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Washington not working for them. can he still go with that line since hell have been the president sitting in office for four years? >> he is the incumbent and incumbents always have to face the fact that re-election campaigns are a referendum on their record. president trump when you talk to his top advisers, he believes that his overwhelming personality, his tweets, his ability to dominate the news cycle, in many respects distracts from some of the scandals and controversies from his administr...

If youre democrats running the house, why leave any stone unturned. plus, you have a ton of new members, excited, enthus stsk who want to score points as a president, that will make them look good in their primary, what theyre just as concerned about as the republicans are, so let them take their shots. let them look at whatever they want to look at. it cant hurt anything. >> what would be interesting is to do oversight hearings on cabinet members. you could see once you show how infectiously bu...

Just what trumps plan is for replacing him and how that confirmation process could potentially cloud or complicate the supreme court nomination process. >> i dont think anybody -- dont go anywhere, i need to talk to you about this. i dont think anybody needs remindied about this because scott pruitt has kept his ethical lapses in the news. he has spent $3 million of taxpayer funds on exclusive security details. he has 15 different investigations ongoing. one of them has been complete. the cost a...

>> well, i make two things. number one, bill shine is starting off his day by cleaning house, by trying to have a fresh start at his time at the white house and trying to get rid of some of the ethical challenges, ethical scandals following the president. i take a second point. he is on the plane, bill shine formerlily of fox news on the plane with donald trump on air force one and how do they communicate it? they do it by good old-fashioned presidential tweet. the shine regime apparently will n...

Used mattress from the trump hotel. heres the tweet from the president. ive accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency. within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job. this is what i want to talk to you about, hans. within the agency scott has done an outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. the senate confirmed deputy epa andrew wheeler will on monday assume duties as the acting administrator of the epa. i hav...

Not necessarily clear about in the epa? thats why donald trump likes scott pruitt so much. he was getting stuff done there. >> i do think that a lot of policy news can get buried behind a lot of the day to day political news, but i also believe scott pruitt has really elevated epa into the public mind and the public discussion and i think that it seems like people are paying more attention to what epa does than they used to do. and its important to remember, too, that a lot of these public recor...

>> i actually 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. >> wait, what? because she had charged something for the administrator and not gotten reimbursed? >> it was hotel rooms from the inauguration that his family stayed in is what it was. >> all right. so, swin, this is the problem that scott pruitt and his remarkable list of activities, we might put that up on the screen wh...

Deputy, will they try to make that official, because there are certain duties, certain authorities that you have that you would only have as a full-on senate confirmed epa chief. so that will be another fight. it will be a lot of money poured into that. yet again it will raise the temperature. and i dont mean to make a global warming climate change pun here, it will raise the temperature in whats already going to be a very hot an contentious summer. >> right. and its worth noting that there are ...