latest in the scott pruitt episode. saga. the magical suit of armor that scott pruitt wears. yes. and it keeps having different chinks, but it never actually seems to hurt him. here is cnn reporting there s lots of reporting today. here are the headlines. whistle blower epa scott pruitt kept secret calendars to hide controversial meetings he was having. pruitt aide s reveal new details on his spending and management at epa. former aide says scott pruitt asked her to help find work for his wife. i want to know, this is just today. this is just today. we re not compiling months. these are today s headlines. and so, scott pruitt is violating, it appears, all sorts of ethical boundaries, but legally is there any way to get him out of his position? well, right now it looks like
elections. it seemed to me that i think the right question is does someone in the administration have other information that s come to light that makes this person of significant interest now to be seeking to punish. and on the why question here, i think if we can agree that it would be unnatural to the point of impossible to exist in nature that there could be a putin supported russian gun rights group that was actually going to aggressively promote gun rights in russia and private gun ownership the way the nra does here, if we can set aside that s what this group is for, is it clear to you from your reporting and what you understand from the investigations here what exactly they were after in cultivating the nra this hard and run whai what is an opt to get lots of visits on both sides and cultivate friendships and turn it into relationships with american politicians. what was it about?
staffing that he s 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 don t 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 didn t know they got the pay raises. i didn t 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?
years and also pretending to be moonlighting as a cia agent. for more than ten years, john biel told his epa supervisors s, i m going to need some time off, because i have some highly secret work to do for the cia. they believed he was involved in some covert operation. and so best not to call too much attention to it. it started as a few days here and there. then it turned into a six month stretch where john beal didn t show up to work at all. then an 18 month long stretch. the epa was fine with it. they kept paying him. he ended up becoming the highest paid official at the epa.
apparently come forward over a period of 4 to 6 weeks by phone, by e-mail and in person meetings. they ve come forward to alert the senate committee that there is another scandal of this type at the epa, another senior no show staffer, in this case, it s a senior council to scott pru t pruett, someone he hired. an official to be the closest aid to scott pruett at the agency, she has resigned in the past week, according to these staffers that have come forward she was allegedly being paid full time, even though she wasn t turning up at work for months at a time. for three months between november and january. joining us now is chris lieu. he s now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center. thank you for being here. it s a weird story. it is, but it s part and parcel of a culture of anything goes.