bezos had finally done it. seem uncool. >> i also want to thank every amazon employee and every amazon customer, because you guys paid for all of this. >> and now the world knows the real jeff bezos. as well as jeff bezos knows himself. >> i always work really hard. i was nerdy. >> you were nerdy. >> i was nerdy. that hasn't changed. [laughs] [applause] >> michael: when we come back, paul w. downs from the hit show "hacks" will be joining me. so don't go away. [cheers and applause] (claire): mitch and cam switched phones and now the family chat's gone green, and the photos are blurry... (phil) so the kids stopped replying. they barely even visit anymore. [knock at the door] (phil) kids! kids! (postal worker) problem reaching your kids? i see it a lot. try whatsapp. it's great for any phone. and it's private. (claire) the kids are responding again. (phil) what does iykyk mean? (claire) if you know you know. (phil) well if i knew, i wouldn't be asking. ya know. got another one! i got another one! ♪ i wanna rock n

so, you know, maybe there's somebody in like the bezos earth fund that like once has this idea thy'atis always my view thathere should be an opportunity to do the right. and so i do not want to ut nor nor am i willing to just like expect and then and over again by, you know, someone like jeff bezos. principle and also i don't kno't enough here. right. that's greenwashing is. the thing we have a word for it for a reason and you knowlicy a, you know, municipal or state or local forbid, international wide like that for a reason. so i guess iou i'm i'm skeptical. that said, ifriend i went to woe was like p went she had been working in nonprofits for a prettyg ahe was like, you know, who makes the biggest amount of like packaging waste in the? nestlÉ, nestle. so she goes to work for nestlÉ. and she's■ all their packages. like, you know, 15% smaller or whatever. and has managed to dth, which is like a pretty bite out of packaging waste, right? so nm i out to dismiss that kind of thing out of hand. do i think the world would be better if nestlÉ wasn't allowed to, like, do ahi ts that it did,

i don't see bezos selling just yet.to make another attempt to turn it around, but the red ink is a real problem as is losing the confidence of the newsroom. and when you don't reply to your own reporters, i think that's just a pr blunder. griff jenkins, thank you, as always, for joining us. >>> next on "mediabuzz," the journalists' furor over joe biden giving millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. ♪ ilet f. me. ♪ emerge as you. with tremfya®, most people saw 90% clearer skin at 4 months and the majority stayed clearer, at 5 years. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. emerge as you. emerge tremfyant®. ask you doctor about tremfya®. ( ♪ ) ♪exciting music.♪ [mud splat.] [bird squawk.] and that's why i never drive those guys. the party's over big guy! we're tired of hearing “i don't wanna get my truck dirty.” with weathertech laser-measu

any wrongdoing of the hacking scandal declined to comment, they were hired by washington post jeff bezos founder bought the paper a decade ago he told the top editor feel free to cover amazon anything that you want and cover jeff bezos anyway you want as the paper faded as he got involved in other ventures such as the blue origin, spaceflight we know this from reporting by the post itself, when bezos fired his editor and american after a short tenure the newspaper lost $77 million in the last year and surrendered half of this subscriber presidency, will lewis who led the telegraph during the hacking scandal said he paid 150,000 british pounds for the information and he put the money in escrow to help source that might run into legal problems, you could work it out if i paid for the story adding that he will be engaged in this kind of checkbook journalism at the washington paper but lewis shot himself in the foot trying to pressure the post into not running a story about his role in some now are questioning whether lewis can keep his job lewis is on an apology tour i guess you would say h

it's now owned byjeff bezos. future of the post, but it raises questions about how news organisations are structured, aboutjournalism ethics and about the differences between us and uk journalism. and we're going to get some help on this story from vivian schiller, executive director of aspen digital at the aspen institute, also director of the scott trust, which owns the guardian, and a former ceo of national public radio. vivian, great to have you back on the media show. take us from the start here. when did will lewis come into the washington post? yeah, thanks. it's nice to be here. thanks for having me back. um, uh, will lewis was brought on as the new ceo of the washington post about six months ago. and, um, he did, uh, according to folks on the inside, he did everything during the first six months pretty much exactly right. he spent time getting to know the place. he met folks. he did what journalists love, which is actually read their stories and send them notes about what he liked. um, so he had built a

