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
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, for exactly what we just saw, and obviously now we know why. scott pruitt couldn t even survive a fox news interview. our panel will be back after one more break to
$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 the epa. what those stories and pruitt tease defenders fail to tell you is that while scott pruitt was traveling around the world playing some lobbyist version of carmen san diego, gena mccarthy was actually traveling all