campaign finance laws, senator nelson promised to donate $4000 worth of donations from his firm to charity. the firm s founder eventually pled guilty to illegally filing over $386,00 $386,000 campaign attributions to members of congress over a six-year period. he was sentenced to 27 months in jail. $75000 fine. senator nelson probably thought is $4000 charity donation was a smart pr move to distance himself from the corruption while also getting points for backing a worthy cause. until that is an investigation by the center for responsive politics found that nelson had received over $50000 from pma group and its employees. both senator nelson, you pocketed 46 grand for yourself and gave for to charity and think that masks the swampy stench? it s not just swampy it s truly cynical. what a surprise from a lifelong professional politician. bill nelson is tied to lobbyists go deeper than just
investigated by the federal government for violating campaign finance laws, senator nelson promised to donate $4000 worth of donations from his firm to charity. the firm s founder eventually pled guilty to illegally filing over $386,00 $386,000 campaign attributions to members of congress over a six-year period. he was sentenced to 27 months in jail. $75000 fine. senator nelson probably thought is $4000 charity donation was a smart pr move to distance himself from the corruption while also getting points for backing a worthy cause. until that is an investigation by the center for responsive politics found that nelson had received over $50000 from pma group and its employees. both senator nelson, you pocketed 46 grand for yourself and gave for to charity and think that masks the swampy stench? it s not just swampy it s truly cynical. what a surprise from a lifelong professional politician.
it is clear what they were trying to do. at&t has a merger they want approved. same with comcast. wells fargo has a number of regulatory issues with the government. boeing wants the same thing. they want to sell planes to iran. that s problematic right now. it is is clear they were sucking up to the administration. and the proof will be, as the year goes on, which companies actually do make investments, actually do hire more people, actually do increase salaries. i hope they do increase salaries. look at the magnitude of the money here. at&t makes $14 billion in profit a year. they just gave a bonus a $1,000 bonus to 100,000. it is a tiny fraction what they will make in addition to this tax bill. let s not be effusive with our praise from the president for these companies. they re making a smart pr move. and we ll see what happens. great press releases.
challenge right now, her expectations in barack obama s record. you can see his approvals are improving but they re pretty much in the toilet. and at the end of the day, this was a smart pr move. what did she do? she threw red meat at the democratic base. what does the democratic base love to hate? fox news. enough said. this was smart. this is the largest sporting event in america. this is great pr. it s free and everyone is talking about it. we re talking about it right now. a new poll, by the way, coming out on all of these things, including the president s job approval numbers at 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. you guys like polls? absolutely. be watching our show. can i just say one quick thing? yes. the republican party needs to listen to this man. because he was absolutely right in terms of the problem that the republican party still holds today, even with barack obama s poll numbers the way that they are. the focus on the middle class. they did not have a
great format. i don t think, you know, the staged apology, the five-minute rapid fire q & as, those are really difficult for anybody to look comfortable. getting him back in some of reporters, familiar faces, guys he s known for years worked to his advantage. you know, the thing that struck me, he was talking about the knee and how much pain and discomfort he was in last year. we weren t aware of that to the extreme that the pain that he was feeling, so my question is moving forward how is he going to deal with that? i mean, his mission is to get to 18, 19 majors. how much is the knee going to play a role if he naes this sort of pain on an ongoing basis? i ll be watching that. i thought the most sort of touching moment was when he talked about his son s, missing his son s first birthday when he was attending therapy. that was a nice touch to sort of connect with not only golf fans but people just sort of checking in following the tiger story for what it is. so i think bringing that up