quite soon in christopher scott. we're both in the same courtroom receiving life sentences twelve years ago today their names clear the evidence supports the final finding factually and each defendant in these two cases are actually innocent. two individuals for capital murder in crimes in which they didn't commit i wasn't angry i wasn't being about the situation i was happy i had my time to be made and in prison i had my time to be be in prison it was no time for me because i didn't want the stagnate my growth that what i'm trying to do i have. to try to force see him make happen when christopher scott was released from prison the state of texas compensated him with a million dollar settlement he never forgot what it was like to wear that white jumpsuit every day so he built a store and filled it with color and style. and when an inmate is exonerated or if they serve time with scott he helps them to get back some of their dignity with a fresh set of clothes to go which is. good. christopher's mean where. he was in p

. >> scott pruitt, administrator of the epa. >> reporter: embattled epa chief scott pruitt out tonight after months of mounting ethics scandals and questions about his behavior. president trump announcing on twitter, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency, praising pruitt's work rolling back obama era regulations at the epa, but making no mention of the dozens of ethics questions facing him. pruitt writing in a letter to the president, your confidence in me has blessed me personally. adding the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizeable toll. pruitt had been under a cloud of scandals for months, constantly facing questions about his security detail, pricey first class travel and cozy relationships with lobbyists. pruitt was back in the headlines just this week. a cnn report revealing he and his aides kept secret calendars to hide contentious meetings. an aide testifying before the house oversight committee that pruitt asked her to find his wife a job with a salary of o

you know, exciting moment to see that scott pruett has resigned. i think that certainly shows that there is power in the people. there are so many people who have been working to get scott pruett out of office from the very beginning, and i was only one very, very, very small part of putting the heat on there at the end. we have to keep it up. >> let me read for you. i don't know if you read his letter, but i read his whole resignation later earlier, and halfway through he says this. this is a letter to the president. i count it as a blessing to be serving you in any capacity. however, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us. your reaction to that? >> the unrelenting toll that his policies and his regulation roll-backs are taking on the american people is what we're all tired of. if you didn't want to be attacked, you shouldn't be attacking our environment. i mean, that resignation letter, i won't dwell on that for too long because scott pruett is gone, but that was the most s

he had a bright idea about who could replace him, scott pruitt. kaitlan collins joins us with what she learned. kaitlan, you broke this story. what's going on here with this somewhat odd suggestion by scott pruitt? >> a stunning turn of events, john. and now we're learning more about why it was the president over the last few months has been floating the idea to his aides and advisers about replacing sessions with scott pruitt. it's because scott pruitt went directly to president trump during this meeting in the oval office, and he suggested firing jeff sessions, putting him in at the department of justice where he would stay for about 210 days under the vacancies reform act which allows someone who has been senate confirmed and is an agency head to take over a position like that, and then he told the president that after those days were up, he would go back to oklahoma. he hoped to run for office, and the president could nominate a new person to be the attorney general. this goes to show why it is the president has been floating this idea. this s

scott has done an outstanding job. pruitt will be replaced by his deputy andre wheeler, a former call industry lobbyist. robert: mr. wheeler. we know about all the controversies. we laid them out about mr. pruitt. but mr. wheel comes in this same agenda of pulling back obama era regular lage, working closely with different coanies. that to me may be the big story goesthat the pruitt agenda on without pruitt. and perhaps even more effectively. some people have said some of the regulations are the rollbacks. they face legal challenges and it has been overshadowed by all the controversy around scott pruitt. you have someone who is coming very close to the coal industry who understands the regulations and rule making very well willo better at carrying out the president's agenda of ro ting back thesengs and being more pro-business. >> i think one of the points to make about sco pruitt's demise is that people have failed for very different reasons in this administration. rex tillerson failed because of his inability to devel

a >> trump has been supportive of scott pruitt despite bipartisan calls for scott pruitt to step down. bernie sanders and called him the worst epa administrator in the history of the agency. susan collins wrote his ethical feelings are too numerous to recount and i am glad he had is finally stepping down. psalmist say he was unfairly singled out. >> the issue is not that scott pruitt showed bad judgment. it's because he was effective at his job and he was articulating and advancing an agenda. >> the president announced the number two will become of the acting administrator until trump nominates a new chief. that person will still have to be confirmed by the senate. and washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. >> the trump administration agenda for the epa will not change. epa is pushing for a rollback of stricter field standards for cars and trucks as well as the repeal of an obama era rule targeting emissions from coal fueled power plants. scott pruitt also pushed back a plan to eventually been a pesticide link to brain and nervous system damage in children, but a proposal to eliminat

