Republican lawmakers say they are now focusing on their tax plan. A giant. Beautiful giant, beautiful, massive. Biggest ever in our country tax cut. It will be rocket fuel for our economy. Go gonna be a good life gonna be a good life good life good life. Pete you actually have a beautiful voice. Pete she does. Thats why i was closing my eyes. What a wonderful way to wake up. If you are joining us this morning we didnt know that song was coming either. What a beautiful start. Abby we all had a busy week. Interviewing the president. Out on the road interviewing fans at green bay. Todd it was awesome. I dont care what Football Team you root for the people of green bay are salt of the earth. Thank you for your hospitality. We got the pulse of the people. Gosh, i dont think we had one person who said i agree with kneeling. We asked as many people as we could, black, white, all races, everybody said the same thing. Hand over the heart. We are going to get to that throughout the course of the morning. Abby a lot of news breaking last night. Pete tom price is out as health and Human Services secretary. Abby price resigning on friday wide plane trips. Second cabinet secretary to leave that position. Todd ellison barber joins us. A promise to pay back at least some of the money he used from taxpayers to fly in private jets, h. H. S. Secretary tom price is as you said the first cabinet secretary to resign in the Trump Administration. As of midnight, this man, don j. Wright is in charge of the department. He is the acting settlement now before he served as the Deputy Assistant secretary. Barely two weeks ago politico reported on prices use of private planes. They said he traveled on private jets at least 24 times sings may. And for most of those flights, other options were available. Cheaper commercial options. The private flights reportedly cost taxpayers over 300,000. Politico reporters later found that price used military planes on trips abroad and sometimes brought his wife costing taxpayers half a Million Dollars. Price agreed to pay back roughly 51,000. With yo 51,000 but it wasnt enough. Yesterday when asked about prices job President Trump said he would make a decision in the night on whether or not he could keep it shortly afterwards price submitted a letter of resignation. In order for you to move forward without further disruption, i am officially tendering my resignation as the secretary of health and Human Services. The president , of course, accepted that resignation. Prices permanent replacement will need senate confirmation. In a statement, senator Chuck Chuck Schumer says the next will need to follow the law when it comes to obamacare and not sabotage it. Abby not a fun week for tom price. Healthcare blew up in everyones face again and here we are talking about if your whole thing if President Trump is draining the swamp and one of your secretary is out spending hundreds of thousands and one report Million Dollars on private planes that doesnt look so good. Pete subtext you didnt get repeal and replace and you are in charge of that and didnt get it done the other stuff is worse. Abby you never want the president saying well see. Not going to end well. Pete good guy. Well see. The president had more comments. He was asked about the outside of the house a suite of issues. Long ranging interview being impromptu before he went to marine one. One the tax reform plan and ongoing conversation about the National Anthem. Here is what the president had to say. We want every american to know the dignity of work, the pride. The pride. The beautiful pride. Getting a paycheck. The satisfaction of being told that was a job well done. We want every parent to be able to care for their children. And we want every child to know a home filled with love and a community filled with hope. That is the america we see when we look at our American Flag that hangs in all of our factories, sales our and waves over our cities, towns and fields. We love our American Flag. [applause] the soul of a country is found in the people who make it a home. Pete the president quintupling down. This is a winner for him and loser for the sports teams. Ratings are down for the nfl. All is he saying is relove our flag. We love our country. Salute and stand for it. It. Ains. Abby i love what he just said there. The soul is found in the people who make it a home. He is right on that. Ratings dont lie. Whats the one thing if you are head of the nfl, you care about advertisers. You care about the people watching football. I have a feeling they probably sat down with some of their players guys how much do we pay you every single year. Can you at least get it together to find another way to show unity. This is getting out of hand. Pete they get the blow back like the pittsburgh steelers. Hanalejandro knave. I dont care what you care with obamacare or planned parenthood if you dribble a ball or pass or pitch for a living i just want to watch you play. Todd received the benefit of what the nfl went through. They were able to preemptively get out in front of it. Adam silver of the nba said this is the way its going to go down. You are going to stand for the National Anthem. Doesnt begin until mid october. They get nfl. You have to do it this way in other words we will lose what the nfl lost. Abby they are saying obviously no kneeling during the National Anthem. They are calling it a rule. But, at the same time, putting forth some ideas for unity. Locked arms we are doing this together. We can still fight this but in different ways. Pete politically correct balance between the anthem and politics you saw the dallas cowction take a knee before and stand for the National Anthem. The fans didnt like that either because again you are walking a tight rope. This is from the a. P. What mark tatum had to say. Dress players fans before the anthem or a video featuring players or leaders speaking out about important issues and showing photos from past community events. Hold on a second, they are not going to take a knee for the anthem but play some political social justice video on the monitor at these stadiums before the game . Thats the last thing i want. I pay a bunch of money so i can be preached at by some guy who is a point guard . Forget about it. I dont want that. Abby i dont have a problem with that. Pete you dont have to have a problem with it way better than kneeling for the theme. Abby would you rather watch football and no politics . I think the majority of the country would be there we have come a long way from even last weekend. We can show a video of players out in the community trying to make a difference that is what this is all about. If you really want to make a difference, kneeling during the National Anthem is not the most productive way to do that. Go mentor young kids. Todd on your own time. Pete its true so much of what you see at sports games is i went out and gave food to homeless families or read to kids. All that sort of stuff that you want to see your players do. I dont want to see political activism. I went and donated to this candidate and went out and marched with black lives matter. If thats