will evaluate new york's development deal with amazon, setting up a possible fight with governor andrew cuomo. gianaris has been a critic of the amazon deal to build a new headquarters in long island, queens, long island city. cuomo, who has long courted amazon's business, has the authority to block the appointment of gianaris, though it would likely intensify anger among the democratic lawmakers and activists who have opposed the amazon deal. on monday, republican state senators in utah passed a bill limiting medicaid expansion just a few months after voters approved the expansion in november. the medicaid expansion should

new york governor andrew cuomo?mes shortly after reports out that amazon is reconsidering its move to build a second headquarters in queens in exchange for $3 billion in tax breaks. the company has reportedly been turned off by very vocal public backlash against the project, but perhaps the pushback isn't as serious as they think. and the market is responding to the news. looking at amazon's stock right now, it is up nearly 3% or $50. actually, $45, rather. with about half an hour left until the closing bell, new sienna if college poll of new yorkers found 56% are in favor of famson moving a headquarters -- of amazon moving a headquarters to the city. the poll was conducted last week and included registered voters from all over the state including the five boroughs. deirdre boll bolton's been on top of this story, any chance the mega-deal is saved? >> reporter: i will the tell you one thing, the governor, new york governor cuomo, he is taking the threat of amazon building elsewhere very seriously. in fact, he said i

new york governor andrew cuomo must now decide whether or not to accept the election. gianaris told "bloomberg technology" that "my views are clear on the amazon deal and not changing." amazon has yet to respond to our request for comment. still ahead, a brutal cold snaps -- a brutal cold snap gripped the country last week, bringing dangerous subzero temperatures to the midwest. the epa tells us what this means for climate change, next. and we will talk about the biggest takeaways from google's fourth quarter earnings report. sundar pichai moments ago on the call talking about expanding into a new business. product stream, being able to deliver gaming with a kind of real-time, our requirements are

amazon had announced the project in november after new york governor andrew cuomo and new york mayor bill deblasio offered nearly $3 billion in tax subsidies to build the project which could have created 25,000 jobs as part of the deal, new york even offered to build a helipad for amazon ceo jeff bezos, who is the richest man in the world. one of the leading opponents was democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who represents queens, new york, where amazon was planning to build.

now we see a democrat andrew cuomo complaining that taxes are just too high. they are. joining me right now with his perspective on all of this. presidential historian doug wead. he finally gets that you just can't tax and tax and tax. because ultimately people won't and for it. they will leave. we saw this with corporations and all those shot-gun marriages over in ireland because they were looking for a cheaper tax rate. or over in venezuela so many people migrated out of that country or had taken their money and moved it out because people cannot deal with extreme taxation. >> this is so hilarious to me, trish. here you have the governor of new york, new york, the state that just elected a socialist to the u.s. congress and he's coming to washington and begging trump for tax relief for his richest citizens. the poor, half of the people in new york don't pay taxes at all. he's not working for them. he's work for you, trish, the highest taxpayers in the state of new york to give them relief. it's so comical. back in the 1960s the shift started to take place an

heather: new york governor andrew cuomo blasting the far left after amazon pulled the plug on plans to a new york city headquarters. alexandria ocasio-cortez praising the move after slamming the money for, quote, exporting -- exploiting workers. jackie heinrich has those details. >> reporter: this is democrats blaming democrats and nobody is more angry than andrew cuomo who brokered the deal. the second had court as we create 20,000 jobs and real estate was already booming but a group of democrats brought this deal to its knees angry about the nearly $3 billion in taxes to lure the e-commerce giant was amazon levied the blame writing, quote, while polls show 70% of new yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians made it clear they oppose our presence and when i work with us. governor cuomo is furious at the loss which he says would have amounted to $30 billion in new revenue for transit improvement, new housing and schools. he called for the state senate to be held accountable writing and party small group of politicians with their own narrow polit

andrew cuomo's gone to donald trump and said can you help me with this. is that likely to happen? likely to happen. i get pretty good assurances from folks in the white house that they may be accommodating the governor but i don't think they're going to give anywhere. you're certainly not going to see any give in the senate which would also have to approve this. this is law now and the great thing about the salt cap is it puts everyone on equal footing. no matter where you live in america, you're going to live with the same tax law. and we've essentially gotten rid of the open ended checkbook where states like new york and california could pass a along their tax burden to washington, really being subsidized by everyonone else in america. now we're on the same footing, we know what the rules are and that's forcing states like new york to endure tax competition. paul: we heard cuomo ring the alarm bell, no question about that and candidly so. are we seeing states like new york change their behavior, change their policies to become more competitive in terms of the business climate? s

