of his they got these big raises. the white house didn t approve them. what pruitt says is that he knew they were get accounting raises but he didn t know they were circumventing the regulations. he told that to congress. if that s a lie, then that s a federal crime. it did happen with grant as you say. that might be the only time fur a treasury secretary. i can t see there being the stomach for going forward with actual impeachment. at most there would be extraordinary pressure on trump to let him go if he continues at this kind of comic pace. 1500 federal employees a year get suspended for conduct that s way less an green jus. is that true? yes. ethical violations. yeah, but again, people get in big trouble for that. this is also about whether the president s men are above the law. that s part of the thing, harry. anyone who has been around the federal government, they taketh cal compliance seriously. the way you interact with
that pruitt might have to pay taxes on the 3 million bucks he spent on security and travel since taking office. washington post is making this claim. how real is that? could scott pruitt have to write a big check? i think that s kind of a technicality but it s bothersome for fiscal conservatives in particular, including the folks who do like what he s doing in his agenda as far as rolling back these regulations. they are troubled, my sources tell me, even within the agency, are troubled by the way that he has spent taxpayer money on his travels, particularly when he is justified by saying there is a security need here that he is under threat. yet when he travels on his own dime, he apparently does not see quite the same security and imperative for him to have that seat. interesting, interesting. ken, great reporting. i also have my eye on ryan jackson. that is scott pruitt s chief of staff. he s the one who approved those big, big raises to a couple
saying let s just wait until this term is over. then there are real republicans in there working on policy. then there s the oklahoma mafia that got big raises. people who may not even be qualified for the job. it s not scott who s leading policy. it s scott who s the figurehead. tell me, when did you hear scott pruitt doing the media rounds, talking about what they re doing in that office, selling their mission? i don t remember ever seeing him. well, you know, every epa administrator has a martha stewart inside of him just waiting to come out. i see you have a challenge coin. this is from the intrepid space museum. that s a cool challenge coin. i get that. it s unclear to me, why would scott pruitt have one? this is my favorite quote, it s worse than a crime, it s a mistake. i mean, we re not even talking about epa policy. what the administrator ought to be doing. it s just such a basic political
of border adjustment tax. we ve now heard this week from steve mnuchin, not going to happen. just yesterday john boehner said, please, it s dead as a door nail. we re taking a break. still to come on velshi & ruhle, do you want to see me get really angry? we re talking american ceo pay. they made out like bandits in 2016 getting big raises, and their workers not so much. and have you heard this before? fake news. fake, fake news. yeah, you have, of course. what he s talking about isn t actually fake news. there are real absolutely made-up dishonest stories competing for clicks in your news feed. we re going to tell you why they make so much money when we come back. this is a story about mail and packages.
like $51,000 is the income for the typical household in this country. look, we took a look at these numbers, they had to be made public so you can see exactly who makes what in the white house. interesting, 172,000 is the top salary there, 172,200, the maximum salary. you have 22 employees who make that, 11 men and 11 women. when you go all the way through all of the spread sheets, a lot of the middle paying jobs held mostly by men, the jobs the bottom end of the income spectrum seem to be held more by women, so there seems to be a little bit of disparity there, but when you look at the overall numbers, the top 22 positions evenly matched by men and women, carol. let s talk about some other people within the administration that got these big raises. the president s speechwriter also won. yes, he was promoted to head speechwriter and that meant a big raise for cody keenan. he started in 2009 at $45,000 a year, and now you can see there he was promoted last year, making just about $1