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$400,000. trips that at times mixed business with pleasures. trips he easily could have flied -- flew commercial. price is now vowing, quote, i will take no more private charter flights as secretary of hhs. no exceptions. adding, i will write a personal check to the u.s. treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. that check for almost $52,000. but price was questioned about whether that's enough because guess what, it's not. >> you say in the statement the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes. but you're writing a check for, we understand from your offi...

Exceptions. i will write a personal check to the u.s. treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes." my seat. turns out that, yes, price plans to just pay for his lone seat of his chartered flights, not the entire bill. hhs says he will write a check for $51,887, out of the reported $400,000 charter flight bill. that's just one-eighth the cost of 26 charter flights he kept taking even after politico started reporting on his private jet expenses. and tonight things just got even worse for secretary price. politico r...

Things. one is to say there will be no private air charters at hhs going forward. second is to cooperate fully. with the inspector general. there is a review going on and i called for an internal review within the department itself and finally to pay for my portion of those trips. this is unprecedented, never been done, to our understanding, before by secretary in spite of the fact that previous administrations about secretaries that flew an awful lot. still unsure. you say in a statement the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes. you are writing a check, we understand, $51,88...

Meant seat, paying back a fraction of the cost. price was asked about all this last night. >> you say in a statement the taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes. but you're writing a check for, we understand, from your officials, $51,887. the total cost is estimated at more than $400,000 for the 26 flights since may. is that okay? >> well, as i said, there's an ongoing review being done bit inspector general. i think it's important that we wait for that review. all of the trips, as i mentioned, had been approved, approved by the legal department, approved by the administration d...

51,887 and 31. perhaps he could have just rounded up. this whole thing couldn't have come at a worse time for the administration assist president trump wages war on the nfl while more than 3 million americans in puerto rico are struggling to survive and desperate for help from their own government. the president got the message early on with the hurricanes irma and harvey. so why is his administration so tone deaf when it comes to prosecutor prosecutor? and was this bound to happen when president trump surrounds himself with millionaires and billionaires? we'll discuss all of that in the comin...