. >> tonight, scott pruitt is out. epa administrator resigning in disgrace among 15 ongoing investigations. >> i love. we love. >> what happens now and what tipped scott pruitt's exit. >> we put a bigger swamp creature in there. >> scotus decision winds down. >> the president's three alleged finalist for the supreme court vaktcy. >> he is one of the smartest people i've ever known and one of the nicest people i have ever known. >> i am chris hayes and the last time i was at this desk, i interview interview interviewed a die hard trump supporter. >> training the swamp and not only did we not drain the swamp, we put a bigger creature in there. >> 48 hours after that interview, after pruitt was spotted at the white house, the president accepted pruitt's resignation. exploiting his office for perks and personal gains. pruitt's extraordinary list prompted debates among historians. hard to think of any politician whose record is more extensive. trying to get his wife a franchise. the d.c. apartment he rented for $50 a knife

by scott's car alarm. scott went to investigate. and while he's out front, he hears his mother screaming. he goes inside, giselle is inside of his house-- she's inside his room tampering with his computer. keith morrison: sound familiar? it was the same thing esteban was doing at the nursing school. and when was this, vis-a-vis the murder? four days before, on the tuesday. keith morrison: but there was something else-- a piece of evidence you have to hear to believe. scott told the detectives that four months before michelle's disappearance, giselle harangued and threatened him. verbal attacks so alarming he recorded some on his iphone, just in case something bad ever happened. this one in scott's car-- their small daughter, sitting in the back seat listening. you listen closely. we're about to hear the real giselle esteban. keith morrison: ritchie listened to giselle's tone careen from aggrieved, to furious, to threatening-- all in less than a minute. this was far from the subdued woman he had met back in

>> it is hard to understand, because scott pruitt is a smart guy. and he has done so many things that has brought unwanted attention to himself. just as kevin said, it is hard to understand why he would have engaged in so many activities that were clearly he should know unethical. >> one thing that is key goes to broader questions of conflict of interest. using public office to enrich himself, but this question of who he is meeting with and what he is saying. and this question of the calendars, those should be public records and important that those be preserved right? >> certainly. there is an integrity with the public records. and a slew of outlets depend on those records. there is no question that those are supposed to stay unadulterated and i am sure this is going to be added to the list of things that investigators will be looking at. >> do you have a sense of why he is been able to endure? >> yes, i feel like we have done a lot of reporting on this and our sense is there are two things. one is clearly that he has worked diligently to execute t

of scott pruitt. it's been a tough environment these days for pruitt. watch what happens when a mom confronts him at a restaurant in d.c. >> hi. i just wanted to urge you to resign. because of what you're doing to the environment in our country. this is my son. he loves animals. he loves clean air. he loves clean water. we deserve to have somebody at epa who protects our environment. somebody who believes in climate change and takes it seriously, for all of us and our children. i would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out. >> that video comes from kristen mink. she's a local teacher that says pruitt had no response and left after that moment you just watched. this morning, as we wade into "swamp watch" we're looking at the scandals calling for pruitt to resign. "the washington post" has this closed-door house interview s about pruitt's more controversial spending practices. there are 15 ongoing investigations looking into scott pruitt. here to talk about new reporting is "washington po

