and probably will. jim, i think it s critical. talking about support of an embattled cabinet official. in any other presidency, the person is gone. but what abby said about outside groups and conservatives happy with scott pruitt, they are and donald trump isn t getting rid of him. making leaps an bounds not able to make coming to terms of deregulating, you know, specific industries across the country. but also, remember go ahead, jeffrey. sorry. go ahead. no, please. i was going to say we got a response to the epa here to cnn. this is what the epa saying about the scott pruitt story. epa will not be commenting on anonymous sources who are working to distract americans from the trump administration s accomplishments on regulatory certainty andal stewardship. there you have it right there
ultimately gotten away with the most wrongdoing. again, as i said earlier, he does not care about what scott pruitt has done. what he cares about is the repercussions of what scott pruitt has done and continues to do. it s the headlines. it s the taking away from trump making the headlines. it is not the act of wrongdoing. there s a reason why so many in this administration are behaving the way that they can because the example s being set at the top. evan, i want to give you the chance to answer, as well. why do you think that trump still has scott pruitt s back after this? donald trump likes scott pruitt because he s gotten results. donald trump forgets that you could put anybody in there because the republican party for the most part holds scott pruitt s views and would be able to execute what he has done. donald trump could have somebody who s a no-drama person running the epa, getting all of the results that scott pruitt has gotten, and not essentially having these really scan
justice department. this as we re learning about additional supreme court nominees that the president met with today. we re out front at the white house. what can you tell us about the appeal from pruitt directly to the president? kate this is just another interesting chapter and twist in this ever running scott pruitt story. we re told earlier that scott pruitt the head of the epa met with the president in the oval office. he had a solution for him about one of the president s biggest problems, that, of course, is the attorney general jeff sessions. we know the president has been displeased at jeff sessions for a long time for refusing himself. scott pruitt offered to be the next attorney general. and it s called he essentially would have filled the position for a couple hundred days under the vacancies act. it takes a confirmed member of the cabinet who is a lawyer to replace a fired attorney general. of course the president has not fired the attorney general. this didn t come
it seems like the scott pruitt story is never ending. day after day, controversy after controversy we are still only inching towards the tipping point here. there s a sense of uncertainty at the white house about what exactly it will take for the president to cut him loose after all of these scandals and now we re learning from cnn s kaitlan collins that pruitt over the last several weeks or months has talked to president trump about firing another cabinet official, attorney general jeff sessions who has been at the center of the president s ire of the russia information. pruitt suggested he could replace sessions as an interim appointment for a matter of several hundred days before leaving that post to go back to oklahoma and run for office. all of this happening as pruitt is under an avalanche of controversy. reports just this week alone indicate he tasked his aides at the epa to find a job for his wife. he reportedly asked staffers on the epa to pay for his expensive