our other agencies going to follow suit? is that going to be something we will see going forward? speech it we should point out that betsy devos flies private but she pays for it and others have as well. the issue, byron, is the symbolism and how it looks. congressman price from georgia, a big deficit and debt hawk, that s why he wrote in an op-ed america is on the path to bankruptcy. stop the reckless spending. and so it s not as much the dollars. it s more the image, right? part of it is the image, but part is the dollars because we ve got to see if this will actually work. we know the flights were more than $400,000, and he has repaired $52,000. and after your interview, ask him, how did you calculate that? he said, well, we took the total cost of each flight divided by the number of people on the
you fly over our country in your luxury jet and lecture us on what it means to be an american. don t you tell us about america. leland: put yourself back in your shoes as congressman price who was without question a dog and fighter for taxpayer dollars. of health and human services secretary kathleen sibelius had done the same thing with you have tough questions for her about it even if it was as you put it the opioid crisis or to get to san diego? the issue with the former speaker was a different matter. be that as it may we heard this criticism and very serious about addressing it, as the inspector general goes through his review we will cooperate. the internal review we won to make certain processes and procedures in place have the full confidence of the american people, so trust is not just restored but assured. leland: there s a lot of
republicans and democrats alike are all about self-preservation, in terms of getting reelected.nn this gives them more breathing room in terms of republican leadership to trypu to move ther agenda forward. obviously, you have rasmussen, 50% number for approval rating. you have others down at 30, 36, 35. does that matter? it definitely matters. i do think that it s an important republicans are always skittish, anyway. they are really skittish right now. the idea that a republican is able to pull out this is a district where donald trump this is not trump country. this is as establishment republican as you can get. trump won by one point versus congressman price, who won by 23, 24 points. this is not a place where trump
the democrats alike are about self-preservation of getting re-elected and this gives them breathing room in the republican leadership to try to move the agenda forward. bret: obviously, rasmussen has a 50% number for approval rating but there are others down in 30%, 35%. does it matter? i think that you know, of course it definitely matters but i think that it is an important republicans are always skittish anyway. they are really skittish right now. so the idea that the republicans were able to pull out of this and this is a district, this is not trump country. this is as establishment republican as you can get. trump won by one point versus congressman price who won by 23, 24 points. this is not, this is not a place where trump does particularly well.
i think the republicans and the democrats alike are about self-preservation of getting re-elected and this gives them breathing room in the republican leadership to try to move the agenda forward. bret: obviously, rasmussen has a 50% number for approval rating but there are others down in 30%, 35%. does it matter? i think that you know, of course it definitely matters but i think that it is an important republicans are always skittish anyway. they are really skittish right now. so the idea that the republicans were able to pull out of this and this is a district, this is not trump country. this is as establishment republican as you can get. trump won by one point versus congressman price who won by 23, 24 points. this is not, this is not a place where trump does