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How farther along is this bad relationship toward a real final blowup? >> it feels like we have this conversation every week, andrea. my colleagues report its just the latest chapter ongoing book, an uneasy book for this administration of a relationship, story of a relationship between a president and his chief of staff since the number of last year. the chief of staff has had a frayed relationship with the president. whats interesting about the story, this recent story, is that the relationship...

They think hes making the right choices on the environment, on climate change, as much as susan collins is a lonely voice in the republican caucus saying that she disagrees with him more on substance than his ethics problems. >> its partly policy, why pruitt continues to hang on as epa administrator. but its also loyalty. when you talk to people close to the president, you look at that image with the president meeting with members of the cabinet at the white house, there was scott pruitt at the ...

Scott pruitt and what he has done. he needs to be in the position. he doesnt need to be. hes traveling around the world. the republicans who are ib sins the, pa a epa are doing the wor. are there not dozens of republicans who could take pruitts position and arent saddled by the ethics problems? >> i think pruitt, the way hes handled himself as epa administrator, is going to damage the substance of policy positions hes taken. a lot of which i probably would agree with. im not an expert on the iss...

Job that is controversial and he is getting a lot of flack for it? >> is there a force field in first class that nobody can get to? >> no. this guy has more ethics problems than all of these others. >> i want people to know what were talking about. this is what critics say. he repeated a condo from the wife of a d.c. lobbyist. that alone might raise eyebrows. he has it under market at $50 a night. hes given raises to two people he knows for a long time, they call them friends. and they are subst...

Bush. richard, this is a new low in an administration that seems to have some ethics problems. >> well, they just got a new low every other day. scott pruitt is toward the bottom of a barrel that has an awful lot of rotten apples in it. lets look at what is going on here. this is an energy lobbyist, and hes been spending a lot of his time at the epa de-regulating so the energy companies can get away with a lot of stuff and other polluters. it is not the environmental protection agency anymore. i...

There is a sense that there is just one too many ethics problems. look, donald trumps brand was draining the swamp. he doesnt like it when somebody is acting like they are repopulating the swamp instead of draining it. and that is the problem here. >> bret: however, on the flip side, pruitt arguably, as far as cabinet secretaries have done, has ticked off the trump agenda, and reversed the obama agenda when it comes to the epa more than any other cabinet secretary. >> when you look at the person...

Go was tom price at health and human services, then it was rex tillerson at the state department. now we can add this way? this way. three, two, one! ah, there it is. secretary of veterans affairs, david shulkin. like lots of trump cabinet secretaries, including tom price and ben carson and ryan zinke and, arrannd, and, david shulki he, too, had embarrassing ethics problems, including lots of taxpayer spending for what looked like long european vacation for him and his wife. but like i said, the...

Co-panelist he had questionable ethics problems of his own based on more than a rumor i can relate to what he is dealing with. its an unfounded charge. >> melissa: thank you both. >> jon: a crack in a cold hollywood case. who los angeles investigators are naming as a person of interest in the 1981 drowning of actress natalie wood. and frightening moments at virginia tech all over again as a student is arrested for illegal possession of an assault rifle. what police say he was planning. >> you ju...

Bannon too much credit. they want to build him up because it is so disturbing to think of the man behind the agenda, behind the white he nationalism, to be the president himself. gabe sherman was on this network last night talking about having sources within the white house who were describing the plan that kelly and other high level officials had to bodily tackle donald trump if he went for the nuclear football. i think the pan sic there. now it is up to the republicans to gary tcare about the ...

This internal policy which prohibited, i just explained to people watching, prohibited anonymous donations from lobbyists to white house staffers who have the legal defense funds. its a movement that could help people in the administration caught up in the russia probe to pay for attorneys. you, sir, ordered a review of this law before the election. whats your response to the news today? >> first of all, i have no problem with people setting up legal defense funds. its very hard to be a public o...