now that his deputy is in charge. changes in epa that were important and roll back of obama era policy. by the way, not just journalists, even some conservative commentator like laura engel saying pruitt has to go. last night pruitt was at the white house enjoying the fireworks with the president. yes, you wonder about the timing. i know in time we ll find out more of the details. brian, thank you so much. back over to the white house we go. kaitlin to you, just covering white house day in and day out you do, can you talk about the relationship between scott pruitt and president trump. it s interesting not just between the two of them. but between scott pruitt and the entire white house staff. he was generally well-liked including by two very key figure ns this white house, jared kushner and ivanka trump when he first got his start here. he was very well liked by a lot
sarah has been standing by. sarah what happens to these investigations that have been piling up against him? reporter: that s a great question, brooke. jumping off something kaitlin just said, was doing them. these investigations were looming. and one has to really wonder what may have been beginning to trickle out maybe making its way back to the white house about what people were finding. in times, it was their own party. it was republicans who were investigating scott pruitt looking into the allegations of wrongdoing. just late last week, two of his closest aides, current chief of staff, and one of his former top advisers testified under oath before ts house government oversight reform committee. those were republicans asking them questions. grilling them. we are told. on a variety of topics over the course of two days. what did they tell them? not only the details of those interviews have leaked out, and you have to wonder if that is looming. now i m told from a
that president trump wanted. this was getting criticism from all sides, from inside the corners of the west wing, from republican allies on the juice and of course from critics in the opposition. but clearly enough now to tilt the scales in favor of trump getting rid of scott pruitt from his cabinet. just the fact that the president put this out on twitter, it s not the first time he announced a resignation on twitter. like rex tillerson, reince prieb priebus. two examples that came to my mind as well. we eno that the presidentlikes to communicate this way, it gets the news instantly out in his frame and can control that narrative and timing a little bit. i guess what i m wondering is, is ethis done tweeting about staff changes in the next few days ahead of his foreign travel or are we going to see any other
his time as this epa chief. i think even yesterday we had to scroll just to go through the 30,000 or $40,0$30,000 or $40,0e booth he had put in his office. he had his public calendar scrubbed from a number of meetings that he had as epa chief. publicly removed from the calendar, the trump hotel mattress. sarah can go through, she s been covering all of these different really questionable things that this man has been a part of. and, yet, sarah, question saw him yesterday at the white house and the president even called him out by name for the fourth of july festivities. and now the resignation. what the do you know? we know it was a tweet just moments ago, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as
telling him that wouldn t be a good idea. just this week we saw a number of things come out about pruitt, something what he had washington aides do, he had aides put his personal hotel room on their credit card. he tried to get his wife a job, to be a chick-fil-a franchisee, all of these ways he was using his position, his taxpayer funded government level position in order to advance himself and his family and gain personal things. it was quite stunning, brooke, that none of those really registered on the president s radar. and i was told by sources inside the white house, that the president recognized the bad optics in the last few weeks of these stories against scott pruitt, but it wasn t that those stories themselves were enough to discount them with the president. that is stunning considering the way he treated people, like jeff sessions, who the president has been frustrated with for almost