bomb but this has to be taken seriously. this would be an extraordinarily alarming and dangerous move and the administration would have to rethink what it is doing. all right. martha raddatz tracking the situation with north korea ever step of the way. thank you martha. president trump responding tonight after facebook revealed thousands of ads were bought by russian agents during the election, ads that praised donald trump or attacked hillary clinton. mark zuckerberg saying he will turn those ads over to congress. today president trump tweeting the russia hoax continues, now its ads on facebook. next to your money. taxpayer money spent on flights on private jets. another cabinet secretary under scrutiny for his travel habits. health and human services chief tom price taking private jets dozens of times from d.c. to philadelphia. cecelia vega with the price tag. how much you have spent already. reporter: tonight health secretary tom price under
security. we ve written a letter to the federal government, asking for the reimbursement for the overtime for the sheriff and impacts but as of today we haven t heard back. as a candidate, mr. trump said he would rarely leave the white house and blasted president obama for vacations costing taxpayers millions. but since his inauguration, president trump will have spent four of the last five weekends at mar-a-lago. travel is not unusual for the commander in chief. president obama was taking his third weekend getway, one to chicago, two to camp david. while the trump administration won t disclose the exact price tag, conservative nonpartisan budget watchdog estimates it s almost $3 million so far in secret service in air force one costs alone. he should either change his travel habits or perhaps find other ways to save money for the taxpayer in white house operation. with its upscale shops and
so far in secret service and air force one costs alone. he should either change his travel habits, or perhaps find other ways to save money for the taxpayer and white house operations. reporter: but on glitzy wurth avenue with its luxury shops and upscale customers, marley herring says the visits are good for business. i think there s a lot more people interested in coming to the avenue. reporter: the white house calls them working weekends. there s not rest at the southern white house. it s all work. reporter: but they re leaving some here without much work to do. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, palm beach, florida. it s a good reminder about camp david. we haven t heard about that in a while. so, we ll take a look coming up at why president trump and his allies are going after president obama now and the response from the president, the former president, after this. everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don t stick around. use
gabby? thanks, sean. palm beach county said it s costing $60,000 a day in overtime pay every time the president comes to visit west palm beach. he s slated to go there again this weekend, according to some reports. is the president taking any steps to ensure taxpayers aren t saddled with tremendous costs for his travel habits, considering he was so critical of his pred soes sore on that matter? well, the security for the president and the first family is set by the secret service. as you know, they determine the security measures that need to be taken to protect the president, frankly, any president, so i m going to leave it up to the secret service as to what security measures and steps are taken to protect the president. as you know, this transcends administrations. wherever the president goes, they need to make sure that the president and first family is safe. it s something that i think we
these are individuals who apparently carried out these acts and everybody has to be aware it is not any one ethnic group. it is not an entire family. so far as we know, two young men. but i know, jennifer, that authorities there at the pentagon, the national security agency, the cia, other places like that where you have a lot of very deep contacts they doing everything they can to find out about the travel habits of these two young men and whether they had any support from overseas in these activities. what can you tell us along those lines? reporter: absolutely. in fact what we know they have been looking since minute one, they have been looking at that video trying to see what activity, what i m told is the first nine to 10 minutes on twitter and on facebook and on social media, those are the key minutes to look before things start disappearing, where see the real activity. that is where our intelligence agencies, the in sa and others they look and they start to look for patterns