>> i think that bezos has been a good owner for the post.he took over, when he bought it for a bargain price of $250 million in 2013, don graham, who the graham family had owned the post for a long time told him the paper is going to scrutinize you and amazon and you need to be ok with that and bezos has really done that. he has not interfered in the editorial product. he hasn't messed with the newsroom and he has toll rated the post's own reporting on him and he's really celebrated the journalism at the post and been a supportive and good owner so now the question is which "washington post" does he wants to be the owner of? the one that he bought or something else that is -- seems to be on the horizon right now. >> your last column was the post was a warning and clarion call to journalists about the 2024 election year. the stakes are so high. how is journalism shaping up right now to deal with this? >> i think journalists have learned a lot since the mistakes of 2016 when they really didn't see donald trumpet coming entirely and they've sel

and women following in the footsteps of mckenzie scarred, who used to be married to amazon's jeff bezos in march alone, scott i pledged 640 million to sum for hundreds mole non-profits that's on top of the 16.5 billion. >> she's already given away in the last five years both are a contrast and male billionaires who often name their funds after themselves and make a bigger deal over their donations this week, bezos made headlines selling over 1 million amazon shares to help fund his non-profit, which is opening a network of preschools and it's called wait for it, the bezos academy. qarrah. you've been on a tear about this. is there a gender gap and how billionaires give away their money? >> in this case, there is these two women are doing incredible amounts of philanthropy quietly without a lot of hand-waving. and typically when male billionaires do that, they do this these are both accomplished. women been very integral to the beginnings of these companies. and i just think they're more affected what they're doing in the way they just get the job done versus these more loud mouth giving

think the 2nd largest paper in the united states owned by one of the world's 3 richest men, jeff bezos, who signed a deal with a c. i a to hosted cloud for $600000000.00 at amazon, just days after you purchased the washington post. in both cases, these attacks relied heavily on fronts for us. it is rarely intelligence this article, this most recent article by the washington post, so called digital threats editor, joseph men, cited current, us current and former us intelligence officials, as one of its sources against us. and it represents an escalation against independent journalism and specifically independent media that is busting little lies and propaganda. that is real, has distilled since october 7, to justify genocide, which was really the topic of our last conversation, which went viral in so many different formats. and which has been confirmed and corroborated not only by as rarely media, but by the latest, independent un reports. and so what we're talking about with this article as an escalation is a reporter from a paper that boldly declares the democracy dies and doctors try

f■lrom tunisia and i'm a bezos scholar.how vital that is for sustaining our youth's mental health. that is through ildi strong i could not agree more with that. my question build the stronger community■i identiy while not creating further division between the how do we do that all while enhancing a nse of patriotism, and having this greater sense of belonging to our country? mr. porterfield: two great questions. ms. henderson: i want in on num ber two. [laughter] i'll giveperhaps the most divise experience that i oversaw when i was at d.c. public schools was redrawing t barpeople by their e they are in a particular school boundary, and these boundaries had not been changed since 1 d.a very different place now than it was in 1968. every superintendent was afraid to play with these lines beusstarting, literally, a civil war. said this is something we have to do, but we don't have to do it the way u parents from ey single neighborhd, n d.c. ps parents, community advocates, and we said look, you are all going to come to the tab

and bezos has done that. he has not interfered in the product and has not messed with the newsroom.has tolerated the post's reporting on him. and he has celebrated the journalism at the post and been a supportive and good owner. so, now the question is -- what, which washington post does he want to be the owner of, the one that he bought her something else that seems to be on the horizon right now? lisa: your last column was a warning and a clarion call to journalists about the 2024 election year. the stakes are so high. how do you think journalism is situated right now to deal with this strange election we are facing? >> i think journalists have learned a lot since the mistakes of 2016 when they really did not see donald trump coming entirely, and they self corrected somewhat. but i think what needs to happen is for journalists to emphasize, as my friend and colleague jay rosen says, not the odds but the stakes. not the horse race or the polls but what are the consequences of the selection? and so, i would like to see newsrooms really stress that inthe months ahead because american

