cut from the same cloth, they favor the same kind of deregulation and, you know, environmental legislative rollbacks that pruitt has been championing this entire year. i think on trump s part it is a way of saying, listen, you know, this guy is going to continue the mission. just because you got out scott pruitt, you know, imaginary foes or what have you, doesn t mean that this agenda is going to grind to a halt. all right. juliet eilprin, elaina plott. a trump administrator asked a judge for more time to reunite children with their families. they have until july 26th to reunite the rest of the children in their care, but the white house says it is not enough time. meanwhile, we re hearing a number of emotional stories of reunification. according to a pbs report, a young boy was returned to his mother infested with lice. she says it appeared as though he hadn t bathed for his entire 85-day separation. and then, of course, there is
right, steve. i think that s why it can be frustrating often as a reporter when you kind of face a barrage of backlash in the aftermath of an incident like this, you know, accusations that it was a coordinated attack on the part of the media. you know, you hear something like that, but then like you said my reporting suggests that, you know, multiple people inside pruitt s inner circle had been lobbying privately for his exit from the get-go. always i reported this morning, these were people who had been flooding johnnie destephano s office with requests to different agencies, but there were so many they ultimately couldn t be fulfilled. to suggest it is a conspiracy on the part of the deep state or mainstream media is to be willfully ignorant on what was happening on the part of officials inside the epa. juliet, what do we know about the relationship between pruitt