>> i was 36 or 37. >> this is the origil sign that i made for amazon.com.paint on white post board. >> jeff wasn't a figure out folklore at that point, he wase not the-althiest man in the world. >> here's my computer, amazon.com up onhe screen. "hello, jeff bezos." >> he was a small, nondescript, ndy-haired man sting at a desk wh quite a large and ertive laugh. (laughing in multiple scenes) was a normal guy to a sort of he amazing extent. >> hal 9000 hat, very important. hal and i share a birthday, we're th born january 12. >> it belied, you know, an enormous, napoleonic ambition. >> one of the people i really like, thomas edison, here's a model of his original light bulb. he's famous for saying, "one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." (laughs) it turns out ideas are the easy part, execution is everything. >> domination was on jeff's nd from the beginning. one of his sort of second-in-command people said to me, "you have to understand that jeff wants to sell many more things than books. and jeff's idea is that in the near-distant future, you cou

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get it on amazon.com. bookstores everywhere, guilt by accusation.t want to go up against this guy in a court of law as we learned this week. he tore them to shreds. he is on sat with us in miami along with chief of staff reince priebus. good job, take a bow. >> how did i give ted cruz a b+? what was i thinking? i didn't know that. >> sean: an a+ and the second class. >> that is easy to explain because he was such a good student in that class he helped me teach it. his hand was up the whole time and a good point about everything. >> we have plates the heart of both horrible thing said about you. >> unbelievable. and schiff wants to put me on trail. the doctrine, which he has lied about systematically. he said i say a president can do anything as long as he's running for reelection. i started my nixon should be impeached, he was running but he committed crimes. the point i was making the president has done nothing illegal. the fact that he may have had his eye on real electability is one factor. he couldn't turn that into corruption. everybody agrees

. >> when do you sign that with amazon.com?unt, accept terms and conditions. >> amazon can sell what they want, not be accountable for safety? >> they would claim they're not selling it, it is sold on amazon. that's what they say. like all platforms, same excuse that facebook takes when it comes to people posting misinformation or disinformation on the site, amazon relies on some of the same laws to say if you're selling on amazon and you're a third party seller, they are not on the hook for safety of the products. 60% of sales on amazon.com are third party sellers, they're not amazon itself. >> that's a wow. that's jarring. that's upsetting. knowing that, do you think, scott, that will change anyone's behavior? we became amazon addicted, we love cheap stuff quickly delivered. >> waiting on a consumer led revolution, don't hold your breath. we talk a big game about supply ethics, but we want that little black dress from h and m. the reason we pay the government, we hope they'll think long term for us. >> we decided we didn't ca

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happy if the entire process is a positive one from our sellers, more than half of what you see on amazon.com are goods from third party sellers including small businesses in every state and every congressional district in the country. and right through our employees and our distribution process to the customer himself. so, you know, we're going to -- we look at ourselves, we accept the scrutiny and we take action. we just want it to be clear that when it comes to creating jobs, paying employees well and providing them benefits and educational opportunities, we're doing the very things that lawmakers and critics say they want the private sector to do and unless you don't believe that there should be companies, unless you believe that maybe businesses should be government owned, there is a role for private sector employers, including big ones to help create positive economic change in the country and that's what i think we're doing. >> look, amazon has become a big target in the democratic primary as you mentioned. thanks for coming on and answering the questions, jay. >> kate, i appreciate it

