Trying to get some cash or trying to get some food in the supermarket or trying to get some water or just trying to get some information about what the next couple of days hold or when those supplies might get here. So i think theres a lot of frustration, particularly in some of the these outlying areas. The roads are theyve done a good job getting the roads open, and fema people have been out to kind of assess some of these outlying communities. But in a lot of these towns the people are waiting for medication, waiting for supplies. And, you know, the mayor of san juan is very clear, you know, she says this is a desperate situation. People are dying. People are going to die. And, you know, were talking about people who need hiv medication. People who need dialysis, all sorts of people who have just the everyday maladies or diseases that they deal with that medication helps them live. Its not available. And thats got to change and its got to change quick. Absolutely. Around son be, thank you again. Good reporting. We appreciate that. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. And this has been a pretty terrible week for the president. Let me just remind you of everything at that has happened. It was exactly one week ago just about this time that President Trump launched an all out attack on nfl players by kneeling during the national anthem. This is what the president of the United States saw fit to say to america. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out. Hes fired. Hes fired. Well, friday was already a bad day for the president with john mccain when he announced that he would not support the gops latest healthcare bill, doomg their efforts to repeal and replace obamacare again. Fastforward to tuesday when President Trumps candidate in alabamas gop Senate Primary lost to the candidate backed by former white house Senior Adviser steve bannon. Then just yesterday acting Homeland Security secretary elaine duke in a heck of a job moment called the goths response to the devastation in puerto rico a good news story 3. 5 Million People in puerto rico would definitely disagree with that. San juans mayor is one of them, and she is here. She was here here she was on cnns new day, i should say. Cam it, this is not a good news story. This is the people are dying story. And that brings us to tonight, friday. And as you know, you know what that means. Somebody is out at the Trump Administration. It happens on a lot of fridays. This time it is health and Human Services secretary tom price. Cut from the trump team for making the boss look bad with his multiple expensive flights on private jets. Theres a lot to get to tonight but i want to bring in cnn politics editor at large chris. Cnn political commentator and rebecca berg. Good evening to all of you. Chris starting a culture war, using nfl players, a loser on health care, a loser on the on hurricane response in puerto rico. Now tom price. Not a good week for President Trump. And you didnt even mention Jared Kushner not disclosing that he used private emails. I mean, theres and theres other things too, don. No. What we have learned, i think, is the pace at which donald trump moves, the pace at which he creates news, social media, cable television, et cetera, make it very difficult to track all of these things. But i think it is important, as you just did, to lay out think about it. From luther the Luther Strange sons of bitches speech to now is roughly seven days. I mean, its astounding. Its difficult to remember but important to remember. This is someone who i think undoubtedly dropped the ball as it relates to puerto rico. He was focused on the nfl. He was focused on Luther Strange. He was focused on health care. He was not focused on puerto rico despite his attempts to make good on that at least from a public perspective. And then capping the week off, you said that like a lot of fridays. Youre right. I mean, steve bannon gone on a sfri. Reince priebus gone on a friday. Sean spicer gone on a friday. These are what day was scar scar . I dont remember. That one may have broken the mold because he had to go. But all of these people, these are senior level people, don, and were not talking about year three of an administration. Were talking about year zero. Month eight and a half. Right. Was it just a matter of time before with price, though . Because yesterday i kept asking guests is it going to happen by the end of the week. Yes. As soon as you hit it exactly right, don. Bad headlines. Donald trump watches lots of cable tv and he reads lots of headlines. The one cardinal sin in trump world is making the boss look bad in the press, and thats what tom price did. Trump has no special loyalty to him and so there you go. Or getting more press than he does, david. The tombstones are piling up. I remember during the campaign that the president promised that he was going to have the best people. What happened with that . Yeah. He was the ceo president who even if he didnt have the wasnt in the weeds of every issue, don, he was going to hire the best people and run things like a business. That has not proven to be the case. In fact with this administration so far theres been this brew of hubris and amateurism that has led the president to where he is right now which is not having accomplished that much. Whats so striking about the case of secretary price is that