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Expense for his trips that he's taken so far. but if you look at his two predecessors, they spent more money on travel. there's a double standard that's being employed with scott pruitt, in part i think because of what he's doing with -- >> arthel: the associated press found the epa spent millions of dollars in a full-time security detail, three times the size of his predecessors security contingent. >> i like that they tried to figure out if the arrests had been made for the threats. i think that's an important part of the story. on the other hand, i don't think there's anything to argue abou...

Security contingent and hers was only part time. so we don't know exactly how many members of scott pruit's 20-person full-time security team got to go on the trip to morocco but it was scott pruit, seven staffers plus the security team flying international first class, paid for by us, the taxpayers happy that trip came with a saturday night layover in paris, france. we learned yesterday after the saturday night layover in paris, pruit and company didn't actually show up for their sunday morning connecting flight from paris to morocco. oops. that meant another day and night in paris on the tax...

Of any of his predecessors part-time security contingent. what is the the republican perspective here? are they looking past this controversy as long as he is advancing the president's agenda? >> look, this is -- scott pruitt to me is a double-edged sword. i think obama administration had a lot of he overreach and pruitt has been rolling that back. on the other hand, he has become a political target because all of these negative optics, renting an apartment from a lobbyist tells people that he may be under the influence of industry. pro energy industry who would have an and in rolling back the...

Already there is a lot of tension with the identifisraeli community because of his sharing of the cly guarded secrets with the russian notis in the o office meeting. that upset the security contingent here. that doesn't spread in the leadership who will bend over backwards to make this trip successful. they view donald trump because he is against iran as the closest leader of any that have been elected in the united states for many years. >> andrea, let me ask you this. the accomplishments and expectatio expectations. when the president was in saudi arabia, his administration likes to talk abo...

He had been wanted for more than 15 years. he had been living, we're told, in the open in tripoli, the capitol of libya. a year ago there were news reports he had been sight. the he didn't have large security contingent with him. it's clear he felt comfortable there, so the question is, if they've been watching him for some time, which i understand they have been, why carry this out now? the white house pushed back today and said the timing of the two raids in two separate countries happened -- to happen tame on saturday was sheer coincidence, but again, the question is, why grab al-liby now w...