jim baker and leon panetta i think shared something these guys also have. they were grounded.were comfortable in their own skin. they had been around the block. they could walk into the oval office, close the door, and tell the president what he did not want to hear. as dick cheney put it to me when he was jerry ford's-- a terrific chief of staff for jerry ford. he said you can't have a tough thing that you have to tell the president and have eight or nine guys sitting around saying, "it's your turn to tell him. no, it's your turn." it has to be one person to do it. and, unfortunately, we do not have a chief of staff as we speak in the white house who can tell the president no. >> rose: is there anything exwb in the white house who can tell the president no? >> well, you know, i sometimes wonder if donald trump could find the civilian equivalent of jim mattis, who, evidently, has the gravitas to change the president's mind, on torture, for example, and tell him no-- >> mcmaster. >> he needs to find somebody like that, because history is littered with the wreckage of presidenci

got to say by the way, leon panetta, remember him and the obama administration, every weekend he would the expense of taxpayers each trip cost $32,000 , panetta had to only pay $630 per trip. >> melissa: obviously fox business will stay on this breaking news. that does it for us but risk & reward is starting now. >> liz: health and human services secretary dr. tom price is resigning. this after admitting the use of private charter planes at taxpayer's expense instead of using commercial planes. this is risk & reward i'm elizabeth macdonald. the white house releasing this statement moments ago. secretary of health and human services tomorrow as price offer ed his resignation earlier today and the president has accepted. the president intends to designate don j. write of virginia to serve as acting secretary. let's get to connell mcshane in d.c. with the latest. >> this is one of those stories building throughout the week as more and more details emerged about the

i worked for leon panetta. we were very conscious of not using government resources unless we absently had to. for security reasons, tom price is reasons did not pass muster. speaking to what charlie said, this is the opposite of draining the swamp. if president trump had come in the office as an established republican, this might not be as bad, but he said we are going to do things differently, we are not going to behave like the traditional folks who come in here every four years and screw things up. this really plays into that narrative. you were talking earlier about in the intro about the day the president wanted to focus on manufacturing and tax reform. it's another new cycle where he tried to push policy and its been upended by these problems of their own making. >> bret: you heard a little bit of this, but this is president trump on price today talking to reporters. >> i was disappointed because i didn't like it. cosmetically or otherwise. i think it's a shame, because as a human being, tom price is a v

maria bartiromo went one-on-one with leon panetta. for his take on john kelly's role as chief of sta. >> i like john kelly a lot. the best thing to know about john kelly is he is first and foremost a marine. he dedicated his life to public service. committed to whoever is commander-in-chief. and he believes deeply in disprinciple and a chain of commands and a process for decision making and doesn't toll rate chaos very easily. i think hs the right guy to try to g the whit house back in order. th real question is whher the president gves him the room to make it changes that will be necessary to improve the operations in the white house. >> when you were running the defense department and cia at omb, there was a very different relationship. and the republicans will say we don't have any participation from the democrats, not on healthcare, not on tax reform. how does the country move forward with such divisiveness. >> maria i think i just touched on one of the fundamental problems we are facing in our democracy. if you ask about national

leon panetta, thank you for being with us today. >> nice to be with you. >>> we're now waiting for atunity. the tape will be fed in shortly. it's the malaysian president. apparently the president did comment, according to the poole report, about north korea and the sanctions a small step, which is actually a lot closer to being accurate than the comments made by the administration about the sanctions vote. the 15-0 unanimous vote by the security council last night. someone who knows a whole lot about all of this is msnbc political analyst in the john mccain state department. we have a few minutes before we bring in the president but he's being brought in on corruption charges, yet is a welcome visitor. arguably, he is a key ally on trying to sanction north korea, but we have to see -- >> he's also an interesting ally. one of the things i did was start an isolation organization with malaysia which they agreed to do. >> let's listen to the president. >> the president of malaysia and his very distinguished delegation with us today. we're talking about trade, very large trade deals. we'r

that included robert mueller, leon panetta, eric holder and loretta lynch. white house signed off on 77 military flights for administration officials. that's less than the 94 under obama. what's going on here? >> well, i think the goal here, liz is to not be like the obama administration and i'm sure this is something that the president considered very carefully and looked at the details probably many of the details we're not aware of at this point but he said initially he was not happy about hearing about these flight s and i understand that secretary price apologized. i think that was very good of him to do; however this is supposed to be an administration that wants to end those types of things when unnecessary and it seems like the president decided this was unnecessary. >> liz: you're saying that the president trump and the administration is moving to be completely ethical and you know the president katrina continues to say that dr. price is a good man. why do you think he resigned and the president accepted? >> well i think if you look at the full cont