and earlier this week the president telling new york governor andrew cuomo, well, he wanted some helphigher -- [laughter] those higher limits on taxes, state taxes. and the president had a thought for him. this president is very solution-oriented. he said, governor cuomo, why don't you open up your state to fracking, and that'll help your stagnating economy. particularly the northern parts of the state. the governor lamenting the fact that people are leaving his state in droves because of higher state taxes. what do you think? cuomo's the one who said, you know, america was never great again. he's talking to the man who's doing everything he can every day to do that. i would have had a different response, i assure you, to the good governor. joining us once again, former reagan white house director, ed rollins are. what does it take, do you think, for andrew cuomo to go down to washington and beg the president for help because he can't run a state and he's got an out-of-control budget? >> well, he's not going to do it, to begin with, and the president's -- lou: no, i'm talking about an

the political argument andrew cuomo will make today is really interesting for lack of a better word youe a fly on the wall because if you look back at the comments you just played and what he said after that, he's basically going to say republicans for years have been against income redistribution and in his view that's what this is. you're taking money from rich straight and redistributing the money to the poorest states that are controlled by republicans. try to use a republican argument against them. the president to the earlier point will come back and say the problem starts with you guys because your state and local taxes are too high to begin with. neil: the argument for doing this in putting the $10,000 cap at this time was to pay for it. >> right. the $10,000 cap also allows this to be touchable by the middle class. if we get rid of the cap, then you're really disproportionately benefiting of course the rich people who andrew cuomo needs. i think it's interesting. here's a novel idea. let's not that free markets work your competition is good. if a government comes in, tries to i

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now the move is a major hit to new york governor andrew cuomo. also to the mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. both of them lobbied for the headquarters. de blasio responded in a statement, you have to be tough to make it in new york city. we gave amazon the opportunity to be a good neighbor and to do business in the greatest city in the world. amazon for its part, said it is not reopening the search for another location. so what does all this mean for the company at large? we'll talk about it at this hour. we as part of our special coverage, have all-star guests lined up. new york congressman gregory meeks joins us from just a moment in washington. talk to ron kim, democratic assemblyman from the state of new york. elizabeth luskin, amazon hq2 advisory committee member. jonas max ferris joins us from max funds.com. let us begin with the special coverage of the amazon decision, with congressman meeks joining us from capitol hill. congressman, good to have you. you were in favor of bringing amazon to new york. what is your reaction today? >> i

and let's be honest, a rarity in politics, andrew cuomo knows that this trip to the white house is justoing this to nullify his big contributors that live in the mansions and pay the property taxes but the fact is the president won't do this because his party won't let him. this unlimited deduction for state and local taxes was virtually a subsidy for the spend spend-aholic democrats. well, the party is over. >> betsy, this is john layfield. this seems insane to me. this is a giveback to the 1%. it is coming from a democratic governor who may be running for president. the world's in a paradox universe right now. it certainly appears. >> you have a good nose for hypocrisy. that's exactly what it is. the democratic party doesn't know what it is right now. we've got aoc and elizabeth warren saying we want more equality. we want social justy. and -- social justice and then we have a congresswoman and governor cuomo begging to restore this tax break which only hopes the very rich. >> isn't this just the free market working? people are going to a state that's fully funded as far as schools an

from the public they wanted the headquarters here and you know governor mary governor a cuomo andrew cuomo of new york state and mayor bill de blasio of new york city work together now they're political enemies and they don't like each other but they worked together to get this deal done and they got the deal done and then of course they face a lot of pushback from city council and others who said well we weren't involved but you know cuomo has called this when last friday's report came out the washington post saying that amazon might pull out he said if they do that it's going to be political malpractise on the part of those politicians that drove them away from the deal he's blaming the politicians who have spoken out against this deal for driving amazon away he went so far to say i'll change my name to the admins on cuomo if i have to to keep them here but it wasn't enough bill de blasio on the other hand the mayor of new york city today is taking a slightly different tack he's going after amazon saying well if they don't want to be here if they're not happy or that you know we don't wa

