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embattled sheriff israel facing criticism for the response to the parkland high school shooting. the deputies in the department minutes ago voted overwhelmingly they have no confidence in the leadership abilities, you might remember he bragged to me 11 days after the shooting. i ve given amazing leadership to this agency. amazing leadership? i work yes, jake. this there s a lot of things we have done throughout. this is you don t measure a person s leadership by a deputy not going in to a these deputies received the training they needed. maybe you measure leadership by whether or not they protect the community. i want to bring in cnn s rosa flores in florida. rosa, what does this mean and tell us about the governor of florida responding. reporter: you know, the govern nor of florida is responding. i ll get to that in a moment, jake. i have to tell you that multiple deputies and the president of the union told me that that
contradicted what he said earlier to ed henry on fox news about knowing about pay raises given to staff working around the white house. listen to what he told fox news three weeks ago. they re friends of you. they serve an important person. you didn t know they got the pay raises. not until yesterday. and then this is scott pruitt today. did you, administrator, authorize mr. jackson to sign the documents for you? congressman, those were delegated to and to mr. jackson and inspector general did reference that in his management alert so he did he did you did authorize him then to sign them? those those decisions, that decision was made by yes or no? did you authorize him? there are delegations with that authority. pruitt said that the pay raise was delegated to his chief of staff. several senior officials told cnn they knew that he lied to fox and were stunned that he
i have to say that when i was first being interviewed i said, because he was not speaking to the media. i said, by his silence he has ceded his power to his victims and the media. and we ran with it. let me ask cnn had not stuck with us with if the media had not been as tenacious as the other all the other victims had been not as tenacious as they were this wouldn t have happened. you, your station and many, many others, the newspapers, gave us a voice. the worst thing that happens when you are a sexual victim is this feeling of voicelessness. yeah. and that s one of the jobs of the media, obviously, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted comfortable.
commerce committee saying this. unfit to hold public office and undeserving of the public trust. however, many conservatives seem to like pruitt s deregulatory regime quite a bit and given the ugly headlines many white house sources acknowledge he would not have lasted so long in any other administration and still there because president trump likes pruitt and continues to defend him in private. even against the advice of top aides who see pruett as undermining the trump administration. there s that gut feeling again. cnn s pamela brown picks up the coverage of the president s airing of grievances. reporter: president trump today defending the pick of veterans affairs. he is a great man and he got treated very, very unfairly. he got treated really unfairly. he s a hell of a man, too. he is not taking any questions. thank you, guys. reporter: dr. ronny jackson