pois owner now jeff bezos expressing support for the executive.tz. >> it's a remarkable situation. "the washington post" paper broke watergate scandal announcing all out investigative assault on ethics of incoming editor british journalist. the "new york times" raising different ethical concerns about his former british colleague will louis now the post ceo. with their jobs seemingly in jeopardy jeff bezos who bought the paper a decade ago offered his backing especially to lewis. the journalistic standards and ethics at the post will not change, the amazon founder wrote to staff. you have my full commitment on maintaining the quality, ethics, and standards we all believe in. made no comment worked with a self-described thief who admits he embarrass politicians and celebrities as tony blair and paul mccartney. when the dirt digger, john ford was arrested, he wrote in unpublished chapters it was winnett who hooked him up with a lawyer and suggested a burner phone. louis denied wrongdoing was tied to the british phone hacking scandal two decades ago

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from the floor. >> i'm a bezos scho i'm 17 years old, kind of like in the thick of the social mediaces this rule as i consistently witness the negative impacts that it has o youth. on that note, what can parents right now at this festival do to limit the■ negativity that social media encourages withoute harm? >> all right. question one. [applause] >> great job, callel. number two. >> yhello, i'm kareem from tunisia and i'm a businessys scholar. you both touch on the importance of reinforcing ging vital that is for sustaining our youth mtal hethat's through community identity and i couldn't agree more with that. and m q we do that? how can we build the stronger v creating further division between the subcommunities co-existing within our societies, instead how do a sen patriotism and greater sensef belonging to our country. >> two great [applause] >> you want-- i want in on number two. >> all right. [laughter] >> so, i'll give a quick example. perhaps the most divisive experience that i sort of oversaw when i was at d.c. public schools, was redrawing the boundaries and buy their hous

he just made a bunch of money off with paypal and he has enough money at his disposal as does jeff bezos then virtually any other country space program, and they both watch too much science fiction when they were growing up and they don't know any better than to try and do all this stuff. and they're going to go do it. now it's great to get government money because that helps you to play defray the cost, but at the end of the day, they can go off shore launcher ships. they can do all kinds of stuff the nations probably wouldn't want to do. so, you know, i get this question a lot. is there a space rate? well you have to agree to be in a race. if you're going to compete with somebody but co op collaboration and cooperation and competition. it's a multi period, multi polar world. and it could change and a whim, and again, something this big building at the right speed could like ruined somebody space station. and it doesn't take too much to send a rock sup for point a to be in space really fast. and it could happen by the state . it could be, oops, we didn't do it. the russians at one point

we don't get any money from any domestic corporations, jeff bezos or elon musk or the head of chase manhattank is not supporting us, we get our resources from average ordinary working class people, some of whom donate their money to us in their wills. some of whom, most of whom actually support us financially through their dues. we have annual fund drives for our press, people's world.org. we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the working-class press, the daily worker and people's world this year. i'm glad you mentioned jarvis tyner, he is a great figure, civil-rights labor, african-american in our movement from west philadelphia. i will be seeing jarvis later today and i will be sure to tell him that somebody was on the program today that once met him. thank you for calling. host: there is a history professor at hamilton college named maurice i sermon who writes a book about communism particularly roast -- wrote a recent op-ed in which he said american communist in the 20th century included in the ranks le of talent, vision and genuine idealism. their willingness to support thr boat --

that is how it is that a boston public school teacher ends up rate than jeff bezos. an infamous tax cheat set lonago that only the little people pay taxes. who are these little people? working families. why does this matter? partly it is a matter of fairness. those who have more should pay more. and it is a mr balance sheet look if politicians hadn'tashed taxes for the wealthy decade after decade after decade. it is also a matter of the kind of nation we want to build, a nation that makes health care and home care affordable for a nation that gives rich people tax breaksa nation that fights the climate crisis so the next generation is into skyrocketing energy costs or a nation that gives billionaire corporations a free ride on their taxes. a nation that supports mamas and daddies who are trying good affordable childcare for the children or a that winks at cheats and their high-priced lawyers. and all of that brings us to 2017. after republicans in congress donald trump through every appalling, racist remark, every assault allegation and every violation of our constit

