New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, from left, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway at a meeting in Concord, N.H.

CONCORD, N.H. — Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him, but added that it wasn’t his call to say whether they took the proper measures.

Price said the reporter confronted him while he was walking down a hallway. “That gentleman was not in a press conference,” he said.