Off Pruitt News Today

Then staff would gather around the table, determine which events would be kept off, which kept on and which would be altered. he says it was often done in pruitts office and under his direction. >> scrubbed? >> scrubbed, yes, sir. >> of the official epa administrator schedule? >> absolutely, which happened quite a bit. >> reporter: cnn found more than two dozen meetings, events or calls left off pruitts publicly-released calendar which is only released weeks after the events occur. whats missing...

>> of the official epa administrators schedule? >> absolutely. happened quite a bit. >> reporter: cnn found more two dozen left off pruitts publicly released calendar which is only on released weeks after the events occur. what is missing? meetings with energy industry officials, lawyers, washington insiders who could potentially benefit from a friendlier ep afternoon. >> so he would meet with lobbyises and decide later that that was not going to look good, so lets scrub it. >> lets later, every...

>> all of the time at the vatican was spent with cardinal pell. cardinal pell was our host. >> reporter: none of the tours, dinners or lunches appeared later when scott pruitt released his calendar. that was intentional. >> once we came back, the cardinal was charged with the offenses, i alerted them and thats when it was basically taken off of the schedule that we met with cardinal pell. >> reporter: he was fired from the epa after raising questions about scott pruitts extravagant spending. he ...

Industry lobbyists, and decided that that would not look good, lets scrub it off the calendar. >> we would put on the schedule, meeting with staff. that was the fault button was meeting with staff. >> reporter: want some examples? internal e-mail shows in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal company joseph kraft. its not listed on the epa calendar. september 2017, it shows pruitt met with former senator-turned energy industry lobbyist, pre...

Chief of staff, a secret calendar containing the actual events was printed out, then staff would gather around a table, determine which events would be kept on, which would be kept off, and which would be altered. he says it was often done in pry wits office and under pruitts direction. >> scrubbed? >> scrubbed, yes, sir. >> reporter: of the official epa administrators schedule? >> yes. which happened quite a bit. >> reporter: cnn found more than two dozen meetings, events or calls left off prui...

>> reporter: keeping schedules details meetings with industry representatives never been made public. according to the former deputy chief of staff; a secret calendar containing the actual events was printed out, and staff would gather around a table, determine which events would be kept which would be kept off and which would be altered. he said it was often done in pruitts office and pruitts direction. >> scrubbed. >> scrubbed? >> yes, sir. >> of the administrators schedule. >> reporter: cnn f...

Different schedules. one of them was one that no one else saw besides three of four of us. >> reporter: two government experts tell cnn, altering, sanitizing official government reports to protect the boss, could lead to league trouble. >> if somebody changed, deleted, scrubbed a federal record with the intent of deceiving the public or anybody, it could be a violation of federal law. >> reporter: the most controversial deletion of all, came after pruitts $120,000 tata taxpayer funded trip to ro...