. >> tom price is out. >> i work at the pleasure of the president. >> the man tasked with killing obamacare packs his bags. >> tom, you're fired! >> tonight, the reporter who broke the story that led to the price resignation. what this means for the future of american health care, and the implications for the other trump administration travel scandals. >> this is the swamp. >> then -- >> it's been incredible, the results that we've had with respect to loss of life. >> reporter: as the president congratulates himself again -- >> people can't believe how success that's been. >> reporter: the latest on the federal response in puerto rico. >> we are treated not as second-class citizens, but as animals that can be disposed of. enough is enough. >> "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. we go straight to today's big news, the resignation of health and human services secretary tom price, the man tasked with dismantling obamacare. following revelations that price spent more than $1 million in taxpayer money to travel on private and government sets. price traveli

now tom price may be the second. when the new administration was first getting stood up, i would say it was basically a tie between betsey devoss and jeff sessions in terms of whose trump c cabinet nominations attracted the loudest on junctions but even though there were more attention to betsey devoss, tom price was a special case because it was a matter of unsettle clear shocking public record by the time he was nominated he had a serious corruption scandal following his time in congress. as a member of congress while he chaired a key health subcommittee, tom price bought and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in companies, in health companies while simultaneously taking action on his committee that affected the price of those stocks and again, this was not a subtle thing and not a small amount of money and not just once he did it. tom price's defense against these allegations was rather, well, it was basically his defense was that it was his broker who did this stuff, not him personally. like he

we go straight to today's big news, the resignation of health and human services secretary tom price, the man tasked with dismantling obamacare. following revelations that price spent more than $1 million in taxpayer money to travel on private and government sets. price traveling by private jet 26 times in eight months, often when comparable commercial flights were available at a fraction of the cost. i've spent 40 years as a doctor and public servant putting people first, he said in his resignation letter. i regret the recent events have create the distractions from those important objectives. the president told reporter he was worried about the optics of what price had done. >> i think it's a shame. because as a human being, tom price is a very good man. i can tell you. look, i think he's a very fine person. i certainly don't like the optics. i've saved hundreds of millions of dollars. so i don't like the optics of what you just saw. i'm not happy. okay? i can tell you, i'm not happy. >> we first learned about tom price's use of private jets thanks to the great reporting that broke

tom price.periencing some, shall we say, turbulence after the press learned of private charter planes on the taxpayers dime i guess the question is will he survive this? >> there are two options. he can resign and the president could accept that resignation or be fired. i'm told that first one is more likely when he said there would be announcement this evening. but the president made clear again and again calling him a fine man. but i asked him specifically if he had lost confidence in his secretary. let's watch. >> it's not a question of confidence. i was disappointed because i didn't like it cosmetically or otherwise. i was disappointed. so i don't like to see somebody that perhaps is the perception that it wasn't right. >> [ inaudible ]. >> well, i don't want to say. but we'll be announcing something today. we'll be announcing something today. >> and, jake, just as soon as we said that, we do indeed have breaking news that the secretary tom price has indeed resigned. just as we were told it

at his confirmation hearing, tom price was questioned about the fact some of those trades he did in health companies were vip deals where only he and a few other select clients were allowed to trade those stocks at those prices. hey, mr. chairman of the health subcommittee, how did you get special deals? tom price when questioned about that in his confirmation hearing denied that he had been in on any vip stock deals. he said oh, no, the public could have been in on any of those deals which absolutely was not true. he was under oath at the time and never went back and corrected those statements. but the republicans on the committee and senate at large were happy to vote for tom price. anyway, and you know what? it turns out when somebody during their confirmation process shows a proclivity for self-dealing in government employment and more than happy to lie about that and not bother to clean it up once they are caught lying on it under oath, when somebody shows you that's what they are, as they say, believe them. if that's what you paid for in a cabinet secretary, that is what you will get

