American taxpayers more than a Million Dollars. Earlier white house tried to downplay its role. To be clear, white house doesnt have role on the front end of approving private Charter Flights. Thats agencies and something were looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any Charter Flights moving forward. White house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. Approved the use of Military Aircraft for prices trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a Million Dollars. Adding to the cost. Price reimbursing government about 52,000. Inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the
travel costs were. 300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. He took a private plane at more than 17,000. At least 20 trips. Including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1 2 hours or train for 72. This is just the spending that price railed against un
and the governor. communication is starting to come up, it s working. we re getting to all communities with commodities, regardless of what is being presented. we re sustaining hospitals and pushing forward. operational capacity, assessing the others remaining. starting to get more capacity coming into the islands as air ports and sea ports are being opened up and utilized. more is online. pentagon named lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan. scheduled to arrive tonight. why did it take so long? general honore joins me. says unified command is working in puerto rico, supplies starting to move on road and in some cases helicopter air drops. is that how you see it? are things beginning to work?
general kim both know what they re doing. i hope they re given the authority to do that what they need to do. in new orleans, the president told me do what i have to do and indicated to secretary already on the ground and mike brown who was in new orleans that i was so sort out any confusion in the evacuation and had authority to do that what i needed to do. i heard a conversation earlier today that indicated if the task force commander wanted to do air drops, could make a recommendation. that s bull now that commander buchanan is on the ground, he needs to be giving orders and figure out what he needs to do to save lives. all due respect to the white house, trying to put lipstick on this pig but it s moving too slow and don t have to scaled
yesterday why it took so long to make that move. a top homeland security adviser says the military had been involved from the start and it took time to realize that the local government couldn t handle all the lodge stijs of distributing the aid, that the general who helped turn around the government s response to hurricane katrina was not buying that. i don t know what the hell s going on back there. they re using words i don t understand. we never used words like without partners. no, i m not your partner, fema, i m a command that you give me a mission and say, take water, fuel, and save the people of puerto rico. that s what we operate off of is a mission. the military didn t get that mission until yesterday. i heard a conversation earlier today where they indicated that if the task force commander wanted to do air drops, he could make a recommendation. that s bull [ bleep ]. now that commander buchanan s on