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Think its fairly more common when you have republican administrations, i think, compared to democratic ones, just the tensions that they have with people who have been working for the federal government for a long time, because sometimes their politics can be a little different. even if they follow the direction of the, quote, politicals, the people who are setting the agenda. >> so did price -- how long did it take for price to realize what kind of trouble he was in? >> i think probably our bes...

Agencies and you went in because you wanted to implement the affordable care act or obamacare, obviously theyre not going to be particularly supportive of the current administrations mission, when it comes to that law. but that being said, you know, i think its fairly more common when you have republican administrations, i think, compared to democratic ones, just the tensions that they have with people who have been working for the federal government for a long time, because sometimes their poli...

Cost. when you do the math, it tallies to about $1 million which includes two dozen chartered flights. with the biggest payout for two international flights on government planes. price says he will pay back some of the charges. thats closer to $52,000. yet as he tries to make up for this, the health secretary defended the flights saying they were all properly vetted. >> we think its important to do a number of things. one is to say there will be no private air charters at hhs going forward. seco...

Who could roll over this issue or is pushing price out enough? >> politico breaks more flights. thats going to continue. i think the tom price resignation stemming alone is an a embarrassment, but i dont think it hurts the president politically with his base. but having a series of people indicates not only an eliteism, contrary to what donald trump promised, but its a sloppyness of running the white house. and the orr administrations have had trouble, clinton administration had trouble with tra...

Was sort of the he pit my of the establishment republican. he came into a reagan white house in which the right accused him of hijacking the rag agenda. to hear him talk about the way the president is doing his business and some of the challenges of adjusting from being donald trump reality tv star and family businessman to president of the united states, it was really informative. hes got, you know, enormous wisdom when it comes to running white houses and administrations. so it was a rich conv...

Previous administrations have had secretaries that flew an awful lot. >> lets talk to cnns senior economic adviser, steven moore, who also advised the trump campaign and cnn global economic analyst rana feruhar, business associate and editor for "the financial times." welcome to you. and steven moore, i mean, just honing in on secretary price, you know, he says he will, his word, "absolutely stay on" as health secretary. should he be fired for this? >> no, he shouldnt be fired for this, but he m...

Secretarys claim that taxpayers wont pay a dime for his seat but the secretary might not know is that the seat doesnt fly itself. right. the seat needs the plane and the crew. >> yeah. >> right? so hes not paying for the flights. hes paying for his seat on the flights. is this the right message to send? >> yeah. well one, i think there needs to be overall government reform on this one. its been that way for a long time where, for example, if somebody in the government nice and they have a positi...

Planes. look at past administrations. look at the obama administration and take a look at the amount of time that they spent in the air, they spent a lot of time in the air. but i felt very badly because secretary price is a good man. but were looking into it and were looking to it strongly. >> do you consider it a fireable offense? >> well take a look. ill announce something in the near future. >> [question inaudible] >> i have a great cabinet. we save hundreds of millions of dollars through ne...

Politico, he says he will fly commercial from now on and he will pay for his seats. guess again. that is just under $52,000, but weights, how does $52,000 cover a million bucks worth of flight time? those planes were chartered for him. the secretary was asked that question on fox and would only say that he was doing his part to make it right. take a look. >> this is unprecedented. never been done before by a secretary in spite of the fact that previous administrations have had secretaries that f...

Right now. its a territory. and these are great people. i know the people very well. these are great people. you know, it is a massive investment. you are rebuilding all of it at some point. as you know, there is hundreds of millions of -- a tremendous amounts of money already invested in puerto rico by others before the storms. that money has been in serious trouble. a lot of other money. look, a decision has to be made. what are you going do? puerto rico was flattened. a big decision comes as ...