President elect has nominated Ardent Obamacare critic tom price, a republican congressman from the state of georgia, Congressman Price is very tight with paul ryan, this is according to the House Speaker himself. Here is speaker ryan on local talk radio. What im excited about is tom price who is a very close friend of mine. Tom price is one of the architects of replacing obamacare, of fixing health care. Hes a surgeon, he knows how the law works and hes been the most passionate advocate for patientcentered Health Care Reforms that ive seen in congress and im really excited he is now going to be the quarterback, the point person in the new administration on reforming health care. So that was speaker ryan and as donald trump is adding to his cabinet, hes also making headlines again for one of his tweets. This is what he wrote nobody should be allowed to burn the
the momentum our campaign got in the last two weeks of the campaign i think was largely due to the fact that those obamacare pr
out those folks that are bat blg the fire, the first responders out there, they are amazing, they have done a job i can t even begin to imagine under really horrible circumstances. at one point wind gusts to 93 miles per hour at my home so i can only imagine what they were dealing with. thank you for mentioning them. you are 100% correct these men and women are putting themselves in harm s way. looking at these pictures, i m glad you ve been able to be in contact with some folks but as far as the animals, ryan, are they okay? i think we saw video shot from you so you can really see and feel that smoke at the aquarium. that was yesterday and nobody really knew what was going on. it was early in the morning and the winds were just starting to pick up. i had just gotten off a phone call and walked upstairs to our
president-elect has nominated ardent obamacare critic tom price, a republican congressman from the state of georgia, congressman price is very tight with paul ryan, this is according to the house speaker himself. here is speaker ryan on local talk radio. what i m excited about is tom price who is a very close friend of mine. tom price is one of the architects of replacing obamacare, of fixing health care. he s a surgeon, he knows how the law works and he s been the most passionate advocate for patient-centered health care reforms that i ve seen in congress and i m really excited he is now going to be the quarterback, the point person in the new administration on reforming health care. so that was speaker ryan and as donald trump is adding to his cabinet, he s also making headlines again for one of his tweets. this is what he wrote nobody should be allowed to burn the
through. the worst is other. that s the good news. last night those hurricane-force winds, the low humidity contributed to the intensity of the flames that started in the great smokey national mountain park. now the wind has died down but the smoke is very thick in the air and firefighters are expecting to host a press conference a couple hours from now where hopefully we ll get more details about what happens next in this community terribly hit hard by the wildfires. please thank them for us. it happens like this, not even know if you have a home to go home to. i cannot imagine. nick valencia, thank you very much. cnn has also learned 1500 animals tripped at ripley s aquarium are now safe so with me on the phone, ryan desere, he s the regional manager of that aquarium. ryan, i m an animal lover and we ll get to your animals in just a second but i want to talk about humans like you, your employees do you know how
plaza and see what was going on and that s when the video was shot. so we weren t sure of any circumstances. but we could feel it, the animals are okay, we re fine. no problems at all. we were worried about them last night i would probably say with certainty that we were the last ones in the city and our half dozen marine biologists we have there and support personnel were forced to leave by police escort and that was it was the right thing to do on their part but certainly their safety was par mount to us and they had to go and then we were the first ones back in the city today and largely thanks to the police efforts to allow us back in. we continue to thank them for that, us being able to get back and forth to that aquarium is primary. ryan, thank you for hopping on the phone, you have a lot more to do so i ll let you jump off but just look after yourself and your employees and those