andrew cuomo, the governor and bill deblasio the mayor of new york city. jeff bezos who runs "the washington post" and amazon accused the "national enquirer" of blackmail and extortion. we have more details on that story coming up. to alexandria ocasio-cortez doing olympic level head-turning flip-flops on her grand green new deal. she said yes her plan to remake the entire american economy requires government intervention. but then she said the exact opposite as a lot of moderate are not on board, including nancy pelosi who ridiculed it. it has big economic impacts for your family. while venezuela's nicolas maduro keeps blocking food eye to starving people in his country. people on the streets of venezuela scavenging for food out of the back after garbage truck. amazon may reportedly not build its second headquarters in long island city quiens after all. john rutherford serves on the house and and you are brand-new development subcommittee. sir, your take on democrats andrew cuomo and bill deblasio approving the tax breaks, but the hard left politicians un

governor andrew cuomo slamming hard-core left democrats for locking amazon. stakes due to a massive blowback over a tax break from the state and city. socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez is celebrating the loss of 25,000 high-paying jobs. tweeting can everyday people come together and fight back against creeping overreach of one of the world's biggest corporations? yes, they can. >> i don't agree with her much, but i think she is right on this. the governor is correct to say this is a competition between hundreds of city, by the was a competition for who could offer the biggest bribes. if you want to attract jobs to your city, the way to do it is through offering tax cuts or deregulation or infrastructure or training information workers, not just handing out taxpayer money. i think she was right to call them out on it. liz: i hear what you are saying. you are siding with the true libertarians saying hey, government get out. amazon wants to pay out everybody year $3.75 billion in total average salaries for 25,000 high-paying jobs. average annual salary of $150,

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new york governor andrew cuomo to meet president trump at the white house. local tax deduction. this is the soft issue, capped at $10,000 as part of the president's tax overhaul. governor cuomo blaming the change, elimination of that deduction for $2.3 billion budget, riding this, the real problem is new york's punitive tax rate which mr. cuomo and party can fix. people are mobile and they will go to a better tax environment that's not hypothesis. it's a reality. as we say constantly on the program, money is mobile and it will go where it is treated best. >> the governor does not want to fix the underlying problem, he doesn't want the mess of new york, he wants to go to washington, d.c. and say, exempt us from this so we don't have to manage our taxes in responsive way. the president should say, thank you, go away. fix your own problem. dagen: subsidy for progressive policies in new york, dc, illinois and california and now you're getting -- maria: kevin brady, we will talk about that with him, stay with us, back in a minute. because your investments deserve

victory for him too he was set to play a bigger role in the product, but it's a blow to governor andrew cuomo, last week when they said amazon was rethinking the project he said it would be government malfeasance. >> does it mean they're going to take the existing footprints in d.c. and nashville and build from it that way a lot of people have been pointing to google and its organic growth in new york city, still a huge company, spent billions of dollars but have done it in a much more piecemeal way. >> amazon says it has no plans for another hq2 location but plans for virginia and nashville are on track amazon says we hope to have future collapses to collaborate as we continue to build our presence in new york over time the company saying it's going to build up its presence but without perhaps the $3 billion of incentives, so maybe going the route of google. >> doing it much more quietly. >>> the news could have a major impact on new york real estate let's get to die unanimoana. >> we've seen huge numbers, contracts to buy homes, mostly condos, jumped 181% compared to the same period the yea

new york governor andrew cuomo is issuing a stunning and blunt assessment of new york city politicians and here it is. you're committing malpractice. we'll tell you why. it involves the opposition of building of amazon's new headquarters in queens. this as amazon ceo jeff bezos turns the tables on the tabloids. the supermarket rag versus the e-commerce rich guy. jeff bezos taking on the king of all tabloids, saying he will not be blackmailed. >>> reports in the last hour that now federal prosecutors are coming in to try and figure it all out. deirdre bolton is hot on the trail with the breaking details. >>> oil is about to close out its worst week of 2019 as the political crisis in venezuela wildly spirals. why does venezuela matter? it has the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world. the analyst who understands opec perhaps better than anyone else is here to game the best and worst case scenarios for your portfolio. >>> with just one week left to avert another government shutdown, a high stakes summit is set for this weekend, with the economy on the line can lawmakers finally g

