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Lead health and human services and he was grilled today whether he is profiting from his position. let's go to m.j. lee, the administration is quote committed to -- the spending, that's a mega promise, what else was said? >> reporter: we certainly saw sparks fly, the second hearing that tom price has had, the first was on the financial investments and ethics about his decision to invest where his companies and congress may have been related and democrats are saying his work may have helped him benefit, reap financial benefits and he reiterated as last week that he didn't do anything illegal. o...

His day one is pretty darn robust, i've gotten out of the quantifying game, but i think when you compare that to the past we probably put that up there the amount of action he took, folks, that's what you're going to see a lot more of today, he wanted to sit down with the auto industry because he thinks that's vital to our manufacturing base, but he's going to have a lot of meetings and meet with a lot of folks with a lot of backgrounds with folks he think are interested in working with him, to your point on the criteria, that's what it is. >> does the president have any plans to change u.s. p...

More people, what the regulatory or impact is on their ability to keep more jobs or keep manufacturing here in the united states, you're going to see a lot more of that whether it's governors or different groups in the house or senate to come down and get their ideas and advice how to work together and move an agenda. >> you mentioned that the president is reviewing the islamic state strategy, can you tell us who exactly is involved in that review, how long is it's going to take and what are options being considered? >> i think there's a lot not to get back on my high horse but i think a lot o...

At the educational piece to transfer people out of one job to another for people who might have had a blue collar job to transfer into a technology based job but there's a lot of things we can do in terms of training an retraining, vo tetech what tr background or not and that's the kind of stuff that i think will help move forward. >> there was a report that came out this morning that said if the current spending levels where they are it's going to put the country in another $10 trillion in debt over the next ten years, does that reinforce the need to cut spending? >> absolutely. >> where in t...

>> it means i've answered your question. >> have you? >> the president's been meeting with business leaders are there any plans to target international -- >> i think our automotive industry has as a lot of plans overseas, the first prior to is jobs he's trying to bring back, johns johnson & johnson, dow, you take ford, chrysler, g.m., they all have massive overseas investments and i think part of the problem he was talking about is greater market access for them, to not get into markets they may have trouble with. >> are there any plans -- the