the washington post also happens to be owned by jeff bezos who is now worth one hundred billion dollars not since the days that the biltmore estate here in north carolina was built by the vanderbilt family has such a wealth amassed to one individual in america amazon is company is also seeking to build its second headquarters somewhere in the united states and the most vial situation of democracy is dying not in darkness but in open for all the world to see the city hall brought to you by amazon this is a headline from the seattle times and danny westmeath wrote this and he says the review of some of the bids to woo amazon's h.q. to to other cities and states shows it's not all about the money in some cases democracy itself is a bargaining chip they are offering up we're going to go through these details but they're offering up the taxes collected by the city to amazon to disperse as it wishes in that city or that locality so here he's saying that's a perfect phrase for the guy who owns the washington post where he's saying democracy does. and darkness kerry saying democracy itself is n

democracy dies in darkness kerry saying democracy itself is now a bargaining chip in order to get jeff bezos to bless your city yeah well this is a troubling trend of corporatism corporations fusing with what's left of government to create a dystopian nightmare for anyone who's not a corporate insider and in the case of amazon they are approaching this municipalities the same way the prison industry is approaching these municipalities remember the prison industry promises to give all kinds of benefits to these minutes of power these in taking cost off their balance sheet but in return the municipality has to guarantee ninety eight percent occupancy of the prison that is to say the municipality then tells its sheriffs and officers go arrest people to fill the prisons whether they're guilty or not because that's the deal we made with a private prison operator by corrections corps of america which is rebranded as something else now we've got jeff bezos coming into the picture approaching these minister. well the these municipal leaders these government officials like. these crack only just sayi

washington post says democracy dies in dark now so the washington post also happens to be owned by jeff bezos who is now worth one hundred billion dollars not since the days that the biltmore estate here in north carolina was built by the vanderbilt family has such a wealth amassed to one individual in america amazon is company is also seeking to build its second headquarters somewhere in the united states and the most vile situation of democracy is dying not in darkness but in open for all the world to see the city hall brought to you by amazon the seattle times and danny westmeath wrote this and he says their review of some of the each other collected by the city to amazon corporations fusing with what's left of government to create a dystopian nightmare for anyone who's not a corporate insider and in the case of amazon they are approaching this minister power of these the same way the prison industry is approaching these municipalities remember the prison industry promises to give all kinds of benefits to these minister polities in taking cost off their balance sheet but in return the muni

we've been talking about the american oligarchs we've been talking about the new robber barons jeff bezos now worth over one hundred billion dollars cities are handing over the keys to democracy for him to come bring amazon second headquarters there we talked about bill gates not quite worth one hundred billion dollars but he is a philanthropist giving a lot of money to help create clean water over in africa and we found that the people of alabama and the his own home country which has made him so wealthy well he's not helping out down there so much and now we turn to warren buffett yet another one of our favorite cuddly billionaires he's the most cuddly of all actually and he's in the news because you know we've had hurricane after hurricane many natural disasters but we also have the baby boomers retiring this has created . basically a backlog of people wanting mobile home. mobile homes are so expensive now hurricane victims can't afford them the industry led by warren buffet's clayton homes peddling such pricey interior designer touches as breakfast bars and his and her bathroom settin

shery: one has to be jeff bezos.n has made so many headlines, whole foods, huge. >> after that deal, people are taking them seriously. heard rumors about amazon buying retailers, it has not happened as they have not had big acquisitions. halted came out of nowhere and says they can do large-scale m&a, whatever industry they go to will send shockwaves. talk about interest in dish network. it is a takeover candidate and will finally see it's day next year. amazon -- reports of a partnership. do not know if it will translate to a full takeover and dish network sitting on spectrum that could be useful while his networks, $40 billion worth by bloomberg intelligence estimates and it is worth a lot to a buyer, amazon, verizon, comcast, t-mobile, companies try to build up for five g technology and dish network will be an important player in this. viewers, jeff bezos is a capricorn. >> a disciplined sign. we will see what people zone next year. shery: talking about dish more, lost thousands of subscribers and why would they b

others include the pope, john mccain, elon musk, and jeff bezos.lary clinton was the most admired woman for a 16th straight year come although support fell to the lowest since 2002. -- straight year, although support fell to the lowest since 2002. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. david: two new names have appeared as candidates to succeed stanley fischer. kathleen hays has the lowdown for us. you, who are for they, and why them? >> those are two good questions. two georgey, these w. bush-era economist that the wall street journal appointed on today. was an assistant treasury secretary 2002-2000 three overseeing economic questions for the white house, then joined pimco as a money manager and advisor. he continues to do that job. since theniversity 1980's teaching economics. he is a well-respected scholar. --writes all kinds of fairy very detailed articles and is considered a true monetary economist. has also been at pimco as a money manager come a bond portfo

