bezos,ho adopted jeff, took his father's name new mexico holds some pretty important memories for jeff bezos. it didn't make the short list, however, as a possible city for amazon's second headquarters. >> reporter: where is the int n intuition on you second headquarters? >> reporter: dallas is where t bezos family settled. bezos says his houstonch elementary sool is where he first got interested in computers. >> yes, i was a very good student. >> reporter: by high school, hia ly moved to florida. miami was also on the list of 20 possible sites for the second dqazon heauarters hp. bezos was head of his class there. new jersey made the list, too. newark, just down the road. and from princeton jeff bezos heed to new york where worked on wall street at several engineering firms. he met his wife mckenzie, a younnc pon graduate. he and mckenzie choseo settle in seattl but seattle, washington is where they moved to test out hisew e-commer idea for a giant book store online. >> you have som ohing in washington. what about another washington area? >> that's right. in seattle we call this the o

——jeff bezos. he heard from jet base of on that matter. —— jeff bezos. he doesn't get involved in the news coverage. you don't alter every week? every two weeks we talk about business, strategy, technology, things like that. we never discuss coverage. he is not assigned a story was suggested a story or suppress their story. he has not critique the story will criticise the story. he has told us those are our decisions and thatis told us those are our decisions and that is how we, that is how we do business around him. wirral was out of time, but there is one of the subject must residue, and that is your cause on gemma visually. we interviewed him on my show. you knew him, of course, because he was victor vito, columnist, at the washington post. ——jamaal khashoggi. we know that he was brutally murdered. giving the us government has done enough to insist the saudis that the full truth come out about the murder of jamal khashoggi. there is no question that they have not done enough. it does appear that the administration would make this issue to just go

say no to amazon and jeff bezos. amy: we will speak with new york councilmember ron kim, who has introduced a bill to block the amazon deal and redirect taxpayer money away from amazon anand toward d student t debt r. then as dedefense secretetary js mattis visits the u.s.-mexico border where thousands of troops have been deployed, we speak to fernando garcia of the border network for human rights. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in california, the death toll from the deadly fires has reached 50, with scores still missing. report the paradise fire is 30% contained. in southern california,

elon is focused on mars, jeff bezos is focused on near earth orbit. and moving industries there and things like that. richard branson is interested in tourism. they are all different and spaces so big, so we need more of those. emily: you started this with mark zuckerberg and you are an early backer of the facebook. sort of is in a existential crisis right now, the next pivot toward messaging and video, the how optimistic are you towards this in general, given the saturation and privacy concerns? given the existential crisis. yuri: i do not agree it is an existential crisis. i think it is a little bump in the road. andink that facebook instagram are amazing products. with more than one billion people each, so you cannot really dismiss it as an existential crisis. [chuckling] but i think that facebook always was and is an evolving system. and they have always been responding to challenges. and the challenges that they are facing can be solved through a combination of human interaction, human attention, and artificial intelligence. always know, there ar

how much grovelling these other countries you know cities or towns would do for jeff bezos a lunch with a prostitute themselves before lord jeffrey to get that they get that h.q. down in their town all them jobs but you know what you just are you just a washington. d.c. ok so let's not have so much of the episode ation pro and i believe it's prostrate themselves in the process so let's turn to the first headline here i do actually have a headline and it's from former fed chief volcker warns of u.s. descent into plutocracy former federal reserve chairman paul volcker said in an interview published tuesday that the united states is developing into a. tucker sea and suffering from a crisis in good governance both were ninety one told the new york times that he feared that the skill and reputation of the us government has been corroded by self interested elites cheeping long through lobbying and campaign donations he said the country was quote and a hell of a mass in every direction rip van winkle paul volcker as if he'd just woke up after decades of the drift toward plutocracy a wherever y

means these billionaires like jeff bezos who is worth one hundred twenty five billion dollars has way way way way way way more influence than entire populations of states across america so of course he's going to be able to buy legislation legislators and of course he's going to be able to maintain. in his monopoly and he does have a monopoly over fifty percent of all e-commerce is done through amazon and that does harm small businesses in fact i saw a story recently at diapers dot com which is should have been able to compete with amazon they had a great service everybody loved it they were booming and then basically amazon kept on under selling them on prices and they had to sell out to amazon eventually so there's a great piece on bloomberg news about how monopolies are destroying capitalism in america right in the case of amazon if you go beneath the surface what you find is a retailer that sells products below cost as in the case of diapers dot com and that's subsidized by their work they do for the government a ws amazon web services that they have contracts with the federal gov

