then staff would gather around the table, determine which events would be kept off, which kept on and which would be altered. he says it was often done in pruitt s office and under his direction. scrubbed? scrubbed, yes, sir. of the official epa administrator schedule? absolutely, which happened quite a bit. reporter: cnn found more than two dozen meetings, events or calls left off pruitt s publicly-released calendar which is only released weeks after the events occur. what s missing? meetings with energy industry officials, lawyers, washington insiders who could potentially benefit from a friendlier epa. so he would meet with industry lobbyists, somebody from industry itself and decide later that wouldn t look good so scrub it off the calendar? sometimes later, even before we would put on the schedule meeting with staff that was the default button. reporter: want examples? internal e-mails show in april,
that was the default button was meeting with staff. reporter: want some examples? internal e-mails show that in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with a coal company executive. it s not on the public calendar. september 2017, the official schedule shows pruitt met with former senator turned energy industry lobbyist trent lott but left off it included the ceo of a shipping company and discussion of ships and their fuel source. in october 2017, a staff briefing appeared on pruitt s official calendar. e-mails show the actual meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a super fund site. we had at one point three different schedules. one of them was one that no one else saw besides three or four of us. reporter: two government experts tell cnn, altering,
of the official epa administrator s schedule? absolutely. happened quite a bit. reporter: cnn found more two dozen left off pruitt s publicly released calendar which is only on released weeks after the events occur. what is missing? meetings with energy industry officials, lawyers, washington insiders who could potentially benefit from a friendlier ep afternoon. so he would meet with lobbyises and decide later that that was not going to look good, so let s scrub it. let s later, everyone before, we would always put on the schedule meeting with staff. that was the default button. reporter: want some examples? internal e-mails show that in april 2017, pruitt attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal company executive joseph pratt. it is not listed on the public epa calendar. september 2017, the official schedule shows pruitt met with
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