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Beliefs about concern -- about the direction the agency is going in. >> right. what's happened is there has been a lot of changes going on at the environmental protection agency and a number of folks that aren't happy about what's happening and they as individual citizens outside of work or at a union event or to their -- at lunch time with their colleagues are able to make comments about their frustration with what's happening and what's been happening is that there is a republican opposition research group which is the kind of organization that will try to take down democratic candidates tha...

Of administrator pruitt and while that was under way the epa decided to hire things same firm to do what it's calling media monitoring to track what news stories and social media commentary about the agency. the same group that has been doing this research sort of intelligence gathering on critical epa employees has now been hired by the agency to do media monitoring. that's where the two came together and caused controversy. >> what is leadership? scott pruitt, those closely around him at the epa, how are they responding to all of this reporting? >> they're saying that this has been exaggerat...

Secretary gave us his word he would look into them. to his credit he did look into several of them and in the case of pepe sanchez who died during hurricane maria, had a heart condition, had quite a bit of an attack and died when they called 911, help did not come because it wasn't available given the elements that came with the hurricane, that death has now been added to that number 64. i spoke with the family, the wife, in tears, said she now feels a sense of justice given that his case has been added and they are now qualified to get some kind of money to cover funeral expenses from fema. >...

The works? a prominent democratic senator says al franken should not step down and now senate leadership is weighing in. >> plus, america first, will be front and center today. the president is set to make a major national security speech this afternoon. what will he say about russia after the two calls with vladimir putin in the past four days and scrutinized for speaking out, employees at the epa say their e-mails are being monitored because they've been publicly critical of the trump administration's policies. the reporter on who broke that story. stay with us. and the united states postal ...

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