also, jeff bezos and the president have an ongoing dislike for each other. why would he put his headquarters in one of the red states? that makes no sense. host: what do politics have to do with this? guest: politics has a lot to do with the d.c. decision. personally, my own conjecture, amazon is looking to set up in d.c.'s backyard and become a hometown company to have regulators and politicians and policymakers look at amazon and say, oh, that is just amazon. we don't want to overly regulate them. they are not a danger. they want to normalize amazon and policymakers' minds. -- in policymakers' minds. there is an enormous amount of tech talent in the area, but i think that is a major application or side benefit that d.c. offers that no other city could offer. and the fact that jeff bezos has homes in both new york city and washington, d.c., that is what people were saying at the beginning that this could motivate the decision. i think a corporate executive finds himself flying to a given city very often. rather than staying in a hotel constantly, he says wh

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bezos to move to new york. there's a lot of good reasons to do it now this is but here's the best part. the thing that you know what drives people the craziest is this hello porthole of you add it to slab of concrete but they're going core easy over the site for the two billion dollars do you know that is so that the agreement was is limited to one hundred twenty flights a year it's not really day or it could be someplace else it's a slab it's like a parking lot whatever it is that but that is symbolic of the greed is like really jeff really yeah i had to go for that i'll be there wasn't sweet enough. with the hello that's the part that's what's driving everybody nuts here the speaker of the assembly said take this seven drain it's not going to take the summer tree you know but it put the question is do we even need this where are the people of new york where are our services ours the subways you haven't seen it in a while it's it's decrepit so that's that's the problem and ocasio cortez bless her heart in this

jeff bezos makes more than that in 10 seconds. we're expanding our conversation, joining us from washington, d.c., is greg leroy, executive director of good jobs first, which is closely tracking public subsidies given to amazon. in portland, maine, stacy mitchell, codirector of the institute for local self-reliance directs its , community-scaled economy initiative. she is the author of "big-box swindle: the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for america's independent businesses." earlier this year, mitchell wrote a cover story for the nation titled, "amazon doesn't just want to dominate the market -- it wants to become the market." still with us in new york is assembly member ron kim who is introducing legislation to block the amazon deal and redirect taxpayer money away from amazon subsidies and toward student debt relief. let's begin the segment with greg leroy. your response to the deal and your concerns? >> i support everything the assemblyman just said in his concerns. we know the price tag of the incentives alone in n

when it was always going to be jeff bezos determining where he was going to be closest to power financial power in new york city and political power in d.c. and in particular next to the pentagon and the cia so you know he was always going to make those decisions but in the meantime he was able to extract way more subsidies from the voters from the taxpayers of new york and virginia but i want to point to this one tweet that might be sent out in reference to an article he wrote about this you know sure rod this charade of. the so-called competition for h q two and that is that. he tweeted about writing an article for a long stone and what he found was that one legislator i spoke with said amazon avoids criticism it would normally get for hoarding power tax breaks and market share because it exudes a quote facade of progressivism that exudes a facade as part of the so that's basically all they need is a facade that's not even. genuine progressivism because we know they don't have genuine progressivism because all you have to do is look at the fact that their employees make some of the lowe

we'll look at jeff bezos. >>> breaking news at the live desk. federal agents have arrested a man named jeffrey clark suspected of having illegal gun parts and illegal ammunition. they suspect he was a social media friend of robert bowers,p the sus in the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. someone turned anymore. the arrest of jeffrey clark made by federal agents in the district of columbia andhe say he was a social media friend of rober bowers. in court friday in d.c. news4. >>> and you've heard about the wintery mix on .thursd >> what is a wintery mix? >> when we talk about a wintery mix, we're talking about four types. rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. in the lower one to two miles of the atmosphere, it is ra know what that is withreezing rain you have warm air just above us. and then right at the surfac the temperature is freezing. 32 degrees or en lower. so as it falls, it freezes o contact. then we get on sheet. what does this mean? well, sheet are the things that ng pong. it actually mets. but as it fall to the ground. you have cold