i'm not talking about bush. >> it is not true. >> leon panetta, loretta lynch ander ache holder, they all took private jets. >> to the extent that this administration is taking to the tune of a million dollars in eight months. >> i don't know what the numbers are. i'm just saying in the past -- >> that's not -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> hold on. hold on. hold on. >> when donald trump found out about this, he got rid -- >> it does come on -- come on, steven, you're a very smart man. it does come off as if you're making an excuse for it and the whole point of this administration is we're going to drain the swamp. there's too much being spent. we're a small government. the government is taking advantage of you. and then you have one guy who is spending a million dollars in eight months on private flights and then you have another one who is taking private planes and then you have another one and you have another one and another one. come on, steven. >> look, tom price is gone. >> and also before you said he's a rich man and we knew that he was rich and he likes to play golf. there are

that's what happened and they used sound cannon so we're white noise to cover up the booing so when leon panetta who used to be the secretary of defense and famously said i play the clip by my show all the time he was asked by scott pelley how many shooting wars is the united states actively engaged in right now and his answer was disgusting because he left he went well i'd have to sit and think about that he had his own think about how many shooting wars we're in you know we you know many military bases the united states has all over the world no one knows because lots of them are secret but there are it's estimated over a thousand bases around the world there's not a thousand countries so we have done what all failing empires do is over expand military alee. military listicle and what is it for it's for the petrol dollar and it's for to steal people's natural resources like it's always been general smedley butler told us that in one nine hundred thirty five but with the banana it's never stopped so what we use our military for is to invade other countries steal the we're talking about right no

maria bartiromo went one-on-one with leon panetta. for his take on john kelly's role as chief of staff. >> i like john kelly a lot. the best thing to know about john kelly is he is first and foremost a marine. he dedicated his life to public service. committed to whoever is commander-in-chief. and he believes deeply in disprinciple and a chain of commands and a process for decision making and doesn't toll rate chaos very easily. i think he's the right guy to try to get the white house back in order. the real question is whether the president gives him the room to make it changes that will be necessary to improve the operations in the white house. >> when you were running the defense department and cia at omb, there was a very different relationship. and the republicans will say we don't have any participation from the democrats, not on healthcare, not on tax reform. how does the country move forward with such divisiveness. >> maria i think i just touched on one of the fundamental problems we are facing in our democracy. if you ask abo

leon panetta said there was nothing the military can do because it requires specific orders before its anywhere. ask anyone in combat how many specific orders did you get after you were ambushed. kennedy: when you are in the middle of a brutal attack. wait a second, i have to go down the chain of command. >> so me the power points. kennedy: we are reminded of facts like the ambassador two weeks before sent a missive please give us something. we cannot survive a coordinated attack in this facility. >> there was a british element. kennedy: the blue mountain group, they weren't even armed. >> there was an elite british military unit detailed at a british mi-6 facility in downtown benghazi. and they sent warnings to their americans, they weren't called either when they said if you need us, here is our number. hillary didn't make the call that night. she didn't say don't support them. but it's her state department. kennedy: she ignored the calls in one of the world's hotpots where terror was bubbling day by day and they wanted to prove a point. bryan suits, thank you so much. there has bee

maria bartiromo went one-on-one with leon panetta.n kelly's role as chief of staff. >> i like john kelly a lot. the best thing to know about john kelly is he is first and foremost a marine. he dedicated his life to public service. committed to whoever is commander-in-chief. and he believes deeply in disprinciple and a chain of commands and a process for decision making and doesn't toll rate chaos very easily. i think he's the right guy to try to get the white house back in order. the real question is whether the president gives him the room to make it changes that will be necessary to improve the operations in the white house. >> when you were running the defense department and cia at omb, there was a very different relationship. and the republicans will say we don't have any participation from the democrats, not on healthcare, not on tax reform. how does the country move forward with such divisiveness. >> maria i think i just touched on one of the fundamental problems we are facing in our democracy. if you ask about national security

issue for him, particularly when he may learn there are members of the united states military, leon panettaeamers serving, might be deported. what do you think about he wants to have heart, he can square the circle with what he plans to do? >> i think one of the things he's planning that could, frankly, take the responsibility off of himself is punting it to congress. these are people who have been working on this issue far longer than the president has been in politics. they have different ideas about how best to respond to the community. nearly 800,000 young people in a way that benefits them and maintains law and order, something the president campaign odds effectively. it's -- campaigned on effectively. it's important to realize one of the reasons the president finds himself in a tough place is because while he spoke frequently about the need to maintain law and order and do what is legal, the narrative behind dreamers is one that's very positive. we saw them during hurricane harvey, like you said, in the military. and doing great work in colleges and businesses as a whole that made ame