scott pruitt has done what the president, what the energy lobby wants. maybe above and beyond the call of duty here. presumably, the president could get another loyalist who could carry that out. why does the president stick with scott pruitt through whatever sbembarrassing scandal through an election year? >> we know enough about president trump's sort of outlook on these kinds of moments to have insight into what might be going on here. i think the president has a ton of respect for taking all that incoming and standing strong and surviving it. he sees a little bit of himself in that. that has some appeal to not give in and cave to your critics. other people could, indeed implement and execute on the policy agenda but scott pruitt is doing it quite effectively. the white house has said that perhaps they've reached a tipping point. the president has said he doesn't love all these headlines and stories. i don't know that we've come to the final moment of trump's fate. >> they are clear breaches of ethics rules and yet -- >> although the president is prob

topping this hour, scott pruitt. he's not off. he's out, facing, count them, 14 ethical and potential legal investigations. he stepped out today as epa administrator. that's 14 by the way not counting the reports that he his security detail drive him around so he could buy a special kind of skin lotion, and it's not including the used luxury mattress he tried to wrangle from president trump's hotel in washington. on top of that, the scandals that is, not the mattress, he mentioned none of that in his resignation letter. and president trump called him a terrific. more from cnn's kaitlan collins. >> scott pruitt, administrator of the epa. >> reporter: embattled epa chief scott pruitt out tonight after months of mounting ethics scandals and questions about his behavior. president trump announcing on twitter, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency, praising pruitt's work rolling back obama era regulations at the epa, but making no mention of the dozens of ethics ques

we'll be there take it away. >> scott, thank you. and scott mentioned we have a huge lineup in the next two hours here o

. >> but this afternoon the president tweeted i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency. within the agency scott has done an outstanding job, and i will always be thankful to him for this. the senate confirmed deputy at epa, andrew wheeler, will on monday assume duties as the acting administrator of the epa. i have no doubt that andy will continue on with our great and lasting epa agenda. we have made tremendous progress and the future of the epa is

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in the end scott pruitt hung around. something broke the back of this thing, the idea he was criticized by his deputy chief of staff on television tuesday night, some say might have been the last straw. >> yeah, it's hard to pinpoint one last straw because there were so many straws. this was, you know, a camel's back that was ready to be broken forym9ñ but you're right. scott pruitt played this very cleverly. he was at the white house as recently as yesterday for fourth of july celebrations with the president. he did stay in the line of sight. and i think he did appeal to the president in the sense of being someone unfairly maligned by the liberal medians and so fourth. that was something that appealed to the president's own sense of persecution right now. he had a brash style that the president appreciated and the president wasn't eager to get rid of somebody who in some ways was practicing politics the way he himself had done. but ultimately of course the laws of political gravity have not been repealed entirely at le

scott, how do you make sense of that? >> well it's a reflection of the extreme political polarization we live in in america right now. we are willing to ascribe all of the worst motivations to every policy view, to every action that our political opponents take. in this case what the people who disapprove of trump believe he's a racist and everything he does must be rooted in racism. republicans were also guilty of this. we ascribed obama's motivation to the fact that he was not born in this country, he was a secret muslim. i think what we have is such polarization that it drives us to believe the worst in our political opponents, a mistrustful environment and it's bad. >> scott, do you think any of it has to do with president trump's own words or actions? let me put up a few of them that people have called racist. he was accused of discriminating against minorities at his rental properties. in fact, he settled a case about that in 1973, 1998 and 2002. he perpetuated birtherism, called mexicans entering the country rapist

guess who's there -- scott pruitt. the president introduced him a few moments ago and at least for now seems like scott pruitt is still on the job here tonight. jim? >> he hasn't fallen too far out of favor. jeff zeleny at the white house, thank you. >>> still ahead, the latest of new york city where a protester on the statue of liberty is in a standoff with police. looking at live pictures right there. we'll keep you posted on those developments. also ahead, is michael cohen sending a signal by erasing his role as president trump's attorney from twitter? how can we say when you book direct at choicehotels.com you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let's get someone to say it with a really low voice. carl? lowest price guaranteed. what about the world's lowest limbo stick? how low can you go? nice one, carl. hey i've got an idea. just say, badda book. badda boom. badda book. badda boom. nice. always the lowest price, guaranteed. book now at choicehotels.com >>> we are following two breaking stories.

