of the iceberg of scott pruitt s ethical issues and giant expense issues that he s been doing, including wanting to spend $100,000 a month on private air travel. but, as a former chief of staff to an attorney general, what do you make of this these reports indicating the president has been thinking about dumping jeff sessions and putting scott pruitt in the temporary appointment? yeah, look, let s be clear. donald trump doesn t care that scott pruitt has broken every ethics rule in the book. he doesn t care that scott pruitt has the most improbable housing arrangement since those people had those apartments on the show friends. he doesn t care about any of that. the reason scott pruitt stays at the epa and doesn t go to doj is that scott pruitt is so busy delivering for trump donors on pollution, on deregulation, on mining, on basically just the complete destruction of our environment that the donors want him to stay at epa and they
no copies of any canceled checks, for example. and the lobbyist s first represents companies with interests involving the epa, including the oil giant exxonmobil. even fox news correspondent ed henry wasn t buying scott pruitt s story about living in the lobbyist s house. this was like an airbnb situation, ed. it s not. it s a block from the capital. it s like an airbnb situation. so you only paid for the nights you were there? that s exactly right. but that s kind of a sweetheart deal no, it s not. your house in oklahoma, you pay a mortgage on that, and when you don t sleep there unfortunately, yeah. when you don t sleep there, you still pay the mortgage, right? not when i m not but this is a tremendous difference. i wasn t using the facility when i wasn t there. try getting that deal with your landlord. you only pay rent on the nights you actually sleep at home. reports indicate that chief of staff john kelly told scott pruitt to not do any interviews, f
we re being robbed by a regime that s no different than the clep tocratic regimes around the world. josh, you saw a cabinet settle into their jobs and manage to travel around the country without spending $130,000 a month on private airline travel and spend tens of thousands of dollars on new desks. that s an awful lot of desks that the federal government already owns. why can t they even pretend for public appearances to be behaving well? yeah, lawrence, i think a lot of this just goes to, their priorities are all off. and they are much less focused on their jobs, and much more interested in trying to figure out how their jobs can make them look good. but, you know, lawrence, there is one piece of this story that really does kind of stick in my craw, which is, there s been a lot of discussion about how scott pruitt s international travel actually is pretty similar to the international travel bills that were racked up by gena mccarthy, his predecessor at terhe epa.
because of the high number of threats he has received. some in congress is questioning whether that is a correct use of taxpayer dollars. rene marsh is on the story and has more. so he has a number of threats, death threats, as well? reporter: that s right, poppy and john, that s what we re told from the independent ig s office. but when you hear this, it really sounds like the security bubble you would expect around the cia chief or even the fbi director. but this is the epa administrator, responsible for protecting the environment and regulating pollution. and cnn has learned, as you said, that the 24/7 security around him is being beefed up. they re hiring more agents, they re installing new security equipment. i want you to take a look. according to a source familiar with the decision, terhe epa isn the process of hiring and training some 12 new agents for that team. again, 24/7 protection. ba based on the dollar figures we ve seen in the job posting, salaries for the job will co