meaning the white house counsel don mcghan, have a great relationship. he appreciates all the hard work he s done, particularly his help and expertise with the judges and the supreme court nominees. when you see sarah sanders say he, the president, appreciates mcgann s expertise with the judges, he s referring to the fact that don mcghan spearheaded the effort to stock the federal courts with conservative judges. he s also responsible for the president s attempts to really cut back regulations, regulations across the federal government. so don mcghan is in many ways a conservative hero. you see sarah sanders saying mcghan and the president have a great relationship even though the new york times points out a very different kind of relationship between the men. this is interesting, the response thank you for that, just coming in from sarah sanders. the interesting part of that response is it does not really address all of the other items in this long 2, 225-word
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money? the president did not answer that last question. as if this white house wasn t juggling enough. this was also the week the administration announced it was sending national dpaguard troopo the u.s.-mexican boarder. they are expected to deploy starting tonight. here to talk with us is care carol lee and white house reporter for politico. welcome, everyone. carol, beyond the fact that scott pruitt is doing what donald trump want, rolling back regulations, why is the president content to keep him on board after all the cscandals w have been seeing in the last few months. a couple of things. he s not just doing what he wants in terms of regulations and other thingthings. there s a lot of support. second this is not someone who
that s what we re doing right now. again, the president thinks that he s done a good job on the purpose of carrying out the goals of the epa. that s the setup. let s talk about it. joining me, derek thompson, senior editor for the atlantic, and white house reporter for the associated press. and msnbc political analyst. and peter nicholas, white house reporter with the wall street journal. thank you guys for joining me this afternoon. jonathan, i ll start with you. you ve reported that scott pruitt met with the president yesterday in an effort to save his job. this was on the same day he tweeted what appeared to be support for pruitt and a day after he defended him to reporters, as you saw, on air force one. what do you think it means about pruitt s future? reporter: pruitt was scheduled to come into the white house on a meeting on regulation rollback at the epa. he met the president and made the case for why he should remain at his job. part of what he said was that, he has b