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It was just last friday that donald trump ousted his health care chief over private jet travel. this friday his treasury chief under fire for spending close to a million dollars on private military jet travel. we know this because of a new internal watchdog report as travel spending by three other top trump officials is under review. mnuchin's flights of $27,000 on a trip to kentucky first exposed by his wife in that instagram post and another 15k trip from washington to new york to go to trump tower and $43,000 flight to miami when a nonpartisan career official at treasury saw that bill befor...

>> right. no. i mentioned in the set-up of the discussion a lot of this was military jets and why again when you see a former treasury official say i never did, not once in the entire ten you to do that. for the obvious reason with all due respect to the important role that the treasury secretary plays over the capital markets, he can be in the air for an hour or two and pick up phone calls when he lands. he is not the president. >> correct. >> that's what we know from the history. kathleen clark, thank you for your ethical accumin. >> thank you. more questions than answers for fbi investiga...

And golf courses has cost the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, for outstripping what was budgeted for the secret service and other budgets. so this is a widespread problem and the one thing that mnuchin said i think we should pay close to attention is he's blaming the white house an it may well be that part of the blame belongs there. on the white house. >> right. >> but that's not the only place the problem is. >> well, and trump reportedly removed tom price over this same private jet travel and if what you say is true, for accountability, the president would have to by that standard re...

Trip requests. now, if you're thinking this is not normal, that's because it isn't. here's obama's former treasury secretary. >> i never used military aircraft for domestic travel. >> joining us now is kathleen clark, a professor of law at washington university in st. louis and an expert on government ethics. how bad? >> this is very bad. and it's bad not just for treasury secretary mnuchin but it's bad for the trump white house because the problems with trump cabinet secretary travel is widespread and it really points to a lack of controls on the part of this administration. >> also, a lack o...

First of all, all of our travel went through the same process as previous secretaries of the treasury. every single one of my trips approved by the white house and the only time i've ever used or would use a private plane for government purposes if either there was a national security issue or we couldn't get somewhere. that's what this is about. >> is he lying? >> no. but he is deflecting the problem is. the problem isn't necessarily what the process was. using the same process as was used in the obama administration but the outcome i think is quite different or at the very least the outcome ...