what can we expect to hear from him? i wouldn t necessarily expect him to speak out against the administration even in veiled terms which is what a lot of these officials have been doing. i think that, you know, dana made a really good point here. if anything, scott pruitt s saving grace in this whole thing is he is the guy who makes liberal s eyes bulge out. this is a guy who can make a credible claim there s a concerted effort against him. but that doesn t really change the fact that the things he d been doing have been pretty questionable in the eyes of many. and now it seems even the ethics official who supposedly signed off on this agreement is now questioning it. so the white house needs to decide whether it wants to go to the mat for scott pruitt or whether it decides this is just too much of a distraction and this is really headed in the direction that they would rather not take it. aaron blake, thank you. dana milbank, thank you. new pressure on facebook today. the numbe
when i was not there, the landlord, they had access to the entirety facility. you only paid for the nights you were there? that s right. that s a sweetheart deal. no, it s not. aaron blake, washington post, is with me. so is dana milbanks, syndicated columnist, also with the washington post. the white house told pruitt not to do tv. he forged ahead. that fox news interview was widely seen as a disaster in the building. and senior white house officials believe he was involved in staff raises contrary to what he says. if he s going against the white house s wishes, is he nearing the exit door or do you buy what we heard from president trump a short time ago? yes, i think if there s any lifeline for scott pruitt, it may be the comments that the president just made saying he has confidence in him. basically everything else that the white house had says this week has suggested that his job is very much in jeopardy.
on pruitt. deputy press secretary hogland gidly a few hours ago said he couldn t speak to pruitt s future. this was sanders yesterday. take a listen. does the white house have confidence in the epa administrator? the president thinks he s done a good job, particularly on the deregulation front. again, we take this seriously and we re looking into it. again, to note here, president trump, a short time ago, saying he does have confidence. dana milbank, you follow this administration very closely over the past year. that doesn t necessarily mean you have job security in this administration. do you think with scott pruitt it s a question of when, not if? well, not necessarily. because it doesn t really matter what the white house is saying. what it matters is what the president is thinking. we know that now within the 1:00 p.m. eastern hour today, he has confidence in scott pruitt. that does not mean he will have confidence at 2:00 p.m. or 3:00
back to that. this presidency is about competency and american people let me tell you something, they love his bluntness. they need some truth, and he s not being controlled by any political i get that. i get that robert. when we run around calling people dummies and they call you an idiot back it s just so childish. doesn t it come down to i know you are but what am i or whatever children say when they call each other names? listen dana milbanks of the washington post called donald trump a fraud and a dirty rotten pig. where is the civility in that? you can talk about it on both sides of the spectrum. but donald trump is running for president of the united states. i understand that. but listen donald trump is donald trump. i m not going to change him, you re not going to change him,
most conservative person in the primary and this is dangerous. but cruz is not running to be a senator. he s not trying to be on a committee. he wants to run for president and be the tea party leader. and the polls did show that cruz is ahead in terms of tea party votes right now. amy, i want to jump to the rand paul aspect of this. because what to me struck me as a interesting pr stunt, a good one for him, libertarian view on nsa, there s a left-right coalition that s not happy with the nsa, a lawsuit could be one of these populous things and in fact it looked like if you read the initial dana milbanks story, they were going to have a democrat on the lawsuit, they were not going to have and all of a sudden it got turned into a very conservative political event, bringing in cuccinelli, bringing in freedom works when the initial plan was not to do that. that seems like that is the question for rand paul which is he s trying to be this guy bringing together the two sides of the r