Necessary, yes. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund. Then Scott Pruitts luxury trip to rome on the public dime. Lets have no illusions about what was really going on here. And what primary night in america looks like in the era of trump. Im basically trumpier than trump. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his lawyer are applying the same strategy that got the president elected, to his rapidly multiplying legal threats. Overwhelm the public with enough noise to drown out the facts and muddle the issues. Whether it can work this time is still an open question. The president today spent his morning executive time, as he so often does, tweeting about the criminal investigation into his campaign, his allies and his Family Members and himself. And this comes after the president s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview over the weekend that the mueller team might try to set up the preside
he said pruitt once had a young employee put a $600 hotel charge on her personal credit card. i saw where the chief of staff, ryan jackson, had to give one of the younger staffers, literally pulled six $100 bills out of his wallet and gave it to this young lady. because she had charged something for the administrator and not gotten reimbursed? it was hotel rooms for the inauguration that his family stayed in, is what it was. pruitt is currently facing more than a dozen federal investigations relating to a variety of ethics scandals. yet there is a new report tonight that says just within the past few months, the epa chief was setting his sights on an even higher cabinet post. cnn reports, quote, pruitt directly appealed to president donald trump this thing to fire attorney general jeff sessions and let him run the department of justice instead. according to three people familiar with the proposal, the
with i get rewarded explowherever i go. going out for a bite. rewarded! going new places. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com i just couldn t put up with it anymore. i love this administration, i love the president. but scott pruitt, i mean, i couldn t be a part of it anymore. i joined the trump campaign even before his announcement. why that was was because of the whole message of draining the swamp. not only did we not drain the swamp with this man, i think we put a bigger swamp creature in there. the former deputy chief of staff to epa administrator scott pruitt explaining exclusively to chris hayes why he s speaking out against his ex-boss.
the job that scott pruitt has been doing. he enjoys a strong relationship with the president. there are people in the white house, including chief of staff john kelly, who have urged and continue to urge president trump to fire scott pruitt. we re being told that, you know, he is you know, the president is increasingly getting the message from people around him that mr. pruitt could be a liability for him in the midterms. but you know, we ve seen time and time again that president trump very much supports the regulatory rollbacks that mr. pruitt is doing at the epa. shannon, the list on the new york times is comprehensive. some of it seems unethical. some of it is just weird. some of it is both weird and unethical. when white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked about this, here is what she said. this was two months ago. let s listen. reporter: can you explain why he still has a job in the
what we saw with tom price, the moment a scandal came out, he was gone, because the president wasn t happy with the job that tom price was doing. he wanted him out of there. here, he s in a bind because he s very happy with the job scott pruitt is doing around getting rid of all these regulations. that s the difficulty therein. and who would replace him if he is removed? lisa, there s some talk that john kelly doesn t like scott pruitt and the reputation that he s earning the administration and he wants to get rid of him. but the bottom line is maybe the president s patience with scott pruitt will run out. it s kind of weird, because in most of our organizations, that litany of behavior would have