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So as those probes loom over his head, it is interesting that this is the timing that we are seeing that he is moving away, jim. and just a quick mention about the person who will take his place, andrew wheeler is absolutely respected within the agency, and thought to have the ability to carry out the same policies, but maybe without some of these scandals, jim. >> right. former coal lobbyist himself. thank you have much. drew griffin joins me now, as he's exposing one of the recent controversies for scott pruitt. they just called for the inspector general 0 to investigate whether pruitt had c...

Decision wrs actually made to hide the fact he was meeting with business leaders, lobbyists, people who were seeking favors or favorable mentions from the epa. >> yeah, it's hard to call it anything else but blatant. thanks very much in your reporting. part of this i want to go to my panel, jeff zeleny, you have been covering this story. by resigning now, does scott pruitt get himself out of these federal probes of that behavior? >> that's an open question. i think it's a variety of federal probes as kaitlin and sara andrew were reporting. some of the inspector general office, some are office ...

Epa. just got that from someone inside the office. congressional source has also told me he believes that the probes related -- being conducted by committees on the hill will also continue. now, that may not encompass all of them, but at least some of these investigations looking into the conduct will continue and we should see more on that front soon. >> understood. so rest egg nation not necessarily a free pass from this. coming back to the panel now. amanda carpenter seems the impetus conservatives lost patience. so are they cheering scott pruitt departure? >> here's what i think changed. w...

Him. of course, he's preaching to the choir. but i think his mood is quite bright. look what he'll be doing on monday evening, 9:00 he'll be announcing the second supreme court justice of his first term. most presidents don't get this. that is a chance to fire up conservatives. in terms of as he feels about republicans holding control of the house and senate, it's a complicated fight for the house, no question. but they feel much better about it now than they did awhile ago. this pruitt stuff, it animates the people top the left. i'm not sure it does much on the right. >> we'll go briefly to s...

Into an opinion. what we can see without having to look behind closed doors is that the white house is throwing michael flynn to the wolves right now and we have not heard a lot from michael flynn himself as of late. so there obviously is a tension that remains between him and the white house. if he is somebody who is cooperating with the fbi and there is something to know about president trump that's probably bad news for president trump, we are a long way from -- i don't have any reporting that suggests that. nor have i seen anybody that has any hard reporting that suggests that. >> we do ha...