the next morning, because you knew the underlying situation of puerto rico and it was before storm. obviously it was going to be exaggerated after. well, new york governor andrew cuomo, we re grateful for your leadership and thank you for calling into us. it was good talking to you. my pleasure. health secretary tom price resigns after coming under fire for his use of private jets. the optics of this amid the president s promises to drain the swamp. ah, dinner.
those special deals? tom price, when questioned about that in his confirmation hearing, he just denied that he d been in on any vip stock deals. he said, no, the public could have been in on any of those deals, which was not true. he was under oath at the time and he never went back and corrected those statements. but the republicans on the committee and in the senate at large were happy to vote for tom price anyway. and you know what, it turns out when somebody during their confirmation process shows a proclivity for self-dealing in government employment and when they re more than happy to lie about it and not even bother to clean it up once they re caught lying about it, even under oath, when somebody shows you that s who they are, as they say, believe them. if that s what you paid for in a cabinet secretary, that is what you will get as a cabinet secretary. but thanks to investigative reporting from rach ana prad an and dan diamond at politico, health secretary tom price will not go
hollywood and joe biden who tweeted. i don t know there s a funnier woman are our generation. i guess in myl everything. health secretary tom price facing growing scrutiny over his air travel, not only private jets, military flights overseas, and we re told the president is not pleased.
russia s election meddling with moscow now linked to a social media campaign aimed at fanning racial tensions. tonight congress is investigating the kremlin s efforts to create chaos in american politics. and fleeing cuba. the state department is drakically cutting its embassy staff in havana after mysterious acoustic attacks that left some diplomats brain damaged. why is the u.s. ramping up its response now? we want to our welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do have breaking news tonight. health secretary tom price forced out for using private aircraft for government business trips and embarrassing a president who promised to drain the swamp. the white house announcing a short time ago that the president has accepted price s resignation, and we re told that the president has been furious
over health secretary tom pri price s use of private planes. it is now reported that price used military aircraft to travel overseas. price is offering to pay the government back, only $50,000, the cost of his one seat, not the total cost reported to be more than $1 million. joe johns is live at the white house with the details. hi, joe. members of the house and senate from both parties are asking questions about this issue involving jet travel and the health secretary. tom price promised to pay the money back and says he will not take any more chartered flights. but the inspector general is looking into it. the president for his part would certainly love to get beyond this issue, but the drip, drip, drip of information continues. health secretary tom price under fire for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer