Ground earlier . No, not at all. It is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people. We need the help. Tell the president Everybody Needs help here. This is new day with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. It is friday, september 29th, 6 00. Cnn now reporting that price used military aircraft to travel overseas. Price is offering to pay the deposit back but only for the cost of his seat, not the total travel cost that is reported to be over a million dollars. President trump is reportedly mad as hell over the travel flack. Jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, failed to disclose his use of personal email for government business to the senate intel committee. All right. So thats one kind of accountability controversy. There is a very different one more than a week after hurricane maria. This is not hype or the media ignoring a good news story. Nobody wants bad news to come out of puerto rico. Everybody wants more good news. Its just the reality that is the problem. These are the images of the on destruction. Theyre not doctored. Theyre not old. Theyre right now. There are an increasing number of people desperate for aid. There is no question there are tremendous resources and manpower being brought to bear by the United States government. There is increasing planning. But it is not enough. Thousands of containers that youre looking at right now are filled with food, water, medical aid, other types of essentials that will be needed for store shelves. They are stuck at the port of san juan just sitting there. Why is the Trump Administration insisting everything is going well and anything else you hear is fake news . We have reporters on the ground. They will show you what they are seeing. We have it all covered. Lets go first to cnns joe johns live at the white house. Joe . Reporter good morning, chris. Members of the house and the senate are now asking questions about this jet travel issue involving the health secretary. Hes promised not to take any more chartered flights. But the Inspector General is looking into is it also. The president would love to put it behind him. But the drip, drip, drip of information continues. Secretary tom price under fire for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for trips on private jets. Cnn has learned it doesnt stop there. Air force official said price also took military aircraft for two multistop International Trips earlier this year, racking up a 500,000 bill, according to politico. The overseas trip, which the white house approved, bringing the total cost of prices travel over 1 million. We have heard the concern and the criticism and we look forward to the inspector germs report. Price pledging thursday to pay back a fraction of this total writing a check for 51,887. 31. The cost of his seats on the chartered planes but not the military flights. To pay for my portion of those trips. This is unprecedented. Reporter the white house releasing a statement thursday defending prices travel on military aircraft, insisting that it is sometimes an appropriate and necessary use of resources. As for the 26 chartered flights price has taken since may, the administration taking a tougher tone. The white house does not have a role on a front end of approving chart or flights at agencies. Thats something that we are certainly looking into from this point forward. Reporter sources tell cnn that prices partial repayment for his flights is not helping his case with the president but that mr. Trump is not yet ready to fire his health secretary. Although names of possible replacements are being floated. I am not happy about it, and i let him know it. Reporter this wasteful use of tax payer money flying in the face of one of the key campaign promises. It is is time to drain the damn swamp. Reporter it is also the same type of spending price railed against then House Speaker nancy pelosi for in 2010. I want to say to the speaker, dont you fly over our country in our luxury jet and lecture us on what it means to be an american. Reporter the treasury secretary and the epa administrator have both come under fire for taking chartered flights. And according to politico and the washington post, the interior secretary, ryan zinke has taken a charter flight, including a 12,000 flight to his hometown on a political trip, according to the press secretary for the department, it was approved. Chris and alyson, back to you. Joe, thank you very much. Lets bring in our Political Panel to discuss this. A. B. , tom price is offering to pay 51,000 out of a million. This is laughable. You heard him there last night saying is its unprecedented. Im taking on this responsibility, taking accountability. How does the math work there . Its hard to believe he can be so defiant given the tape you just rolled with him about the speaker, who was supposed to be flying in a military plane. Theres no way that im coughing up 51,000 after having all of these people fly, including his wife, and going two days early, is remotely acceptable. Something made him think he can get away with it. And i think his bluster shows tom price thinks he might be able to keep his job, and i dont think theres a chance he can. What are you hearing in terms of reporting . Is it bubbling up that we get people dont like this, but this is what happens. People take these kind of flights all the time in government. Ive been hearing that a lot. Of course they came in with a mandate to drain the swamp. It seems the president surrounded himself with alligators. What are you hearing in terms of rationalizing this . They are defending tom price. They believe in what he is trying to do at hhs. The president set a tone that it is okay to criticize since the president is criticizing too. The numbers dont add up. This is an administration, a party that talked about trying to be more