but they're spending their money the way you just described compare that to melinda gates, mackenzie bezos well, these guys just want to be influencers and hand wave and tell us what we should do. and ukraine of which they have no ability to understand it in any way, but they have nonetheless, it doesn't stop them mckinsey bays, mackenzie scott is cassius. >> now and melinda gates have given billions, especially mckinsey has given billions of dollars to groups. >> all taking this fortune that she got as part of her divorce settlement with jeff bezos and spreading it all around the world in terms of giving, giving money, not taking credit, just handing the money over really great things that really affect people. and just walking away. she doesn't need up. she doesn't need to hand wave. she doesn't need to say, look get me as these guys do. and she does that. and melinda gates has just announced she's gonna be doing the same thing through pivotal ventures with both investments in philanthropy aimed at women and girls, but also just giving money to helping boys and mental health and everythi

dan when jeff bezos gave $100 million to to support thework the committee is doing, righteous work. van jones on that panel. dr. ali the panel, peggy shepard, cochair of the wh environmental advisory council, on the stage tomorrow night. bensierra club,aps the foremost organization working on these issues. we all know si pen to have right now and african-american and he is on the stage tomorrow night. it is and i will assess same question tomorrow night to the experts policy-wise, what are we talking about? it will be an amazing, empowering, and uplifting conversation. host is an article here from last year, little more than a year ago, with this headline, advocates are saying that s are the answer for sea level threat in west oakland, california.where do you stand on the issue might be advocating for when it comes to climate justice? guest: night, the issue at repa will come up tomorrow night in our conversation. there is a challenge with the dialogue around reparations because it has many definitions for many different people. i discussed it all the time on my nationally syndicate

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the rainy, until are you gonna you, what you just said about that is on and what you said about jeff bezos, do you think the washington post should say democracy guys and douglas? and it is literally a c. i a caught out if amazon and the money that helps funded comes from the link to the c i is amazon servers. that's how pays the wages of the washing about stuff. in this article, the washington post sites, the atlantic councils digit or digital forensic research lab, a central arm of the censorship, industrial complex to falsely claim that y it read has deep ties to iranian media. deep ties because he allegedly did some freelance work for them. 4 years ago who funds the atlanta council? well, the washington post doesn't tell you that the united states government funds that the state department. it takes money from the arms industry, the, the big 5 manufacturers that are making a literal killing and ukraine, as well as off the genocide in gaza. it's funded by the united arab emirates, an adversary of iran. and so i wouldn't say there have this right now and i made a deal. they made a deal w

the amazon founder jeff bezos. his company blue origin, started selling short trips to space for the wealthy in 2021. and its hoping to see its own mega rockett lift drops later this year. but the one that promised the most as over delivered space 6, led by 11 mosque was the start up in 2010. today it delivers most of the people and cargo into space controls the most satellites and is testing the largest ever spaceship. or all of these depend on substantial government support. the space economy is more a speculative economy than it is a real economy. everything that comes from the space economy as we understand it is mostly well versed based. um, so most of the time space companies aren't actually making profit off of space based activities. we're going into space. it's mostly military contracted to do just with star line or boeing, tally some much needed success, mid business troubles back on earth. and nasa can claim a new partner as it aims for the moon. calling baker out, assume you got a good and are you off t

