thing 1 tonight the high flying epa administrator scott pruitt is clipping his wings. he s been if the news repeatedly for using public money to fly first class. he said his security detail requested it because we live in a very toxic environment politically. in other words, nonrich people had the audacity to yell at him and tell him he was doing a better job, better than to stay up front with the risch folks apparently cool with him. pruett now says he s given his security detail new instructions. what i ve told them going forward is this. there s a change occurring. you re going to accommodate the security threats as they exist. you re going to accommodate those in all ways up to and including flying coach and that s going to happen on my very next flight. wow. he s going to fly coach. big concession here. he has ordered his security detail to explore options up to and including coach. that s drastic. whatever that means. the next flight will be in coach however. after that, you
about politics. you know, these jobs have a big element of politics in them. he is not going to get in the middle of litigating what remains a hypothetical situation. he won t say, if this happened, then this. senator risch said to him not too long ago, well, he said to everybody, but then he singled wray out, warned them about getting enveloped in domestic politics. the criticism, theoretically, the reason the white house originally gave for the firing of jim comey was the mishandling and this sort of the going around the chain of command as it related to his handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation during the 2016 campaign. now, donald trump later said, well, the russia thing to lester holt and that clouded it. the real explanation of why comey was fired, the rod rosenstein memo that trump allegedly based the firing on was this idea that comey had gotten to had inserted
making sure we had a strong voice for north korea. maria is a cnn political commentator and democratic strategy and a former senior adviser to christopher hill, and a visiting professor for georgetown university. good to see all of you. what does russia s ability to vote for the sanctions signal for the future of the u.s. and risch ya relationships? this whole resolution condemning north korea and putting a sanction on about one third of their economy is an unqualified diplomatic success for the trump administration, we have difficulties right now in our relationship with russia, because of their meddling in our election, it s important to understand that on the big issue of dealing with north korea, which is a clear and present danger to the security of the united states, nikki haley and the trump white house were able to get russia in the right
was on the level. so talk about these comments in general, though. the president saying that there are conflicts there, saying that it s a red line if robert mueller ends up looking into his finances. how are these comments viewed by investigators? do they see them as potentially attempts to interfere with their work? sorry. is that for me, katy? yeahel. it s for you, ken. yeah. so you ve already seen senator risch richard blumenthal tweet today that these comments are inappropriate, bordering on obstruction of justice s. whether it s obstruction, what they say is it s extremely politically inadvice believe aam it looks like the are president is trying to pressure investigators r threatening to fire lawyer. he s a defense lawyer s worst nightmare in this respect because he s sending the impression that he s trying to interfere. what can they do? just ignore him? they have to just ignore them and keep on doing what they re doing. robert mueller, don t forget, is a republican
government. we have to talk to general flynn, carter page, roger stone. there s a host of names that have been mentioned, many of which we ve had to subpoena documents from, that we want to get their answers so we can bring them in and talk to the committee, as well. your colleague, senator jim resh, suggested the investigation by bob mueller is tainted because three members of his legal team have given political donations to democrats. i guess you ve got to wait and see when the thing is over. but why if they do something, it s tainted, it s tainted by all that. i mean, i had a very difficult time, from what i know, from the intelligence committee, i would have real trouble with it. is mueller s investigation tainted? respectfully, i disagree with senator risch. we even had the attorney general