know about it. you saw fox s ed henry push back on that saying you run the agency. how would you not know about something like this, something as significant as this? it s government spending. it s taxpayer dollars. how would you not know these were authorized? first that we ve been hearing from scott pruitt since he has been amid this scandal. his job certainly has been on the line this week. even though the president himself has discussed confidence in pruitt. as we reported he called him and told him he has his back right now and he should keep working and going on over at the epa, it makes you wonder. clear lit president will be watching this interview when it airs in full. if he doesn t think that pruitt does a good enough job defending himself, just how long he s going to be hanging around here, brooke. from our own reporting, karem, the president is more
into effect, everybody loses. contemporary to what kuow says, nobody what about this pot of gold? kudlow on fox news ss the will be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. in that pot you ll see better economic growth, more trading and better wages. he calls it a growth play. what might he be seeing that all of those who have been criticizing them maybe don t see? look, it s a little bit unclear, brooke. i think what they re trying to say is trump is going to get us better trade deals. that s what he s after in the end. what he means by better trade deals is unclear. the things that china has been doing that s bad for u.s. companies and they have been misbehaving have mostly to do with intellectual property, acquiring u.s. companies that want to do business there, turn over some of their intellectual property, that sort of thing. the way you resolve those kinds
irked by the publicity around this embattled epa chief rather than the bad behavior. as kaitlan said, the president called scott pruitt and said we like you. hang in there. pruitt sitting down for this interview, is that part of him trying to keep his job? we ve seen in the past the president has given spoken kindly to and given assurances to members of his cabinet that he then turns around and terminates a few hou later. they could go hand in hand easily. i think it dends. certainly if scott pruitt does not come off well in that fox news interview, i don t think the president will be that inclined to give him a pass on that. the president does care a lot about how he appears on television, about those who are his proxies and speaking for him on television doesn t go well when you don t put on a good face. so in that way, yeah, it s a very existential moment for scott pruitt. and given the fact that the