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Very uncomfortable about the allegations about all of these possible ethics violations, but they're very pleased with his performance as administrator of the epa. he has rolled back or begun the process of unraveling as many 22 regulations. many of them the obama era among fuel efficiency standards, in undoing the obama administration's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. so i think a lot of this has to do with the fact that republicans support what he is doing at the epa. and unless many more of them call for his head, i don't think he's going anywhere. >> and what the president knows...

Torture is obscene. >> do you this could erode his support among evangelicals. >> i would certainly hope evangelicals with a conscience will see pictures like this and rethink their support. to me it's a question of what are we doing morally and immorally and how do we prevent ourselves from going down this dark path we've taken. >> father james martin, editor at large of "america" magazine. when the house speaker paul ryan was asked if he thought scott pruitt should step aside over ethics concerns, here's what he said. >> are you confident given all the ethics violations -- >> frankly, i have...

Because of ethics violations. my issues with james comey are this -- >> you say not the worst, the second hiftd worst? >> i say he's the second-worst. not because he's got poor character, not because he's a bad man, and i'm sure josh can weigh in and give us stories about james comey doing good things. i served under him for two years. my issues with him are the fact that he let the inmates run the asylum. that he was a feckless leader and didn't push back on the president and the attorney general when they attempted to infect politics into investigations. >> josh, weigh in on this. so the rep...

Of are you confident he can continue given all the ethics violations. >> i haven't paid that close attention to it. i don't know enough what pruitt has or has not done to give you a good comment. >> paul ryan apparently hasn't seen a newspaper in a few months. he may not want to the excellent on the myriad of controversy squirrelling around the epa administrator. the national review says pruitt should be canned. arguing this is no way for any public official to treat taxpayers. last night fox news host laura ingraham tweeted pruitt's bad judgment is hurting trump. he's got to go. senator james...

On several cabinet members for their performance in last year's hurricane season including epa administrator scott pruitt, who's under investigation for ethics violations. >> administrator scott pruitt, thank you scott very much. epa is doing really, really well. somebody has to say that about you a little bit, you know that, scott. >> reporter: one person not getting praised tonight? attorney general jeff sessions, who trump all but ignored. >> attorney general jeff sessions, thank you, jeff. >> reporter: as you know, wolf, president trump as recently as yesterday continues to badger the atto...