now tom price. not a good week for president trump. >> and you didn't even mention jared kushner not disclosing that he used private e-mails. i mean, there's -- and there's other things too, don. no. what we have learned, i think, is the pace at which donald trump moves, the pace at which he creates news, social media, cable television, et cetera, make it very difficult to track all of these things. but i think it is important, as you just did, to lay out -- think about it. from luther -- the luther strange sons of bitches speech to now is roughly seven days. i mean, it's astounding. it's difficult to remember but important to remember. this is someone who i think undoubtedly dropped the ball as it relates to puerto rico. he was focused on the nfl. he was focused on luther strange. he was focused on health care. he was not focused on puerto rico despite his attempts to make good on that at least from a public perspective. and then capping the week off, you said that like a lot of fridays. you're rig

she has more on the ouster of tom price. what are you learning about this move and how it all went down? >> reporter: we know the president was extremely frustrated with price, and he was looking to move an embarrassing distraction off the table. price tendering his resignation and in part of the letter saying in order for you to move forward without further disruption, i'm tendering my resignation, perhaps closing a chapter on this. >> i'm not happy, okay? i can tell you i'm not happy. >> reporter: president trump today accepting the resignation of health and human services secretary tom price. the bomb shl announcement coming after days of mounting controversy over price's travel on private jets at a cost estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> it's not a question of confidence. i was disappointed because i didn't like its could metically or otherwise. i was disappointed. this is an administration that saves hundreds of millions of dollars on renegotiating things. so i don't like to see somebody that per

and worrying me the most, tom price was integral for the executive rollout in the legal strategy. better be bobby jindal time. bring in a hitter that can run the department. hhs matters a lot. president obama lost tom daschle, slowed down obamacare. got it eventually but slowed it down. it's devastating to a key part of the policy going foreand ought to have been made clear, don't use military transport, private planes, don't charter. should have been done. >> i worked there for a time. no one chartering a jet when aye was there. i need to say that. >> and curious. go to, a viewpoint about, what the vacancy means and the idea that -- how it canceled things down in -- booked. working with what they wanted to do with health care? >> i think, look, tom price had an agenda to sabotage the aca. be clear about that, and doing a pretty good job trying to sabotage the aca. my perspective, a little happy that gets slowed down for a while but i think,s had jose doesn't ha hhs doesn't have many people there as it is. any of theirs turmoil makes the president's agenda harder. stepping back, pe

tom price.look at the fact we have a president that openly not only travels a lot and vacations a lot on, and plays golf while we're in the middle of hurricane disasters, we have a president that now has government officials, secret service, et cetera, that stays in hotels that he owns and makes money from. >> so he's paying himself. >> yes. if you have a president that engages an unprecedented amount of trims to his property that runs all kinds of hotel bills to himself, then 26 private plane trips to government expense might be considered minor by one of his cabinet members. >> do you know who was a big critic of private plane travel? tom price. take a look at him on the house floor in 2010. >> i want to say to the speaker, don't you fly over our country in your luxury jet and lecture us on what it means to be an american. >> i should say, speaking about nancy pelosi from the house. this ultimately did catch up with him because. reporting. the journalism. >> it caught up with him because of th

. >>> can tom price save his job by paying a fraction of the cost of his private jet travel? >> tom, you're fired! >> and as twitter faces congress, what we're learning about the scope of russian involvement on social media. when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. if there were any lingering doubts today, the republican party officially became the party of roy moore. party elites rallied around the anti-gay birther after he handily beat their preferred candidate in alabama's gop primary this week. today from the podium the white house press secretary declined to condemn some of moore's inflammatory views. >> judge moore says homosexuality should be illegal, he said sandy hook was some sort of divine retribution, he said keith ellison should not be permitted to serve in congress because he's a muslim. so without asking about the specifics of the race, does president trump share any of those views that i just mentioned? and if not, why does he think this person is fit to be a u.s. senator? >> not that i'm aware of. i have not, uh, taken a dee

