employees. if you are rachel maddow or joe scarborough maybe 1,000 bucks is not a lot of money. think about it cable guy, somebody working in customer service call center or maybe somebody who is working secretarial type position. that $1,000 will be quite a bit of money and appreciated this time of year particularly before christmas. david: leslie good to see you. is this a christmas present for america? i know the democrats want to paint this as a disaster. they haven t seen it play out. but to deroy s point, to the money going into the economy, some 200 million from at&t going to employees, 100 million from comcast, may not matter to the rich elitist but what about the americans out there? let s talk about the truth. the reason the at&t did this i know we want to make it altruistic but it s not. basically the reason they did it was the $28 million tax incentive for this them this year because they would get screwed next year. in addition, let s talk about the hundreds i have job
employees. if you are rachel maddow or joe scarborough maybe 1,000 bucks is not a lot of money. think about it cable guy, somebody working in customer service call center or maybe somebody who is working secretarial type position. that $1,000 will be quite a bit of money and appreciated this time of year particularly before christmas. david: leslie good to see you. is this a christmas present for america? i know the democrats want to paint this as a disaster. they haven t seen it play out. but to deroy s point, to the money going into the economy, some 200 million from at&t going to employees, 100 million from comcast, may not matter to the rich elitist but what about the americans out there? let s talk about the truth. the reason the at&t did this i know we want to make it altruistic but it s not. basically the reason they did it was the $28 million tax incentive for this them this year because they would get screwed next year. in addition, let s talk about the hundreds i have job
alternative candidates that are out there certainly aren t very strong, and don t represent my ideology or a moderate ideology in my opinion. but time will tell. bill: it sure will. it s about what is best for america. bill: we appreciate you coming on today. the democrat from california. thank you, bill. bill: thank you for your time. martha: the government is raising some eyebrows. the state department spent more than $70,000 in taxpayer money on president obama s literary works, including mr. obama s memoir dreams from my father a decade after it was released. we are joined by leslie page with citizens against government waste. leslie good to have you here. the state department says, look these are not out of line at all, these are the kind of proceed kaourplts we make a lot. we have libraries in certain state department offices around the world stocked with lots of books. this was one of them and this wasn t really that big a deal. what do you say?