month, and spent crazy amounts of money on air travel and had the staff get his wife a job at chick-fil-a and looking for the lotion he liked. and he tried to buy that used trump mattress. that guy was getting away with all those scandal for a good long time until he found himself face to face with mighty ed henry. the average rent in washington is over $2,000 a month. not for what i rented. this was like an airbnb situation, ed. it s a block from the capital. you only paid for the nights you were there? that s exactly right. that s a sweetheart deal, your house in oklahoma, you pay a mortgage on that. when you don t sleep there, you still pay the mortgage, right? yes, but this is a tremendous difference. i wasn t using the facility. as surprising as it was to see scott pruitt on tv, no one
abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl starts us off at the white house. reporter: he was front and center at the white house fourth of july picnic just yesterday, but now, scott pruitt, one of the most embattled cabinet secretaries ever, is gone. in his tweet announcing pruitt s resignation as the head of the environmental protection agency, the president said, within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job, and i will always be thankful to him for this. but pruitt s tenure has been beset by scandal after scandal, including a story abc news broke earlier this year about pruitt renting an apartment on capitol hill for just $50 a night from the wife of a lobbyist. this was like an airbnb situation. you only paid for the nights you rent, you were there? that s exactly right. but that s kind of a sweetheart deal. reporter: all-told, pruitt was facing at least 12 separate investigations by multiple government agencies, and was repeatedly accused of using hi
it right now, pruitt is a man in washington. this was like an airbnb situation. we re going to blow up washington and reinvented. this is not for revenge. my opponent, he talks about trump, but when it s time to show courage and vote for president trump s agenda, he votes no, no, no. i don t mean to be comical, but we only carry six balls ordinarily. bret: so painful. that was just one week. i m not telling you what the cut line is. make sure you start off with a new fox news sunday. chris wallace will interview larry kudlow.
d.c. apartment, apparently far below the cost of similar units. the owner? the wife of a top lobbyist, whose clients do business with the epa. this was like an airbnb situation. reporter: pruitt insists it was all done by the books. the ethics officials here at this agency reviewed the lease, reviewed the terms of the lease. when did they review it? they reviewed it as in march of this year, right, after you moved out? but that s what s important. they reviewed the terms of the lease. reporter: but now, the agency s top ethics watchdog says when they did that review last week, they didn t have all the facts. pruitt has been under fire for months for allegedly wasting taxpayer money. two of his top aides and personal friends reportedly received large salary hikes, even after the white house refused to sign off. one aide receiving a nearly $57,000 pay raise. but pruitt says it wasn t his idea. so who did it? a career person or a political person? i don t know.
no copies of any canceled checks, for example. and the lobbyist s first represents companies with interests involving the epa, including the oil giant exxonmobil. even fox news correspondent ed henry wasn t buying scott pruitt s story about living in the lobbyist s house. this was like an airbnb situation, ed. it s not. it s a block from the capital. it s like an airbnb situation. so you only paid for the nights you were there? that s exactly right. but that s kind of a sweetheart deal no, it s not. your house in oklahoma, you pay a mortgage on that, and when you don t sleep there unfortunately, yeah. when you don t sleep there, you still pay the mortgage, right? not when i m not but this is a tremendous difference. i wasn t using the facility when i wasn t there. try getting that deal with your landlord. you only pay rent on the nights you actually sleep at home. reports indicate that chief of staff john kelly told scott pruitt to not do any interviews, f