president. having a working dinner. they are happening at the same place. the first lady has been practicing diplomacy of her own. she ll continue with the president on to london, scotland and helsinki before returning home. we have yet to hear from her. we haven t heard her say a single word in the press pool. no remarks. but she s here in a supporting role and the people of europe tend to support her as they did the last time she was abroad last year at the nato event. looks like she s had a complete recovery from the kidney surgery. she had the operation in may and her doctors gave her a 30-day no travel situation so certainly trips abroad, long plane trips were not possible. this is her first. we traveled with the first lady to the border in arizona last week and texas the week before. those were shorter trips. this is certainly her first
well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that s it. look how much coffee s in here? fresh coffee. so rich. i love it. that s why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you re describing the coffee and not me? do you wear this every day? everyday. i d never take it off. are you ready to say goodbye to it? go! go! ta da! a terrarium. that s it. we brewed the love, right guys? (all) yes. secretary s wife is under fire for accompanying her husband during business trips. documents show interior secretary ryan zinke s wife s travel has been creating headaches for the department of interior staffers. tom foreman is outfront. reporter: as investigators pore over interior secretary ryan zinke s private plane trips, newly released documents show his staff was also frustrated by his wife s travel plans and apparently deep
far without anybody picking it up? journalists could see it. the red flags were flying. they saw it clearly. i don t know why the white house didn t see that. i don t know why the congressman marino didn t see it? i m bursting here neither did, you know, president obama didn t see anything wrong with this legislation, no member of congress objected. joe manchin was on new day and said he didn t see any reason to inject back then. jack reed from rhode island, told us his staff read the bill then and it s unfortunate what turned out to be in it. this is all on congress and on the past administration, on the current emergency, if this is as big of a problem as the washington post and 60 minutes are portraying it s on everyone that it went as long as it did. that said, molly ball, it is interesting to me it took three days, after the 60 minutes reports came out for the white house to push tom marino aside. we saw it with tom price, didn t last long after the plane trips, mich
one. abby: very nasty about people that used to be her friends or enemies or whatever. drama. a lot of drama. speaking of drama though. there is drama in d.c. todd: tom price is out as health and human services secretary. resigned following the criticism of his private plane trips. abby: ellison barber joins us from washington, d.c. with those details. after days of public scrutiny, apologies and a promise to pay back at least some of the money he used to fly in private jets, h.h.s. secretary tom price becoming the first cabinet secretary of this administration to resign barely two weeks ago. price s use of public planes. he traveled ton private jets 24 times since may. for most of those flights, other options were availabl available, cheaper commercial options. the private flights cost
revolution that you talk about on your show which is these are the actual matters issues that matter so much to the economy and to the people, and yet we seem unable to get them over the line. tax reform could be different. what do you think? well, let s just take health care first and take something very specific. even just this year, 2017, the pharmaceutical industry hass spent nearly $150 million on lobbying. so we ve got tom price spending a million on plane trips, $150 million on lobbying. members of congress make the rules that affect their business. the consequence is higher drug prices for americans. the vote on repeal and replace obamacare, that comes down i think in the end to something else that s very swampy, but of a different nature, which is the individual political motivations. a brilliant column in the wall street journal today, the most powerful people in terms of implementing the president s