A fourth member of President Trumps cabinet is under scrutiny for high priced travel. This time its interior secretary ryan zinke accused of using private planes and military jets that cost tax payers 12,000. Lana zak joins us from washington d. C. Lana, good morning. Good morning. Happy friday. President trump says hes not happy with reports that some of his cabinet secretaries are spending excess amounts of tax payer funds on private jets. Now the House Oversight committee is demanding answers asking all 24 agencies to account for travel since inauguration. Reporter this Morning Health and Human Services secretary tom prices job is on the line. The president on msnbc made no defense after a string of Health Care Reform defeats. Price is adding a new embarrassment to the white house excessive luxury flights at the expense of the american tax payer. Last night price tried to defend his 26 private charter flights on fox news. My respect for the tax payer is as strong as it can be. There
Good morning to you all. A fourth member of President Trumps cabinet is under scrutiny for high priced travel. This time its interior secretary ryan zinke accused of using private plans and military jets that cost tax payers 12,000. Lana zak joins us from washington d. C. Good morning. President trump says hes not happy with reports that some of his cabinet secretaries are spending excess amounts of tax payer funds on private jets. Now the House Oversight committee is demanding answers asking all 24 agencies to account for travel since inauguration. Reporter this Morning Health and human secretary tom prices job is on the line. The president on msnbc made no defense after a string of Health Care Reform defeats. Price is adding a new embarrassment to the white house excessive luxury flights at the expense of the american tax payer. Last night price tried to defend his flights on fox news. My respect for the tax payer is as strong as it can be. There will be no private air charters going
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Than the than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Ill, for five minutes. Mr. Hill i thank the speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in honor of the bravery and courage of so many men who sacrificed everything on dday. At 5 52 in the morning on june 6, 1944, in a position about 4,000 yards from omaha beach, one of the oldest ships in the u. S. Navy, a wrorled war i world war i battleship, the u. S. S. Arkansas, opened fire on german positions on omaha beach in support of more than 30,000 american soldiers tasked with securing the beachhead. The heroes that stormed the beaches of normandy on that fateful day
Intelligence Committee Thursday as part of the committees investigation into allegations of election tampering in the president ial election. In march, thendirector comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee about his goals for the investigation. Heres what he had to say. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm the fbi as part of our counterintelligence investigation is investigating the russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election, and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed. Because it is an open, Ongoing Investigation and is classified, i cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining. At the request of congres
That the fbi, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed. Because it is an open, Ongoing Investigation and is classified, i cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining. At the request of congressional leaders, we have taken the extraordinary step in coordination with the department of justice of briefing this congress leaders, including the leaders of this committee, in a classified setting in detail about the investigation. But i cant go into those details here. I know that is extremely frustrating to some folks, but it is