. >>> i didn't know it got more liberal than andrew cuomo and bill diblasio.he two new york lawmakers just got outlefted by the leftiest leftest of the left. congress woman cortez, her opposition to keeping amazon and tens of thousands well paying jobs out of new york city seemed to have worked. we'll talk about amazon's switch in a bist. but the takeover or at the very least it's rise within the democratic party has proven to be something of a blessing and a curse. on the one hand, progressives are where the energy s it's with aoc and bernie and beto. not with the moderates if you can find any. it is also giving some democratic leaders a real headache. if they thought defending single payer health care was challenging. try defending the sweeping outranlously expensive totally impractical green new deal which promises to do everything but find the lost city of atlantis or trying being a democrat in west virginia when progressives in washington are promising to abolish ice or imagine being a democrat in new york or florida when two progressive congresswomen are

new york governor andrew cuomo, and new york city mayor bill de blasio, are not happy. ingle has more on this story and all the lost jobs. >> a, melissa. while once i was kicking up their heels, the other has been left in stunning defeat. now today many say the people who are left holding the bag are all those who are hoping for a high paying jobs and the local businesses expecting a boom in the region. amazon's hope was to build a sprawling complex that would have brought at least 25,000 jobs to the area in exchange for nearly $3 billion in state and city incentives. democratic new york congresswoman alexandria garcia cortez took to twitter after strongly advocating against amazon's plans to drop anchor in queens, tweeting yesterday, "anything is possible. today's a group of dedicated new yorkers and their neighbors at defeating amazon's corporate greed. its worker explication, and the power of the richest man in the world." some new yorkers, lawmakers, were criticized for providing subsidies to such a large corporation. and some locals went to war saying they wanted t

governor andrew cuomo is going after the local lawmakers who took on amazon.l, we are joined by one of those numbers, ron kim. he introduced the end of corporate welfare act to the new york state legislature earlier this month. his recent piece for buzzfeed is headlined "amazon shows it's time for states to stop the corporate welfare bidding wars." assemblymember ron kim, welcome to democracy now! talk about what happened. were you shocked when amazon said they were pulling out? >> i was a bit taken back. i thought they were going to stick around to talk to our groups, labor unions, politicians, to figure out some sort of a reasonable compromise to coexist and be good neighbors and for them to actually have meetings the day before with the mayor's office, the labor grououps, and then all of aa sudden, without any notice, they're pulling out. this is dicatitive of what amazon hasas done before is s a corporation. they say one thing and do another. this time, i'm actually reminded an urban philosopher m mike tyson who wants said, everyone has a plan unless you g

andrew cuomo / -d new york: the extreme cold makes it hard to make the roads safe, because literallys fast as we are melting the ice, it is re-freezing.the u.s. postal service was forced to suspend deliveries in several states, and the red cross is calling for emergency blood donations. responders, including firefighters in chicago, are met with additional challenges when it comes to doing their jobs.jack nagel / chicago fire deputy district chief: equipment freezing up, we've got ladders that are frozen, we've got hose that's frozen. not to mention the threat of hypothermia. but for those braving the freezing temps, mos: it hurts, it definitely hurts.relief is on the way. temperatures in chicago could jump from -25 this week, all the way up to the low 50's by monday. a winter-weather whiplash that will be welcomed by all. i'm steve nannes reporting. chief meteorologist chief chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: there were a few showers this morning before clearing this most of the night but a major storm is lurking off the co

and tonight new york governor andrew cuomo is calling on the justice department to investigate. the federal bure over prisons said in a statement the prison experienced a partial power outage due to a fire in the gear switch room, adding, the inmates have hot water for showers and hot water in the sinks in the cell. david patton, the chief federal defender for new york says he plans to file a lawsuit on behalf of the inmates. >> not getting adequate heat and the conditions overall are not safe. >> officials now expecting power to be restored to the jail by tomorrow. >>> in a statement the federal bureau of prisons also says medical staff are checking on each inmate to ensure their safety. >>> actor and singer jussie smollett was back on stage last night for the first time since he says he was attacked on a chicago street last tuesday. police calling it a possible hate crime. as morgan chessky report smollett had a lot say about the incident. >> reporter: back on stage in front of a sold-out crowd in west hollywood, jussie smollett put on the show fans came for, but also opened u

