executives received letters from the associate deputy secretary saying you've been reassigned. >> clemmons new gig was in auditing. >> i had no auditing experience, to take the climate change guy and put him in the office that collects oil and gas and mining revenue, was a very explicit signal that they wanted me to quit. >> ryan zinke wants to cut at least 4,000 jobs from his department. one way he wanted to do it was through reassignments. >> reassignments don't trim the workforce. >> reassignments don't trim the workforce, only if people quit can you trim the workforce. >> by october, clemon did what he said the administration wanted him to do. he quit. the interior department is investigating, but calls the allegations baseless.