voters to the polls in 2016 to help hillary clinton get elected. we talked to google, they have not explain to us what a silent donations, instead they simply denied making one. what is a silent donation and what it violated campaign finance laws? mitchell is a very well-known campaign finance expert and she joined us tonight. google s position appears to be we didn t send any money in the direction of this group, but what a donation have to be in the form of u.s. currency? couldn t it be in the form of services? absolutely. that s known as an in-kind donation and we don t know exactly what they did, but what we do know is that this executive who managed this fairly comprehensive, robust program to enhance and get the latino vote out in 2016, and used corporate resources,
group called voto latino in their campaign to bus voters to the polls in 2016 to help hillary clinton get elected. we talked to google, they have not explain to us what a silent donation is, instead they simply denied making one. what is a silent donation and would it violate campaign finance laws? cleta mitchell is a very well-known campaign finance expert and she joins user tonight. google s position appears to be we didn t send any money in the direction of this group, but would a donation have to be in the form of u.s. currency? couldn t it be in the form of services? absolutely. that s known as an in-kind donation and we don t know exactly what they did, but what we do know is that this executive who managed this fairly comprehensive, robust program to enhance and get thema latino vote out in 2016, andus used corporate resources,
the huge cost. it is one of the reasons why we have had at successive quarters, 3% growth. because business and consumers. dana: also the stock market, right? factoring in the deregulation piece, and then the tax reform to come. when people don t when business owners don t have to pay unnecessary expenses, and we don t have to pay a higher price, then that is absolutely reflected. see on which got a two-minute warning. the president will be speaking on this. in the meantime, can i ask you about what is like to wrap up the first year of a presidency? obviously, 9/11 changed the first year of the bush presidency so much, but what is the president of trying to do here and kind of a closing argument about how 2017 has gone? this will be done more in the new year because in the new year, you will be able people are starting to pay attention to the holidays and less politics. but in the new york, the president will have a number nf occasions culminating on januarf
secretary sanders: look, there are several individuals i would point you to, who has spoken in this room and on a number of networks that i see represented here, that has repeatedly stated a lot of these statistics, a lot of the data shows that this will be a huge boost to the economy, it will bring companies back, it will grow our jobs, push the stock market higher. i think that those are all places i would point back to, and certainly, i think there is a great supports that we have seen, just based on the idea that this passes. that you are seeing the stock market increase. i think a lot of that is tied to that. the word modest was used. secretary sanders: i have not asked him about that. i think upset is not the right word. you may think that other opinions which were offered may be a little bit more accurate. i know that the call time is here momentarily, and the president will be speaking here
critics who say that the president has not taken a dedicated and of resources? secretary sanders: the present has put one of his top with people here at the white house, kellyanne conway come on this. he sees it as a priority, a major concern, not just for the white house, but certainly for america. there are a number of stories, as you have just said, the amount of money that it will take to combat this crisis is huge. we are going to continue looking at the best ways to do that, we are working on the agency process to see what that number looks like. that has not been finalized, but we are going to continue looking at every way possible. that was part of the republican health care plan? secretary sanders: that is i think a start, but to fully address this, we want to make sure that we get it right. and make sure that we really address it head-on. and that is why the president has made such a focus and put kelly an end others on this to