instead, price s trip on board the private plane could have cost you the taxpayer as much as $25,000. and the comparisons hardly end there. our flight search showed there was a commercial flight departing just minutes earlier than price s pricey private jet, bound for philadelphia for a fraction of the price. that commercial flight would have cost between 500 and $700. and of course, there was also the option of am track, a train from washington to philadelphia, even in first class, would have cost taxpayers no more than a few hundred dollar dollars round trip. the health and human services inspector general is conducting a review of secretary price s potentially inappropriate travel. in a statement the ig s office says the review focuses on whether price s travel complied with federal travel regulations. meanwhile, an hhs spokes woman tried to justify price s jet setting ways in saying the
this week. today he turns 85 years old, and later this week he s going to celebrate his 7th anniversary as leader of the roman catholic church. greg burke is based in rome. right now he s in london. we are trying to keep track of his jet setting ways. skwr eg, what do you havwhat do you have for us today. reporter: the pope is taking about the final leg on the path of his life. popes don t normally tack like that. while it may be interesting it s also a little scary for those of us whose job it is to follow the life and career of pope benedict the xvi. the pope was surprisingly candid today in the way he spoke about his age. but the fact of the matter is he s been pretty straight up about his health, a short time ago talking about he doesn t have the same energy. talking in a book some years ago he said there were wit that he was going to be made the arch beneficiary up of munich. he said he didn t believe it because everybody knew his health wasn t that good.