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Days later, a second message is sent. the administrator would like to talk about a potential business opportunity with mr. katcathy. it is just the latest in a long stream of ethically questionable moves and spending gaffes that has ethic experts amazed just how pruitt is able to hold onto his job. >> it's mind boggling how long the list of potential ethics violations are. >> reporter: earlier this week it was revealed pruitt sent an epa staffer on government time to run personal errands including asking the trump hotel about buying a used mattress for him. a list of probes or investigations i...

Involving pruitt and yet he keeps his job. you don't doubt that is the message scott pruitt is saying through his actions, ethics do not apply to me? >> i think that's certainly it. you even have inconsistent explanations for different things he's done. i don't think it's simply ethics rules. it's spliecompliance with all o safeguards and restraints on government officials. >> reporter: all of pruitt's officials do not seecm to be bothering the president, who today said this of his epa administrator. >> administrator scott pruitt, thank you, scott, very much. epa is doing really, really well. ...

President. he says they haven't spoken in weeks. say good job, let's work on this issue now that we know you care about it. he said no. i said why no? this is the problem. not some celebrity comes up and all of a sudden, he's found religion on this issue. we wanted to work with him on it and he didn't. i'm not going to do it because kim kardashian says so. that's where we are today. >> is he trying, the president as some of his critics are saying, sending a message to others right now? >> i think that this type of move objectively sends lots of messag messages. tough take the johnson parton an...

Defense, jim mattis saying it will probably be better for the united states to stay in that deal. we've had a parade of people here at the white house, emmanuel macron last month, angela merkel, the chancellor of germany trying to convince the president to stay in the iran nuclear program. and theresa may doing the same thing. and boris johnson was here meeting with mike pence yesterday. all of our european allies saying whoa, don't pull out of the jcpoa. we know that it's not perfect. it's the first step in the multistep process here. let's not withdraw. let's work on another deal that covers...

Nuclear capabilities. i think we've got to be a little suspicious that he's kind of flipped on a dime and says i'm ready to get rid of news nuclear weapons. let's take it one step at a time. i think the threat of war is a lot lower than it was even six months ago when i was last there. let's work with our south korean counterparts, but let's take this one step at a time. i think any talk from the president about pulling our troops out is way too premature. >> let's get to immigration now with you, sir. the president is making new threats when it comes to his border wall. i want you to listen t...