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no telling whether they got riddle it or added to it but a new stake in amazon.com shares, about 70,000e. also notable, microsoft is no longer a holding they held it before tp they completely dissolved that holding. gotten rid of completely their shares in paypal holdings as well other notable moves here being made on the media side of things. a new stake in the new viacom cbs combination. a 2.7 million share in the class b shares at the same time, they have reduced their fox corporation shares by just around 38% from 8 million to 5 million shares. also notable here, 5 below, the discount retailer, boosted their position in 5 below assist december 31st last year from 41 to 1.2 million shares. we are poring over the number continuing but highlights new stake in amazon out of paypal, out of microsoft and upstakes in media companies by viacom and cbs and discount retailer five below. >> thank you be, dom very much. >>> coming up up, how tesla added billions in value by doing something many thought would have cut the value by billions we get to that but first frank holland in california wit

host: his latest book "the war for america soul" is available online at amazon.com.he third book by dr. sebastian gorka. heard on salem radio and tess is joining us from north carolina. tess, good morning. caller: good morning and good morning dr. gorka. this is very important. someone who has the president's ear needs to get a message to him that he has got to start being proactive on this whole racism thing where all of the republicans, everyone who voted for him, is a racist. have you ever seen a rally that donald trump has put on where there has been one boo when he has mentioned all of the jobs the african-americans and latinos have? no, you have not. when they boo is when they talk about the press and they have every right to do that. never has there been a rally donald trump has had that any person has booed when he mentioned the african-american, the chinese-american, the latino american. he has got to get proactive. tell his fellow that runs his campaign this has got to be mentioned. if you do not, people will continue with all of the republicans are racist,

supply chain impacts of china, home depot on the consumer spending front down 3% target down 3% amazon.com is an e-commerce play down 1% trade-in trading today and balance it out with green chutes here. ralph lauren, capri holdings, the company known as michael kors, tapestry, macy's, many hit hard recently and, yes, maybe short covering, maybe fundament alibiing back over to you. >> green chutes this time of year we appreciate it see you soon. >>> for more on the consumer and how all companies to plan for a wider coronavirus jut break, i'm joined by steve oddland. steve, welcome it's good to see you do you guys pick up on anything in the last come of weeks since the latest monthly confidence survey >> the conference board in february didn't pick anything up we are sitting here at very, very high levels, almost near all-time highs but that is really important measure as you know because most of our economy is driven by consumer spending so we watch this now, the consumer confidence index is driven more by jobs and wages, so how the individual consumer is being impacted and less by the rest

if y y do point where amazon.com cannot fill it, you know, you are in real trouble.my: how does the coronavirus relate to the flu? and that goes to the flu vaccine and what is happening. i think there is a push to develop a coronavirus vaccine. >> that we will not havave what anytime soon. amy: how does the flu and the toll it is taking, let's say just in the united states and then around the world, compare? >> certainly, the numbers of people who every year get the flu dwarfs any epidemic. so you could use that and people always do come as a red herring to say, so wire was so worried about this other epidemic? it is trivial compared to the flu, blah, bloah, blah. why do we keep having this high death rate from flu? i mean, that is an indication the american people are not listening to public health, not getting vaccinated, not taking precautions. and they sort of have alexa days ago attitude toward it until they get really sick. that shows the level of the struggle for the pubublic health system. but also, you don't want to get the flu right now and have it be mista

and we now see it in the great worry about amazon.com. or google or facebook. they have a big share, their monopoly their monopoly. no they are not. there are large share, let's take amazon, at what they do, and what amazon does, because it doesn't very well and it's under constant pressure from people imitating it's rather simple model which is the reinvention of the mail order stores like montgomery ward and sears. and about 100 years on. it's not a monopoly. of course, amazon would like to be an amount awfully in which case it would go to the government and get the other people stopped not the common source of rational monopoly. long-term, isn't that a long term, amazon has only been around a short amount of time historically speaking. it does not take long before competitors to bring out. that's why as the nobel prize economist pointed out, inventors get only 2% of the social gain of their invention. 98%he goes to us, the consumer. >> joe and pennsylvania, good afternoon to you, you are on with professor mccloskey. >> hi joe. >> hi professor. i am looking a