secretary price, unlike many of the other members of the cabinet, had a lot of government experience. He was a former Budget Committee chair in congress, former congressman, a doctor, someone who in some ways seemed very well suited to the role of hhs secretary. But not only has the administration not gotten anywhere with repealing and replacing obamacare, now secretary price also has a scandal on his hands. And as chris said, what you dont want to do if you work for donald trump is embarrass donald trump. He did that on two counts. Hes out tonight. The writing was on the wall midweek, but tonight the president was pretty blunt. Listen to this. We are looking at doing it very strongly, i think its a shame because as a human being tom price is a very good man, i can tell you. Not a question of confidence. I was disappointed because i didnt like it kos metically or otherwise. I was disappointed. Rebecca, he might be a very good man, but price tom dozens of flights, private and military that cost about a Million Dollars. How could someone whose boss ran on draining the swamp be so blienld to the optics of this . Its just wrong. Not only that, don, but someone as david mentioned who has been in goth, who has been in politics, hes not new to government like so many other trump officials. And so tom price cant say, you know, this was a beginners mistake. He understands the way the game is played in washington and so even if, you know, take the drain the swamp part out of the equation entirely, tom price never should have thought that that was going to be a good idea. And he knew i mean, as a congressman he was one of the republicans who stressed fiscal conservative, who stressed that government waste should be eliminated. Its just so hypocritical in so many ways and so you really wonder how he arrived at the point that he thought this was going to be a good idea and something that the president would approve of. Certainly as the president said the appearance of this is just not good. Theres a lot of projection that goes on with the administration, chris, and i wonder if people should start calling the Trump Administration the trump elites, you know, because he refers to people as the elites. As the elites in washington, anytime you had this many billionaires and people who are using the federal governments money to take flights when they could fly commercially, maybe theyre the elites. Right. Well, and don, we havent even talked about it, but reason zinc key. And pruitt as well. Scott pruitt. We already know about Steve Mnuchin, right, the treasury secretary and his private plane issues. So the price thing is a sacrificial lamb that was easy for donald trump to sacrifice. Candidly, you know, i think donald trump probably looked around at the negative headlines tom price was drawing, coincided with the fact that health care went down this week, trump although he probably wishes he can, he cant fire Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan, but he can put the blame on tom price and price has brought it on himself. So in some ways its an easy one for him. But the chaos that trump seems to want, right, he believes he thrives in, it does have an impact. It does lead to huge amounts and this is a historical amount of senior staff departure at this time. Chris. Yes, sir. Let me play this for you guys because i think this is really important. He said he wasnt going to he doesnt you said that he couldnt tolerate when people, you know, bring him bad press. Yeah. But i want you to listen to what he said. This is in july about tom price. I dont mean to cut you off, but i want to do it so we have enough time to talk about it. Its your show. Watch this. By the way, youre going to get the votes. Hed better get them. Hed better get them. Otherwise ill say tom, youre fired. Well, there you go. Comedy is tragedy plus time. He wasnt fired he was fired because of the flight thing, but he was talking about getting folks for a republican healthcare bill and we have to remember his failure to repeal obamacare now hes hanging that around tom prices neck. Right. You bring a guy in who is a doctor and a former congressman because thats the sinner i didnt you want on the health care issue. You dont want to embarrass the president. You dont want to not get health care done. You do both of those things and you really have a problem. Can i just point out one thing about this, don and chris was alluding to it with tying together secretary mnuchin, et cetera, et cetera. Pruitta. Scott pruitt at the epa. There are certain stories in washington that dont cut through in a certain way, right. Its like we talk about russia a lot, but there are a lot of moving parts to that. But this is something that everybody, even people who are not following the day to day of politics can get their hands around. Wait. You flew a private jet from d. C. To philly, something that some people drive that every day to go to work. The idea you know, people dont expect that the secretary of health and Human Services going to fly in a middle seat on southwest airlines. But they dont think that theyre going to charter a private jet. Thats two ends of the spectrum. Or a military jet. Theres a happy medium, whether its to have your motorcade, but not a private jet for a two hour flight. People just look at that and say whats going on in washington. Its all nice and the hot dogs