the one line, what it claims remarkably that the swamp claims scott kroopruitt. you talk about andrew wheeler here, he may say a creature of the swamp. he knows it well and the corridors and the principles and the players, how different do you think he's going to make the institution when he's running it? >> there is to sort of swamp creatures at this point of the trump administration and clearly pruitt was able to align himself with trump not only because he was able to effectively implement trump's agenda but he can deflect on some of the scandal and corruptions that squares on trump himself. i think you know ken makes a good point that wheeler is much more low-key, he's subtle and quieter and going to stay out of the limelight. trump is going to appoint an epa administrator who's going to advance his agenda and put corporate interests in front of the public's interest and who's going to be on the side of polluters instead of public health. that's the legacy that scott pruitt leaves. that's where andy wheeler is going to pick up running. he himself have said i

scandal-ridden epa administrator scott pruitt is out. but 15 investigations into his conduct at the agency continue. here is what he wrote to the president in his letter of resignation. quote, i believe you are serving as president today because of god's providence. i believe that same providence brought me into your service. on his last day in office, the epa created a loophole for so-called super polluting trucks. "the new york times" says it will allow a major increase in the manufacturing of a diesel freight truck that produces as much as 55 times the air pollution as trucks that have modern emissions controls. eric lipton wrote that story, he's an investigative reporter for "the new york times." richard painter joins me, he was the chief ethics counsel to george w. bush. he's also running for senate in the land of 10,000 lakes. eric lipton, let me start with you. looking at the latest of your fine reporting. i want to get a sense from you of how this agency changes now that there's an interim head, taking over at an interim capacity

scott pruitt personally appealed to donald trump to fire jeff sessions and let him, scott pruitt, run the justice department. now, we're bringing this up because white house spokesman hogan gidlee was asked about this just now. a and hallie jackson says hogan tells her the report is troublesome, says the president is concerned about it, but there is nothing to announce personnelwise at the moment. >> and we did hear internally there was some discussion of scott pruitt taking over for sessions. when sessions seemed to be most in deep water back in the spring. and because he's been senate confirmed -- he could move into that position very easily. >> he's at the epa, give me a job running justice. >> it would never happen now. >> by showing himself willing to be both totally lawless and totally subservient. >> there are people who could do this job who would -- >> who would dismantle the environment. >> there are other republicans who would do that for the president. >> why is he sticking so closely with scott pruitt? he doesn't want to give the libs of when. that's what it would look li

he ousted scott pruitt. this story matters for many reasons, but among them is the fact it shows reporting, pressure and accountability still can work in donald trump's washington. it may not be a coincidence that donald trump put this news out today, which is of course a traditionally sleepy period after july 4th. if donald trump has to cave, maybe he wants to do it during a holiday news week when he thinks fewer people may not notice. but that's just the optics part. the substance is far more important. and the substance tonight that i can report to you is scoot pruitt is out. donald trump tweeting it today. he told reporters while everyone knows the controversies with scott, within the agency, he said, we were extremely happy. that is largely false. he was under fire precisely because people within the epa blew the whistle on his contact from making an aid find a job for his wife to spending $40,000 on a soundproof phone booth to trying to get a discount on a used trump hotel mattress to the bizarre er ra

president trump tweeting i accepd e resignation of scott pruit adding scott did an outstanding job. relaxed scott at the white house at the fourth of july picnic but under siege from at least 15 separate federal ethics inquiries many zeroi in on ex spending and a sound proof phone booth. installed in his officeinstalled in his office. >> much of what has been targeted towards me and my team has been half true or at best stories so twisted they do not resemble reality. >> reporter: just this week a schoolteacher ro coing pruit at a d.c. restaurant. >> i would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out. resignation letter obtained by nbc news, pruit acknowledges the unrelenting attacks on me and my familyre unprecedented and took a sizable toll on all of us and pruit a hero ofor rolling backma era environmental protections under cl cutting the ean undercuttingn water act and stalling tougher fuel economy standards. president praising him just last month. >> scott pruit is doing a great job within the walls of the epa. we're setting records. >> reporter: tonight, president tr

