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Agenda. >> there have been very troubling media reports. >> bret: he faced months of scrutiny over lavish spending and ethics violations everything from pricey round-the-clock security to spending $43,000 on a sound proof phone booth and even reports that he asked donors for help landing a job for his wife. on the fourth of july he was a spotted attending celebrations at the white house, one day later he resigned from the administration. [applause] >> president trump: will never have to use those words on our david. >> bret: david choke and was the only holdover from the obama administration a...

List of potential allegations are. >> reporter: jeff pruitt suggested ousting jeff sessions so he would be appointed attorney general and leasing a d.c. condo below costs and spending tens of thousands of dollars on office furniture, sound proof phone booth and tax dollars on weekend trips home and pay raises to political aides. using staff to run errands, trying to get his wife a six figure job and a restaurant franchise. his former deputy chief of staff said scott pruitt was warned several times to stop but excused. >> the phone booth was one thing. the first class flights, delta flights, li...

Administrator in the history of the agency. not only has he acted time and again in an unethical manner but he led the agency in the wrong direction." ellison barber has the latest live in new jersey down the road from the president's golf course. ellison? >> hi, melissa. former secretary pruitt's resignation is effective today. he spent months trying to explain ethical questions. there's more than a dozen federal investigations into his behavior. he came under fire for his security detail, which is larger and cost more than what his predecessors had. he rented an inexpensive condo from a lobb...

Been attorney general of oklahoma, he was head of the republican attorney generals association. so he should well understand that there is a clear line, a clear line, between public responsibility and duty and private business. and you just have to honor that and of course president trump came to office with drain the swamp and so forth. and people can understand cronyism and they don't like it. and that's what some of this may be. again, i don't want to prejudge, but there's just been too much, too much controversy. >> $3 million spent on a security detail. purchase of a $43,000 sound proof o...

About to leave for canada. before he goes, a visit from the prime minister of japan to talk about north korea. that's set to happen roughly an hour from now. we'll get to all that in just a moment. we start with new ethics questions dogging the environmental protection agency and its administrator scott pruitt as the list of questionable moves by pruitt grows. the most recent cases of a possible misuse of authority having -- include having an aide reach out to chick-fil-a to inquire about getting a franchise for his wife and the resignation of two of his top aides. at least one of those aides ...