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Of the iceberg of scott pruitt's ethical issues and giant expense issues that he's been doing, including wanting to spend $100,000 a month on private air travel. but, as a former chief of staff to an attorney general, what do you make of this -- these reports indicating the president has been thinking about dumping jeff sessions and putting scott pruitt in the temporary appointment? >> yeah, look, let's be clear. donald trump doesn't care that scott pruitt has broken every ethics rule in the book. he doesn't care that scott pruitt has the most improbable housing arrangement since those people ...

No copies of any canceled checks, for example. and the lobbyist's first represents companies with interests involving the epa, including the oil giant exxonmobil. even fox news correspondent ed henry wasn't buying scott pruitt's story about living in the lobbyist's house. >> this was like an airbnb situation, ed. >> it's not. it's a block from the capital. >> it's like an airbnb situation. >> so you only paid for the nights you were there? >> that's exactly right. >> but that's kind of a sweetheart deal -- >> no, it's not. >> your house in oklahoma, you pay a mortgage on that, and when you don...

We're being robbed by a regime that's no different than the clep tocratic regimes around the world. >> josh, you saw a cabinet settle into their jobs and manage to travel around the country without spending $130,000 a month on private airline travel and spend tens of thousands of dollars on new desks. that's an awful lot of desks that the federal government already owns. why can't they even pretend for public appearances to be behaving well? >> yeah, lawrence, i think a lot of this just goes to, their priorities are all off. and they are much less focused on their jobs, and much more intereste...

Because of the high number of threats he has received. some in congress is questioning whether that is a correct use of taxpayer dollars. rene marsh is on the story and has more. so he has a number of threats, death threats, as well? >> reporter: that's right, poppy and john, that's what we're told from the independent ig's office. but when you hear this, it really sounds like the security bubble you would expect around the cia chief or even the fbi director. but this is the epa administrator, responsible for protecting the environment and regulating pollution. and cnn has learned, as you said...