Pay more than 200,000 employees a thousand dollars this year and bump up Capital Spending by 1 billion. Wells fargo simultaneously also saying they are going to hype their hourly pay to 15 bucks. Fifth third bank corps also saying they will go to a minimum 15 per hour and onetime bonus this year of 1,000 following the passage of the tax bill says the company. Comcast also says they will give thousand dollar bonuses to a number of nonexecutive employees and they pledge 50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure based on the passage of tax reform. Says comcast. Boeing will make 300milliondollar employee related and charitable investment tax to thanks reform says boeing. These moves came late today after many had painted a very depressing picture of this bill. The Republican Party went out of its way to remove 13 Million People from the health roles. President trump and his administration have sold it with a lie. On the republican side of the aisle, with this tax legislation is
Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jay. And the white house moments ago going the trumpy an route and refusing to apologize time and time again about a cruel joke a staffer made about john mccain dying of cancer. That is right, a joke about him dying of cancer and refusing to answer if this overall tone comes from the very top. We there is not a a tone set here. We have a a respect for all americans. And that is what we try to put forward in everything we do, both in word and in action. Why not just apologize to senator mccain. I wont get into a back and forth because people want to create issues of leaked staff meeting. Well, not only did the white house not say those simple words were sorry, but as you heard there, pointed to the leak, that led to that cruel joke getting out in the first place. Lets begin with kaitlin collins, at the white house. Kaitlin, mou multiple chancem the white house podium to make a simple apology for june agrees was offensive and yet no apology. No
Video. Its fascinating. Reporter yeah, joe biden is drilling in on the moment in charlottesville, the clashes there. And President Trumps response directly saying this is a battle for the soul of the country and the nations character is at stake if donald trump is reelected. Take a listen to the message he laid out in the video this morning. Charlottesville, virginia, is home to the author of one of the great documents in human history. We know it by heart. We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. We have heard it so often its almost a cliche, but its who we are. We havent lived up to these ideals, jefferson himself didnt. But we have never before walked away from them. Charlottesville is a defining moment in the last few years. It was there in august of 2017 we saw klansmen and neonazis out in the open. Their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, chanting the same antisemitic bile he
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Rep. Lauren Boebert is going viral on social media once again after stumbling through an attempt to compare President Biden to Prince John an apparent reference to the antagonist from Disney's "Robin Hood."