are great. Rebecca, aside from all the people who have been fired there have been a lot of points of the president screaming and berating staff members. What are you hearing about who will replace price . Thats the big question. Chris was saying this was an easy play by the president. Get the story out of the headlines. Tom price is gone. Easy, he wins the news cycle. But actually, i would argue hugh that this makes things extremely difficult for the president and the administration in the short and the longterm because you do need to find a replacement for tom price, not only nominate that person but get them confirmed through the senate. And then they need to also be administering obamacare and then potentially leading a health care fight at the beginning of next year as the president expressed that he is hoping to do. So actually, this could be a very tough confirmation fight, especially when you consider the health care fights that we have had over the past few months in congress. Democrats are energized by this issue right now. They feel that this is something that their grassroots is very passionate about. So anyone who the president nominates is immediately going to cause a firestorm on capitol hill, at least among democrats and maybe some republicans because this is a fundamental issue for them, health care. Im going to hire the best people probably should have been followed by im going to fire the best people soon after. When we come back, hey mr. President , how is that drain the swamp thing working out . He says its his words a little bs, not to mention the inspector generals investigation of Steve Mnuchins trips on government planes. Is President Trumps cabinet of billionaires bringing him down . Believe the health we aof our water sourcesany is essential to the health of our communities. Which is why were helping to replenish the mighty rio grande as well as over 30 watersheds across the country. Were also leading water projects in more than 100 communities. And for every drop we use. Were working to give one back. Because our products rely on the same thing as we all do. 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So, david, in addition to these 13 trips on private charter planes, tom price also took government planes on two international trips. Candidate trump said hes going to drain the swamp, yet here we are. Whats going on . Well, the problem is to drain are the swamp, its weve had enough time there should be sort of concrete measures put in place. Its not just an empty promise or it shoopt be. If you care about this you have to set standards that start with the people who work underneath you. They have to behave beyond ethically to set an example for everybody else. And if people like Steve Mnuchin the trerkry secretary, price, zpling wee, scott pruitt, if theyre able to use Government Resources in a way thats questionable it sets an example for everybody else that says, look, draining the swamp, we didnt really mean it. David just went through a lot of it, but let me remind the viewer again what it is. Price is not alone with this questionable travel. The treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin under review for trip on a government plane and he is also criticized for asking about using a government plane for his honeymoon. The eps administrator scott pruitt has taken private and military planes. The interior secretary has taken private planes including one owned by oil and gas executives. He even went so far as to call this story a little bs. Is this just the beginning of the fall out . Thats a lot of folks. That is a lot of folks. The version i heard is zinc eis he was going out to speak to a hockey team thats owned by a political contributor. I have no idea what that has to do with his job in the United States government. And the tone here is set at the top. The president has been going on down there to palm beach to maralago and each one of those trips costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions. We bring air force one down there. And its one thing for the president to go on a handful of vacations like president bush did and president obama. With President Trump its been weekend, every other weekend. And now hes doing this thing at bedminster. You know, hes been promoting the trump brand when hes in the white house. Hes refused to divest himself of complicates of interest. So hes sending the message hes going to do anything he please in this job and the cabinet secretaries are going to do everything they can get away with. And thats the tone he wants to set, thats what hes going to do. Theres nothing we can do about it unless we want to remove him as president. I want to get your response to that, steven. Do you think that this is a tone, a culture that has been set by this president . He does take a lot of trips on weekend to his trump Branded Properties. Well, no. Look, i think the American People knew that donald trump loved to play golf and that he hes a rich man. He never hid his wealth, that he liked to visit his resorts. But, look, don, im a drain the swamp guy. I think the riches of washington are incredibly unbecoming. Washington is becoming rich at the expense of the rest of the country. Theres no question about that. And i think look, i cant excuse some of these flights, but i will say this. Just in preparation for this seg mept tonight i lo