him. that being where are his e-mails. politico is reporting today a review of through it s government e-mail accounts indicates that he only wrote one external e-mail in his first ten months in office. one. this from an epa chief who has taken enormous steps to conceal his actions including installing that $43,000 sound proof booth in his office. politico s emily holden was the first to discuss the e-mail scandal and she is on with me now. thanks for joining me. one external e-mail in ten months. what is the explanation and why does this matter? because the sierra club is a number of groups fighting epa in court and when they got the records back, they got 25 pages, that is all that the epa said that they had and only one external e-mail sent which a lot of oversight groups say that is too hard to believe. but epa says he doesn t use
e-mail, not something that he does. didn toesn t e-mail? are they saying that that is not a concern? it seems like a pretty difficult job do without e-mail. but his staff turned up thousands and thousands of e-mail just talking to people on a day to day basis. and this is really one of many transparency concerns that epa, you mentioned the sound proof booth, he also does not tell people where he will be in advance. the staff won t release that information. he won t release police chis ca unless prompted by the courts. which i cchick-fil-a franchi mattress. the condo, yes. emily holden, stay on it. thank you so much. for the latest on pruitt there. but next, we have to talk about the connors. the connors are coming back. but will it be a hit without
don t misunderstand. this president has an agenda and he s doing it with pruitt and with the other with betsy devos and others. they came in with a plan. their plan is to deconstruct the federal government and that is what they are doing. and the president so he s quite happy with what scott pruitt is doing and people i know that have been in the epa for 20, 30 years are scared to death when this strair administration is over with, so will the epa be. this is a letter that we re talking about from house democrats. is there a sense this is going to have an impact and would push forward an investigation? honestly, i don t get that sense at all. even if there is an investigation we ve seen the i.g. probe, multiple scandals, over 12 i think it is, and we ve gotten results such as the i.g. is saying that scott pruitt broke the law for instance when he installed a $34,000 sound proof booth in his office and yet we ve seen nothing come of that. so i m not particularly
new revelation about the head of the epa, scott pruitt. weeks of allegations about ethical lapses. they re piling up. about his travel. pruitt in the spotlight for his frequent high price flights. he requested per diem lodging expenses in excess of what the government allowed. his spending. $43,000 sound proof booth. he demanded vip treatment to cut through washington treatment. leading to an unprecedented number of investigations. a dozen probes from federal agencies and congress. like the fox guarding the hen house, that s how critics are describing one of president-elect donald trump s latest cabinet picks. scott pruitt was in for a fight from the day he was nominated to lead the nation s environmental protection agency. he had a long history of being anti-epa.
it s good to see you here today. scott pruitt in the spotlight. under fire for how he is spending taxpayer dollars. the focus on epa administrator scott pruitt. it seems every day there s a new revelation about the head of the epa, scott pruitt. weeks of allegations about ethical lapses. they re piling up. about his travel. pruitt in the spotlight for his frequent high price flights. he requested per diem lodging expenses in excess of what the government allowed. his spending. $43,000 sound proof booth. he demanded vip treatment to cut through washington treatment. leading to an unprecedented number of investigations. a dozen probes from federal agencies and congress. like the fox guarding the hen