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It's Thursday April 26, 2018 from Slate. It's the gist I might pass.

Can you hear me now? No, I'm not here to sell you Verizon or to defect and show up on sprint

commercials and a phrase in act of spokesman poaching. No, that is a quote from the transcript

of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's soundproof booth. Can you hear me now? It's like every person

who's ever called from one of those phones that are attached to the back of the airplane seat.

Hey, guess what I'm calling from? The same with the $43,000 phone booth,

which was among the things that Pruitt had to explain to a feisty set of congressmen today.

Okay, I will come clean. Pruitt did build a $43,000 soundproof booth. It did violate federal

spending laws according to the government office of accountability. And it wasn't actually a

skiff, you know, the sensitive compartmental information facility. He told congress in December,

oh, it's a skiff. It wasn't a skiff. And all that's important because I want to make extra clear

that we have no real proof that Pruitt actually ever said, can you hear me now in this possibly

unethically or even illegally built non-skiff? And the reason I say that is because I want to

acknowledge facts for facts and fiction is fiction. You are right, Scott Pruitt, testifying before

congress today. And among the facts that came out at your hearing is that you believed you were

getting death threats, but your head of security disagreed and he was demoted. You were flying everywhere

first class until the news reported on that and you chalked that up to the learning process.

You tried to get raises for loyalist staffers. Those raises were denied by the White House,

but you pushed them through anyway. Now about those raises, Pruitt said on Fox eight days ago

that he only found out about the raises nine days ago. But under questioning from New York Democrat

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