fire so many people in a single month. yes, but it s not just the democrats who are criticizing him. we know democrats have. but the epa released a statement and it s saying in part, quote, administrator pruitt is focused on advancing trump s agenda, of regulatory certainty and environmental stewardship. sure, fine, great. at this point, it s not just democrats going after pruitt. we ve seen republican congressman trey gowdy. has now send a letter to the epa because it failed to provide all the documents related to this guy s spending on travel, his lease agreement. remember, there s people he s given these raises to. money that was only supposed to be allotted for scientists he s given to his oklahoma posse. now the trey gowdies of the world asking? when you ve got people like trey gowdy turning on you on the hill. i thought pruitt would be out by now. i m surprised he s not. it s hard for me to predict when this guy is going to leave. it doesn t feel like there will ever be an en
that landed tom price in hot water and then out of a job, why hasn t scott pruitt been fired? what s your sense? do you really think mitch mcconnell just a couple of a month before the midterms wants to have another senate confirmation on his desk? look. you look at some big donors who are aligned with administrator pruitt who want to see him stay. also, this is about the president s energy agenda. in terms of that, there s a lot of folk who is want to see that consistent policy whether you agree with it or not from the administration s perspective, they want to see that consistency carried out. because again, any type of senate confirmation debacle would take months just before the midterms. and i think this senate has enough with senate confirmation hearings coming up with regards to director pompeo. they ve got their hands full. melanie, the white house is also being asked to explain some
the ethics and concerns. do you think traid gowdy will agree to that? trey gowdy is a friend. when it comes to scandal in the trump administration, whether it be tom price or mr. pruitt, it has been crickets. silence. no interest in seeing, hearing or talking any kind of evil. i think it is scandalous. the oversight committee has an independent role for the united states congress as an institution and we re not doing our job. i m not hopeful that chairman gowdy will do anything with regard to administrator pruitt. that s why i think that s right has to go. i think the the ethical behavior built up to the point, he is no longer credible. the documents they ve been show
don t even hit the gray areas, just stay away. sandra: interesting. that s not the only thing he is in hot water over. high travel expenses as well and raises to a couple of staff members. the travel expenses i understand. i see conflicting information are not out of line with his predecessors. that has to be run to ground. i ve seen some reports say it was excessive and others say it was in line. sandra: senator rand paul said we need him as the epa administrator. the president has a big trip in west virginia. always good to see you. thank you. we have still a big show for you ahead. moments away deputy white house press secretary hogan gidley will join us on america s newsroom as well as house homeland security committee chairman michael mccaul. big guests coming up on a quickly changing morning. leland: a lot to ask hogan about as it goes back to scott
the controversy of scott pruitt in a fiery discussion on fox news last night there was this exchange. watch this. who did it? there will be some accountability. i don t know. sandra: you don t know who did it? i found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action. sandra: that was an exchange about raises to a couple of staff members under the epa administrator. he is under fire for this $50 a month apartment rental in washington, d.c. what is scott pruitt s future? i can t speak to the future of scott pruitt. i can talk about where we are now. the white house is aware of these reports. we re looking into those. we don t have any announcements to make as regards to staffing right now. we re aware and we believe some of these questions need to be answered. sandra: what is it that you re aware of specifically? we ve seen the reports.