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
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
too slow and it s not scaled right. in katrina had 20,000 federal troops. still not 10,000 on the ground. we had 200 helicopters. less than 100 here. i mean, don t have aircraft carrier. if carrier was there, could handle the air. we ll talk to you tomorrow night on the ground as well. coming up next, president trump claiming that tax cuts in the new tax bill won t make him even richer. talking to author of the art of the deal tlt even here. . ly here. at fidelity, we re available 24/7 to make retirement planning simpler. we let you know where you stand, so when it comes to your retirement plan, you ll always be absolutely.clear. time to think of your future it s your retirement. know where you stand.