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Vaguely there's no way to tell if they are legal. a spokesman for pruitt describes the payments as standard reimbursements. the ethical concerns in oklahoma would foreshadow the problems he created when he arrived in d. krcd.c. he made albert kelly, who was banned from banking for agreeing to loans without fdic approval, the head of the super fund cleanup program. task force to address the most toxic and harmful sites across the country. a year later, kelly would resign amid scrutiny over his loans to pruitt. coming up -- >> it's clear they are trying to take down and muzzle scientists. >> pru...

The ethical concerns in oklahoma would foreshadow the problems he created when he arrived in d.c. he made albert kelly, who was banned from banking for agreeing to loans without fdic approval, the head of the super fund cleanup program. task force to address the most toxic and harmful sites across the country. a year later, kelly would resign amid scrutiny over his loans to pruitt. coming up -- >> it's clear they are trying to take down and muzzle scientists. >> pruitt's impact on the environment. >> you said that mr. pruitt knows exactly what he is doing. harming the environment at the behest...

>> a lot of science that we use to form the basis of rules actually are done by third parties. meaning folks outside of the agency. >> but ahead of back-to-back congressional hearings on thursday, where pruitt is sure to face tough questions, there seems to be waning support for pruitt from inside the white house too. >> we're continuing to review a number of the reports that you mentioned. >> meanwhile, some of pruitt's most senior advisers at the epa remain the same business partners from his questionable past in oklahoma. chief among them, a disgraced former banker named albert kelly, banne...

Rule out agricultural causes which would be the other industrial activity in the area. no nitrates, no fertilizers, nothing like that. >> if in the big picture the federal government is not supposed to regulate fracking activity in terms of its effect on drinking water, why is the epa doing the testing? >> the epa responded to complains from pavilion that go a decade back. the epa has responsibility for regulating water and the environment and they took this on as a straightforward scientific investigation. it's not as they tell it an investigation to drilling or hydraulic fracturing but just ...

Complains from pavilion that go a decade back. the epa has responsibility for regulaing water and the environment and they took this on as a straightforward scientific investigation. it's not as they tell it an investigation to drilling or hydraulic fracturing but just to find out if the water was indeed contaminated. they confirmed it is. eventually to try to get a line on what caused that contamination. the program's funded through the super fund cleanup program entirely separate from th agency's investigation into hydraulic frackturing. >> how quickly did people start