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Mentioned politics and government business. the hatch act pretty flatly bans that. >> absolutely. when they fly out to montana, they want a fund-raiser, use a charter jet, commercial, whatever they want to do. however they want to get there. that's paid for by the republican national committee or by the campaign. if they go out there on mixed business, some official business, some political business, then there ought to be a contribution. a substantial contribution by the political campaign to the cost of the travel. the united states taxpayer is there to pay for official business. and that sh...

Instead, price's trip on board the private plane could have cost you, the taxpayer, as much as $25,000. and the comparisons hardly end there. our flight search showed that there was a commercial flight departing minutes earlier than price's pricey jet bound for philadelphia for a fraction of the price. that commercial flight would have cost between 500 and $700 and of course, there was also the option of amtrak, a train from washington to philadelphia even in first class would have cost the health and human services inspector general is conducting a review of secretary price's potentially in...

>> trish: so what do you think of that? >> no, that's okay. he's the mayor. he wants to join the international reaction to our rejecting the climate change issue. >> trish: governor, we did have a police officer right here in new york city who -- >> i know. >> trish: we have a lot of problems, there's a lot of work to be done at home, for him to then get on a plane and go jet setting off to hamburg, you can understand how that doesn't sit well with some people. >> he was going for a one day, he will attend the funeral, he will deal with these other problems, i like the mayor, you know, there's...

Bill for taxpayers. all this travel puts the 45th president on pace to surface eight years worth of obama spending on travel just in trump's first year. cnn's tom foreman is with me here. tom, these costly transcripts come as the support asking the federal government to help make some tough decisions when it comes to federal spending. >> yeah, that's precisely the prab here, jake. while the president is the asking all sorts of agencies to cut out the waste and to save taxpayer money, he's still living what looks like the jet setting life of a billionaire on the taxpayer's dime. the president k...

Trump's family jet setting lifestyle. tom foreman as the story. >> reporter: the cost of the protecting the jet setting first family could be epic starting with the president, vice president, their lives, children, and grand kids, over to 20 people from the get go. >> that's unprecedented. the it's not unattainable to protect them, but it's unprecedented. >> the equation is complicated by the trump family working out of so many places. the white house, the mar-a-lago club in florida, several private residences in and out of d.c., and trump tower in new york which the first lady calls home. sec...