birthday, backin celebrates its 30th birthday, back in 1994 it was a boot vendor but the founderjeff bezoss 9.1% of the company, if he sold his amazon she is, he could buy almost anything. david waddell, bbc news. let's explore this more now with janet muix, head of market analysis at rbc brewin dolphin. good morning to you, janet. now there are seven companies valued at over $1 trillion, amazon has hit the $2 trillion mark, it is mind—boggling these numbers? mark, it is mind-boggling these numbers? ~ , ., �*, numbers? absolutely, that's what i numbers? absolutely, that's what i think, _ numbers? absolutely, that's what | think, 2 _ numbers? absolutely, that's what i think, 2 trillion - numbers? absolutely, that's what i think, 2 trillion us - what i think, 2 trillion us dollars basically roughly the value of the entire ftse 100 dollars basically roughly the value of the entire ftse100 in the top companies listed in the uk stock exchange so this is indeed very mind—boggling. what indeed very mind-boggling. what does it say about _ indeed very mind-boggling. what does it say about the _ ind

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whether it is elon, bezos or zuckerberg.lism and we have to reverse this. you and i talked about this before, we do this getting everybody into the game, right? not through more power to the state by empowering individuals. i think we should make every child an owner an investor from birth with an investment account. you know i'm working on this with legislation called invest america. this is the firewall and defense of capitalism and free enterprise and it's those systems that have given us all this inventiveness, all this prosperity and people, you know, of all stripes, everybody in this country needs to feel like they have a shot, rather than feeling like the system is rigged against them. and you know, so to me this is an important ruling, not just about elon. not just about tesla, but it really goes to the heart of free enterprise and what makes this country great. when we make deals with people and, you know, they travel around the world, they give up everything, they put it all on the line to start a company like this

. >> laura: jeff bezos, maybe. >> number two, i think our enemies, not only don't fear president bidenon't respect him, they think they can show him right through that wall. and i think they are going to take make an enormous effort to keep him in office. in fact, i predict, if you took president lopez obrador in mexico turned him upside down and shook him president biden would fall out of his pocket. i predict over the next couple of months president obrador a far left socialist is going to try to slow down some of the people coming into our country illegally. >> laura: just to help. >> just to help. and if president biden is reelected they will just jack it back up again. >> laura: the republican party now, i think, is more united than it's been in a long, long time. i know there are different wings before the party. >> i agree with that. >> laura: given what's happened to the country. there is no choice here. there is no nuances. president trump, former president trump has to be the rallying point for trying to save this country at this point. >> i think here's the way most fair min

united states what, they care about their defining would not have anything to do with how big jeff bezos bank account is. but there's no denying that that inequality is a major issue, especially this election year politic. oceans keep telling us that the rich are getting the poor are getting poorer. middle class wages are stagnating. president biden can planes that the rich don't pay their fair of taxes and two thirds of americans agree with them. it's for granted among journalist and academics that income inequality is worse in america than in europe and that the class disparities here have been widening for decades. but none of that is true, as we're going to hear tonight from the winners of the 2024 hayek prize. their book, the of american inequality how government bias policy debate, demolishes the conventional about income inequality. middle class wages, the poverty rate and the tax burden on high income americans. the authors rigorously show, and they do it very clearly, that government officials, journalists and scholars have gone wrong for decades about this, and they show this n

he is because you have a great chart that shows that his wealth is on par with elon musk and jeff bezoske we hear relatively a lot less about arnaud -- arnault. >> he has been the wealthiest person in the world for most of the year according to the billionaires index, it was only until the french elections and the decline of the stock market that his wealth fell a little bit. i think it is $208 billion. he will be fine. i think you are right. his story is poorly understood compared to the tech titans. >> tell us about lvmh and how he built the empire. i was surprised that it was 75 brands. brad: look, a lot of them might be recognizable. they might not know the name but they know dior, louis vuitton, beaudry, tiffany & co. they bought during the pandemic. it is a massive conglomerate in all elements of luxury and high end travel and watches, fashion. he has really taken, unlike the tech titans who invented the future he has taken elements of european tradition in the past and brought them all over the world. >> he must have a gorgeous wardrobe, one has to imagine. tell me about what is

one of the things i learned from jeff bezos's work on things that are durable. can predict in five years or 10 years or 100 years there will be companies like the ones we work with today, chase, nbc universal, delta with their skymiles program, kroger, these are five companies we are working with. everyone of those companies or their siblings will want to talk to customers in new ways. we have 2 million rides every single day. i do not think this is one of the zero-sum things, i think this is a whole new category of mobile advertising. if other people want to follow us more power to them. caroline: you work for amazon and microsoft and both of those are plowing forward in terms of artificial intelligence. how much can you use my data to dictate what + am seeing without weirded me out? david: great question. i will turn it around and say artificial intelligence will revolutionize different businesses. i would start with our drivers. look the way drivers interact with our platform. 41% of our drivers do not speak english as their first language. imagine a world wh