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mounting pressure of a series of scandals forces scott pruitt to resign as head of the u.s. environmental agency. and we have to central nigeria where a fight for fertile land turns into an ethnic conflict. the largest trade war in economic history that's what china is accusing the trumpet ministration of starting after impose tariffs with thirty four billion dollars on chinese imports well beijing has called washington a trade bully and is valen to retaliate immediately it set the stage for a prolonged showdown between the world's two biggest economies where robert reich joins us live now from beijing rob so what's the response been from the chinese to these tariffs. as you said there daryn this swift there has been a swift response or china condemning these terrorists and within a couple of minutes of the tariffs going into force the ministry of commerce issued a statement as you mentioned condemning this is one of the biggest trade wars ever started and saying it is the united states who is to blame china has vowed that it will not step back the will retaliate it will tak

mounting pressure of a series of scandals forces scott pruett to resign as head of the u.s. environmental agency. and more than twenty years after sarin gas attack in japan that killed thirteen people a cult leader some of his followers are executed. china has responded with. just hours after the trumpet ministration impose duties with thirty four billion dollars on chinese imports beijing as accused washington of launching the largest trade war in economic history china has also called the u.s. a trade bully with a tit for tat terms of set the stage for a prolonged showdown between the world's two biggest economies are rob mcbride joins us live now from beijing rob so not surprisingly the chinese have responded. they have indeed daryn it's come within the past hour or so at the regular ministry of foreign affairs briefing a spokes person confirming that china will retaliate with its own list of terrorists it is what has been expected and it is what china had always promised that it would meet any u.s. tariffs head on with exactly the same level of tariffs only exactly the s

scott pruitt spends blank on blank after talking with blank lobbyist. but then, there was that thing with the chicken. >> my wife is an entrepreneur herself. i love, she loves, we love -- chick-fil-a is a franchise of faith and it's one of the best in the country, and so, that's something we were very excited about. so -- and we need more of them in tulsa, more of them across the country. so, it's an exciting time. >> it's an exciting time. the reason scott pruitt was asked about chick-fil-a is not because the reporter wanted his thoughts on fast food, "the washington post" just reported that pruitt asked his aide at the epa to contact the fast food chain, chick-fil-a, and see if they would let his wife run one of their fried chicken franchises. when that didn't pan out, he asked his staff to contact republican donors to see if they would hire his wife instead. which sounds illegal. t a cabinet official cannot ask his aide to help him get his wife a job so his family can make extra cash. now, we know that scott pruitt is currently the subject of more th

should scott pruitt be able to eat in peace? >> listen, i'm not surprised that's what they want to talk about is the where and when as opposed to the issues. it's a distraction. we pay these administrators' bills via taxes. they are our employees. their jb is ob is to serve the public. if they're doing the job properly and if they want to do their job effectively, they should want to hear from us. that's what i'm telling him how i feel. if they don't want to be called out in public, then they shouldn't make decision that's harm the rest of us. >> there are other confrontations with cabinet members. someone was recently heckled at a restaurant over the administration's zero tolerance policy. i'm sure you saw the video. for the viewers, here's what it sounded like. >> >> shame! shame! shame! shame! zbl >> were you inspired by that or do you think it's important to take different approach? your approach was different. >> i don't -- i didn't actually take any of those things into consideration. i only had a couple minutes. i scribbl

heiler joining us from chiang rai what are you hearing about those that have been rescued scott and what will happen to those that are still inside the cave where we know that those who have been rescued you know there's you said there's a field hospital right outside the cave entrance where they went into weeks and one day ago they were treated there immediately well they're met by medical personnel the moment they walk out and actually remember the medical personnel deeper in the cave to there's a chamber it's kind of been set up as a triage center inside the cave medical staff of looked at them there then they've made this three kilometer walk the dry part the dry section of the cave and then the met by more medical professionals as they come out and then there we've been told by someone who's on the scene that they're wrapped up straight away in a blanket we now know that there's you know the numbers have been all over the place you know we're seeing six now because what it sounds like four are definitely out. seen medical professionals and been there you know shipped off to the

