Room table, okay. and if you want to go take charter trips from timbuktu to who knows where at taxpayer s expense, okay, as long as when i look at your agency, you re cutting the regulations i want cut and you re spotting the, you know, infomercial that i once spouted. that s it. that s the bar. because otherwise, there s no explanation for it, there absolutely is none. we didn t get to talk about why one would even need a sound proof phone booth that cost i don t know what the implications epa. right, but i don t know about some of these things. thank you. next time, we re going to have more time. the republican party losing yet another congressman sooner than they thought. today, charlie dent of pennsylvania announced he s resigning from congress in the coming weeks. the lawmaker had announced his
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Because trump s cabinet s secretaries are facing a lot of new criticisms about ryan zinke s travel to las vegas, who doesn t want a sound proof phone booth. could we see john kelly once again try to get in the mix here and reign in some of these cabinet secretaries who by some people s accounts have gone amok? you would think he would say please stop embarrassing us, but i guess the allure of charter aircraft and fancy office upgrades are too much for some officials but there s certainly you know, it is a steady stream of someone embarrassing headlines. there s a lot else going on in the news, so we re having to see how much this sticks. so let s talk about these sort of these possible sanctions on russia. we re hearing a lot of mixed messages from the white house, from nikki haley saying these are going to be levelled against russia and then the report not necessarily being comfortable
Getting legal advice or, well, maybe some fixing from the same poe attorney. we really don t run out of topics for you, i saw you this morning on television talking about another remarkable issue. this is the scott pruitt stuff. with each week you would think you hear less and less, but it just continues. the stuff that scott pruitt does seems to be more and more at the public trough. it doesn t seem to be for the benefit of the country. installing getting a new car that was slightly bigger than the big suv that he already drove, getting bulletproof fabric installed on the seats, having this new phone booth installed that the government accounting office says was not appropriate, was not legal. this phone booth is apparently a sound proof phone booth so nobody can hear what
Money to install a sound proof phone booth and bulletproof desk. president trump defending pruit s arrangements in a tweet. while security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, scott pruit received death threats because of his bold actions at epa, record clean air and water and saving billions of dollars. rent was about market rate, travel expenses okay. under scrutiny, massive pay rakes for two of pruebre pruit t aids. why did you go around the president and white house and give pay raisers i did not. my staff did. i found out about that yesterday and changed it. this has whitoe house officials losing confidence including john kelly pushing for his firing but pruit has been a loyal defender of the trump agenda. rolling back hundreds of obama