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An hofficial spokesperson said the trip had been already booked. charter aircraft can be used for official travel. take a look at one of the trips. washington, d.c. to philadelphia, pennsylvania. hard to imagine you cannot reasonably get there commercially. in fact, "politico" notes a united flight took off from dulles for philadelphia five minutes before price's charter jet. united booking site shows the flight typically costs about $724 round trip. that's just a little under the $8,000 for 11 people that reported the size of price's group. his private jet, that cost $25,000. that is more tha...

Your reporting here, in june, price spoke at a physician's association conference in san diego where he vowed to wring out wasteful spending in the government's health care programs, getting value for spending is incredibly important, he said, price took a private plane to get to that meeting where he said that, which was one stop on a five-state sprint of charter travel that cost $50,000. have they responded to you about how they square this sort of message with this expenditure? >> well, the message that we have in our reporting is basically the message that we've heard from them, chris. we ...

This is just another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in congress right now. >> then congressman tom price in 2009 speaking out against members of congress using private jets. joining us now, a former foreign policy adviser, and paul butler is also back with you. so max, let's look at a tweet from dan diamond. here is the 30-seat charter jet that tom price and kellyanne conway took for their $25,000 d.c. to philly roundtrip. i think a ticket could cost like $200. that's what they took. what happened to tom price? >> well, obviously will to that price was living the good life and fly...

Programs, getting value for spending is incredibly important, he said, price took a private plane to get to that meeting where he said that, which was one stop on a five-state sprint of charter travel that cost $50,000. have they responded to you about how they square this sort of message with this expenditure? >> well, the message that we have in our reporting is basically the message that we've heard from them, chris. we first brought the story to them on monday. it took them over 24 hours to decide what they wanted to say in response to us. and the statement has been pretty consistent throu...

That is cut it from eight to four jets. now we need to cut it from four jets to zero jets. this is just another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amok in congress right now. >> then congressman tom price in 2009 speaking out against members of congress using private jets. joining us now, a former foreign policy adviser, and paul butler is also back with you. so max, let's look at a tweet from dan diamond. here is the 30-seat charter jet that tom price and kellyanne conway took for their $25,000 d.c. to philly roundtrip. i think a ticket could cost like $200. that's what they took. what ha...