what you want to do, great. Have you every right to do so. I do want to see that on a screen during an nba basketball game . It will be very interesting to see how the teams thread this needle. I love it, separate the anthem out it shouldnt be about our American Flag. Thats the point the president has made. If athletes are going to start to turn into hollywood types making it all about politics its going to be a big problem. Todd let me ask you. This you everywhere out there on sunday at the jets doll fibs game before the bears packers game. Did you get the sense that people are sick and tired with the sports combining with politics. I got that sense. You know, look, do it on your own time. You are a paid employee. That said do it on your time. I dont care if you do it. I just want to watch a game. What if you were a baseball fan. Maybe a st. Louis cardinals fan and you decided im going to go watch my cardinals play baseball. See it in the nfl. This is what you get in the stands at the st. Louis cardinals game. Look as the. This [chanting no justice, no baseball. [no justice, no baseball. ] pete the video goes on for 30 minutes. 30 minutes at a Major League Baseball game. Abby they are saying no justice no, baseball. Abby we have First Amendment in this country. They have every right to say what they want to say out there. I think this movement is dying. I think we have obviously behind closed doors. You talked to President Trump about this last week. He says he feels some of the owners, the coaches are afraid of their own players. Pete if they push back, they will appear to look racist as oppose odd for standing up for the National Anthem. They afraid of that. As a private stadium owned by a team they can kick these guys out and eventually they were kicked out for disrupting a fan experience. Stop killing us is what the banner said. St. Louis, ferguson, a lot of tensions there. Again, politics. Why are they in my baseball. Abby if you are not for kneeling during the National Anthem that somehow you are not for equality that you dont care about the rights for all different background in this country . Thats what i hate about politics. Thats where we get it so wrong. Todd great move by the liberal left to try to tie racism to conservative politics. They do a great job with it. Abby let us know what you think. We are still talking about it a week later and i know you are in your homes. Send us an email to friends foxnews. Com. Kristin shot and killed while responding to a suspicious vehicle call in georgia. This man and a woman coming out of the woods approaching the officers. The man opening fire, killing detective hearn and injuring the other officer detective goodrich. Detective hearn leaves behind a husband and 3yearold son. Thats so sad. Its a race against time and victims in puerto rico are struggling to survive. 1400 more National Guard troops are heading there this weekend, bringing the total to 6,000. The ravaged island bracing for another one 3 inches of rain after being battered by two hurricanes already. The 101st Airborne Division are delivering splice to hospitals in need. President trump said a big decision will have to be made rebuilding that island. We will have to start all over again. We are literally starting from scratch. Abby of course, the president is expected to visit that island, puerto rico on tuesday. And o. J. Simpson wants to go to florida once he gets out of prison but florida doesnt want him. The state attorney general sending a letter to the department of crixzs instructing to tell nevada authorities that simpson octobers to him serving parole there thats where the Financial Team has been sending his assets. He was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in 2008. He could walk free as early as monday. Can you believe that . O. J. Simpson back free again . Pete unreal. The story that never stops. Todd coming up, ned ryun why the departure of tom price from the Trump Administration could be a good thing for the swamp and the president of the United States. Steve. Pete trying to make puerto rico into President Trumps katrina. 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Contrast this approach to tom price with Bob Menendezs trial up in new jersey. We have a sitting democrat u. S. Senator on trial for corruption you have barely heard a peep from the Mainstream Media or the democrats about him stepping down. This really is kind of a microcosm of why the American People are sick of washington, d. C. They despise it americans have lost trust in their institutions because they really have woken up to the fact that this system of government right now, whats happening in d. C. , the working class has understood there is a ruling class, of republicans and democrats and special interest cronies and corrupt consultants that has rigged the system in their favor. Its working against the American People. And 2016 in many ways was about them waking up and going enough is enough. So when trump responded, and i have to assume tom price was given you either resign or i will fire you option. But the next step that trump needs to take, guys, is this. Tom prices behavior was merely a symptom of the swamp disease. How President Trump deals with the real root of the cause is to go through an executive order that is executive branch and cabinet members, strong guidelines on how they use taxpayer collars and Government Resources moving forward. He sets the tone for his administration. But he also sets the tone for future administrations that were not going to tolerate this behavior anymore. Abby this is not the first time this has happened. Exactly. Abby taking advantage of things in the past. You mentioned the way President Trump handle. This and regardless of where you fall politically. Somebody said im coming in to drain the scwamp. When you heard about, this you could see it in his face. He was irate. He was upset. He was upset because its taxpayer money. When im here in washington thats not what im here to do. Im here to help people that need money back in their pockets. Contrast in this as we are going into tax reform debate. A lot of peopled a up federal state local food and gas tax intind they are paying over 50 of their money in taxes to a government that then abuses their taxpayer dollars. I actually wrote an opinion piece for fox yesterday about this issue of tom price. But i made the point that if we continue down this path we are going toward elective despodespotism. Because the american taxpayer is being abused not only being abused by paying a massive amount in taxes, but then an overreach in government and then dictating to it in many of lifes choices. Thats not what our founders wanted. And thats not what we wanted. And thats what really 2016 was about of saying we dont want the status quo. We dont want business as usual. So when trump moved on this issue with tom price, i was thrilled to see that because, again, thats what 2016 was about. He is not going to tolerate it and i hope he does set those strong guidelines moving forward. Pete you coined it velvet despotism. 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