welcome back on our political radar, the house oversight committee has the hefty pile of receipts the e.p.a. racked up on trips taken since august. he spent about $105,000 on first class air fare since assuming the post. he spent tens of thousands more on charters, military flights. e.p.a. says security costs necessitated the higher costs. senators from both parties are worried the trump administration is being lax about cyber threats in the u.s. election. republican susan collins telling the homeland security secretary, quote, i hear no sense of urgency to really get on top of this issue. they promised it s a top priority. steve bannon is tied to the facebook data program at cambridge analytica. they tell the post bannon oversaw the controversial
there was a story about how great it was he was losing business at mar-a-lago. donald trump intertwined his business dealings with the public affairs of the government in a way we have not seen. ways. not surprised that ben carson. bend carson s wife is involved. susan pompeo has also taken unusually active roet in the cia. you have the epa administer scott pruitt spent $200,000 on first class air fare, charlotte, military flights, secure soundproof phone booth. he says he needs that. that s a lot of money we have more. we re we have to go and when we come back we ll talk about melania trump addressing her husband s own twitter habits about bullying after this.
i marvelled at that on the air because he was at the time most famous for one of the most astonishing bribery cases ever in a u.s. state so corrupt already it s hard to be astonished by anything. in 2009 he pled guilty to an amazing series of bribes to officials in new york state. he was bribing the official so they could give his financial firm a piece of a big new york state controlled pile of money. a piece of the pension fund for state workers. broidy paid the state officials millions of dollars in bribes. the bribes were incredible. he paid an all-expense-paid luxury vacation for the state comptroller and his family, first-class air fare to israel, luxury suites at the king david hotel in jerusalem, a chauffeured car and driver, helicopter tours. that was the bribe to the comptroller and his family. to the deputy comptroller.
air at the fact that the rnc named him the vice chair of the trump victory fund for the republican national committee. i marvelled at that on the air because he was at the time most famous for one of the most astonishing bribery cases ever in a u.s. state so corrupt already it s hard to be astonished by anything. in 2009 he pled guilty to an amazing series of bribes to officials in new york state. he was bribing the official so they could give his financial firm a piece of a big new york state controlled pile of money. a piece of the pension fund for state workers. broidy paid the state officials millions of dollars in bribes. the bribes were incredible. he paid an all-expense-paid luxury vacation for the state comptroller and his family, first-class air fare to israel, luxury suites at the king david hotel in jerusalem, a
dollar, what we re doing we re pulling somebody money out of somebody s pocket and giving it to somebody else. what i don t like, what i don t want to tolerate, what i don t want to become numb to, is wasting those taxpayer dollars. bill: well, utah congressman jason chaffetz, now live. chairman of the house overnight government reform committee. holding the hearing, chairing it. welcome back to america s newsroom. good morning, bill. bill: what do you think you accomplished? i want the american to know the revenues of planned parenthood were $127 million more than their expenses. when we go to budget battles should we give taxpayer dollars to planned parenthood, they don t need the money. they are flush with cash. they are flush with cash, they re sending it overseas. spending it on political activities. they re spending it on first class air fare, on private planes and chartered planes. they obviously don t need