new york state governor andrew cuomo had a very different take. >> i have never seen a more where political pandering and obvious pandering so defeats a bona fide economic development project. >> despite the setback, amazon says plans to build the other half of the headquarterers in northernrn virginia will not be affected. >> u.s. trade officials have met with chinese president xi jinping afafter two days of negotiations. ending the dispute between the two nations. steve mnuchin said the talks were productive while robert lighthizer said there was headway. few specififics onon what the headway might entail. many analysts believe u.s. demand for major changes to chinesese economic practices ara bit much to resololve ahead offe march 1 deadline. thatat is when u.s. tariffs on some $200 billion worth of chinese goods are seset to rise from0% to 25% in what would be a majorr escalation ofof the year-long trade war. for more o on that story, we wil cross to correspondent charles pellegrin. declarations so far. what are we thinking is really going to come out of these talks? well, what seems the

juye erday, new york governor andrew cuomo blamed a late revenue shortfall on the number of peoplving and specifically mentioned florida s an attractive option for n yorkers. >>> and that's just another layer of the current state of housing, a whereer a huge drop in sales at the end of last year, buyers are suddenly swarming back. is it an early spring or is something else at play? dian olick takes a look. >> at a sunday open house in suburban dallas, there was a traffic jam on the main stairway. buyers buoyed by an unexpected drop in mortgage rates in deceeser. >> intert rates are low, on the decline, which is great. >> precisely why h selena and family of five are hoping to get out of their rental now and into a home of tn.ir not only are mortgage rates down from a recent peak in november, butome prices are also pulling back. more sellers cut their home prices in january according to realtor.com. >> when you see those numbers start coming down, oh,okay, this is the time to buy. you certainly don't want to buy at the top of the market. >> dallas area agent laura barnett said the rene

new york governor andrew cuomo is calling on the justice department to investigate. the federal bureau of prisons said in a statement, the prison experienced a partial power outage due to a fire in the gear switch room, adding, the inmates have hot water for showers and hot water in the sinks in the cell. david patton, the chief federal defender for new york, says he plans to file a lawsuit on behalf the inmates. >> they're not getting adequate heat, and the conditions overall are not safe. >> our thanks to jose for that report. >>> now to breaking news out of southern california. five people are dead after a horrific small plane crashed into a residod in flames. the cessna had just taken off from a nearby airport when it slammed into homes. po arriving units, they found a well-involved residence, two-story family dwelling with fire showing from all sides. >> witnesses report feeling the ground shake like a bomb went off. dozens of emergency workers were n front of to the scene. the residence. all incoming units are going to need to stage out of this trap. >> it is s

w york governor andrew cuomo is pointing the finger at localr leaders ending this deal. a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community. one of those outspoken opponents was local new york city councilman jim van bremer and he did a victory lap news conference. >> we are proud that we fought for our values, proud that we fought for our values. our values in new york city are to defend m workingen and women. >> but the constituentsho live here, neighbors and local businessmen, are furious. >> job killer, everybody! >> ty feel likehey have lost out on the opportunities, and they pushed back loudly during that news conference. >> i think it's a sad day for the community, i really do. there were a lot of jobs coming our way. there was a lot of energy in th community. and it's just unfortunate. you know, there were a couple of politician who made a lot of noise and they did not speak for community.nts in this >> amazon praised both new york's governor and the mayor, bill de blasio, for being good irtners, but today his statement, bi

new york governor andrew cuomo for tly blamed the tax law the state's $2.3 billion revenue shortfall as taxpayers pack up and leave. >> i would say since trump's tax reform, we've received a few phone calls where our client is calling us telling us to list their properties in new york and they're coming down to miami sometime in the near future and they want to buy something down there a looking to move their families down there. >> as more taxpayers start to write those checks for the 2018 tax year, the sunshine of miami is starting to e lookn more inviting. for "nightly business report," i'm robert frank at theew york . >>> and to readbo more the record miami real estate deal, you can head to our website, nbr.com. >>> before we go, a final look at the day on wall street. kind of a quiet day after two pretty good rallies on monday and tuesday. today the dow lost just 21 points. the nasdaq fell by 26 the s&p 500 was down 6 points. t tomorrow e w brings. that will do it for "nightly business report" tonight. i'm sue herera. thanks for joining us. >> i'm going home to look for i microp

