Walmart, the nations largest employer, 1. 5 million workers boosting their wages, 11 an hour. And extending Maternity Leave for maternal benefits and adoption benefits. Joining me, david nelson. Steve, let me start with you. You wrote an article yesterday, President Trump and the administration should be touting the economy more than the stock market. What we are seeing with this economy is probably going to keep going for some time. Dont get me wrong, im not against stocks rising. But we should focus more on whats going on upon main street. The stock market did well under President Trump but the economy did not. When we look at the situation, the opposite is the case. Pelosi, nancy pelosi, the congresswoman from california said recently that these are quote crumbs from Corporate America. And they are pathetic is a quote she made. In her San Francisco and washington world. Maybe these are crumbs to give a 1,000 or 2,000 bonus. But for most of of america it can be life changing. If she
occasions that he was about to violate the law. over the holiday weekend, kim paxson was perhaps the most notorious state attorney general in the nation was impeached. it was done by his own party, the texas state house. for anyone who has followed his career, it has been a long time coming. i mean, paxton is basically an ethical train wreck. he s been under indictment for felonies securities fraud, for eight years. nearly three years ago, seven top aides and deputy 80s accuse bots of bribery and abuse of office. he also fired several of them. they filed a whistleblower lawsuit that include accusations of loving a campaign donor and renovation of paxson s home. but ken paxson s way of protecting himself is basically the same as donald trump s, which is, i m taking on the lips, so i am your hero. and so, he tried to rally his allies ahead of the impeachment vote. ted cruz called the whole thing a travesty and not under the dump donald trump called to free can paxton. but it did not wo
paxson, and there are interesting texas republican state house politics are particularly interesting because they face no big democratic challengers, so there s enormous, bloody factional fights between them all the time. so, like, that kind of thing isn t new. but i don t quite get paxson has been the same guy doing the same stuff for years. like, what happened here? so, there s one particular thing that happened. so, you mentioned those eight top lieutenants in the attorney generals office who blew the whistle on ken paxson using his office to benefit a campaign donor. and ken paxton settled with those eight lieutenants for three point $3 million, but since he committed his crimes in his official capacity, that three point $3 million fell to the taxpayers of texas to pay, and that is when our state legislature got involved, because we are being asked to appropriate his settlement in our state budget. that is when the investigation began back in march. he also accused, there s a
coming together and hoping the corrupt official accountable. i have to say, i ve follow texas politics relatively closely for years and followed paxson, and there are interesting texas republican state house politics are particularly interesting because they face no big democratic challengers, so there s enormous, bloody factional fights between them all the time. so, like, that kind of thing isn t new. but i don t quite get paxson has been the same guy doing the same stuff for years. like, what happened here? so, there s one particular thing that happened. so, you mentioned those eight top lieutenants in the attorney generals office who blew the whistle on ken paxson using his office to benefit a campaign donor. and ken paxton settled with those eight lieutenants for three point $3 million, but since he committed his crimes in his official capacity, that three point $3 million fell to the taxpayers of texas to pay, and that is when our state legislature got involved, because we ar
advise him on multiple occasions that he was about to violate the law. over the holiday weekend, kim paxson was perhaps the most notorious state attorney general in the nation was impeached. it was done by his own party, the texas state house. for anyone who has followed his career, it has been a long time coming. i mean, paxton is basically an ethical train wreck. he s been under indictment for felonies securities fraud, for eight years. nearly three years ago, seven top aides and deputy 80s accuse bots of bribery and abuse of office. he also fired several of them. they filed a whistleblower lawsuit that include accusations of loving a campaign donor and renovation of paxson s home. but ken paxson s way of protecting himself is basically the same as donald trump s, which is, i m taking on the lips, so i am your hero. and so, he tried to rally his allies ahead of the impeachment vote. ted cruz called the whole thing a travesty and not under the