now tom price. not a good week for president trump. >> and you didn't even mention jared kushner not disclosing that he used private e-mails. i mean, there's -- and there's other things too, don. no. what we have learned, i think, is the pace at which donald trump moves, the pace at which he creates news, social media, cable television, et cetera, make it very difficult to track all of these things. but i think it is important, as you just did, to lay out -- think about it. from luther -- the luther strange sons of bitches speech to now is roughly seven days. i mean, it's astounding. it's difficult to remember but important to remember. this is someone who i think undoubtedly dropped the ball as it relates to puerto rico. he was focused on the nfl. he was focused on luther strange. he was focused on health care. he was not focused on puerto rico despite his attempts to make good on that at least from a public perspective. and then capping the week off, you said that like a lot of fridays. you're rig

looks like tom price beat him to it. alex wayne, thank you.e president trump said he would be focused on in the next few weeks is the next fed chair. then moore, up $.48 on dollar. they are making bets on who the next fed chair might be. according to an online foriction market, a place investors and gamblers alike, who want to hedge their bets on future events, that is kevin warsh's value. we are joined by the founder, john phillips. when did you see the movement on kevin warsh? the last couple days or weeks? >> you see movement every day. ohn and yellen reversed themselves in the last three weeks. three weeks ago it was cohn at 43, warsh at nine. just to be clear, these prices are contracts that expire . if it is at $.48 you are making could earn au dollar or lose everything. with yellen, it would be four to one. .he website is called predicted >> this is no different from other markets. $.52,t $.48, if he took and it does not happen, you get paid a dollar. joe: you can trade it both ways. >> and you do not have to stay in the stock until it

let's see what tom price said. in 2009, he described government officials taking private pleaps just another example of fiscal irresponsibility run amuck. i couldn't agree more, mr. speaker. price spent nearly $25,000 to fly from d.c. to philadelphia and back in one single day. he could have spent at last minute, $725 on united airlines or $133 on amtrak. mr. speaker, i just checked on my phone that that would have ost mr. price about $450 round trip. for the price of the private jet, he could have ordered individual cars for himself and 54 staff members. every american who works and pays taxes should firnede this appalling. amtrak was good enough for joe biden, but somehow it is beneath the treasury secretary and h.h.s. secretary to ride the train. riding the train is apparently beneath the e.p.a. administrator. here is a good rule of thumb. if you are spending more on private jets that most american families are making in one year, you are spending too much. tom price has enough time to jet around the country but

this time last night, i said we were on resignation watch when it came to tom price. but you could see it coming a long time ago, from the minute he got nominated to the cabinet. he was dogged from the beginning by a scandal from his time in congress, where he enthusiastically bought and traded health care companies' stock while he was taking actions on the health care committee that he ran that affected the stocks of those companies. he was questioned about the fact that some of the trades he did in health companies were vip deals where only he and a few other select clients were allowed to trade those stocks at those prices. hair mr. chairman of the house subcommittee, how'd you get those special deals? tom price, when questioned about that in his confirmation hearing, he just denied that he'd been in on any vip stock deals. he said, no, the public could have been in on any of those deals, which was not true. he was under oath at the time and he never went back and corrected those statements. but the republicans on the committee and in the senate at large were happy

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 very good man, i can tell you. i was disappointed. this is an administration that seemed hundreds and millions of dollars renegotiating things, on th

tom price facing more. in addition to chartering private jets for official business, the secretary of health and human services also traveled on government aircraft, military aircraft for two multi stop international trips. >> politico reports those two trips alone cost more than a half million dollars. price already under fire for chartering private planes assists all flights were approved in advance. >> all of these trips were official business, all of them were within budget, all of them were approved by the normal processes that every other administration has gone through. prior to the trip, not after. >> president trump is said to be fuming over the new revelations and all the negative press. for his part, secretary price is vowing to personally reimburse taxpayers, sort of. here's cnn's jeff zeleny. >>reporter: christine and dave, health and human services secretary even hotter water than this was earlier this week. a new revelation of more travel. this time foreign travel, spending some half a millio