responsible with dollars about deficits and responding to tax payers. As you played clip from price from 2010. It doesnt look good. Its not a comfortable thing for anybody right now to have price in the headlines like this. As a. B. Was saying, not offering to put up the entire cost of what is the extra expense from having charlotte orred this flight and taking staff along with him in all of these different circumstances. Since when is President Trump a budget hawk . He and his family are on track to outpace for secret service bills, any other president. Just in their short time. Theyre traveling. You know, he has a big extended family, lots of kids who get secret service. Theyre spending a kings ransom on this. Why is he swraoer is rowizeroin price . You heard about Michelle Obamas foreign vacation. I think america in germ tolerate a pretty high degree of spending on things they perceive as essential to the president and the president s security. Tom price flying on private jets is certainly not in that category. I have spoken to a number of people who have known tom price over the years. The thing that is most surprise to go him is tom price is a wealthy man. He is not someone month has not lived the good life and now he reached the pinnacle of government thinks now is my chance to live it up. He has chose especially to do this anyway. Is this about being surrounded by wilbur ross, steve mnuchin. They are uber weighalthy. Or are they not used to flying commercial. People dont buy homes because of the mortgage deduction. Most people are completely dependent on what kind of nut and fig they will have to pay. How big a problem did tom price have anyway because of what happened with the health care roll out and how the president does like to blame others. Some of this just an opportunity for the president to make good on prior agreements. Right. And i think wool see, and im not happy about it, he does like to let people twist. The people who have served in congress, mulvaney, paul ryan as speaker now, tom price, even Vice President pence, they were supposed to go deliver the results for health care. The president made it known months ago those guys were supposed to milwaukee it happen. So it is layered on top of tom price losing something. But alyson makes a point. Trump is allowed, i think with his supporters, to do whatever he wants, not separate from his businesses, get his legal fees paid for. Theres no end. All the travel that will add up at the end of this year to obamas eight or less more more, its the other people around him, he knows his voters will not tolerate taking plans. Cabinet secretary zinke and scott pruett, its these kinds of stories. Its not just price. Its several others. It is not tolerable for the drain the swamp voter. Even before this came out on, tom price had basically become an invisible person in the health care debate. He was seen as helpful getting that bill through the house. When it came to the senate, he was involved july. That failed to push. He got flack from senators and governors who felt like he was not delivering honest, reliable, persuasive data. So very quickly, we just need to talk about another person in the president s inner circle, Jared Kushner using, as it turns out, private email. I wish we had a sound effect for hypocrisy alert. We need the bell to ring. How is this going to go over . I mean, this is not good, right . It looks like its something theyre trying to hide. His lawyers say, no, with looked into the email account. We didnt think it was there. No problem. We will disclose whatever you want. The fact that they werent fully forth coming at the outset when the administration tried to say were cooperating with every part of this russia probe, they spent how much time during the Campaign Season railing against Hillary Clinton for her private email account to have the president s soninlaw and daughter be the worst defenders in this potentially is certainly shaking the white house a little bit. Because, you know, it is very obvious do what i say, not what i do. That doesnt work. When youre the center of attention and center of a probe in washington. I get it is not a private server. Its a private account. I understand the differences. He didnt delete, as far as we know, 30,000 emails. Dont all of us now have private email seered into our brain of what is bad to do during an investigation . No, apparently, is the answer to the question. They didnt. This is the thing. A lot of people have email accounts that are public and some that are private. To have anybody in it still using private email connected to anything with their official visitsis that much worse than it might have been in a different circumstance. Panel, thank you very much. All right. So look, this is one intrigue going on. This is politics, leverage, hypocrisy. There is a very different conflict playing out in puerto rico. The Trump Administration is defending their response to the storm. The president said he gets an a plus on the storm. More than 10,000 workers on the ground. The penalty gone appointed a threestar general, jeffrey buchanan, to help deal with logistics. Homeland security adviser tom boss effort is saying the relief efforts are unfolding at a good place. Heres the problem. We see on the ground. The pictures on the ground from our correspondents tell a different story. They are seeing nothing but devastation everywhere they look. Watch as these people try to cross this river with a wire after maria wiped out a bridge. This is people in the town outside of san juan. Theyre pleading for help. Theyre walking hours trying to get food, just even bread or rice. They are still trying to get water. The reality is frightening. The drone video says it all. Houses mangled, roofs blown away. This is an island in ruins. We have a team in puerto rico. Lets start with Boris Sanchez