Staffing that hes done at his agency at epa. When fox News Reporter ed henry interviewed scott pruit, that was the part, that is it. Why did you go around the president to give pay raisers i did not. My staff did. I changed it. Somebody was fired for it . That should not have done. Who did it . There will be accountability. You dont know who did it . I found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action and we are in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting it. Both of these staffers that got large pay raises are friends of yours, i believe, from oklahoma, right . They are staffers here in the agency. They are friends of yours. They serve an important person. You didnt know they got the pay raises. I didnt know they got the pay raise until yesterday. One got a raise of 28,000 and the other was 56,000. Do you know what the Median Income in this country is . 57,000 a year. Okay. One of your friends from oklahoma got a pay raise thats the medium. They did not get
Now is supposed to be on the phone with the french president. Well talk whats next for europe, what iran is saying this morning, and what it could mean for your gas prices back here at home. Also back here at home, primary day in four states all pretty deep in Trump Country. Steve kornacki is over the big board with why endangered democrats might be able to hang on. Plus, that shocking resignation overnight of one time force in the me too movement new yorks attorney general quitting after four women accused him of abuse and assault. Weve got more on the allegations and on the political overlay later on in the show. But we want to start with whats haepg happening here in the u. S. And i want to start with my colleague Kristen Welker at the white house. We have a lot to talk about this morning because i know you spoke with the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Well get to that in a minute. Walk me through where the president s head is at on iran right now. Hes on the phone, right, accord
And joining me now by phone, the president of the united states. When all in starts right now. I will say fox ratings are phenomenal. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Every single day we learn more about what the members of trump world were up to after winning the election as they moved to take power in washington. And everybody day we learn that Robert Mueller is way ahead of us. Abc news reporting today that mueller has been questioning witnesses about millions of dollars given to the president s inauguration from donors with ties to russia, saudi arabia, United Arab Emirates and qatar. Those donations, lets be clear, are not illegal. Inaugurations arent regulated the same way campaigns are, so we dont know exactly why mueller is interested in those. What we do know is that his team is already interviewing tom barrack, realest state investor who chaired the president s inaugural committee. Previously in 2016, barrack neglected to mention the role played by connected donors
Scott pruitt still has a job. A lot of people in my industry think asbestos is the greatest fireproofing it fear ever made. Whether he all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Instead of preparing for his summit with north korea in four days, today the president spent his morning tweeting truly wild conspiracy theories about the Mueller Probe and apparently watching fox news. This is the cable channels hosts are advising witnesses on destroying evidence and reportedly petitioning to run the department of justice. Politico reports Jeanine Pirro a weekend host on trump tv has been lobbying trump advisers to take over as attorney general. Piro is one of the most rabid critics of the Mueller Probe and senior doj leadership. Prosecutors and fbi agents working to change the course of political history, a shadow government whose agenda is to maintain their own power and control. A deep state we thought existed only on the pages of novels. The single most dangerous
Parents. Of course, this comes as we still have no actual answers about how many children are still detained, how many are still alone in a country foreign to them. The department of health and Human Services says it has fewer than 3,000 kids in its facilities, but that doesnt really give us any clarity here because when you look back to june 20th, hhs said they had 2,063. Two days later it was 2. 054. They now have 20 days to reunite all families. Families like this one. This mother and daughter are among the lucky ones. Look at this. Together again after being separated from one another for two months. Lets go to nick valencia who is inside the call center where some of the courtordered family phone calls are being facilitated. Nick, obviously, locating families has been one of the big, shall we say, challenges here, but do we know have you talked to families that are being connected . This is an organization that is working on doing just that. This is based here in san antonio, broo