and his staff did tom price no favors. first they under played the extent of his use of private planes. and then yesterday with much fan fair he announced that he was going to reimburse the government, meaning reimburse taxpayers, but only for the cost of his seat on those planes as if those planes would have been going off on those trips even without him. what do we know now? is tom price still going to at least reimburse the $50 some,000 he had said he would do yesterday? >> reporter: we have no reason to think that he's not going to, anderson, but to your point, it's pretty clear that his response to this controversy was not something that pleased the president at all. he thought it was lukewarm at best and it made the situation even more worse. as you mentioned, the idea of only paying back 50,000 for expenses that got up more than a million dollars when you take into account the use of military planes was just a very small drop in the bucket. so the president just deciding that this -- the optics of this situation as

tom price had excessive use of private aircraft. ed about the $51,000 reimbursement this afternoon, he said that's unacceptable to him. when he said the $51,000 was unacceptable, you price was gone. we're learning from the press secretary, tom price rendered his resignation earlier today. >> neil: john roberts, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> neil: john roberts at the white house. now to the man that had a chance to talk to secretary price yesterday and in which price indicated he wouldn't take more private flights. apparently it wasn't enough. bret baier with us right now. your reaction. >> we saw the president come out and say he wasn't happy and a decision was coming tonight. i think the writing was on the wall about this. and it's got a lot of coverage. we've also talked about other secretaries in the past have flown. if you look back at the obama administration, you know, analyzed lawmakers and people in the obama administration that have flown privately, but this is right now. this is this president. when it started to be

washington is buzzing in the wake of the sudden resignation of health and human services secretary tom price good evening everyone, i am sandra smith in for martha maccallum, and this is "the story." the resignation comes after days of intense scrutiny over secretary price's use of private plans for work and personal use paid for by us, the american taxpayer. some estimates say the cost is as much is $1 million. price apologized yesterday

the sleight of hand here when tom price said yesterday, i'm reimbursing taxpayers for the price of my seat. the commercial value of his seat according to, i guess, business class calculations. about $52,000. giving the impression, when you read that press release yesterday thought, doing the right thing. paying people back. in fact, everybody else's seat there only existed because tom price decided he was flying private. >> that's right. he wasn't onboard a magical one flying seat. a plane chartered for him. not the 25-year-old aides with him and haven't heard what they'll do. ali when the press release came out it did seem he was paying back all costs, as other news outlets including msnbc reported the actual payback only $52,000. politico hasn't been able to confirm with hhs despite us on the story and talking to them so much. >> yep. >> won't confirm to us what they'll pay back. >> we appreciate that you are staying on the story. excellent reporting. from politico, dan dimond, that you to you and your colleagues. >>> on to another story we're covering. the white house pushing hard

does it stop at tom price? >> no, i mean, there have been numerous reports this week and previously that there are other cabinet secretaries who have engaged in private travel that are costing american taxpayers several thousands of dollars and i think it's something that the white house is taking serious now. we saw last night that chief of staff john kelly has sent out a memo to every cabinet agency saying that you know, if there's any attempt to take a private charter flight that it needs to be signed off on by the white house and so i think this goes back to this flies in the face of that drain the swamp message that president trump ran on. i spoke with a white house official earlier this week who was inclined to say that president trump is likely to make an example out of tom price, to send a message to the rets of his cabinet that this will not be tolerated. this do as i say, not as i do swampy behavior is not something that's going to be a good image for the white house and not something that's going to

secretary tom price under fire for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for trips on private jets. cnn has learned it doesn't stop there. air force official said price also took military aircraft for two multistop international trips earlier this year, racking up a $500,000 bill, according to politico. the overseas trip, which the white house approved, bringing the total cost of price's travel over $1 million. >> we have heard the concern and the criticism and we look forward to the inspector germ's report. >> price pledging thursday to pay back a fraction of this total writing a check for $51,887.31. the cost of his seats on the chartered planes but not the military flights. >> to pay for my portion of those trips. this is unprecedented. >> reporter: the white house releasing a statement thursday defending price's travel on military aircraft, insisting that it is sometimes an appropriate and necessary use of resources. as for the 26 chartered flights price has taken since may, the administration taking a tougher tone. >> the white house does not have a role on a front end of appr

