more importantly, i think pruitt has done a horrible job protecting the environment and protecting public health. you know, the issue i had focused on was his decision not to ban over the recommendation of his staff a very dangerous agricultural chemical that causes brain damage in children. so he s just a mess and i think it s time for him to get out of there and for him to be replaced. where does he rank to you in this administration? i mean, there s obviously been a lot of folks in different cab in the agencies who either have had real ethical issues or seem to be sort of at war with the actual agency they re running. where is pruitt in that list? well, you know, i think he is very high, maybe tops the list of people who both have ethical challenges, have abused taxpayer dollars but also, as i said, have taken and turned upside down the mission of their agency.
about pruitt is from his days at attorney general, he s a man on a mission. and he s been effective at trying to tear down the protections that epa has put in place to protect the environment, to protect people s public health. and that was something i guess that is approved of in the white house. so whether it s now the new attempt to try to roll back auto emission standards which will cost consumers literally billions of dollars and expose more kids to the risk of asthma or whether it s his reversal on the clean power plan or his decision not to ban this dangerous agricultural chemical, i guess he s doing what the president wants him to be doing. and if you have to give him some grudging credit, he s somewhat more effective at it than someone like ben carson or some of the other cabinet officers. i think that s probably right
promised to eliminate. and ben carson, is currently being investigated for alleged live using his office for his son s private gain and who, byes watt by the way, tried to order a $31,000 dining table for his office. the swampiest is pruitt. he is now reportedly on the verge of rolling back rules requiring cars to be cleaner and more efficient. peru s pruitt is supposed to fly coach when he conducts government business but he s taken dozens of private flights. the epa spent $43,000 to install
and i think that really demonstrates the conflict he has that he s working for the polluters and the lobbyists rather than for the american public and particularly for the health of the american people and particularly children. so, you know, it s some have had ethical challenges, some have done things that were really untoward and not in the public interest. pruitt exemplifies the place where the beams cross. so are you surprised, not surprised, by his ability to endure? i mean, tom price had a sort of downfall over the amount of travel he was doing. pruitt has done lots of travel, rabid up real cost, first class, $120,000 to italy, $40,000 flight to morocco, he s got this condo deal, at war with his own administration he s running. how has he been able to survive? the one thing you have to say
the energy department is the one that controls that. it was odd to see administrator pruitt being the ambassador for natural gas. just to be clear, the argument is this isn t in the epa s purview, it an energy issue, we lobby them. if it s not in the epa s purview, why is he taking the trip to morocco to extoll the virtue of liquid natural gas. that s the question we don t have an answer to. maybe it has something to do with his general interest in domestic oil and gas. pruitt is on the front lines of the president s push to embrace american energy. there s a memo out that epa released from deputy general counsel to the general counsel that basically exonerates pruitt and says it s fair market value and as such everything is on the