some have done things that were really untoward not in the public interest. pruitt exemplifies the you know, place where the beams cross. so are you surprised, not surprised by his ability to endure? tom price you know, had a sort of down fall over the amount of travel he was doing. pruitt has done lots of travel, racked up real costs first class, $120,000 to italy, $40,000 flight to morocco. the condo deal. he s at war with his own administration he s running. how has he been able to survive? the one thing you have to say about pruitt, from his days as attorney general, he s a man on a mission. and he s been effective at trying to tear down the protections that epa has put in place to protect the environment and to protect people s public health. and that was something i guess
then on the other side, there s business that the lobbyist in question has before the epa that connects to a trip he took to morocco, is that right. right to some degree. one of the lobbyist clients is shaneer north korea, really the first company that was exporting liquefied natural gas out of the united states and last december, pruitt took a trip to morocco to it out the benefits of u.s. liquefied natural gas. it s important to note the will you beist in question has said he didn t actually lobby epa and the energy department is the agency that is controls lng exports. that s one of the reasons the
so are you surprised, not surprised by his ability to endure? tom price you know, had a sort of down fall over the amount of travel he was doing. pruitt has done lots of travel, racked up real costs first class, $120,000 to italy, $40,000 flight to morocco. the condo deal. he s at war with his own administration he s running. how has he been able to survive? the one thing you have to say about pruitt, from his days as attorney general, he s a man on a mission. and he s been effective at trying to tear down the protections that epa has put in place to protect the environment and to protect people s public health. and that was something i guess that is approved of in the white house. so whether it s the now the new attempt to try to roll back auto emission standards which will
his latest ethical breach first reported by bloomberg and abc news. when he first move the to washington, he lived in this apartment, the owner the wife of a personal friend. a top energy lobbyist who has multiple clients doing business with the epa. pruitt reportedly paid $50 a night to rent only one room in this two-bedroom apartment, far under market value. similar apartments go for $6,000 a month. sources tell abc news he used the entire unit and his daughter a white house intern at the time stayed in the other bedroom free of charge. now, pruitt was getting the sort of deal. people could only dream of. a fancy condo in a prime location where he could keep his stuff yet only pay for the nights he slept there. oh, by the way, his daughter could stay in the other room for free and all of that for the low low low price of $50 per night. compare that to say this cozy room which journalist brian buttonler which cost more than what pruitt paid in an apartment
so you ve got this it looks like a sweetheart deal, not a fair market deal that the administrator is taking advantage of. then on the other side, there s business that the lobbyist in question has before the epa that connects to a trip he took to morocco, is that right. right to some degree. one of the lobbyist clients is shanir energy, really the first company that was exporting liquefied natural gas out of the united states and last december, pruitt took a trip to morocco to tout the benefits of u.s. liquefied natural gas. it s important to note the will you beist in question has said he didn t actually lobby epa and the energy department is the agency that is controls lng exports. that s one of the reasons the trip was curious because it was a little odd to see administrator pruitt being the ambassador for natural gas. just to be clear, the argument is look, this isn t in the epa purview.