it s an amazing feeling turning those lights back on. be informed about outages in your area. sign up for outage alerts at pge.com/outagealerts. together, we re building a better california. hhs secretary tom price could be forgiven for wondering why he had to resign today for flying around on private jets on the taxpayer dime, seeing as that sort of behavior is essentially common practice in this administration. scott pruitt, the claimant change skeptic and oil and gas industry darling that president trump put in charge of environmental protection has himself taken at least four private skpa military flights at a cost to taxpayers of more than $58,000. the inspector general is investigating his travel to his home state of oklahoma seemingly for his own political purposes. pruitt also gave himself, listen to this, an 18-person 24/7 security detail at a cost of
notice. president telling reporters he was not happy. i was looking into it and will look into it and i will tell you personally i m not happy about it. what are you going to do? i will look at it. not happy and let him know it. not only one with taste for luxury travel. scott pruitt has spent more than $58,000 taxpayers dollars, almost all to single day of travel in his home state of oklahoma. health care reporter for politico who helped break the story. you ve been doing amazing reporting. thanks for coming on. how big a deal do you think the president s comments are? i think they re notable. president is not rushing to defend secretary price s use of private planes. on the other hand though, seen
personal and government business. inspector general has started review and republican-led committee is getting on the case launching investigation into agency travel. most ominously for price, man who appointed him is taking notice. president telling reporters he was not happy. i was looking into it and will look into it and i will tell you personally i m not happy about it. what are you going to do? i will look at it. not happy and let him know it. not only one with taste for luxury travel. scott pruitt has spent more than $58,000 taxpayers dollars, almost all to single day of travel in his home state of oklahoma. health care reporter for politico who helped break the story. you ve been doing amazing
body why is the climate changing? senator, in response to the co2 issue, the epa administrator is constrained by statutes i m not i m asking you a personal opinion. my personal opinion is immaterial. really? to the job of to the job of you are going to be the head of the agency to protect the environment and your personal feelings about whether climate change is caused by human activity and carbon emissions is immaterial? and in fact, scott pruitt never directly answered that question. senator sanders also went after pruitt on the issue of all the earthquakes in his home state of oklahoma, earthquakes that scientists say are being caused by the injection of waste water from the fracking process that gets oil and gas out of shale. and he asked him if he had ever filed a suit or study up and said anything about those earthquakes? and scott pruitt could not answer. and after that very tense
address the crisis, including a pr campaign urging parents not to send their children to the u.s. illegally but for now many of them wind up in federal holding facilities. republican congressman jim brightstein toured one facility in his home state of oklahoma and joins us from tulsa. we spoke with you before your tour yesterday. what did you learn? the stories of human tragedy are verified, a lot of the children quite frankly don t even make it to the united states. the scenario is very bleak. there are parents in the united states that have been smuggled here who are here illegally and they re attempting to get their kids here. in many cases they re paying coyotes who then pay transnational criminal organizations in northern mexico, as your previous story indicated, mexico is a very