host: i am sure tom price would take issue with that characterization.clean, virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. very angry to listen to people like number one, the reporter from bloomberg, saying that these ridiculous things about jeff sessions, he is after sanctuary cities and deporting immigrants. totally overlooks the fact that he is trying to round up the ms 13 people who are destroying our youth. getting back to puerto rico, it makes me furious to listen to these democrats who have been so brainwashed by the media. trying to turn this into donald trump's katrina. the problem is, the electrical plan is a perfectly good shape, it is the wiring that is destroyed. normally, the money goes to the electric company would have gone know, all of the infrastructure, but the corruption in puerto rico has been so tremendous, they have been neglected and you have to but new wires in to run the water pumps and the pumps to get the gasoline into the gas stations make the elevators work , it is like starting from scratch. for them to call president tr

. >> tom price knows better. he railed against people using private jets. >> it was time for him to go. he had lost the confidence of the american taxpayer. >> parts of puerto rico are at risk for flash flooding this weekend. >> we will not rest until the people of puerto rico are safe. >> we're taking food, water and medicine everywhere. we would like it to be quicker. of course it's not where it needs to be, but we recognize that there is a limitation in terms of the logistical support to get there. >> we're dying here. we're truly dying here. >> and i'm tired of the president always talking about how much it's going to cost. it's costing lives. >>> so grateful to have you with us here on a saturday morning. >> well, he was caught flying high on the taxpayers' dime essentially and now tom price is flying home. >> wonder how he's getting there. he is the first casualty of the cabinet forced to resign as health and human services secretary after days of questions over his air travel. >> this morning as the white

tom price. some people think his time has come. what do you think? reporter: we'll hear from the president, you can draw your own conclusion, david. this is one of the big stories of the week. future of health and human services secretary who is under fire for his use of charter aircraft for his travel when commercial options were available. it is a bigger story by the day. the president is asked about it a number of times. his most recent comments to your point came moments ago. watch. >> if you look at obama administration, take a look at amount of time they spent in the air, they spent a lot of time in the air but i felt very badly because secretary price is a good man, but we are looking into it and we're looking into it very strongly. reporter: on top of that saying he is looking into it, the president said he would try to have a decision on the future of secretary price by tonight. of course he will be in new jersey at his golf club for the weekend. we'll watch for any updates. to the manu

health and human services tom price is out. the white house says the president has just accepted price's resignation following the controversy of his use of private jets. shortly before the announcement trump said he was disappointed in price, i didn't like it. >>> also following the hurricane disaster in puerto rico where fear from more rain. >>> acting homeland security duke is there, facing criticism calling it a quote good news story. >>> rebuked saying it's a people are dying story. and right now there is a concern about a growing health crisis. he's on the island and saying medical supplies are increasingly hard to find. hospitals are closed. and others are struggling without power or communication. we are covering that all and more with our guests of the house intelligence committee and responsibility specialists are standing by as well. let's begin with the breaking news. health care secretary tom price resigning apparently forced to quit. and cnn white house correspondent sara murry is working this story for us. sara, t

price. >> secretary tom price is also here today. dr. ice still lives the scout oath helping to keep millions of americans strong and healthy as our secretary of health and human services. and he's doing a great job. and hopefully he's going to get the votes tomorrow to start our path toward killing this horrible thing known as obamacare that's really hurting us. by the way, you going to get the votes? you better get them. he better get them. oh, he better -- otherwise i'll say, tom, you're fired. >> you broke my heart. there he is. giving an evil eye right there. i've never heard a guy threatens people with firing them as a morale booster. >> that kind of applause will do it. >> the people loved it. they -- beat him up on the way out the door. bang his head on the car window as you put him in the car. the trump people are a gladitorial crowd. >> it reminds them of "the apprentice." reminds them of the coliseum. >> when it comes to actually firing people the president hasn't been able to pull the trigger on that. he's been waiting for peo