in 2017, he was appointed by governor andrew cuomo to be on the new york state driing water quality council. the council was charged with coming up with a lev under which 1,4-dioxane and two other unregulated chemicals should remain. >> do you have any numbers if that standard was set lower? >> sreenivasan: in december 2018, the council recommended that the maximum allowable level of 1,4-dioxane in drinking water bshouone part per billion. in other words, about three sotimes the level ated with that one-in-a-million cancer risk. carey says he supports the recommendation of the council, but he actually would have allowed for me 1,4 dioxane to e in the water. he says other chemicals aren't regated so stringently. >> i don't want to, you know, jeopardize public health. i wasn't trying to do that. but other contaminants at are regulated, they are not legulated at the one-in-a- million cancer risl. vinyl chloride, t.c.e., trichloroethylene, they're regulated in the range closer to one-in-ten-thousand. so putting it in perspective, that's what i was using as a comparison. >> sreenivasan: carey al

new york governor andrew cuomo, who helped to lure amazon, condemned those who trashed the deal, sayingsmall group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community." ernie brooks has lived in long island city for the last 40 years. his house would have been less than 100 yards from the new headquarters. >> it's symbolic of one thing that's really wrong with this country today, which is the dominance of large corporations that don't pay tax, that don't really support the community. >> disastrous, quite honestly. >> reporter: frank rafael represents the other side. >> this could have been a legendary event for queens. and unfortunately, i think new yorkers sort of messed it up. >> reporter: it may be hard to see in the dark, but the new amazon headquarters would have gone right here at the edge of the east river in long island city, queens, looking out at manhattan. you know, today, the mayor of chicago and the governor of illinois actually sent a letter to amazon, essentially saying, "sorry to hear what happened in new york, but we'd love for you to take a se

today new york governor andrew cuomo phed back, saying new york needs amazon and that the incentives offered make sewe. >> you khat the incentive package was? we get $27 billion ine, reve they get $3 billion back. we get 27, they get 3 billion back. i would do that all day long. >> we are joined now by scott hn who as you know has been covering this story for us all along. scott, it'sreat toee you. one of amazon's main criteria for this new headquarters site was a, quot stable, business friendly environment. miscalculate ny york or did new york maybe misrepre >> well, it's hard to imagine, e, that new york didn't put its best foot forward, maybe put a rosie picture on things, so maybe there's a little bit of that. on the flip sare it's to imagine that amazon, with everything it knows about all of these cities that have bid on this project didn't realizthat is a b diverse city, it's a union town, and that it was going to hitome speed bumps potentially in actually closing the deal and getting this facity in long island city queens. a little bit of both. there's so, no doubt, a fair amo

new york governor andrew cuomo had argued the company would transform long island city into an invigorated, high-tech powerhouse. he accused the state senate of doing tremendous damage and of losing an economic opportunity. it would have benefited rockaway brewing company across the street from where the headquarters was planned. what was positive about amazon coming here? >> i think the attention the city was going to give us in terms of new sewers, infrastructure for trains, you know, schools. dit thchanf amazon says it's more than 5,000 employees in new york and promises to add more. wendy gillette, cbs news, long island city, new york. >>> two people are being questioned as persons of interest in the investigation into the alleged attack against actor jussie smollett. chicago police raided the home of two brothers last night. cbs chicago station wbbm reports police took bleach, shoes, electronics, receipts, and other items from the home. a source tells wbbm police are looking into whether the men helped smollett stage the attack. this comes amid reports smollett was being dropped from

governor andrew cuomo for the sake of full disclosure, i ran against him for attorney general in 2006n new york state. he openly celebrated this government-sanctioned infant cried by lighting up the world trade center in ping. you celebrate barbaric homicide where a class of human beings born alive who are protected under the constitution. there is no requirement that the health of the mother even be at risk. you celebrate the interest sent helpless babies deserve less protection from the lawless west than endangered species like turtles or caterpillars. you celebrate the killing of babies after it's born? shame on you. what would your father governor mario cuomo say if he were alive. don't give me this hogwash the baby is deformed. there is so many more long before the 38th week. you would celebrate the ideological justification to take the lives of innocent human beings with no requirements of the health of the mother which isn't even defined. but there are already in addition to new york six states and the district of columbia that allow these par baric procedures. i actually prose

