aamong the scandals involving scott pru kit, the latest one may take the case. on a six-figure trip to italy last year, pruitt had dinnered a a five-star restaurant with a cardinal, not just a climate change skeptic, but he was under investigation for child sex abuse, which explains why epa staffers deliberately tried to hide the dinner. the new york times reporting that a move to keep cardinal pell off official schedules came after cardinal pell was charged on june 29th. the reporter who broke that story and many more about the epa, eric lipton is joining me now. there are two things here, eric. there s the decision to have the dinner with this cardinal. and then what they did to hide it. let s start with the dinner itself. how did that come about? the whole trip and aspects of it are quite irregular. all the get-togethers that pruitt had at the vatican, he visited the vatican library, he visited with vatican officials,
mixed messages from the white house about other problem. the cabinet level chief with nine lives. the president saying he has confidence in scott pruitt while his white house said they re tl are some concerns. pruitt is back in the news for all of the wrong reasons today after the new york times obtained documents about a dinner that he had with a catholic cardinal accused of child sexual abuse. sarah gannon reports. reporter: documents uncovered by the new york times reveal epa administrator scott pruitt dined with a controversial vatican figure, along with over a dozen other church leaders at a five-star restaurant during his trip to italy last year, even though his public schedule said he was simply having a private dinner with staff. sometimes the very learned and can be brilliantly foolish. reporter: the guest of honor according to the document was a known climate denier, cardinal
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