how much trouble is tom price in?obviously there's only one person that can answer that question legitimately and that's donald trump. but i think that this world of hurt that tom price is in right now, is not going away any time soon. it seems to be getting worse, not better. he seems to be becoming a bigger problem for the president not one totally wrapped up and going away. in that sense, he's in pretty hot water here and donald trump could not have been clearer when asked specifically if he was going to fire him, his answer was, we'll see. that -- i mean that means that there is sort of an open decision to be made about tom price that the president is intending to make after looking into this further and further, and he hasn't yet made that decision. we will see what it is when it comes down. >> we'll see. not something i would want someone to say about my future job prospects. >> exactly. >> tara, if it wasn't a problem, then the president wouldn't be unhappy about it, right? if it wasn't a problem, then tom pric

should tom price be fired? >> fired, no. tom is a great choice for this positi at health and human servic i know tom price. he's a great guy, but as you rally against democrats for wastin money and you are a budget hawk and you take private planes that's a real problem. he should have flown coach. we applaud paul ryan and john boehne when they flew commer and coach where nancy pelosi was on a private jet. what we apply to democrats, we should apply to republicans and tom price should pay it back and apolog and give up the busine of trying to fix the health care system in america. >> but what does it say to you when -- i think the reason it bother so many people is it sort of reveals maybe a way of thinki or even not thinking. not thinking about how you are spendi taxpayer money when you are talking about being a fiscal conser and you go to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollar that you could have paid so muc less flying commercial at a time when republicans are talkin about obamacare repeal and at a time when republican

all signs are pointing to this being tom price's turn. the president is, what he said publicly is what he's saying privately for days. he's furious with price. he feels he's become a distraction. that he has takine stepped on the launch of the tax plan, that roll-out this week. flies in the face of the whole drain the swamp ethos the president ran on. this feels like washington corruption. also the president has in recent -- we know he's been unhappy. he feels like he was pushed into the wrong side. he is upset about the health care. another health care defeat and while most of his ang ber that still goes to congress, tom price gets some of it. he did not do enough to sell this plan. that price has been on somewhat thin ice for a while. trump is furious at the headlines this week. he is telling people close to him he has not made up his mind. he has said a decision is coming any moment. >> the big tease. he's better at teases than i. joining the table is adam mcmullan, former cia operative and a former independent presidential candidate. m

all of this coming in the wake of tom price.olitico reporting his military flights costing taxpayers over $500,000. on top of the private jets used at home. total travel tab somewhere over a million dollars. while he has only paid about, as you say, $50,000 to reimburse his seats on the flight. left out of most of the media frenzy is that president obama's administration used far more charters. leon panetta serving as cia director flew all the way home to california on a private aircraft rather than 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 "sp

and his staff did tom price no favors. first they underplayed the extent of the use of private planes and yesterday he announced he was going to reimburse the government, meaning reimburse tax payers but only for the cost of his seats on those planes as if the planes would have been going off on those trips even without him. what do we know now? is top price going to reimburse the 50 something thousand dollars he said he was going to yesterday? >> reporter: we have no reason to think he's not anderson, but to your point this response was not something that pleased the president at all. he thought it was lukewarm at best and it made the situation worse. the idea of paying back only $50,000 for expenses that got up to $1 million was a very small drop in the bucket. the president just deciding that the optics of this situation, as he said himself, was just to much for him to handle. we'll wait and see if tom price makes good on that commitment to pay that $50,000 back to tax payers. >> it is amazing whether you look at how ma

the thing that we heard that trump has been telling people is that tom price is a rich guy, he should pay his own way on this stuff. i don't know how rich price is, but this is going to be a pretty hefty bill if he will hope to have any chance of saving his job. >> i don't know, one might say that one's reputation is priceless. okey-doke. thank you so much. good conversation. coming up, a growing disaster in 40s. food, water and supplies arriving, but why aren't they getting into the hands of people who need it? we'll figure out how there could an be a supply chain logjam. plus i'll speak with a mother desperately trying to go find out any information about her son, he was on the island when the hurricane hits and she has not heard from him in nine days. but plus the presidents cup livering ing living up to its name. it airs on golf channel today and on nbc this weekend. there you have it, george bush, president obama and bill clinton was there. i've always wanted to create those experiences for others. with my advisor's help along the way, it's finally my turn to be the host. when yo

