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>> well, i make two things. number one, bill shine is starting off his day by cleaning house, by trying to have a fresh start at his time at the white house and trying to get rid of some of the ethical challenges, ethical scandals following the president. i take a second point. he is on the plane, bill shine formerlily of fox news on the plane with donald trump on air force one and how do they communicate it? they do it by good old-fashioned presidential tweet. the shine regime apparently will not imperil trump's fondness for twitter and i think we can continue to expect even under shine the p...

Used mattress from the trump hotel. here's the tweet from the president. i've accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency. within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job. this is what i want to talk to you about, hans. within the agency scott has done an outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. the senate confirmed deputy epa andrew wheeler will on monday assume duties as the acting administrator of the epa. i have no doubt that andy will continue on with our great and lasting epa agenda. we've made tremendous...

Not necessarily clear about in the epa? that's why donald trump likes scott pruitt so much. he was getting stuff done there. >> i do think that a lot of policy news can get buried behind a lot of the day to day political news, but i also believe scott pruitt has really elevated epa into the public mind and the public discussion and i think that it seems like people are paying more attention to what epa does than they used to do. and it's important to remember, too, that a lot of these public records that were only coming out because environmental groups were suing for them are just going to ke...

>> i actually saw where the chief of staff ryan jackson had to give one of the younger staffers literally pulled six $100 bills out of his wallet and gave it to this young lady. >> wait, what? because she had charged something for the administrator and not gotten reimbursed? >> it was hotel rooms from the inauguration that his family stayed in is what it was. >> all right. so, swin, this is the problem that scott pruitt and his remarkable list of activities, we might put that up on the screen while you're talking, has caused even close supporters of his both from oklahoma and in the trump admi...

Deputy, will they try to make that official, because there are certain duties, certain authorities that you have that you would only have as a full-on senate confirmed epa chief. so that will be another fight. it will be a lot of money poured into that. yet again it will raise the temperature. and i don't mean to make a global warming climate change pun here, it will raise the temperature in what's already going to be a very hot an contentious summer. >> right. and it's worth noting that there are several agencies with a head or departments with a head that have this mission of deregulating. r...