if the response isn t enough? you bite the hand that feeds you in a situation like this things can get worse real fast especially with this administration. you have to allow the political leaders down there to show thanks for what is going on. it doesn t mean they are not asking for more. tom price, what is your analysis on what the health and human secretary did was wrong, and what his fate will be? well, what was wrong was obvious. he was flying around at taxpayers expense. he, you know, his response is too little and it s probably too late. i find it particularly egregious when it comes to the time when he has been fighting so hard to cut health care for people, when he s not discharging funds to for affordable care account enrollment, you know, it is wrong in a million different ways. i must say, chris, if this had happened in another
human secretary says he s going to write a personal check, $52,000 to pay for his seat on private planes arnds the country. this is far less than the total amount of the flights. we are just learning, a few hours ago, 400,000. guess what? it s more than $1 million. $1 million taxpayer. he hopes he will be able to regain the trust of not taxpayers, but his boss. i work with the pleasure of the president. the president is a remarkable leader. i m privileged to work in his cabinet and on behalf of the american people. i look forward to regaining the trust some of the american people may have lost in the activities that i took and to not only regain the trust of the american people, but the trust of the administration and the president. sarah murray is outside the white house. sarah, we know the president is
russia has 300 billion. i don t know how many times smaller it is. how can russia influence elections in america? do you not find it amusing to ask this question? reporter: all right. that was him dismissing the suggestion an influence could have been had by the russians on the u.s. election. of course, these are questions that will ultimately have to be answered. they certainly will. thank you very much for finally tracking him down and getting to ask those questions. next, the top man at the e.p.a. getting round the clock protection from his own agents. kogt a new report, the health and human secretary was flying in private planes a lot more than you may have heard. sean spicer on the redemption tour. jeanne moos has more. i am happy with myself.
all right so let s bring in cnn politics reporter eric brad ner, live in the studio with me here. so of course the republicans are celebrating the win of karen handel. but after all, this seat was held by the gop for more than four decades. she should have won this. the big question is why was is so close what 13,000 votes in it. that s right. this has been a seat a lot of prominent republicans held a long time tom price who left it to become health and human secretary under president trump never dipped below 60 in an election. the reason it was so competitive because unlike other republican presidential candidates president trump did poorly in the district in 2016. he only won by 1.5 percentage points over hillary clinton. so democrats had been looking around the country trying to find a special election where they could compete and what they saw was this was one where five
this has not been good news for tom price, and it keeps stacking up. the silver lining for us, the american people not being deprived of honest services here that tom price now, that he is health secretary, can no longer get campaign donations from the industries he has been serving so well, now that he is no longer in congress, right? you know who can, though? his wife. his wife is named betty price. she is a state rep for the 48th district. since her husband was nominated to be the health and human secretary, health companies from outside her state, certainly from outside her district have suddenly become very interested in her little house district and have started flooding her with money. and it does open this new avenue of questioning as to whether it is appropriate for the wife of the health and human services secretary to continue to receive donations from the health care industry that her husband is now intimately involved with. and now she is playing an active