raises. >> if you're committed to the trump sandy, why did you go around the president and give raises to two people. >> i did not. i found about it and for that? >> that should not have been done. >> who did it? >> there will be some accountability. >> acareer person? >> i found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action. >> okay. so i didn't do it, staff did it and i found out about it yesterday. well, it sure looks like that was a lie and pruitt has been caught red-handed. one of those aides that got the raise had written an e-mail to hr where she definitively stated pruitt approved of her getting a raise. despite these ballooning scandal, trump has stood by his epa chief who one imagines is now hoping everyone gets distracted by today's headlines and forget all about his cascade of ethical lapses. but those ethical lapses are not