And that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Katie tur is going to take over. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west, its 2 00 p. M. In washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. Well see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the Iran Nuclear Deal. Even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. Trump was pressed on issues here at home. And at this afternoons joint Press Conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. I havent heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, hes one of the finest people that i have met. Admiral jackson, dr. Jackson, hes a wonderful man. I said to him, what are you needed for . And as far as experience is concerned, the Veterans Administration which is approximately 13 million people, is so big, you koucould run the biggest Hospital System in the world that is small
ethics questions that pruitt is already facing. yesterday, the white house said that it s monitoring those issues but also praised pruitt for pushing the president s agenda at the epa. now there is another sweeping change in the works. today, the washington post reports that pruitt is pushing a controversial transparency rule limiting what research the agency can use. juliette elprin from the washington post is one of the reporters on that story. explain to me this rule, on the service it sounds like a good idea, transparency, i only want to be able to see the signs that i can understand the process behind. is that the best way to describe it? exactly. well, that s certainly how administrator pruitt and his supporters would describe this rule. they would say that what they are doing is taking the underlying data that s behind the studies that epa uses to draft, say, environmental regulations and other rules that