he frequently criticizes amazon and jeff bezos, who have installed the washington post.ffected amazon stock. it was trading up in the premarket trading. as the tweet came up and opened down and remains there now. get a talk about the ramifications and what can be done down the pike to the tech sector is cory johnson from san francisco and alex wayne in washington. this is not the first time the president has tweeted about amazon and a not favorable way. cory: i think you put the nail in. the fact jeff bezos owns the washington post and they have been terrific in the last year in its coverage of president trump and the problems he has, i think it may have a lot to do with it. the fact is as much as the post office charges amazon.com and ups and fedex and dhl, amazon loses billions of dollars in shipping every year and is losing more with each increasing quarter. for all those complaints, it is not as it amazon is making a profit on this. amazon is a fairly profitable business. earnings per share is not the right way to look at this success. when you look at the shipping i

we're out of time. >> jeff bezos wants to get on a rocket ship.ake women part of the future. >> that does it for "velshi & ruhle." you can watch me at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> and see me at 9:00 a.m. have a great weekend. we will see you monday. your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >>> good day, everyone. i'm alex witt here in new york at msnbc world headquarters. it is 1:00 in the east, 10:00 a.m. out west and here's what's happening. the flynn plea deal. the white house reportedly freaking out. but would you sense that today from the president's first public comments on flynn? >> what has been shown is no collusion, no collusion. there's been absolutely -- there's been absolutely no collu

talked about the wealth and income gap you know more and more is going to the top one percent of the jeff bezos or the warren buffets of the bill gates of the world and you have doctors lawyers all these other people being squashed down that they can't afford the homes and the cities you hear a lot of construction going on here in durham which is a boom city by the way they're they're being forced into mobile homes are just forcing out the population i mean as a same obama hundred fifty thousand dollars if you do three times your income for the mortgage you have to be earning at least fifty thousand that's way below what. the household income at the bottom is you know of course a lot of people mistakenly blame capitalism for this when this is just socialism while buffett is a socialist and so is jeff bezos they believe in big. being given. limited amounts of free money from a corrupt government central government that they control if there was capitalism in america these guys would have paid the price for being a profit horrible business people in two thousand and eight by getting themselves in

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weapons for syrian rebels and some wound up in the hands of isis terrorists meanwhile jeff bezos and the gang over at the washington post originally threw up this juicy little headline stating how u.s. weapons help the islamic state fueled the industrial revolution of terrorism later they shipped a bad line to the much more isis blaming isis stole u.s. supplied rockets weeks after they arrived in syria reports. three years in the making the new report compiled by the conflict armament research group which tracks how weapons supplies find their way into conflicts found that an authorized retransfer is a significant source of as. they weapons and ammunition and that the united states and saudi arabia supplied most of this material without authorization apparently to syrian opposition forces which was then sold to sold to or recovered of by our by isis forces you see the river of blood that is arms dealing flows damned we are definitely all covered up in it so it's time to start getting clean by watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you know that i got. withi

jeff bezos, for example, wrote a piece that went crazy viral, and the headline was "why am i getting good for amazon shareholders?" and he broke it down and when he only got six hours of sleep, his not asns, he wrote, or good. and as he put it, my value is not in the amount of decisions i make, but in the quality of decisions. so, people want that reinforcement. and that permission, if you want, that goes against a lot of mainstream culture, which validates people who never retards, and ignores the data, that has a very negative impact on business metrics. emily: when it comes to entrepreneurs in the way you communicate with your portfolio companies, had you do with these kinds of issues? >> when we see companies we are attracted to, the breakneck speed they are executing, but what she is referring to is the case where we have seen our portfolio companies, people burning out. when we do exit interviews, we theireir feedback, and feedback is i wish i had a chance to build a deeper relationship with my coworkers, and process some of the things i am building and learning about. what we

>> americans just elected a billionaire president, they worship steve jobs, think the world of jeff bezos and republicans need to grow up. you get rich by achieving remarkable things, you can only achieve remarkable things in so far as people of means back to you. this tax plan tells the rich and the remarkable that we are going to tax you at higher rates. why elect republicans if they are going to do worse than the democrats? >> looks like -- class warfare stuff. >> that is what this, the linchpin of this, getting the biggest tax break, the middle-class, nickels and dimes. >> there is a bottom line here, that any tax cut is better than we have now. >> taking a lot of money, look at the 5 rich districts in dc, republicans playing that game, get is animated as cpr dummies, they don't like that. >> first and last word, tax reform, gop planning to overhaul something else to stop your money from flowing into dc, raging wildfires leave building a website in under an hour is easy with gocentral... ...from godaddy! in fact, 68% of people who have built their... ...website using gocentral, did it

jeff bezos who's actually born here. >> reporter: what's your pitch? >> you can succeed here, jeff. you were born here. come home. >> reporter: actually, philadelphia nurses similar dreams. >> one of the things that's often under recognized is it's not just the city where it's located, it's where the c.e.o. or c-suite want to live. >> well, jeff bezos has a connection to washington, d.c., owns the "washington post," has a house down there as well. >> he does and he's a princeton grad and he has family connections in greater philadelphia region so those kinds of factors might be part of that decision making. > reporter: and then there's little rock, arkansas. >> amazon, you have so much going for you and you'll find what you're looking for, but it's just not us. >> reporter: mayor mark stodola published an open letter in the "washington post" saying little rock was not bidding because 50,000 amazon workers "would be a bummer," that "ease of getting around would be totally wrecked." >> we're great but i don't think we were meant to be together this time around so we're going to kiss y

