like to bypass the white house which was not going to give that person a raise. this is just not acceptable conduct by the epa administrator. this is the person that went to go find him housing. when he succeeded in doing that, he then got a raise using a provision in the clean water act that allowed the bonus to go through without the white house signing off, right. correct. so here s my question though substantively. you heard sam say he s still there because he s doing the president s agenda. huge announcement having to do with your state. they are they are wanting to yank back fuel efficiency standards and want to go after california which sets a higher standard and other states. the sort of state s right argument out the window. they want to yank california from its current fuel emission standards. what do you think of that. it is a decision that is going to take us backwards. states like california and others have shown us the future and that s where the world is headin
have condo. so that is inexcusable to think there was not such a document that existed at the time that the lease was entered into that evaluated. to do it after the abc breaks the story undermines any suggestion that this was an arp s length kind of evaluation of the appropriateness of him being there and that the market rate. it looks like something they threw together in a day to try to defend what he had already done. the author of that is kevin minoli, a career person there 1 years. it was striking he you the his name to the memo. he owns that as a kind of independent career judgment about the ethical probity there and one wonders under what circumstances that was written. given the way that the arrangement obviously flies in the face of sort of common sense. you ve also got a story, sam, in the daily beast that the pruitt lied to congress about using private e-mail. have i heard of that before? to talk to big oil as oklahoma attorney general. what s up there? yeah, this is
cars put in place under the obama s epa. that is being done as pruitt is being dogged by all these revelations. we ll talking about that issue with our next guest and a good point these ethical lapses are orders of magnitude greater than david shulkin. i have a funny feeling we ll hear more things coming out. eric and sam, thank you. with me now ted lieu, in a letter today requesting congress investigate pruitt s condo deal. what you do you make of this news. what scott pruitt did is part of a pattern of corruption in the trump cabinet. we ve seen ben carson order a $31,000 dining table. ryan zinke spent $13,000 on office doors. and treasury secretary mnuchin spent over a million dollars of taxpayers money to fly military jets he did not need. what pruitt did the goes to another level. he received a personal monetary benefit from the lobbyists. that s the reason we wrote in ig
when he succeeded in doing that, he then got a raise using a provision in the clean water act that allowed the bonus to go through without the white house signing off, right. correct. so here s my question though substantively. you heard sam say he s still there because he s doing the president s agenda. huge announcement having to do with your state. they are they are wanting to yank back fuel efficiency standards and want to go after california which sets a higher standard and other states. the sort of state s right argument out the window. they want to yank california from its current fuel emission standards. what do you think of that. it is a decision that is going to take us backwards. states like california and others have shown us the future and that s where the world is heading. when oil prices start to rise again as they will, foreign automakers are going to eat our lunch if our domestic automakers cannot deal with these new standards.
characters who looks more important as time goes by. barbara mcquaid, a former federal prosecutor and justice analyst, frank figliuzzi, an msnbc national security analyst and benjamin wittes editor-in-chief of the law fair blog and an msnbc analyst. frank, on the vander zune sentencing and i want to move to the manafort file. what do you interpret as the reason to hammer this guy? in the way that mueller did? so an even bigger story than the 30-day prison sentence which to most people would seem like small potatoes for lying to mueller s team is what van der zwaan lied about. that s the message that mueller is sending. if you re lying about pertinent information and what s the information here? van der zwaan lied about conversations between rick gates, the deputy campaign manager, and this person a, believed to be a russian intelligence operative with connections right up to the campaign to the russian intelligence services. that s a big deal. you can t lie about that because that s