embattled epa chief scott produce is facing a new -- scott pruitt is facing a new wave of ethics violations, some say he is, quote/unquote, inching toward the tipping point. we're learning from sources that pruitt in the spring made a direct appeal to president trump to fire his attorney general, so to fire jeff sessions, and top temporarily hire him for the job. this as we learn of a conversation between the president and top policy advise on, president trump asking about the president of a u.s. military invasion in venezuela. let's go to our white house correspondent, boris sanchez, on all of the above. let's start with the scott pruitt conversation with the president involving jeff sessions. tell me what you know about that. >> reporter: several sources telling cnn that earlier this year, scott pruitt apparently asked president trump if he would fire his attorney general, jeff sessions, and at least temporarily put him in that role for some 200 days or so, according to the vacancies act, before he would then move back to oklahoma and run for political office. of course we know that presi

campaigner and scott the notable where do you. stop the world scott wants to get on is that the sort of message you're putting forward well absolutely but needs to be really really pragmatic because what we should be about is making sure that we have a strong successful scottish economy and at the heart of that can be the different task to produce that comes from scotland not just an organic carrots across the whole spectrum of food and drink and other services and produce that we can produce in her. police chapman thank you so much like you as that connick image of scotland heather totten bagpipes wild man and wild women as well and they haven't got a castle the guardian of the nation now these are the images which have stood scotland the good stead not just in marketing itself for tourism but marketing its products what old way but from what we have today there is a more sophisticated underpinning of that brand of that image just scotland something that touches on scientific invention quality of food authenticity these are the t

jeff sessions and replace him with scott pruitt. here now to join us is norm eisen if it is great to have you with us. happy birthday america. they say that skrothd pruitt says that hey, you should fire jeff sessions, slide me into that position, you questioned if it would even be legal. >> thanks for having me back. back in march when we first got a whiff this might be going on, i wrote and explained there is the vacancies reform act that lets you replace someone that dies or quits with someone else who has already been confirmed by the senate for 210 days. but it doesn't say anything about firing somebody or ousting somebody, or one cabinet secretary. it's like shakespeare. if the president had done that, he would have been acting illegally. that would still be the case. >> so you're suggesting that maybe scott pruitt doesn't have a solid understanding of the various ethics laws that surround the government? >> i think after the 13th investigation, we know there is at least 13. we can conclude his knowledge of law and ethics is a

meanwhile, scott pruitt has left the epa. now a former kohl lob eer coal s over. >> if they done know the number, how can they reyou night them? let's start with our trade war correspondent

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also memorandum on scott pruitt ousted epa chief. what happens with the investigations into his ethics? why the man replacing him has the president's backing. >>> we're also watching a new race against time in thailand. the search for the missing soccer team turning deadly overnight. a thai former navy s.e.a.l. lewdilewd i -- losing his life while trying to save the children. >>> we have a team set around the country and around the world. we start with opening shots on a trade war that could affect u.s. jobs and what you pay for this goods and services. china accuses the u.s. of trade bullying and launching the largest trade war in u.s. history. the u.s. fired the first shot at midnight, slapping a 25% tariff on $34 billion worth of chinese products. that includes aircraft parts, diesel-powered trucks and busses, and flat screen tvs. the trump administration escalating the trade standoff to get china to crackdown on the theft of u.s. intellectual property. president trump is threatening to impose additional tariffs on $500 billion in

scott pruitt forced out at the epa. a flood of press speculation as michael cohen goes public with vo: your girls have been with you through every moment of your life. they were with you when you felt unbreakable. and with you when you had your heart broken. they were with you when you shared your love with the world. and with you when she became your world. they're still with you right now. but... how well do you know them? this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my room. he's only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40's. howie: four out of the 12 boys trapped in a cave in tiled for 15 -- me in thailand taken to safety. rescuers planning to get three more boys out in the next 10-20 hours. more updates as we get them. [♪] media's mounting allegations against scott pruitt ranging from petty

