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reporter: that s significant. that is a story that has been sort of floating around the edges since politico, all credit to them, scooped this about tom price s charter travel. i ve been following the story. in my conversations with the health and human services aeshgs they say, listen, tom price is busy. he s got a big schedule. he wants to get outside washington and see people and these charter travels are the way he does that. that was the end of last week. the argument they re looking to be effective and efficient in price s travel. as they put it, he has a lot of meetings and needs to get to them. as said, this is a break from past precedent, at least for hhs secretaries under the obama administration. i will tell you in my private conversations now, the president is reflecting that publicly with people in the west wing people are not happy with tom price. he s a fiscal conservative but spending taxpayer money on this travel around the country. the president himself not happ
encompass other issues related to the travel. we take this matter very seriously and when questions arose about potentially inappropriate travel we immediately began assessing the issue. i cab confirm work is under way and will be completed as soon as possible. i m joined by one of the politico report hoarse broke this remarkable story, dan diamond. democrats cited his reporting when they requested an investigation from the oig. fantastic reporting. you ve got a new scoop. i want to sort of set it up with this. which is that the spokesperson for hhs basically said, look, here s why we started doing these charter flights, that price had a commercial flight that was canceled and he missed a very important event, wasting four hours in an airport and having the secretary cancel his event is not a good use of taxpayer money. you ve got a scoop on what actually happened that time that prompted this, what happened? well, chris, the story we were told was that he had an important meeting so
your reporting here, in june, price spoke at a physician s association conference in san diego where he vowed to wring out wasteful spending in the government s health care programs, getting value for spending is incredibly important, he said, price took a private plane to get to that meeting where he said that, which was one stop on a five-state sprint of charter travel that cost $50,000. have they responded to you about how they square this sort of message with this expenditure? well, the message that we have in our reporting is basically the message that we ve heard from them, chris. we first brought the story to them on monday. it took them over 24 hours to decide what they wanted to say in response to us. and the statement has been pretty consistent throughout. first, that tom price needs these charter jets because of hurricane emergency travel, or other public health emergencies. i m not sure an industry conference in san diego or in aspen, colorado, or opioids announcement in
their office telling nbc today, oig is conducting a review of secretary price s federal travel using chartered aircraft. review focuses on whether the travel complied with federal travel regulations and may encompass other issues related to the travel. we take this matter very seriously and when questions arose about potentially inappropriate travel we immediately began assessing the issue. i cab confirm work is under way and will be completed as soon as possible. i m joined by one of the politico report hoarse broke this remarkable story, dan diamond. democrats cited his reporting when they requested an investigation from the oig. fantastic reporting. you ve got a new scoop. i want to sort of set it up with this. which is that the spokesperson for hhs basically said, look, here s why we started doing these charter flights, that price had a commercial flight that was canceled and he missed a very important event, wasting four hours in an airport and having the secretary cancel his even
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