companies nationwide spreading the wealth thanks to the president s tax plan. one ceo wanting to make sure his employees know exactly who to thank. putting the president s name on bonus check. he joins us live. ainsley: pete is having breakfast with friends. is he in ohio? hey, pete. good morning, guys it s so cold i m warming my hands on the coffee pot. we are at momma s west main cafe. it s been packed since the beginning. asking how the president is doing what they think about a government shut down no. shut down here. lots of coffee and some amazing food. steve, over to you. any questions you want, email them to me but i won t give you my email address. steve: will do. happy birthday to richie known as kid rock. he has 47 candles on his cake and he will have a coors light. i just know that for a fact.
point where many americans are where you are living paycheck to paycheck. 2,000ness a bonus check is going to make a lot of your employees very happy. why did you decide to do that? we decided to do that because i believe that our best assets of the company are our employees. they deserve the support and the help that they need on the continuum basis as wages rise, as their wages rise and of course we give full child care to our employees and 100% of their healthcare. i believe that our employees are our treasures of tomorrow. so the middle class that get the tax increases and trump s tax cut benefit is extremely important to our company. ainsley: that s just great. i know you are making them so happy because these are nonexecutives. they probably don t make a lot of the money. tell us about your company what do you and how many people you do employ. well, we have about 800 franchises across north america. including canada and south
people. that s $200 million you have injected into the economy. whether it goes into a bank or christmas present or knew of her hockey skates or baseball uniform, that s money spurring for consumer economy. companies giving bonuses, that means those people are going to use that money. it s an injection of consumer activity. that s the equation that matters. i would rather see a company like at&t give some of their employees $1,000 as a bonus check as opposed to the government subsidizing either health care or just handing out cash willy-nilly because it s very different when the government gives out our money versus the corporation trying to use bonuses as a reinvestment. big time, kennedy. i think daily person who used the word trickle-down was the democrat on the panel. we don t use that word, jessica. it s a democrats slur. it always was. i know some real slurs.
on twitter. at&t and comcast. 100,000 workers at comcast get a $1,000 bonus check. that s pretty good. get out of here. i am off work. my son is there. your dad is right. buy your dad a present. kimberly, they had a meeting about 2018. it s high steaks. stakes. you want to defy the odds. they don t have that many seats. one guy today said the 12 republicans who voted against tax reform, those seats are vulnerable. if you win those 12 you are halfway to taking back the majority. you re absolutely right. it s risky business. maybe the constituents should have thought about in terms of supporting the tax bill. they didn t support it because their constituents
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