president s job, rolling back regulations. as we talk about what we could call the ps of this presidency, his pouft office things, the pruitt issue, now the pacific trade deal that he may be getting back into, that was some of the discussion yesterday, now overnight the president pushing back on that. but here s ben to raise some eyebrows, sorry my apple watch is going off here. definitely the big headline coming out of this meeting is that the president said he was deputy pew advertising larry ludlow to look at reentering the tpp negotiations. holy cow. that s a huge headline except for this the tweet later that said wee only joint tpp if the deal was substantially better than the deal offered to president obama. what in the world? this reminded me a lot of something trump criticized very heavily during the campaign which was hillary clinton s flip flop on tpp was almost identical. she supported it when she was in
record of, if not violations, certainly ways of how he has gone outside of what is expected and what the rules say a cabinet secretary has to do when it comes to approving spending to the point where we reported on thursday and friday that there were five people high-ranking officials within the epa, including trump political appointees, who had flagged these concerns to pruitt, and even to the white house, and those people were all either re-assigned, demoted, or put on administrative leave. the fact that these concerns got to the white house months ago and the white house did nothing is an indication of just what lynn talked about, that president trump is willing to trade the former that you talked about, pruitt s success in rolling back regulations, for any of these accusations arising out of his spending. you look at congress and the federal government in concert, now three republicans say scott pruitt should go. you had republicans there say
oval office today. for a meeting where he s going to talk rolling back regulations. while they re pleading with the president, made his case. this is why i should still be in this job. he s lost a lot of allies in the west wing but still has unlike david shuk david shulkin. people who may not want to protect the the environment and they have been in the president s ear say iing this g is getting conservative stuff done. my experience sam is that politicians have to, they get their own scar tissue on their own. they don t want it from their own people under them. he s taking a lot of bad hit h from the media. he doesn t want that hanging on his administration, does he? no. we re reporting tonight actually that one of the subplots here is an increde amount of tension. the beast. the beast. the senior white house staff and senior epa staff in which
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 pric
liberals care about clean water and air. how terrible are we that we care about places like flint, michigan, and other places in the country where the regulations that are in police station, some of which scott pruitt is rolling back, protect our children from poisoned water. and i think that certainly, any republican administration would have been doing these similar actions by rolling back regulations that the conservatives didn t like, but i think what scott pruitt is doing is essentially he represents the level of chaos, corruption, excess in this administration that we re seeing in a number of different cabinet officials and that s because donald trump s white house is chaotic and so these officials feel like they can run rough shod over their agencies. susan, what does this mean, that as long as scott pruitt is carrying out this agenda, he can do whatever he wants, have a $50 a night room, have a soundproof booth in his office, he can have a bullet proof desk, which he s reques