i must admit, though, it s unusual to have someone of that background who s been running for 12 years now, he s been running a couple hundred people in the white house, to now be in charge of $180 billion budget, 380,000 employees. and it s not just health care. i mean, there s 131 cemeteries for gosh sakes. veterans benefits program, which is byzantine beyond belief. it s a very unusual appointment. we ve got to wish him well. some people say this is another possible step toward privatizing more of the va, and there are two distinct opinions about that. what s your take on that? well, i think that s that was the major reason secretary shulkin got canned. he had a boneheaded incident with the travel thing but i think he was fighting with political appointees in his own agency. i must admit there is an
continually talk about the need to name your enemy when it was radical islam. that was one of the biggest points and arguably an effective point he made against president obama. you ve got to say radical islam. you ve got to name your enemy. he s not naming the enemy, is he? there s not been one president, i think in modern times, that has not entered into their administration with hopes of having a good relationship with russia, starting with bill clinton, you know. barack obama. you know, each george bush, for gosh sakes you think he s still in that period. i think he s definitely in that period, and it behooves us to explore positive relationships with russia. but the problem is we re always disappointed. and i think that we re going to be disappointed this time as well. he attacked our country. mm-hmm. no doubt. so how long does this playing footsie, how long does this have to last? he looks utterly subservient to putin. he looks like he has got him under i mean w
but sending cruise missiles that was like an airstrip that was up and running american fighters killed up to 300 russian mercenaries. that s a fair point. but what i m saying is his tone, he said it in his tweet. is he in their pocket? [ overlapping voices ] isn t the whole point that mueller s investigation listen, listen. wait a second. didn t in the election continually talk about the need to name your enemy when it was radical islam? that was one of the biggest points and arguably an effective point he made against president obama. you ve got to say radical islam. you ve got to name your enemy. he s not naming the enemy, is he? there s not been one president, i think in modern times, that has not entered into their administration with hopes of having a good relationship with russia, starting with bill clinton, you know. barack obama. you know, each george bush, for gosh sakes you think he s still in that period? i think he s definitely in that period
family goes, there s the cost that associate with that. it s a huge, huge cost. its an enormous cost. i think it s an excessive cost. neil: sounds like you would not have fired tom price. i would not have fired him. i would have said to him, don t do it again. for gosh sakes, a trip from washington to philadelphia? that s small potatoes. of course, the budget of hhs is a staggering number. hundreds of billions of dollars. a flight like this is nothing. he s a smart guy. just tell him don t do it again. neil: you said there s people in that case, he could have taken a commercial flight. there s plenty available. that s what is stuck he could have done that. but you know what, sir? that is just trivia. that is the ultimate in trivia. i think the real reason he s being fired, he didn t get the healthcare bill passed. that wasn t his fault. he can t control mccain.
dana: that must be a big apartment. greg: my point is it s absurd. why can t we decide what kind of century city we want to? i want to vape at a bar for gosh sakes. dana: don t you do not already? greg: i sneak it. kimberly: i know, i montague. dana: this is a nonpartisan mayor into miami and he decided to do this and he s not trying to make some sort of partisan argument. he s saying here is the reasons why i want to do it because it s better for my city. the differences in chicago, rahm emanuel, a very prominent democrat has said i want to sue the trump administration because of this. for the law & order president, this is a very good issue for him. it s better for him in florida than it is in illinois. jesse, what do you make of this in terms of his approach, coming at a good time trying to talk