jeff besos has improved our lives tremendously. using any government benefits anybody else doesn't have access to. it's about him and his ingenious idea to create this business. >> wait. i'm not attacking jeff besos's innovation or business acumen. i admire both of those. he's the richest person in human history. and for that reason, i find it disgusting and wrong that he would have people working for him that are so poor that i'm paying for their food stamps. >> it's not his fault that the food stamp program exists. i mean, people are working for him for whatever productive value it is that he is provided by them. >> that's the wage rate. >> but i'm not -- hold on. i just want to be clear. i'm not blaming him for food stamps, of course. i'm blaming him for paying his employees so little that they qualify for food stamps. you can't get food stamps unless you make under a certain threshold. >> there are a number of things at play here. the fact that he's able to have employees in part because they are compensated by food stamps, tha

jeff besos says the decision has not been made yet. something that no one really wanted to hear at last night's event. >> the answer is simple. 'll announce the decision before the end of this year. we made tremendous progress. the team is working their butts off on it, and we will get there. no, no. be nice. come on. >> maryland governor larry hogan and t d.c. mayor were both at the dinner. the virginia governor was dealing with response work for hurricane florence. >>> and we are tracking hurricane florence this morning as it makes it's way on shore in north carolina. locally, though, we have a few g showers mov in from the northern edge of this storm. chuck is up in a few minutes to talk about that and of course theacpdated that's straight ahead. >> and these are live pictures from wilmington, north carolina. you can see the winds whipping there and even though this i a category 1 hurricane right now, our storm tea 4 meteorologists are saying the rain damage and flooding can be a huge problem flooding can be a huge problem for that

jeff besos, the founder and owner of amazon, ceo of amazon increased his wealth $83 billion in just oneyear. >> unbelievable. >> $83 billion in just a year. he ran through statistics about the wealth of the world, 82% of the total growth in economic product in the world went to billionaires? >> yeah. >> seems impossible. >> when you talk about poverty -- this is something you talk about, you have wealth and equality is one aspect that we have to deal with. you also have to deal with mass migration, we have right now the largest human movement on the planet since world war ii. >> in terms of migration. >> yes. >> and this is something that chris, i -- to your credit, you've tried to bring up over and over again. climate change is a huge factor. war sends people on the move. violence sends people on the move, so you have this huge human movement, and a lot of it is movement into europe, a lot of it is movement into sub saharan africa and the united states, the movement is not going to stop. the exacerbation of wealth and equality. the combination of that and migration is fueling the polit

how are you recruiting and mentoring and raising the next jeff besos. >> it depends on the seniority of the person you're talking about. i teach a senior leaders class. which i enjoy. one of the things that really resonates with the folks that i teach there is stress management. and i offer to people to make sure it's part of their job to make sure they don't get burned out. i point out to them, i'm a member of the business council, and i meet with lots of other fortune 500 ceo's, i hear them talking about how stressed they are. there seems to be this idea that the more senior you are, the more stress you should have. i think that's the opposite. because the more senior you are, the more control you have over your environment to a large degree, you get to pick who your senior staff is, your schedule. not 100%, nothing is 100% in this world. to a large degree, you get to decide how you interact, do you like to do lots of one on ones or small group meetings. as a senior executive, you have a lot of control, and what i find sometimes people forget they have that control they forget they

speculation close o in our area because jeff besos and amazon's board of directors are reportedly in town. nitomorrow t, he'll sit for an interviewosted byhe economic club of washington on september 19th, he'll be the speaker at an air force conference at national harbor, a and his company, blue origin, intends to compete for pentagon contracts. on friday, he visits "theash post," he owns the paper, but he told post reportersl he wil not answer questions about blue origin or the new headquarters. >>> in the ameantime,zon is taking aim at a holiday tradition. the onlineil re giant changed some aspects of american life, and r some of us like browsing a bookstore is still a cherished tradition, but others are just as hap t get books in the mail or through digital devices, and come november, amazon starts shipping fresh full-sized christma trees to your door. the national christmas tree association estimates 27 million live christmas trees were sold last year. fewer than 2% were purched online. there seems to be room for growth in that market. ing to be interesting to see how many shoppe