joining me in scott. the course of the next hour we will be inviting some of our guests other to the stage where they can face the candidates and asked them questions directly. been asking our viewers to submit their questions via facebook and we will cure from them as well. -- let's's explain explain where it is. around 75th street is where it starts and it runs north from there into parts of cain, mchenry lake and northwest crook. this is not a forum. the candidates will not be on the clock, but i will be moderating to make sure each side is treated fairly. totlemen, as they prepared vote, republicans and democrats, tell pollsters that president trump is top of mind even though he will not be on the ballot. is that what voters should be thinking about? >> voters have to think about a lot of things in the six district. to responsibilities is reflect this district into a coequal branch of congress. when it comes time to working with the administration on tax regulatory reductions and those types of things

he has been a scoop machine covering the scott pruitt saga. let's answer the million-dollar question. with all that scott pruitt has gone through, what changed so that he steps down now? >> two things shifted. the early stories were about wasteful spending. first class travel, security spending that seemed excessive. in recent weeks we shifted to things that were quite more serious and potentially serious ethics violations. so it turns pout the $50 a night condo that he was living in, there was a lobbyist who is the spouse of the owner of the condo who was repeatedly lobbying pruitt while he was living in the condo even though we were told that was not true. to have a relationship with someone targeting you and gotten a discounted rent. then we have him asking staff member to get his wife a job. most recent when i the story we published today, it turns out that apparently his schedule was being changed to modify events that they did not want in the public's view. to make a change in a record, if you're modifying federal records to cover up som

scott pruitt and his staff have chosen not to respond. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> that spells it out in one piece, how does scott pruitt survi survive. how does pruitt survive these scandals? david chalian, surely there is someone else qualified to dismantle the environmental regulations that president trump could pick the lead the epa how is scott pruitt surviving? the reason he's been able to survive is he is implementing and executing on a policy prescription that very much matches donald trump and a lot of his supporters' agenda. so he's following through day to day with accomplishing the roleback of regulations as you say. what it does, though, of course, is it pits it against this pledge to drain the swamp so you have the swampiest of swamp creatures apparently we're learning more and more each day that he is that. he is achieving a policy that the president wants to see implemented. >> this is so far beyond the swamp. it's like a tsunami meets a swamp. it's a swampnami. >> is there spelunking? >> you watch the drew piece, there

scott pruitt was the environmental regulator industry always want it it's the e.p.a.'s objective my objective is the minister of the e.p.a. to come in and make sure that people's health is protected the former oklahoma attorney general went from being one of the agency's most aggressive opponents suing it fourteen times to running it to file two lawsuits challenging the e.p.a. mercury in air toxics standards you filed a lawsuit challenging the e.p.a.'s two hundred two thousand and fifteen national ambient air quality standards for ozone never since president richard nixon created the agency in one nine hundred seventy his corporate america had a stronger or more controversial ally in it scott protos done an amazing job that it was a very short period of time and most people left thoughtful. writer that. pruitt has declared war on regulation dismantling dozens of obama era protections on clean air chemicals in cars i think the focus in the past has been on making manufacturers in detroit making manufacturers in various parts of the country make cars that people are goin

scott pruitt is a standout. rick perry over at energy, mick mulvaney who's running the consumer financial protection bureau, they're still doing the president's work in deregulating these agencies and departments or the industries that they regulate, but they're not doing it with any particular fanfare or ethics violations for that matter. >> yeah, mr. wheeler's positions are going to be very close to, i think, mr. pruitt's positions. and, you know, it's -- i think we'll see a number of the same things moving forward. for example, right now the epa has a replacement of the clean power plan heading up to the white house for review. that's something that sounds -- might have close to the same name but it's really going to fundamentally dismantle the obama administration's signature climate change plan. they're moving forward with repealing wotus, the waters of the united states rule, as you mentioned up above. all of the same issues that we've seen in the past months are going to be moving forward. one of the pote

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