it's the taxpayers of new york and virginia who are investing in jeff bezos against their will. they are paying the richest man in the world $3 billion for the privilege of having him move to a city he didn't build. >> first of all they are not handing a check to basals. anyone who watches the show could earn shares and this is for the public in general. >> it's not an american company, it's owned by people around the world. >> tucker, come on. this was founded in the united states. it was one of the great countries in the world that allows for great technology. >> tucker: you think it's loyal to america? no. >> it was founded by americans, it certainly is a big contributor to tac in america, and significant jobs. my point that i was trying to make -- >> i don't think everything about amazon is bad. but my question is, why would the democratic party hand the richest man in the world $3 billion per year to move to new york? in the city that is literally falling apart though mike apart. >> i think most states in most cities wanted amazon to come. in fact there were many that super

jeff bezos has ties to both areas. last fall, matt cabrey of select greater philadelphia hoped that would lure h.q.-2 to his neck of the woods. >> one of the things that's often under-recognized is, it's not just the city, where it's located, or it's not just the town or the office park. it's where the c.e.o. and where the c-suite want to live. >> reporter: well, jeff bezos has a connection to washington, d.c., owns the "washington post," has a house down there, right? >> he does. and he's a princeton grad, and he has other family connections in the greater philadelphia region. so those kinds of factors may actually be part of this decision-making. >> reporter: but nothing is final. en in new york, governor andrew cuomo continued his hard sell this week >> i think it would be an economic asset for the entire state. i've said to them personally, "i eewill do whatever ito do to make it a reality." i offered to change the name of my oldest-born. cara is a nice name, but i would change it to "amazon-cara." or maybe, "cara-

what it was always going to be jeff bezos determining where he was going to be closest to power financial power in new york city and political power in d.c. and in particular next to the pentagon and the cia so you know he was always going to make those decisions but in the meantime he was able to extract way more subsidies from the voter from the taxpayers of new york and virginia but i want to point to this one tweet that might be sent out in reference to an article he wrote about this you know sure rod this charade of. the so-called competition for h q two and that is that. he tweeted about writing an art.

emily: so you are not company would elon musk and a jeff bezos necessarily? >> no, the universe is much bigger than just our solar system. emily: if you could put your bet on one of them, who would it be? >> they are all targeting -- they all have their different objectives. elon musk is mostly focused on mars, jeff bezos is focused on the near earth orbits and moving industries there, things like that. richard branson is focused on tourism, i think. i think they're all different and the space is so big, we need more of those. emily: you started this prize with mark zuckerberg and you were an early backer of facebook. facebook is in an existential crisis right now. how optimistic are you about further growth in facebook, given its existential crisis? >> first of all i don't agree there is an existential crisis. i think it is a little bump on the road. instagram and facebook are both amazing products with more than one billion people each. you can call it an existential crisis. but i think facebook always was and is an evolving system, they have always been re

the thing, i would much rather they said inventor jeff bezos or entrepreneur jeff bezos or , you know father jeff bezos. , those kinds of things are more meaningful to me. it is an output measure. if you look at the financial success of amazon and the stock, i own 16% of amazon. amazon is worth roughly $1 trillion. that means what we have built over 20 years is $840 billion of wealth for other people, and that is great. that is how it should be. i believe so powerfully in the ability of entrepreneurial capitalism and free markets to solve so many of the world's problems, not all of them. david: you live in washington state, outside of seattle. the man who was the richest man is named bill gates. what is the likelihood that the two richest men in the world live not only in the same country state, city, but same neighborhood? is there something about that neighborhood we should know about? are there any more houses there for sale? [laughter] jeff: after i saw bill not too long ago, we were joking about the world's richest man thing. i basically said, you are welcome. he immediately turn

but i do mind the pre/10 -- pretends, this months of spending with pr campaign. >> jeff bezos has a house in every state practically. i am not against the it for shareholders, i am talking about did the cities get hosed, i think that alexandria ocasio-cortez brings an interesting point, jeff bezos needs to get together with elon musk and put a tunnel between that place and two airports to get around like a civi civilized place, like joe biden said, a third world airport. david: amazon workers are getting a lot of money but living in manhattan not cheap, i wonder if there will be a housing subsidy. >> you know who else got hosed, small business owners, liberal government officials could that tax breaks help to increase growth. but unfortunately, this never trickled to small business owner to come do the same, i love the thought process, i just wish they would expand it so everyone could participate. >> amazon is getting some benefits from existing programs for any company to locate there, not that new york it most favorable place, there are more start ups in the city, as high cost it is,.