. >> as of yesterday, bezos was first. >> bezos, arnault, musk. >> the countries that do not have this many people -- this many families that are that more rich than everybody else ever. i mean, go back to -- jpmorgan was rich >> a billion dollars, we couldn't figure out how to spend a billion dollars. maybe we could try >> large lottery and this would be like winning a lottery every day for six months. >> yeah. and then you look at 130 billion, 140, $150 billion fortunes. >> are you saying we have to -- >> no. i'm not in any way in favor of a wealth tax or any of that stuff. >> yellen's point this morning, she's against a global wealth tax, but maybe it is time to look at the effective rate on their income or their wealth >> it is just -- i mean -- >> what is the matter with that? johnny carson was the highest taxed payer and they took him up to 75. >> it was a w-2. you don't want to be a w-2 you want do it like this. >> he's more talented than any of these people. more talented than any of the people making a lot of money right now. >> i'm just marveling at the numbers themselves not

you recently won this jeff bezos award, which has to be thrilling.h is investing in women, making sure they reach their full potential because we believe they are the key to unlocking our community's power. i think any time you invest in a woman, it is a good decision. >> well, no kidding. i want to encourage everyone to watch this. you hit it right. there is so much out there that is depressing and makes you feel horrible when you are done. this is fun. this lifts you up. it's funny. it's got everything. you will come back on the 4th hour and visit with us. >> yes. >> please watch this. it is called "land of women" available to stream on apple tv plus. you will have to wait a few more days, june the 26th. mark your calendar. >>> coming up next, the stars keep coming. emma stone and jesse plemons in the house telling us about their new movie "kinds of kindness," but, first, this is "today" on nbc. drop your jaw. and jump for joy. pixar fest is here! with a new parade. so, join the party, now through august 4th, 2024. visit the disneyland resort with

first, owner jeff bezos decided he wanted to dump his editor after just three years.as a one line thank you for your service. the post lost $77 million last year, and the amazon founder's entitled to make a change. she wasn't interested in the shake-up. turns out she had clashed with the post's ceo, will lewis, over his role long ago in a british hacking scandal involving rupert murdoch tabloids. she said there would be a story on any ties to lewis who's always denied wrongdoing. lewis, the ceo, said that a wasn't newsworthy, that she was showing a lapse in judgment and hung up. sorry, the is subject of a news story doesn't get to dictate whether it's worthy of publication. when a judge added lewis to the case, the post ran the story and that hastened buzbee's decision to leave. the new editor occupying the post will be robert wanette, all this creating a sense of whiplash. a at a con chen white house meeting, people are not reading your stuff, not an us a a pushes if debut. if. >>> espn host pat mcafee, a former top nfl place, says he was trying to praise the rookie

not boeing and star liner but jeff bezos another guy with spare quarters spending a lot of money and more in front of him. spacex fails fast, it will blow up a rocket and fix it and launch a new one a few weeks later. that fail fast philosophy like you see in silicon valley has worked really well for them. >> dana: it's dana perino. since they spend days at the international space station to tell people in america, success story for all of us, taxpayers helped pay for this. what do we get out of that? what sort of things could they learn and where do we go from here and the payoff on the return on investment for american taxpayers? >> well, the first huge payoff is that it's a way to launch astronauts from florida on an american spaceship rather than paying the russians. my last flight was a russian, to the space station. we didn't have a spaceship and had to pay them to launch. the good news is we aren't paying the russian space agency that is doing plenty of evil things on earth. the second thing is building, operating a space station requires astronauts. they are doing science up