carolina ruled dish violated the law. you could get this money back. some 18,000 phone numbers were called but the catch is it was between may 11, 2010, august 1, 2011. if you can remember back then, good for you. they have a website set up where you can check your number. my number was not on it. nobody for me. maybe yours will. rob: telemarketers, the worst. your email can write itself. google rolling out with gmail. think of it as text prediction you can do with your smartphone to figure out what you have to say but this is a broader view using google s ai to figure out where you re going with your email, customize what you will say. put in my address is and it will fill in the rest for you.
sflmpblt we are back now with our buried lead. that is stories we don t think are getting enough attention. during rt season of giving. you may to want donate to charities close to your heart. according to a 2015 study offering a word of caution about two veterans organizations who use certain telemarketers to fundraise a center for public integrity investigation found that those professional fundraisers keep nearly nine out of every $10 they generate. think about that. joining me now is sarah joiner. thanks, jim, i appreciate it. so essentially what is going on is there are three veterans focus organizations based in falls church, virginia, and they
are they have each hired telemarketers to laze money for them and 90% of that is staying with the telemarketing company and 10% is going back to the charities. as pooszed to the charities themselves. the telemarketers have been hired by the charities. they are well aware of what is going on. they are well aware that the money is being raised and that they are giving up most of it. is this illegal? so that s complicated question, the new york attorney general s office says that it is actually not illegal for telemarketers to keep saying 90% of the money they raise what is illegal it s illegal to lie, it s illegal to steal, the question is are they lying when they re asking for this money? are they lying to donors when they call them up about how the money is going to be used? right. i should make clear that cnn reached out to the telemarketing companies. we did not hear back from them. we did reach out to hampton, he defended the charities and said the following, since our
thing he s been dying to say since this health care bill showed up. his final words to the senate last night were, it s time to move on, which he seems very happy to be doing. yeah. i mean yes. i think that everyone there would like to move on, that this was unworkable for them in many ways although i have to say there s something kind of perverse about congratulating people for the courage to vote against this bill when, you know, it was more unpopular than nickelback or telemarketers. it took real courage to vote for this bill in some ways. i also wanted to add you did a great list of everyone we should be congratulating in the resistance, but specifically i want to say national adapt, which is the disability rights group, were the people that did the using their physical bodies as protest vehicles. they did protests not just in the capitol but around the country. you ve probably seen pictures of the little lobbyists, who were the mothers and their children
i never saw a way mitch mcconnell could pass a bill with this much opposition out there. and mitch mcconnell at the end of the night got to say the thing he s been dying to say since this health care bill showed up. his final words to the senate last night were, it s time to move on, which he seems very happy to be doing. yeah. i mean yes. i think that everyone there would like to move on, that this was unworkable for them in many ways although i have to say there s something kind of perverse about congratulating people for the courage to vote against this bill when, you know, it was more unpopular than nick nickelback or telemarketers. it took real courage to vote for this bill in some ways. i also wanted to add you did a great list of everyone we should be congratulating in the resistance, but specifically i want to say national adapt, which is the disability rights group, were the people that did the using their physical bodies