bait on - - debate continues so as a businessman when i joined the transition team i was placed at amazon.com for all 14 books the president has co-authored in several have china sections where he lays out his thinking. i recommend you read all those books before you go to the first meeting. >> they are tough he has a point of good china bad china and lays out a good china he would like to see and then demonizes bad china that they have said the whole course of us china relations to a large degree and the steve nguyen and that debate is what i'm supposed to be following because of these former officialsea. >> you have obviously wrote the book the 100 year marathon is an excellent book if you go to china i see the hardliners winning it's harder and harder for the reformers for their own purpose much less political reform and the worry is the hardliners on both sides are winning is that what you see quick. >> also what henry kissinger worry one - - warned about each with the unfathomable war between us and china if they got into power. with 100 year marathon that's where i got and doctor kissin

google can guess what drives a sale, and amazon knows it, because you have amazon.com.o sell things. if you look at a major -- makeup video, for example, you can click on buying the makeup in the video. that helps google, for the moment really struggling to fend off amazon. matt: what is your take on these trillion dollar behemoths? are they worth the valuations investors are paying? cole: i think that's the easiest question. the answer is no. i think the more interesting question, what your colleagues rolled out yesterday explaining bezos is jealous of musk, and the big second headquarters bakeoff was more about humanity and the fallen world we live in rather than the conversation with google. the companies are all dealing with problems, and iron he is many of them are set up where they shouldn't have to deal with the normal problems of business, and they are. the advertising thing in the case of youtube, i'd rather own discovery communications where i don't have to pay the price. i have non-scripted television, which is nothing different than the youtube world, i want

we now see it in the great worry about amazon.com or google or facebook. they have a big share, their monopoly. no they are not. they are a large share, let's take amazon. at what they do and what amazon does because it does it very well. it is under constant pressure from people imitating it's rather simple model. which is the reinvention of the mail order stores. like montgomery warren and sears roebuck. and siegel's. it's about a hundred years on. it's not a monopoly, of course amazon would like to be a monopoly, in which case it would go to the government and try to get those other people stopped. and that is one of the common sources of monopoly, you're perfectly right. long-term, and it isn't that long of a term. amazon has been around only a very small amount of time. historically speaking. doesn't take long before competitors spring up. that is why as the nobel prize economists pointed out. inventors get only 2% of the social gain of their invention. 98% goes to us, the consumers. >> host: joe and pennsylvania, good afternoon to you. >> caller: hi

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. >> so as a businessman when i joined the transition team i couldn't place my order with amazon.com because what they have co-authored. and those to lay out the thinking the next time a new president comes in i recommend you read all the books before you go to the first meeting. >> they are pretty tough i have read those. >> he does have a point about good china bad china and he lays out a good china he would like to see and dehumanizes the bad china that though whole course of us china relations to a large degree is up to china with the debate they are having with steve bannon and peter dimarco and steve nguyen. and that is part of what i am supposed to be following because i've known these former officials for 30 years. >> you obviously have written in the book the 100 year marathon it is an excellent book when you go to china now i should travel frequently i see the hardliners winning. and it's harder and harder for those reformers for their own purposes much less anyone who wants political reform to get to the ear of their president and the worry is the hardliners on both sides

so when i joined the transition team i replaced my order with amazon.com to order all 14 books the president has authored and some of those have china sections. when the new president comes in working for him or her i recommend reading all those books before you go to the first meeting. >> they are quite deaf i have read some of those sections. but he has a point about the china bad china. he lays out a good china that he would like to see as he demonizes a bad china. that the whole course of us china relations to a large degree is up to china. they have steve bannon they have steve nguyen and that is part of what i'm supposed to be following because i've known these scholars and former officials for 30 years. >> you wrote the book 100 year marathon and it is an excellent book and when you go to china now i see when i travel to chin china, i see the hardliners winning. it is harder and harder for the reformers you want domestic reform much less anyone who wants political reform for the year of their president so the hardliners on both sides are winning driving up. is that what you see? >> ye

