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Maybe the slowly draining swamp, a fiddler is tuning up the world's smallest violin and playing the world's saddest song. later today on air force one, president trump praised pruitt for doing an outstanding job and said it was his own decision to leave. he called him a terrific job. he will be replaced by his deputy, andrew wheeler. joining us now the man who uncovered the most recent pruitt problem, work from the inspector general, just hours later, pruitt resigned. >> pruitt and the president insisting this is a resignation and not firing but it has become too much for even scott pruitt to ...

Ethics approval. he went when he found out it was going to be a problem, he went and sort of steamrolled it and made them do an ethics approval which they now have said they had to do too quickly, there was information that they didn't have such as his daughter was staying there. so that would normally cost you more than $50. i mean, you don't find it troubling that somebody is -- is renting from a lobbyist? >> $50 a night is not a standard rate in washington. >> do i love the optics? absolutely not. i hate the optics of it. i think if you're suggesting that scott pruitt, who's had a demonstra...

So let's just say the privacy issue with the booth and all that, i can understand that. the more security, i can understand that. the first-class ticket, i don't know. give or take. that's across the administration. this is not just a pruitt problem. everyone in the trump white house seems to love first class. >> yep. >> and they all want secret phone numbers, too. >> yes. >> to their defense, everyone likes first class. >> i don't want to be paying for his first class. >> it is important to clarify those things. but the taxpayers have to pay for it. scott pruitt not having a good "newsday," b...

Discredit the russia investigation. the pruitt problem, dispute multiple probes into his conduct, scott pruitt still has a job. how he remains in the president's good graces. we'll start with a live picture of capitol hill, a beautiful sunday morning where republican leaders are scrambling to get support from the white house on a compromised immigration bill and clear up some confusion after president trump initially said he would oppose the bill just a couple of days ago. a republican leadership source telling nbc news last night heeders are hoping to get some clarity when president trump...