humiliating way possible. why not? they can t the detroit free press said human resourced department emailed employees at the facility in austin, texas, with a meeting in the conference room. once they are hr read soon to be fired employees a prewritten script and we escorted them out the front door in front of colleagues. the employees who survive those cuts stood in their cubicles watching in horror. workers who had fewer than three years of seniority received a few weeks of severance pay. taxicabs find out side of gm so employees could make it home after the company compensated their corporate cars. c why did gm do this? we don t know. the company issued a press release with doublespeak that it barely qualifies as english. general motors accelerates transformation, that is the title of the press release. that might be the flavor of it. the company described mass firings as a way to drive significant cost efficiencies. plans weren t closed according
out of the running, congressman mark meadows, staunch supporter of president trump, someone reported to be one of the top choices for the chief of staff is out of the running. both meadows and the white house putting out statements saying he s not leaving congress and it comes after former senator rick santorum told me last night he won t take the job. of course nick ayers, who was, like, done, the press release was written that he was taking the job, left the president hanging, and that is why we are where we are now, which is not a good place. outfront, joan walsh, national affairs correspondent at the nation and scott jennings, former special assistant to george w. bush. another one out here, joan. yes. and it s a really sad reality tv show now, erin. it s like nobody wants the rose. what s going to happen? and you know, i mean, look, like the president, don t like the president, you have to admit
from and praising whitaker. matthew jean whitaker is a highly respected us and in from iowa chosen by jeff sessions to be chief of staff. i did not know mister whitaker. likewise i did not know mister whitaker except primarily as he trialed with ag sessions, no social contact. katherine herridge tells us where things stand for whitaker tonight. reporter: according federal trade commission records in the 2014 media release, matt whitaker was on the advisory board of a $26 million by the ftc, the press release quotes whitaker saying as a former us attorney i would only align myself with a first-class organization, marketing goods beyond statements about doing business ethically and translate them into action. ftc investigation found the company, quote, allegedly built millions from consumers and suppressed criticism. he was very highly thought of and still is highly thought of. donald trump defended whitaker s credentials. this comes up because anybody
flake s office that morning. they went that morning because as you were staked out they made clear he was going to vote. those ladies went there and when i saw the interview of anna maria later, she said she was hoping he would become a hero. this might be a moment, but she didn t know it would unfold this way. what happened? what happened was five minutes before the senate judiciary committee vote that was happening, we didn t know if he was in the office. coming and going and the office was dark and quiet. he had been there for many, many hours and staffers were coming and going. five minutes. the press release came on our sole pho cell phones and he was voting yes for kavanaugh. he darted out of the office. there were eight different
the lawsuit could conflict with pro-daca rulings in several regions of the country. it could force the supreme court to decide the issue. west virginia republican senate candidate don blankenship going after majority leader mitch mcconnell defending ad an in which he described mcconnell this way. listen one of my goals as u.s. senator will be to ditch cocaine mitch. yes, cocaine mitch. in a followup press release, blankenship s campaign claims mcconnell s father-in-law who owns a large chinese shipping company, was implicated for smuggling cocaine from colombia to europe. the press release links to a 2014 report in the left-leaning nation magazine that cocaine was found on a ship belonging to the company. a mcconnell spokesman referred to a request for comment on the board of the national senatorial committee that s not yet responded. on fox news, blankenship was