there are a lot of thermometers out of stock on amazon.com.re buying bags of rice in case they are stuck in their homes for weeks. is there any medical to support level of fear that seems to be out there right now? >> you know, i don't think so. our emergency departments are very well equipped to handle this. they practice disaster preparedness every year since the war on terror. these guys are prepared for this. this is something that happens. you look at influenza in 2017 was the eighth leading cause of death and there are not physicians sitting in the emergency departments with biohazard suits waiting on influenza patients. the hype that's out there is a little bit overblown. if you're over 820 years' old so far with the data coming out of china, 15% case fatality rate, this is an illness that causes or virus that causes illness, we do have to move forward cautiously but it has gotten out of hand in the media some. leland: brings an important point that the data coming out of china. can you believe anything the which chinese are saying out

amazon.com founder and world's richest person says the funding will start with grants in the coming months need for fast delivery with the consequences of online shopping. i am su keenan and this is bloomberg. haidi: hsbc is facing its third major overhaul in a decade. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: i am shery ahn in new york. haidi: i am haidi stroud-watts in sydney. hsbc is due to report its full-year results later today as investors prepare for the third major overhaul and a decade. the changes included management reshuffle, new ceo and other changes. great to have you. it's been incredibly problematic in the sense that never picking up the opportunity so talked about in this part of the world. >> ever since 2006 when hsbc faced terrible losses from -- [inaudible] nobody seems to have been able to deliver anything. -- from-- hong kong june until just now. even the guardian lions were set on fire. you can expect in the fourth quarter alone a 2% decline. haidi: and the profit outlook is expected to be downgraded. is it worth comparing this to sars in terms of will the profit downgrades be wo

. >> the president, when i joined the transition team i quickly placed order with amazon.com for all 14 books the president has co-authored. and several of them have china sections where he lays out some of his thinking. next time a new president comes in and are working for him or her, i recommend you read all those books before you go to the first meeting. >> and they are pretty tough. i have read some of those sections and they're quite tough. >> he has appointed doctor china, bad china which he has a set publicly yet but it's in the book. and he lays out a good china that he would like to see, and then he demonizes a bad china and imply something that steve schwartzman has also said several times on television, that this really, the whole course of u.s.-china relations to a large degree is up to china and the debate they are having. they have their steve bannon and they have peter navarro. they have their steven mnuchin. and that debate is part of what i'm supposed to be following, because i've known some of these scholars and former officials for 30 years. >> let me actually go

host: his latest book" the war for america soul" is available online at amazon.com. third book by dr. sebastian gorka. heard on salem radio and tess is joining us from north carolina. morning.d caller: good morning and good morning dr. gorka. this is very important. someone who has the president's ear needs to get a message to him that he has got to start being proactive on this whole racism thing where all of the republicans, everyone who voted racist. is a rac have you ever seen a rally that donald trump has put on where there has been one boo when he has mentioned all of the jobs the african-americans and latinos have? no, you have not. when they boo is when they talk about the press and they have every right to do that. never has there been a rally donald trump has had that any person has booed when he mentioned the african-american, the chinese-american, the latino american. he has got to get proactive. tell his fellow that runs his campaign this has got to be mentioned. if you do not, people will continue with all of the republicans are racist, everybody in the

but there was one headline on amazon.com i want to draw your attention to. asking all employees to defer non-essential travel including in the united states. this is not the first company to do this. coming off the back of the concerns about the coronavirus, nestle did it,lorealhas done it. you will see headlines like this because you will see companies taking precautions. nobody wants to be out there and not prepared or not protecting their employees. one trader saying look, let's just try to finish the day today, try to finish this week, take a deep breath and start over on monday. neil: yeah. the amazon thing surprised me because it was domestic travel as well. that came out of nowhere. thank you very, very much, jackie. i want to get the read on that travel thing from travel expert mark murphy, joins us on the phone. you might have heard about that amazon sort of missive to its workers. the better part of valor is cool it on the traveling. what did you think of that? >> i think it's getting a little crazy. when you look at the case numbers, when you look