list of potential allegations are. reporter: jeff pruitt suggested ousting jeff sessions so he would be appointed attorney general and leasing a d.c. condo below costs and spending tens of thousands of dollars on office furniture, sound proof phone booth and tax dollars on weekend trips home and pay raises to political aides. using staff to run errands, trying to get his wife a six figure job and a restaurant franchise. his former deputy chief of staff said scott pruitt was warned several times to stop but excused. the phone booth was one thing. the first class flights, delta flights, living in the lobbyist s house, we all knew about this and we expressed concerns. we expressed issues with it. going home every weekend, having the taxpayers pay for his trips back home to oklahoma, we expressed this, including ryan
jackson. it just got overruled by administrator pruitt. reporter: in just the past few weeks even republicans began questioning pruitt s judgment. some are allegations and some are facts. he is acting like a moron and he needs to stop it. reporter: in the end, pruitt relied on his personal almost divine-like connection to donald trump as revealed in his letter of resignation. i believe you are serving as president today because of god s providence, pruitt wrote to trump. i believe that same providence brought me into your service. that service, under the weight of 14 federal probes, came to an end today. drew griffin joins us along with maggie abram who has done a ton of reporting on pruitt for the new york times. now that he has resigned, do the allegations, 14 of them go away? does he face disciplinary action? some will fall because of the
my greatest fear is running out of air before i make it out the cave. the truth is i ve been stuck in this cave. reporter: stuck for about six minutes, richard lamb says. it crossed his mind that he was in serious trouble. he was rescued by sergeant nope. to become cave diver certified, one of the requirements is to be at least 18 years old due to the difficulty and skill needed, which raises yet another concern for those boys in thailand, some as young as 11: and several who can t swim. in my perception, it s a last reso resort, but it is a viable means of providing them an escape route. if it s the only resort. if it s the only resort. officials are pumping water out of the cave around the clock, a much better option says this master diver. i believe if the rain were to subside enough that the pumps could draw enough water out of
insiders and others from the public, scrubbing federal records possibly in violation of the law. scrubbed? scrubbed, yes, sir. of the official epa administrator s schedule. absolutely. which happens quite a bit. reporter: the report details two dozen meteevents and meetin with insiders and others the secret calendar all done under pruitt s direction. this morning, two democratic congressman demanhandleded a federal investigation of that report. within hours, pruitt resigned. in his resignation letter pruitt never mentioned any of the scandals he was associated with only this, the unrelenting attacks on me personally and my family are unprecedented and have taken ain sizable toll on all of us. what s unprecedented, the sheer allegations against scott pruitt. it s mind-boggling the long
the cave. that would be an optimal scenario. reporter: this frigid, watery cave is so inherently dangerous, that we ve been told that more people have walked on the moon than have navigated through this. our two experts tell us in addition to themselves, they know of only five other people who have gone through here. the circumstances for the boys and their soccer coach in thailand remain life-threatening and extremely challenging. but these utah experts have faith in their diving colleagues on the scene. when a human being is faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges, we seem to rise to that challenge. reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, logan canyon, utah. fascinating. a lot more ahead, including the latest details on the news of epa administrator scott pruitt s resignation.