone. Thank you for shedding light on this. Say hi to toronto for me. Up next, new details of embattled epa chief pruitts spending habits. From the reporter who broke the latest story. Youre watching msnbc. This calls for a taste of cheesecake. Philadelphia cheesecake cups. Rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. Find them with the refrigerated desserts. About the Colonial Penn program. Here to tell you with real strawberries. If youre age 50 to 85 and looking to buy Life Insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. What are the three ps . The three ps of Life Insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. A price you can afford, a price that cant increase, and a price that fits your budget. Im 65 and take medications. Whats my price . 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I like fancy pens. He spent 1,500 on 12 pens. For the latest, im joined by brady dennis, who has spent a lot of time covering pruitt. Brady, this is not new in its context. We sort of have known about this sort of thing, but congress is getting more and more detail. Im just curious as to whether this goes anywhere, whether it leads to anything. Well, thats the question i think a lot of us are waiting to hear the answer to. In one sense whats significant about what we reported today was, you know, for months now, scott pruitt has essentially blamed his ethical troubles and the scrutiny that hes faced on political opponents or environmental groups or the media or disgruntled employees. But what you see here, what we reported on today was his own top aides, you know, detailing some of these apparent ethical lapses. Are they turning on him or being questioned under oath so they have to detell the truth . Yeah, theyre in front of an Oversight Committee an capitol hill and you dont lie to congress. They answered the questions they were asked. This is just weird. Some of it is not weird, some of it is people who dont know how to conduct themselves in Public Office doing things they know they shouldnt be able to do. You have rule where is you work, ive got rules where i work. Both of us would be fired for anything on that list. But scott pruitt is not new to this. He was the attorney general of oklahoma. He knows that these things could not be allowed where hes from. Whats behind all of this . Why is this happening and why is he not out of a job . The one simple reason is that, you know, his keeping his job depends on one opinion only, and thats the opinion of President Trump. And to this point, the president has backed his epa chief and has continued to praise the job hes doing and rolling back all sorts of regulations. So as long as thats the case, i think scott pruitt feels like hes on solid ground, unless that changes. That is the key thing, hes actually doing well at his job. If the job is to deregulate the epa, just like betsy devos job is to deregulate the department of education. Brady dennis, thank you for joining me. Up next, crude oil prices topped 75 a barrel today. And then took a plunge. Ill explain the cause of this price fluctuation. Youre watching msnbc. Its Pretty Amazing out there. The world is full of more possibilities than ever before. And American Express has your back every step of the way whether its the comfort of knowing help is just a call away with global assist. Or getting financing to fund your business. No one has your back like American Express. So where ever you go. Were right there with you. The powerful backing of American Express. Dont do business without it. Dont live life without it. But how do i know if im im getting a good deal . 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Will reimpose sanctions on irans Energy Sector after pulling out of the iran nuclear deal. The u. S. Said it would sanction countries that import oil from iran. President trump has complained about rising oil prices, tweeting that saudi arabia agreed to increase Oil Production by 2 Million Barrels a day, but thats not translating to relief at the gas pump. The National Average for regular selfserve gasoline is now 2. 86 a gallon. Thats up two cents from last week, but the Organization Says if this current trend continues, and gas prices go on a bit of a lag from oil prices, gas could top 3 a gallon in the coming month. So wherever you are, you can expect maybe a 15 cement increase in the gallon of gas. Ill be back here at 11 00 p. M. Eastern for the 11th hour. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. President trump started the day lost in sseinfelds the opposite episode saying but its President Trumps own intelligence agencies who have determined that north korea has increased Nuclear Production at secret sites. That reporting is based on interviews with more than a dozen u. S. Officials. But President Trump didnt stop his attack on american intelligence agencies there. This morning, he also carved out time to attack the nsa, led by Admiral Mike Rogers tweeting if youre keeping track at home, thats two more new