prenuptial agreement that s the cliff-hanger. we have to squeeze in at least one commercial break. michael thank you for joining us. the rest of the crew is going to stick with us. coming up scott pruitt, the epa director is sinking in scandal. so the president is thinking of making him attorney general. of course. [phone ringing]
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
turned on, the president was asked are you thinking of switching him out for attorney general? and the president said, no, no, no, scott is doing a great job where he is. the president could still decide to fire jeff sessions tomorrow and replace him immediately with scott pruitt, who would be allowed to serve temporarily as attorney general, because he has already been confirmed by the senate for another job. with the scandal surrounding scott pruitt now, he could never be confirmed by the senate for another job, but he would be able to do what the president would want him to do as attorney general in one day. and that, of course, would be, firing special prosecutor robert mueller. there can be little doubt about scott pruitt s willingness to do that, singlce he seems to have ethical standards for how he conducts himself in his current job. he s under fire tonight for moving into a lobbyist s house when he arrived in washington and paying only $50 a night for his accommodation in the
don t want him moved over to doj. so this idea that, like, he s that he may not move pruitt over there, that s, that s behind the trump organization wants him to stay there. and joy, ron s point is really powerful, because that s what you keep hearing. and that s what the president keeps hearing. absolutely. and i think what we have to realize is that donald trump admires vladimir putin in every way, includie ing encouraging t proliferation of american oligarchs. what scott pruitt is busy doing is hawking liquefied natural gas for his landlord s client in morocco, taking luxury trips, treating his office as if it s a personal fiefdom for his own enrichment and luxury. his whole cabinet is acting that way. the happiest person in the cabinet has got to be ben carson whose $130,000 desk now looks like a pittance compared to the way scott pruitt is living. this is an american oligarch.