tom price stepped down as health and human services secretary late friday. his resignation was the ultimate price for using private jets and military aircraft for government business. price had taken more than two dozen chartered flights since may, totaling more than $400,000. price also used military aircraft for trips to europe, africa and asia this summer. three other cabinet members are also under scrutiny for their travel expenses. treasury secretary of state teef mnuchin -- steve mnuchin. you think about secretary price, he's been in congress. he's a washington insider. he knows the rules. he knew, as a public servant, that this information would likely get out there. where is the judgment? >> i think that's a great question. he knows the rules. he also has been one of the leading people who criticized democrats for doing this. the sound bites this week of him blasting nancy pelosi for flying on a private plane. i think the judgment is, when you become a cabinet secretary, you reach a different level. you have staff around you. someone should have hit t

trish: pressure on tom price predating his resignation. >> you are going to get the votes? . otherwise i'll say tom, you are fired. wow! it looks like that one came true. he didn't get the votes and he's sort of fired. or done. tammy bruce and lawrence jones will join me after the break. stay with us. stay with us. we are back after this. ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ well i'm gone trish: last night we asked you in our online poll, do you agree nfl players should stand on the sidelines respectfully with their hands on their hearts and their helmets at their side. 95% said yes. i don't know about the other 5. joining me, tammy bruce and lawrence jones. tammy, this is one where i don't know how you can't feel this amazing sense of country when you hear that song. i get goosebumps every time i hear it. this has turned into a giant side show that i don't think is helpful to the league or the country. tammy: people are finding that out. the numbers for last sunday were 180 players taking involvement on the field eit

look, i've known tom price forever. he's a very good man he's a very smart man. he's a doctor. you should have known better. you've been around the political block for almost a couple of decades. some of the others in the cabinet only -- they're rookies, okay and they really didn't get the system right tom should have known better i don't want to dance on anybody's grave, because i say he's a good man. but, gee wiz, he didn't give the president any choice >> let me give kayla a chance to get in here. kayla tausche in washington with more on this breaking news kayla? >> reporter: kelly, i want to give you the statement we got from the press secretary, regarding secretary price's resignation. the statement says that "hhs secretary price offered his resignation earlier today and that the president accepted it." it's not a statement just about hu his resignation, it says also don wright of virginia is nominated to serve as acting secretary. he's currently at hhs right now where he serves as deputy assistant secretary for health and director of the office of disease prevention and he

tom price has a problem and his behavior was extraordinary. at the devastation that surrounds you where you are right now. and his behavior showed he had absolutely no concept of public service. but i warned in january when i gave a speech on january 11th at the brookings institution, and norm richard was actually part of that event, that we are facing a serious tone from the top problem with the president breaking the tradition of divesting his conflicting assets, traveling regularly to his properties to give them free advertising. the man even wore a hawk on his hat during a hurricane presser talking about recovery efforts. and it's inevitable that that kind of message will trickle down through the cabinet and hopefully not, but likely lower than that to really infect the administration at all levels until the president himself changes his tone. >> richard, is this the end of planegate, not just with tom price but with other candidate officials? >> i doubt it. there is nothing by way of adequate controls in this administration. in the bush a

there is considerable talk about what will happen to health and human services secretary tom price. president trump has that he's not happy with the reports about price's travel on private aircraft. secretary price joins us in studio with his side of the story. i wanted to give you a chance to say what hhs is doing about puerto rico before return to the aircraft situation. >> our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody who are victims of harvey, irma, maria. puerto rico, particularly challenges. hhs has people on the ground. we are doing everything we can. the challenge is, as you heard from tom bossert, getting supplies to the people and people to the supplies or facilities. >> bret: today you said you think you still have the confidence of president trump. why do you think that? >> i continue to work, we work together on the issue of the hurricanes, global health security, working on -- >> bret: has he talked to you about this? >> he has an ses he has said publicly, he wasn't happy. he expressed that to mean very clearly. >> bret: how so? >> just that way. i won't divulge any pers

