questions about her interests and privatizing the school system and what sort of oversight she would like to see if the school system gets more privatized. shepard: you mentioned the reporting on gosh. just escaped me as we talked about zinke and devos. the questions that you mentioned with the reporting of cnn and also from the wall street journal, regarding trading in health securities while he was a congressman inside still i get is a congressman. but the questions are about what he took part in. the questions will come early and often. congressman price is preparing for that right now. we re hearing from transition officials. al strong emphasis on what you just mentioned. this is all broker, organized trading. i would expect them to be off the bat, some of the toughest questions that he gets. really plays into what americans
investing. what is the trump team saying? to go suggestion a conflict of interest. he bought a company shortly before he introduced a bill com, along with democrats, that could potentially benefit biotech companies like that. trump transition team saying there was nothing to this story, saying any effort to connect the introduction of dr. price s legislation to a campaign contribution which he also received is multiply false. dr. price is complying with the recommendations put forth by the office of government ethics grade taking aim at one of their favorite targets. this is more junk reporting by cnn. bret: essentially saying that stocks were being controlled by an outside third party. exactly. that this was a brokered account. congressman price did not pick and choose. bret: california currently leads the nation and in the nur of congressional no-shows for
individuals pool together to buy insurance at cheaper prices. i think he has a lot of great ideas, and he will be great at hhs, bit i think he will be more than just the secretary of hhs. he is going to be also involved with bringing forward some of the innovative market solutions to try to help people get insurance at a cheaper cost. as you know, cnn has been reporting that congressman price bought stock in a medical device manufacturer just days before pushing legislation that likely would have benefitted that company. will you be asking him about that tomorrow? i guess the question i would ask is when did he become in favor of not having taxes on medical devices? my guess is probably he has a 20-year record of being eposed to that. i think that every republican up here was against the medical devices tax. i think it s probably an overstatement to say somehow his buying and selling had to do with a position that probably he has had his whole entire public career. senator schume
with congressman tom price now, and there are ethics questions coming out about past trades and i know he has a good reputation in congress, and he is the only one with a semblance of a plan to do something with the aca, and you have the pressure from the top of the governmentet et e ethics, and you have somebody with the conflicts that are going to pass on to the senators that are going to vote, and are you concerned about that? i think it s important that we add here to the constitution, and that s the senate s responsibility of advise and consent, and we are an armed services committee, and no matter how qualified an individual is, they still have to pass the advise and consent aspect of any nominee, and i don t know that much about congressman price s qualifications or lack of, but i do know that we need to exercise
is that it has been disclosed that he bought shares in this medical device company, congressman price did, a week or so before he tried to introduce legislation connected to that industry and that would have affected that company? it s a serious problem. price has now said, of course, that some broker did this and he didn t know much about it. that s the kind of thing that you should be on the lookout for. you should make sure that doesn t happen. a few days between buying the shares and doing something that would benefit them, that s a serious problem. it s not that much money but it s an indication of judgment that s troubling. for the defense, because i know you guys have a somewhat unamity on this issue. they didn t good to the broker answer when first asked this question. this legislation was sponsored by democrats and republicans.