is this is the end of the controversy, the white house seems to want to ride it out. seems unlikely. take us inside the controversy. one of scott pruitt s closest aides and allies, samantha drivers, resigned. she s worked and traveled with scott pruitt, socializing with him, it s been reported, on a regular basis. those who are sort of career epa people have said, they don t have access to this guy. he s got his own staff. career ap, epa people who can t even brief him. they have to brief his team. tell me, what s going on inside that place? well, i think an important point is that, you know, this condo deal has really brought to the surface and to the public s eye long-simmering conflict within the epa and the white house about how pruitt does his job. everybody is pointed in the same direction. most people want the regulations to go away, but there s long been controversy within the administration about how 20prui
goes about his business. there s concern among different aid aides. you re seeing the fallout after that. sources say if there s not more bad headlines, the white house will probably keep him around. that seems unlikely, just over the last 12 hours, the epa inspector general, the ethics official, says that he didn t have all the information he needed to clear the condo deal. we re not going to be we re going to keep talking about this. scott pruitt was offended when ed henry asked him about the apartment. his defense, which was the same i got from hugh hewitt, is the ethics people reviewed it and said it was okay. now that the ethics guy is saying, i didn t have all the information, kind of makes it sticky. we ll look at this. amy, thanks very much. thank you. amy harder, energy and climate change reporter at axios. just over one week since president trump signed $1 trillion spending package. it s the spending package that s
major epa announcement that happened today, the ending of the fuel emissions standards for cars put in place under the obama s epa. that is being done as pruitt is being dogged by all these revelations. we ll talking about that issue with our next guest and a good point these ethical lapses are orders of magnitude greater than david shulkin. i have a funny feeling we ll hear more things coming out. eric and sam, thank you. with me now ted lieu, in a letter today requesting congress investigate pruitt s condo deal. what you do you make of this news. what is scott pruitt did is part of a pattern of corruption in the trump cabinet. we ve seen ben carson order a $31,000 dining table. ryan zinke spent $13,000 on office doors.
cars put in place under the obama s epa. that is being done as pruitt is being dogged by all these revelations. we ll talking about that issue with our next guest and a good point these ethical lapses are orders of magnitude greater than david shulkin. i have a funny feeling we ll hear more things coming out. eric and sam, thank you. with me now ted lieu, in a letter today requesting congress investigate pruitt s condo deal. what you do you make of this news. what scott pruitt did is part of a pattern of corruption in the trump cabinet. we ve seen ben carson order a $31,000 dining table. ryan zinke spent $13,000 on office doors. and treasury secretary mnuchin spent over a million dollars of taxpayers money to fly military jets he did not need. what pruitt did the goes to another level. he received a personal monetary benefit from the lobbyists. that s the reason we wrote in ig
alan, thanks very much. immigration reporter with usa today. we have to hit the markets again when we come back. the nasdaq unchanged on the day. stocks are erasing their losses. we re going to dig into for a moment why i know in the last hour larry kudlow was speaking just outside the white house, saying, basically, hold your horses. there s a lot of talk. this may not happen, the tariffs. this may not happen. i believe he went on to say they re getting closer on finding a clear, maybe better path with regard to nafta. we have to dig into that. the last two days, we ve seen the market tank. it opened up down this morning. now, we re certainly seeing it back up. we have to find out why. epa administrator scott pruitt said he s dumbfounded his $50 a night d.c. condo deal is controversial. it is amazing. come work here, and let s do a show about how americans can save money. $50 a night in washington, d.c. i want that guy s deal. ali velshi has his next