The Pruitt Problem

“The thing that worries me is that the story of Pruitt is a story that we can all understand; so, it becomes a big thing we can talk about. What the EPA is doing really deserves the discussion. We need to understand what’s happening in all these agencies. What is the impact of this deregulation—this dismantling? That’s a harder story to tell, and I think that’s the story that journalists have to go after….Instead we’re caught up in (Trump’s) tweets and breaking news day after day,” says presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Meet the Press. Listen to more of the conversation here about the continuing embrace of embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt by President Donald Trump and his supporters and its impact on the public.