alexandria ocasio-cortez have questioned why amazon needs billions in incentives while governor andrew cuomo, who fought hard for the project and others, argue that the economic impact would justify things like tax breaks a few hours later, i want to note a "new york times" piece citing sources says that amazon has no plans to back out we did reach out to amazon and spokesperson didn't confirm nor deny reports, simply said they're focused on engaging with their new neighbors. >> thanks for keeping on top of it so is jeff bezos putting amazon in the cross-hairs over the fallout of his affair? dan. is this a shareholders' matter at this point? >> it's a shareholder matter because for the last ten years we haven't heard a lot of jeff bezos. they have been doing what they do and don't really care what investors or wall street thinks about what they're doing now all of a sudden they're all over the place i think there's a lot of things that come out. there's nowhere that says a ceo of a publicly traded company has to have a certain level ofmora authority. i think he gained a lot of stuff back by

the vast majority of these subsidies came from the state, came from andrew cuomo. they felt like they were already doing their part to protect the city and they are getting a bad rap. long island city is already booming. a lot of developers are afraid there will be a glut of housing that. g -- a glut of housing there. carol: i wonder if there's a ripple effect in other states, other big tech companies, perhaps. big tech is on everyone's radar. there will whether be backlash against other big tech around the country. >> sure. fromw a representatives seattle coming to new york and saying here's what happened with our city. san francisco is a company town to protect more broadly -- carol: exactly what amazon was trying to avoid. york, ae looked at new city that was already quite expensive, didn't need this added boost -- i'm not sure this would have played out the same way at some secondary or tertiary city. >> an amazing story. shock all of us in the newsroom when the headline crossed. taylor riggs is here with another look at the amazon story. we know amazon not exp

. >> reporter: this has democrats blaming democrats and nobody is more angry than andrew cuomo who brokeredaving behind $3 billion in taxes, amazon pulled the plug, some lawmakers opposed the subsidy. they hamstrung the operation in the long run. governor cuomo said this amounted to a loss of $30 billion for transit improvement, new housing and 25,000 jobs. he said the state senate should be held accountable writing a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above the community. new york state senate has done tremendous damage. cheers from the freshman congresswoman who represents the neighborhood. >> it is incredible. it shows every day americans still have the power to organize and fight for their communities and can have more say than the richest man in the world. >> about with the calculations on the return on investment democratic socialist lobbied against the new headquarters tweeting in november amazon is a $1 billion company. the idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks when our subways are coming in communities need more inv

andrew cuomo has been critical of the 20,017 taxable limiting deductions for state and local taxes.ke new jersey and california have also been pushing for changes. rob: the average tax refund is already down so far this year. will you be getting less money? that is the question on a lot of people's minds, we are asking the us international trade commission and professor at the university of maryland, one of our favorites, peter morici. a lot of people are nervous if they are used to getting money back and they count on it. >> the withholding tax sales were greatly adjusted after the tax cuts so people got a lot of their tax cut already and in some cases they got a bigger adjustment in their paycheck than warranted by the tax cuts so they will get a smaller return. they should focus on the bottom line. look at the amount of taxpayer owed for the year. it will be substantially less the last year but a lot of payments. >> if your paychecks were bigger all year long you shouldn't expect as much back at the end of the year but that is not true for everybody. somebody has to pay for all t

new york governor andrew cuomo, who helped to lure amazon, condemned those who trashed the deal, sayingticians put their own narrow political interests above their community. ernie brooks has lived in long island city for the last 40 years. his house would have been less than 100 yards from the new headquarters. >> it's symbolic of one thing that's really wrong with this country today, which is the dominance of large corporations that don't pay tax, that don't really support the community. >> disaster, quite honestly. >> reporter: frank rafael represents the other side. >> this could have been a legendary event for queens, and, unfortunately, i think new yorkers sort of messed it up. >> it may be hard to see in the dark but new amazon headquarters would have gone right here at the edge of the east river in long island city queens looking out at manhattan. the mayor of chicago and the ♪ introducing new degree stay fresh. ultimate freshness... ...in new scents you'll love new degree stay fresh with motionsense. degree, it won't let you down. think only specialty stores have what's new? ol