there is a bright side for tom price on this. count this as a relief that this is how you lost your job as a politician. this is not a career killer. you weren't found in bed with a horse. you are going to think, "how did you lose your job?" "i flew private." that sucks. i like private. it's not the worst thing. i don't think most americans still don't know who he is. i don't even know who he is. what day is it? >> it's friday! [laughter] >> president trump has the finger on the pulse of his voters. this is the exact thing he said would not happen in washington on his watch. i think he understands his fate. >> there is another story like this bubbling with the va secretary who apparently was taking flights at taxpayer expense to go watch wimbledon. >> the movie? >> the tennis court in london. >> oh, okay. that's never good. to another top story. a week ago today, president trump sparked a fire storm with his suggesting that players who do not stand for the national anthem should be fired. players are now standing. progress on the

headline this morning, the reaction from tom price on this. price is going to pay part of cost of those flights. health and human services said ary tom price thursday he would reimburse the for a fraction of the cost after coming under sharpcriticism, members of both for the expensive practice saying today i will write a personal check for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. paul seamus ryan, remind us what government rules and regulations officials in l terms of travel. how are they supposed to make arrangement? guest: the bottom line, in order anything other than commercial travel, government o terms officials need to bear in mind effectiveness is what is most important. explicitlylation say that travel should be cost-effective because taxpayers more than no necessary for the official's transportation. three specific ircumstances in which the regulations say that travel on either military or private acceptable,e system when no scheduled airline service is reasonably available travelogue of military or charter plane is less th

are you surprised at the resignation of tom price and surprised at the missteps along the way that price the people around him seem to make saying that making all sorts of kprusz. >> i wish i was surprised, but unfortunately i'm not. once he started seeing the numbers grow and grow, i started thinking yesterday tore day before that this was inevitable. i'm not sure we reached the bottom of the well to see how high that number is going to. the lack of transparency have been symptomatic of this administration, in fact this whole instance is symptom, not the problem. >> you really believe that this comes from the top, this isn't a tom price problem, that it is a presidential problem? >> make no mistake about it, tom price has a problem and his behavior was extraordinary. look at the devastation that surrounds you where you are right now, and his behavior showed he had absolutely no concept of public service. but i warned in january when i gave a speech, nor man richard was part of that event that we are facing a serious tone from the top problem with the president breaking the tradition of

health and human services secretary tom price has resigned. a statement by the white house says he offered his resignation to president trump earlier today and it was accepted. price's travel itinerary came under scrutiny after he frequently used military planes. the tab reportedly in excess of $1 million. the u.s. is warning against travel to cuba and ordered about 60% of its staff to leave. the embassy in havana will stop processing visas indefinitely. washington says u.s. tourists could be exposed to harm after diplomats experienced unexplained health problems. senate republicans have unveiled a budget revolution for the coming year which they intend to use to push through as much as $1.5 trillion worth of tax cuts in the coming months. it will not allow a full repeal of affordable care act but leaves the window open to consider repeal of the individual mandate. the u.s. ambassador to israel described settlements on the west bank as part of israel according to the "washington post." he declared only 2% of the west bank is occupied. the u.s.

as a human being, tom price is a good man. that is unacceptable to me. i have had four meetings with their said chairman and i will be making it is vision over the next two or three weeks. ke is of all, elaine acting really hard. what fema has done has been incredible between the hurricanes, we will make a decision probably within a month. . >> [inaudible] i have spoken to other owners , i think it is coming together. i noticed last night or i was told that everybody stood for the national anthem. that shows respect for our country and our flag and for the national anthem. i'm very happy. they should stand, they have to stand, you have to stand. i spoke to numerous team owners. i did speak to jerry, yes. i was disappointed because i didn't like it cosmetically or otherwise. i was disappointed. this is an administration that saved hundreds of millions of dollars on renegotiating things, on new trade deals that you will be seeing the results very same. nafta, soegotiating many different things and making much better deals. you will be seeing other things,