6 billion in profits. The ceo makes 25 million as a base salary. They spent 11 million fighting the tax on tv. Theyve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars every month on lobbyists and lawyers. And they take it out on the guy in the bottling plant . I mean, to me, theyre using their employees as pawns to create anger and mistrust and to try to get the tax away. But the tax has been passed. Its not going away unless a court kills it. And from the retailer side, guys like jeff brown and others at shoprite, i mean, he just opened a store yesterday inside the city limits. Hes talking on one hand about cutting employee hours. On the other hand, hes opening a new store. I had a young man come up to me last week, and he said to me, i really like you, but you cost me a dollar for every 16ounce soda i buy. I said, nope. The tax is a quarter. The 75 cents extra is going in the retailers pocket. Theyve been taxing this product before the tax even went into effect, and theyve been stockpiling the
How will clinton respond on the debate stage . From abc news, its this week. Here now chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. It turns out october is full of surprises. Just 30 days before the final votes, hours away from tonights debate this Unusual Campaign is in unchattered waters again. Dozens of elected officials, senators, governors, members of congress abandoning their partys nominee. The exodus is unprecedented. It all began late friday when the washington posting unearthed this disturbing video. Donald trump and broadcaster billy bush on the set of days of our lives the summer of 2005. I moved on her and i failed. Ill admit it. I did try and [ bleep ] her. She was married. I got to use some tic tacs just in case i start kissing her. I just start kissing them like a magnet. Just kiss. And when youre a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. Do anything. Hello. How are you . Hi. Terrific. Nice to meet you. How about a hug for the donald. He just got
Incentives for policing for profit. That is what passed. That is what passed, maam. Thank you ver amendment 168 has been amthdrawn. Amendment number 175 has beenn withdrawn. Amendment number 131 has been withdrawn. Amendment number 52 has been withdrawn. Amendment number 132 have been withdrawn. Amendment number 31, its a little farther back in the packet. That amendment has been withdrawn. Excuse me, im sorry i was distracted, is that the end . Yes madam chair a 15 minute break. Thank you very much. Our road to the white house coverage continues later today with donald trump in virginia beach, virginia, and be talking about veterans issues. See that event live starting at 1 p. M. Eastern right here on cspan2. And the Republican National committee starts a week of meetings today prior to their convention is later this month. Today theyll focus on the Party Platform. Live coverage on cspan starts at 2 p. M. Eastern. And the u. S. Congress is back for their final week before the summer b
Because you dont, youre not paying for data bits based on usage. And we just acquired three Additional Properties in florida and california and texas where we bought some of the fios assets from verizon, and weve got lightning fast speeds with lot of content, lots of choice for consumers. Host how big is frontier . Guest we are the fourth largest telco, so think at and t, verizon, and im not saying these in order, i dont know whats first, at t or verizon, then century link, then us. Host well, we invited you this week on the communicators to talk about the rollout of 5g. The fcc is meeting next week, of course, about that. I want to show some video of fcc chairman tom wheeler talking about 5g. If the Commission Approves my proposal next month, the United States will be first country in the world to open up high band spectrum for 5g networks and applications. And thats damn important. Because it means that u. S. Companies will be the first out of the gate. We will be repeating the formu
Havent seen in quite some time. People are extremely passionate on both sides of the issue because youre talking about children, but youre also talking about the potential loss of jobs. So were getting that level of debate in the council, in the street. Wherever you go, people want to talk about sugary drink tax. So, i think, at some point, we will come up with a solution, cause we do need to figure out a way to do these very worthy causes. Im not sure how we do them. The actual Implementation Phase is still not clear to me. I have a lot of questions, as the other members do, as it relates to, why do you set up a totally new prek system when there already is a prek system . Why dont you just give the money to the existing prek system . How do we get the diversity that we need to have as it relates to construction on new rec centers and libraries . All of those things need to be discussed. Lets take both ends of that question. Lets start with the money. Everybody that ive called in city