bill for taxpayers. all this travel puts the 45th president on pace to surface eight years worth of obama spending on travel just in trump s first year. cnn s tom foreman is with me here. tom, these costly transcripts come as the support asking the federal government to help make some tough decisions when it comes to federal spending. yeah, that s precisely the prab here, jake. while the president is the asking all sorts of agencies to cut out the waste and to save taxpayer money, he s still living what looks like the jet setting life of a billionaire on the taxpayer s dime. the president keeps taking off, and the bills keep piling off. the latest getaway itinerary the president plans to spend the easter holiday in florida and will return to the white house on sunday. reporter: since assuming office president trump has sent six weekends at his florida resort mar-a-lago, for a super bowl party in early february, a meeting and dinner with the japanese prime minister, a
the president and his inability to say radical islamic terrorism? why can t he say that? it s mind boggling. you can t fight the enemy unless you can identify it. this is radical islamic terrorism. it comes in many forms, be ittizeit isis or al qaeda. we need to recognize that. iraq is a good example. the iran backed shiite militias that are in there are a similar prab we face. we ve seen it in the last few months. the president was calling yemen a success story. yemen with the muthhouthis, there that s not a place we should be doing business with. the enemy is radical islamic terrorism terrorism. the president came to town. you ve been to israel and met with foreign ministers.
to say radical islamic terrorism? why can t he say that? it s mind boggling. you can t fight the enemy unless you can identify it. this is radical islamic terrorism. it comes in many forms, be ittizeit isis or al qaeda. we need to recognize that. iraq is a good example. the iran backed shiite militias that are in there are a similar prab we face. we ve seen it in the last few months. the president was calling yemen a success story. yemen with the muthhouthis, there that s not a place we should be doing business with. the enemy is radical islamic terrorism terrorism. the president came to town. you ve been to israel and met with foreign ministers. and he said you need to bone up
person fit in the constellation of the isis network, and that is the picture that you need to build to prevent further strikes. one official said that is the reason that you didn t see raids like this before, because they didn t have the intelligence, but they are there long enough to build the picture to make this prab this probably a pattern to come. thank you, kimberly dozier. and coming up after the break, we will talk about the blow to isis, and the iraqi army pushing back isis fighters from the key city of row mahdi, and we will have a key report are from there next.
coverage. it was called wyden/bennett after democratic senator ron wyden of oregon and republican bob bennett who were main backers. democrats ended up abandoning the idea in favor of obamacare. you know what happened to bob bennett for his sin of co-sponsoring this legislation? this. government health insurance that pushes you out of your current plan. citizens can only buy health plans approved by the government. job killing tax increases on employers. yes, bob bennett was one of those so-called establishment republicans purged by tea party grassroots for the sat betrayal in large part because he favored, quote, a government takeover of health care. even though he actually voted against obamacare. he was dumped by the state s gop convention. ultimately replaced with mike lee who proudly waves the banner for the tea party in the senate. bennett s main prab with the grassroots is he committed the unforgive bl sin of proposing, yes, a conservative alternative to obamacare he actuall