from 2009 until just last year, murray energy paid nearly $3 million to wheeler s lobbying firm to deliver government access just like this. months after the photo was taken i m andrew. reporter: president trump could nominate wheeler from coal company lobbyist to deputy administrator of the epa. i m not surprised. i am appalled, but not surprised. reporter: to those who track the trump administration s actions on the environment, like columbia university s michael gerard, wheeler is a worst-case scenario. wheeler is carrying out the wish list of the industry lobbyists who have wanted to shut down environmental regulations, as he himself was a lobbyist with exactly that objective, but now he s in the driver s seat. reporter: that industry wish list, turns out, is real. shortly after donald trump took office, murray energy, the coal company, delivered an action plan, a recommended agenda of rolling back regulations to get the government off the coal
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,
industry lobbyists, and decided that that would not look good, let s scrub it off the calendar. we would put on the schedule, meeting with staff. that was the fault button was meeting with staff. reporter: want some examples? internal e-mail shows in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal company joseph kraft. it s not listed on the epa calendar. september 2017, it shows pruitt met with former senator-turned energy industry lobbyist, present ltrent lott, but left off it a president of a shipping company and the shipping of the fuel source. a staff briefing appeared on the calendar. e-mails show the actual meeting was with private attorneys representing a water district over a superfund site. we had at one point three
chief of staff, a secret calendar containing the actual events was printed out, then staff would gather around a table, determine which events would be kept on, which would be kept off, and which would be altered. he says it was often done in pry wit s office and under pruitt s direction. scrubbed? scrubbed, yes, sir. reporter: of the official epa administrator s schedule? yes. 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 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 was not going to look good so let s scrub it off the kalder? sometimes later, even before, we would put on the scheduled
the primary runoff. strange who had the backing of the president and senator majority leader mitch mcconnell by ten points. and democrats have an nounsed there will not be a vote to overturn obamacare. senator lindsey graham a sponsor of the legislation to the republicans are still going to work to fulfill their promise of repealing and replacing obamacare. let s go to the latest story we re following, the latest on health care. president trump is to push his proposed overall of the tax code as republicans prepare to unveil the framework of that plan. the president will head to the indiana state fair grounds in indianapolis to sell the plan. it s expected to call for slashing the corporate tax rate from 20% to 35%. and according to details shared with nbc news from a financial industry lobbyists. in the current tax brackets for individuals are expected to be