live in san juan with what the latest is there. Whats happening with all the aid that people need, boris . Reporter many people we have spoken to on the ground are saying they are simply not feeling it. Case in point, i want to step outside of the way so you can see this massive line behind me. It looks like street parking. Its not. There are at least 100 cars going as far as the eye can see. People have been here for hours waiting for gasoline. The guy at the front of the line got here at 9 00 p. M. Last night. When they ran out of gas, he parked his car and went to sleep. Hes been here since hop to go get his happens on some gasoline. You see people bringing as many containers as possible as well. It is not just lines for gas. One woman told me she waited for several hours outside a Grocery Store yesterday trying to get water and canned food. When she finally got in, she was disappointed because the store shelves were totally empty. There is a major logistical bottle neck. Yesterday we were standing at a main port in san juan with 10,000 shipping containers that couldnt get out of the port because there wasnt enough truckers or fuel available to get the containers where they need to be. The need, the desperation is palpable. To make things worse, there is rain in the forecast today. It adds insult to injury because folks here are already dealing with difficult conditions. And that rain may make it more difficult to what get what they need. Alyson and chris. We will spend our program trying to get answers for you and the folks down there. 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Uh, im actually focusing on my career right now, saving people nearly 600 when they switch, so. Wheres your belly button . [ sighs ] ive got to start booking better gigs. Growing criticism because of growing need frankly. Listening to acting Homeland Security elaine duke. She said the island is a good news story. Take a listen. I am very satisfied. I know its a hard storm to recover from. But the amount of progress thats been made. And i really would appreciate any support that we get. I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane. The last part is true. It is shocking that to this point, remember, we have secondary terciary waves. Sanjay gupta will take us through that. But to this point it is surprising there havent been more deaths. It is is not surprising there is so much disconnect between a good news story and the devastation we see on the ground. One man putting in the hours, the sweat, the blood, the tears is u. S. Army core of engineer commander colonel james delapp. I have seen your men and women in action. I hear your reports from the ground. I know you are putting your all into it. There is no question about that. But lets deal with the realities, colonel. You have been given the job of restoring power. That is the heart of the situation. It will be very difficult. What is the status on the ground of how much still needs to be done to get power back . Good morning, chris. First of all, our thoughts and prayers with those who are impacted and will remain impacted for a while. We are trying to restore critical facilities to get those back up and running. We are continuing to do assessments of all the other facilities and understand better what the complete damage is to that infrastructure. Were working really closely with the pure the toe rhee can electric power to determine a plan forward to get the power restored as quickly as possible across the eye land. Because youre on the ground and you understand the island so well, it is is probably not surprising to you you are seeing an emerging disconnect. Yeah, were checking certain boxes. We have a certain hospitals back up. Were getting more gas stations up. Were getting some banks up. And the reality for the people on the ground of i cant get cash, i cant get gas, i dont have any power, i dont have any water. In a situation like this, both can be very true, right . Sorry, chris. I lost you there. But if you can hear me still, the challenge is and the logistics moving the equipment and people as well as the repair pieces required to get the power restored. And the terrain is significant. There is a logistical challenge. The corps is working with the local Power Company to get that restored as quickly as possible. The folks at the very end of the line will see their power return to service last. Totally understood. Can you hear me now, colonel . Yeah. Sure can. Thank you, sir. I will repeat the question because it matters. Because you know the island well and youre on the ground, it is probably not a surprise to to you to hear this disconnect. Youre hearing from washington, look, were happy with how were doing with things to this point. And people on the ground saying i cant get cash, i cant get gas, i dont have clean water, i dont have power. I dont know how long i can make it. Both situations can be realities in a situation like this, yes . Absolutely. Is and the reality, though, is the whole of government is really trying to get the material here as quickly as possible and provide that combined response to get that restored. There will be those that see it sooner and those, as i had, at the end of the line that will see that return much later. Just because the massive destruction. According to the puerto rican power authority, 80 of the system is down on the ground. That will talk a bit to get restored. We keep hearing from guys working from you and other branches of the recovery, its like rebuilding an island from scratch. That nothing is in place. We have the shells on of certain things. But that the task cant be underestimated. But that said, what is your guess . We are showing different images while we are doing this interview of people where there is no bridge and they are doing a rope line across. That is so dangerous. People t