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Your taxpayer money, funding trips, first class tickets, even a $30,000 secure phone booth for an office. just weeks ago, a scathing report found veterans affairs secretary david shulkin misled ethics officials and cost taxpayers $122,000 on a european tour. in july, shulkin and his wife traveled to copenhagen and london. three and a half days were spent in official meetings. the rest of the ten-day trip, mostly sightseeing, with stops at windsor castle and buckingham palace. they even went to wimbledon. >> i went and i did not lock myself in the hotel room. i went out and i went to various hi...

>> 122,000, actually. >> even more, thank you. 122,000 families that rely on this, and as you point out they have been scared for months because they don't know if come next month their child will be able to get them -- >> i don't want them to be scared, poppy. >> leadership can't do it alone but they can emphasize to their fellow senators, and i'm bringing this to the floor as soon as you bring me a bill that you can all agree on and so they can do that, they can persuade heavily. >> i sent senator mcconnell a letter yesterday saying with all due respect, we know we are going to do it, let's ...

That is a promise republicans made when obamacare was passed and yes the mandate was repealed but there are still these looming costs, people just can't afford health care. >> if you get people out from under the individual mandate and they can move into the marketplace with high deductible health plans, you ease that burden. in tennessee, we had 122,000 families last year that paid the penalty for not purchasing an obamacare compliant plan. 100,000 of those families had income $50,000 a year or less. this is an incredible financial burden. our small business owners feel the same way and they ...

Pass, that's great. if it becomes an impediment to getting the best tax bill we can come up we are okay to taking it out. >> melissa: and marsha blackburn is a member of the house commerce subcommittee on health, she is joining us now. what do you think about taking out that element? >> it would be wonderful to get that off the books and here's the reason why. it is one of the biggest impediments to people getting the insurance they can afford and then that they can afford to actually use. we hear it every single day. the cost of insurance in tennessee has gone up 176%. since the affordable ca...

You know win control? be this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro. all right. we want to take you to california. we have the latest on the devastates wildfires that are raging through northern california. it could become worse, even worse as some officials call this potentially one of the worst disasters in california's history. >> 122,000 ac...