leon panetta serving as cia director flew all the way home to california on a private aircraft ratherhan commercial flights nearly every weekend. washington times reported in 2013, panetta declined to say how many trips he had taken, but asking for copies of trips to make receipts of his trips with the federal government. he was defensive, but president trump made clear at his many press conference, what infuriates him, he saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in renegotiated government contracts, and that is now being overshadowed by what price and other cabinet members have done. price tried to save the job last night on "special report" but it didn't work. >> we were trying our doggone -- doggonedest to advance the agend clearly we were insensitive to the taxpayer. >> i think he is a very fine person. we renegotiate deals, we are renegotiating great deals, we are renegotiating, as an example, the f-35 fighter plane. i have saved hundreds of millions of dollars, so i don't like that. >> put it finer point on that, in obama's administration, during the first eight months, t

by the way, the president is getting a lot of complements even from democrats like leon panetta likeration of bill clinton. it's nice to see a bipartisanship here in the relief efforts. >> well, you know, disasters affect people, it's not about politics, it's not about republicans or democrats or independents or anyone. david: it has been, forgive me for interrupting, there have been cases where that did happen, and i'm thinking of sandy and other instances, certainly with katrina, there were bipartisan hits, but in this case, it doesn't seem like it's happened? >> i think brock long, the administrator of fema and the fema organization has done a great job and i think president trump has done a great job of seeing it top of this, and he deserves the compliments because these people are in need and need help and him being there and going there and reassuring them gives them hope that the federal government is going throb for them in the long haul. david: one of the key areas we keep hearing from residents of florida is power. they're hearing stories that it could be weeks before they

leon panetta came in, another very tough-minded guy and did restore order and that president really relishedall clear that this president wants to be handled that way. >> part of that, quote, unquote, handling according to the daily beast coming from another paper again here saying that kelly is blocking omarosa's access to president trump and others. specifically related to unvetted news stories on the president's desk and other sorts of lightning rod issues being brought by o mmarr omarosa to t office, that become tweets, that become policy potentially. >> general kelly is very good for the white house getting on message. part of the president is he sees an article or someone passes along a fit bid of information that sounds like a great sound bite, and he responds on twitter. general kelly controlling the message is not only good for the way the white house is received globally and foreign policy, in also how he is able to work with congress and get his aagain today forward. this is all about messaging, and it is very wise. >> well, twitter. ais aisha, can kelly pull that device away from

general 2012, then secretary of defense leon panetta, had stated publicly that iran's breakout time was 12 months. meaning that from me moment the iranians make a decision they wanted to build a bomb to actually having a bomb would take roughly 12 months. by january 2013, a year later, the breakout time had shrunk to eight to 12 weeks. as a result of the iranians quickly advancing the nuclear program and building more sentry centrifuges and amassing more low enrichment our rainan. clearly the iranian clock was ticking fastest than the sank clock or the jury clock. if nothing changed the united states be in a situation in which it ehear had to accept, acquiesce to an iranian nuclear weapons capability or go to war. the least likely scenario was that the iranians would could pit late because time simply was on their side. and as a result the decision was made to go back to ohman. and a new delegation was sent in march 2013, this time a much larger and much more senior delegation headed by bill burns, then secretary of state. the equivalent of the gentleman that the iranians sent during th

. >> former secretary of defense leon panetta. >> any provocative act could suddenly send us into the war. >> while the president talked tough he didn't mention the trard by name, china. mr. trump also had harsh words for iran. >> the iranian government masks a rough dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. >> that deal is an em b to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it. >> last night hillary clinton was on stevphen colbert's late night show. he called clinton crooked and accused her of allowing north korea to build nukes. we will point to the praise benjamin netanyahu gave to the president saying this was the most courageous speech he's heard in 30 years. >> margaret, thanks. >>> nikki haley is with us this morning she's with us in new york. ambassad ambassador, good morning. >> good morning. >> they say it was one of the worst, most one-sided transactions the unist is a clear signal he plains to withdraw from the nuclear deal in iran? >> what it is is a clear signal he's not happy with the deal and the united states is not safer because of it. i

. >> reporter: former secretary of defense, leon panetta. >> any miscalculation, any provocative act could suddenly send us into a war. >> reporter: while the president talked tough, he stopped short of mentioning north korea's number one trading partner by name, china, but hinted there may be consequences for any country that supplies the regime. mr. trump also had harsh words for iran. >> the iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. >> reporter: president trump criticized the international deal to freeze iran's nuclear program, which he is considering withdrawing from. >> that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it. >> reporter: last night on colbert, former rival hillary clinton said mr. trump's tone was beneath the office of the presidency. >> i thought it was very dark, dangerous, not the kind of message that the leader of the greatest nation in the world should be delivering. >> reporter: the president responded on twitter this morning calling clinton crooked and accusing her of a