it's making my head spin. >> jeff bezos is moving into town because he wants to control the narrative, control what's happening in the halls of power. $13 million worth of lobbying on 100 lobby is to deal with, and he will put 20,000 more people right next to d.c. in northern virginia every time there is an issue that affects amazon, there is boots on the ground and the office of politicians. even if it means consumers into their small businesses lose out. it's all about getting his hands on the leverage of power. >> tucker: i'm a property owner in the district of columbia. having lived here for a long time, i can tell you the last thing we need is more money in washington, it's rich enough. why wouldn't amazon, subsidized by taxpayers, spread the wealth to detroit or cleveland or toledo, someplace that actually needs it. >> it's because, tucker, detroit isn't anywhere near congress. this is purely of play for amazon to buy political influence. they look around the world and they see potential competitors. they like being on top and they want to keep it that way on the way to do that

we have at any number of negative stories about amazon, and we haven't heard from jeff bezos on that matter. he doesn't get involved in the news coverage. you don't talk to him every week? every two weeks we talk about business tactics, strategy, technology, things like that. we never discuss — we never discuss coverage. he has not assigned a story, suggested a story, nor suppressed a story. he has not critiqued a story nor criticised the story. he has told us those are our decisions and that is how we — that is how we do business around here. we're almost out of time, but there is one other subject we must talk about, and that is your thoughts onjamal kashoggi. i knew him a little bit. we interviewed him on my show. you knew him, of course, because he was a contributing columnist at the washington post. on october two he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul. we know that he was brutally murdered. do you think the us government has done enough to insist to the saudis that the full truth come out about the murder ofjamal khashoggi? no, it has not. there is no question that they

jeff bezos the world's richest individual to improve when. conditions and brace the salaries the u.k.'s champion trade union through its weight behind the protest is releasing the following video. knowing all sharma. and all the. critics of the company's part to says were also asked in force in new york for black friday they gathered in front of its flagship bookshop singing christmas carols and condemning its comes to a poor new headquarters in the city. the black friday protests were not the first time employees have his house at amazon over their working conditions since twenty thirteen new orleans and germany here frequently organized industrial action. amazon for its parts maintains that it provides a safe and positive workplace with competitive pay and benefits but labor rights lawyer dan kadlec told us he believes that warehouse employees work in prison like conditions. so look. i did states that because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about t

in crystal city derekward, news 4. >> amazon founder jeff bezos also owns the "washington post." no commentro amazon yet. you heard derek touch on this but let's dig ar little dee as to why this is such a big deal for the area. amazon's second headquarters is ex to bring about 50,000 jobs. the average salary would be more than 100,000 a year. and the project would be a $5 billion investment. for nor information including the other loc i sites still the running open the nbc washington app. >>> the national weather service confirmed today that an ef1 tornado killed two people at an amazon distribution center in baltimore. this is new aerial video tonighf hat the building looked like this morning. and you can see where a massive hole is after a 50-foot wall collapsed there late last night. one victim died at thehospital. firefighters found a second person dead early this morning. employees say it soundedike bombs going off as the wall collapsed. also have new aerial video from mount airy, maryland. the winds caused? damage to homesov knockin fences and roofs last night. some of the

