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Then staff would gather around the table, determine which events would be kept off, which kept on and which would be altered. he says it was often done in pruitt's office and under his direction. >> scrubbed? >> scrubbed, yes, sir. >> of the official epa administrator schedule? >> absolutely, which happened quite a bit. >> reporter: cnn found more than two dozen meetings, events or calls left off pruitt's publicly-released calendar which is only released weeks after the events occur. what's missing? meetings with energy industry officials, lawyers, washington insiders who could potentially ben...

>> of the official epa administrator's schedule? >> absolutely. happened quite a bit. >> reporter: cnn found more two dozen left off pruitt's publicly released calendar which is only on released weeks after the events occur. what is missing? meetings with energy industry officials, lawyers, washington insiders who could potentially benefit from a friendlier ep afternoon. >> so he would meet with lobbyises and decide later that that was not going to look good, so let's scrub it. >> let's later, everyone before, we would always put on the schedule meeting with staff. that was the default button....

>> all of the time at the vatican was spent with cardinal pell. cardinal pell was our host. >> reporter: none of the tours, dinners or lunches appeared later when scott pruitt released his calendar. that was intentional. >> once we came back, the cardinal was charged with the offenses, i alerted them and that's when it was basically taken off of the schedule that we met with cardinal pell. >> reporter: he was fired from the epa after raising questions about scott pruitt's extravagant spending. he supports donald trump and donald trump's pledge to drain the d.c. swamp. he says keeping pruitt at...

Industry lobbyists, and decided that that would not look good, let's scrub it off the calendar. >> we would put on the schedule, meeting with staff. that was the fault button was meeting with staff. >> reporter: want some examples? internal e-mail shows in april 2017, pruitt has a briefing and attends a dinner at trump international hotel with coal company joseph kraft. it's not listed on the epa calendar. september 2017, it shows pruitt met with former senator-turned energy industry lobbyist, present ltrent lott, but left off it a president of a shipping company and the shipping of the fuel s...

Chief of staff, a secret calendar containing the actual events was printed out, then staff would gather around a table, determine which events would be kept on, which would be kept off, and which would be altered. he says it was often done in pry wit's office and under pruitt's direction. >> scrubbed? >> scrubbed, yes, sir. >> reporter: of the official epa administrator's schedule? >> yes. which happened quite a bit. >> reporter: cnn found more than two dozen meetings, events or calls left off pruitt's publicly released calendar which is only released weeks after the events occur. what's missi...