and epa says they re cooperating with this investigation led by trey gowdy of the house oversight committee. they have a host problems here. there s more than a dozen different investigations into the administrator s conduct and various and he s fast running out of friends here. stay with me. 14 ongoing investigations. i mean, you spend your days on the hill. have you heard from any gop leaders on sort of their take on scott pruitt s position? because on one hand you could say i like the policy. but from people i spoke to inside epa, you have three camps. you have the obama hold offers saying let this end. then you have a group in the middle who were appointed by the trump administration who are working on moving forward on policies that this administration supports. and then you ve got sort of this oklahoma mafia around scott pruitt, many of whom have left since all these scandals have come out. but what are the republicans saying about why scott pru witness should keep on rocking
inspector general, question is, how does this man from oklahoma survive? according to nbc, it including focusing on his accomplishments and trying to dispel these bad allegations. if that doesn t work, new york times got a hold of an internal document that indicates pruitt, he is going to try to put some of the blame on his staff. there s a high integrity move. i want to bring in nbc s kacie hunt live on the hill. it wasn t me, blame it on my staff. we need to remember what pruitt s staff looks like. there s epa lifers who are sort of these obama holdovers. then there s the people doing all the work inside who are the trump administration appointed republicans. and then there s the oklahoma mafia, surrounding scott pruitt. the people that got giant raises who are facilitating his glam lifestyle. who exactly is he going to pin this on? so much for the buck stops here, scott pruitt under increasing fire from members of
saying let s just wait until this term is over. then there are real republicans in there working on policy. then there s the oklahoma mafia that got big raises. people who may not even be qualified for the job. it s not scott who s leading policy. it s scott who s the figurehead. tell me, when did you hear scott pruitt doing the media rounds, talking about what they re doing in that office, selling their mission? i don t remember ever seeing him. well, you know, every epa administrator has a martha stewart inside of him just waiting to come out. i see you have a challenge coin. this is from the intrepid space museum. that s a cool challenge coin. i get that. it s unclear to me, why would scott pruitt have one? this is my favorite quote, it s worse than a crime, it s a mistake. i mean, we re not even talking about epa policy. what the administrator ought to be doing. it s just such a basic political
is putting his own interests above the country? well, the president seems to prize, in some respects, loyalty and the willingness to take some slings and arrows on his behalf above all else. so pruitt s been out there, you know, really doing some big things that the epa changing, whether you agree with him or not. that was the president s complaint about jeff sessions. the guy wouldn t go into the tank for him. he followed justice department advice to recuse himself. the president was deeply offended by that. pruitt by all evidence is the kind of person who wouldn t recuse himself and would do the president s bidding. is there not another republican who could get this agenda done? when i talk to people inside the epa, they told me there s three camps. the epa lifers who are really resistance types. they re hanging in. there are republicans who are appointed who are doing all the work. then there s sort of the oklahoma mafia, the posse, pruitt brought in to sort of facilitate his li