i think they're still a very, very good company and you were talking about amazon and jeff bezos said the same thing and i think it's very important that we're careful about addressing the issues and not drive a solution that's going to cause real problems both to the company and to the growth in the long term, but i think it goes back, government and business have to work closer together i think when we don't communicate back and forth we have a lot of problems and it's a great time to be involved with start-ups are where the job creations will occur it's important that our country also get back to the basics. we will destroy a lot of jobs with the technology being back to the market and we have to create the new jobs, as well >> indeed, and i know you're hard at work on that john chambers, chairman emeritus of cisco thank you. >> thank you all very much >>> when we come back today, why jeff bezos is saying amazon is not too big to fail, but take a look at the major averages first. the dow has been dipping in and out of gains here and the s&p down one we're back in a moment ♪ ♪ >

jeff bezos but the call out to all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data on all the people living in your town and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get anything. going to please go camp site now you can't for people that can't love the site and they're like so vampires. this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with this because we understand our daughter katie was first diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she doesn't feel patients when they have problems with the walk to talk to her son the brains are actually shrinking inside the stone gets thicker in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles oh it down to the bone. there's no relief. so we're just not sure this is going to stop. subscribing to rob people also get him for just twelve euros fifty per month. around these foreign minister the straw is donald trump a shamef

jeff bezos amassed an estimated net worth of one hundred twenty seven billion dollars and that amount is equal to the combined wealth of the two point three million poorest americans and november two thousand and seventeen a report by the institute for policy studies found the three richest americans bezos bill gates and warren buffett were worth two hundred forty eight billion dollars combined that number is equal to the wealth of one hundred sixty million americans who make up the bottom half of the country's population when measured in dollars following the report's release senator sanders in one thousand other members of congress sent a letter to the trumpet ministration urging it to address the growing poverty rates the letter says trump's one point five billion dollars in tax cut signed into law last year quote overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and worsened inequality and while many headlines concerning the report emphasized the trump administration's. role in exacerbating poverty professor alston makes this important note successive administrations including the current one

did ow that founder jeff bezos selected the name amazon by looking through dictionary. he settled on the name because he saw amazon was different just like he believed his company would be. the amazon river was the biggesr in the and he planned to make his book store biggest in the world. key word there. book store. to learn more about crystal city, logon. >> that's where it all starts. >> nowan iuy my light bulbs there. >> the weather and what's coming? >> when i look at this forecast, thursday will be about the worst possible day weatherwise that you can have in our area. i hate cold rain, sleet, snow. it is hard toorast and it makes things so hard toet around. we've got some shower activity. you can see it in prince george's county and anne arundel county. most of the area around us is getting out of here.re to the south. and then even more. e next sto is moving. in i want to show you here first. temperaturewise, we're at 48. i probabl need on drop these numbers a little bit but it will be a chilly night. it will be dry. here's the next storm. again, a very stormy we

executive taken after the washington post, which is owned by jeff bezos. repting,ing to our which is citing people familiar with this situation got this decision is going to be made in the next few weeks. they have decided on these two locations. cities whittled down from most 50, including cities in north carolina, out west, texas, detroit. these cies offer a highly educated workforce and proximity customers. david:ty to washington for jeff bezos, but what about concentration of programmers? the northern is definitely the brainpower in silicon valley new yorkn moves in, everyone pays attention. virginia this election day. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ bloomberg. ♪ nu uh, i'm picking the movie tonight. [ whimpers ] be sad, i enjoy it. show me grinchy movies. oh, goody. [ whimpers ] mmm, fine! show me movies max would like. see the grinch in theaters by saying... "get grinch tickets" into your xfinity x1 voice remote. [ laughing ] uh oh. something in my throat. david: this is balance of power. for uber first world news, we turn to mark crumpt

especially because jeff bezos owns the washington post. we now have amazon moving its headquarters potentially into northern virginia. that's proximity into washington dc. there is ashink much regulatory risk to amazon as there is two other names. president trump talked about changing postage rates. things that have not been accurate and there doesn't seem to be a ton of appetite within the legislature to make changes. .mazon remains popular probably the worst case scenario would be some kind of breakup plan. i cannot imagine that would gain less traction in either house of congress. president trump and his campaign manager are tweeting about a spoke and twitter and bias all the time. how do you imagine those issues might play out? >> he said he loves free speech and he is worried about regulating it. that is a challenge he would face. washington, just because you talk about something doesn't mean you need to get it done. if he and/or his campaign manager decided it is useful to -- biasut i.s. online online. one amazing thing he did yester