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Human services secretary tom price is the subject of an inspector general's inquiry, following reports on dozens of flights on private jets. like the lear jet 60. similar to this one. politico found price has taken at least 24 trips on private jets since early may at a cost to taxpayers of at least $300,000 t. agent's inspector general is looking into whether price's travel complied with federal travel violations? . >> all they were willing to say was we're complying with the rules. if they're not going to identify which one it was or how they concluded it was applicable, they're basically tel...

Areas in alaska that were otherwise inaccessible. tom price it appears to have defaulted to private planes instead of commercial flights at similar times such as a june 6 trip from d.c. to nashville. according to politico, sample round trip fares for those flights were as low as $202. price's charter according to hhs contract with classic air charter cost $17,760. hhs would not say how many charter trips price has taken but cited the recent hurricanes as justification. price has used charter aircraft for official business to accommodate his demanding schedule, the week of september 13th was on...

They had to revise that today. guess what it's larger than that. it was 21.5 million people are affected by this. this is a huge consequences. i don't see how we don't see this as an act of cyber war. and i think that the white house should actually have to be forced to answer for this -- for these problems. >> 21 million? >> it's like basically easier to announce who wasn't affected. >> all righty. remember when hillary clinton said she was of the people for the people and by the people? so she got the scooby van. take a look at the scooby van. she's one of the people. everyone's chasing her ...

Able to wrest control back of that jet? >> well, we're in heavy speculation here, but let me tell you that an aircraft on autopilot will fly on its last heading or on program waypoints, which is in the flight management system, if that was so programmed, for as long as it's got fuel. and then when the fuel runs out, it will come down. and there are two famous examples of that. there was the helius flight in athens in greece, where the pilots became incapacitated and the aircraft just flew on autopilot until it ran out. the other one was your famous learjet flying from -- >> payne stewart. >> p...

Went down. it is called the zombie plane scenario. and it has happened before. october 25th, 1999. a chartered lear jet carrying payne stewart and five others plunged nose-first into a south dakota field. it had streaked across the sky for almost four hours flying on its own. the plane had lost cabin pressure and all on board were dead. jet fighters shadowing the plane could do nothing to save it as it eventually ran out of fuel. could malaysia flight 370 have also turned into a so-called zombie plane? >> they were at some point overtaken by whatever it was, smoke, fire or other -- some kind o...