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Tweeted the trip by vp pence was long planned. he is receiving great praise for leaving game after the players showed such disrespect. pence said he was standing in solidarity. afterwards, he tweeted i left today's colts game because we will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, flag or national anthem. we know this was discussed by the president and vice president ahead of time. a lot to discuss like what was the price tag for that? to help answer that question, cnn's renee marsh b joins me live. renee, what are you finding out about how much all of this is costing taxpayers? >...

$30,000 per hour to fly a c-32. that's the aircraft that's used to fly around the vice president. it's known as air force two. so we do know that pence's flight from las vegas to indianapolis on saturday took about three hours and 20 minutes. the cost for that leg, $100,000. pence then flew from indianapolis to los angeles on sunday. that flight was about four hours and 45 minutes and the cost of that, $142,500. so the grand total nearly a quarter million dollars. had pence skipped the game which he left very quickly, as you just pointed out, and he flew straight to los angeles where he was sc...