BALDWIN: HUD chief Ben Carson in a furniture fight that isn't going away. Reports that he knows more than he says he does. This is all regarding the $31,000 dining room set ordered for his office.</s>BEN CARSON, HUD SECRETARY: I was told that the dining room set needed to be changed. I said why? Because people are being stuck by nails. A chair collapses with somebody sitting in it. It is 50 years old. I said OK. We can potentially do that. I asked my wife also to help me with that. The next thing that I quite frankly heard about it was that this $31,000 table had been bought. I said what the heck is that all about? Investigated, immediately had it canceled. Not that we don't need the furniture, but I thought that was excessive.</s>BALDWIN: Secretary Carson denies any wrongdoing and defends his wife's role in this whole controversy saying that quote, she is the most frugal person I know. Back in a moment.
Ben Carson Explains Expensive Furniture.