it will get to jeff bezos. coming up, the open on bloomberg markets.. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ jonathan: from new york city, i am jonathan ferro. this is the countdown to the open. ♪ the tax bill awaits the president's signature. equity, bowls ponder what is next -- equity, bulls ponder what is next. bitcoin plunges as wall street gets more comfortable with it. ending the year the way it started. europe worrying about politics. separatists in spain win regional elections. hunting down to the opening bell, it is officially the mission to get to the close this friday and get away for the holidays. futures unchanged. we grind towards a fifth straight week of gains on the s&p 500. in the fx market, politics in fact the euro --

trump also tweeting and tweeting about one of his favorite targets, amazon's jeff bezos. what is he saying? >> reporter: this is a weird tweet, craig. it's sort of a combination about complaint about government inefficiency and an attack at amazon's jeff bezos. the tweet reads, why is the united states post office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making amazon richer and the post office dumber and poorer? should be charging much more. aid strange bit of micromanagement of a government agency by this president and an attack on one of the country's most profitable, most well-known, most respected companies. >> right now a live look. president trump on the golf course once again there in mar-a-lago. two thumbs up there from the president. not exactly sure who he is playing golf with today. we're also told, though, that the president did invite some members of the u.s. coast guard to mar-a-lago to play golf today as well. not clear if they were invited to play with him or just play. but pre

we could give one million reasons, and that would be jeff bezos.learly after the big holiday shopping weekend, this is the perfect time. bret: now he is now worth $100 billion. not bad. jeff bezos' big moment came in june when he purchased whole foods for $13.7 billion. carol: i think it shocked all of us because it is such a traditional -- it is a grocery chain. bret: within a couple of hours of that announcement, the kroger's of the world, the walmart's, costco's, all the others lost a combined $30 billion in value. and really what this is is a sign that wall street thinks there is no stopping his ambition to basically not just be the biggest online retailer, but the biggest retailer in the world. carol: that ambition includes going up into space. it also includes a journalist with the washington post. he is in many different sectors. bret: when you have $100 billion, you can buy a newspaper, space tourism, blue origin, if you want and he has done these things. it was a huge year for him. he could have been on it last year, and he probably will b

that would be jeff bezos.ig shopping weekend, this is the perfect time. >> he is now worth $100 billion. not bad. his big moment came in june when forurchased whole foods $13.7 billion. julia: it's a grocery chain. within a couple of hours of that announcement, the kroger's of the world, the walmarts, cosco, lost a combined $30 billion in value and this is a sign that wall street thinks there is no stopping his ambition to not just be the biggest online retailer, but the biggest retailer in the world. that also includes going into space and a journal with the washington post. he is in many different sectors. : when you have a 100 billion dollars, you can buy a newspaper if you want and he has done these things. it is a huge year. he probably could be on last year and will be on last year -- on next year, but the purchase of whole foods was huge. another big name of course this is one must. we spent a lot of time talking about -- is elon musk. we spent a lot of time talking about him. competitor to detroit and

we've been talking about the american oligarchs we've been talking about the new robber barons jeff bezos now worth over one hundred billion dollars cities are handing over the keys to democracy for him to come bring amazon second headquarters there we talked about bill gates not quite worth one hundred billion dollars but he is a philanthropist giving a lot of money to help create clean water over in africa and we found that the people of alabama and his own home country which has made him so wealthy well he's not helping out down there so much and now we turn to warren buffett yet another one of our favorite cuddly billionaires he's the most cuddly of a.

for example, for example, jeff bezos owns a big chunk of amazon.lth is $100 billion. he's not going to pay tax on $100 billion, you know he's in the. >> and is your point that they should or they shouldn't? stuart: no. you think he should? >> i'm all in favor of the estate tax, the inheritance taxes. those are taxes on wealth, and as i pointed out the last time i was here, a large chunk of the borrowing for this bill is going to give to the wealthiest one-tenth of 1% of people who have large estates. stuart: the wealthy do not -- are you kidding me, eric? [laughter] are you kidding me? do you really think that jeff bezos when he passes is going to be paying estate tax? you think he is? are you craziesome. >> not if republicans have their way -- stuart: oh, you know perfectly well these people are surrounded by lawyers who will make sure that they do not pay estate statistics, and you know it, don't you? >> if that is -- stuart: don't you know it? >> if that is true, why are they so possessed about eliminating it? stuart: you know it's true. >> if i

i said to jeff bezos, are we in the first inning? we are in the first batter of the first inning. that is how early it is. the ceo of google said, it is at least a 10 year horizon to get to a place where these machines can understand us. i think of it as the starship enterprise. there is a computer that exists in the starship. it understands. you can have a conversation with it. it's knows everything. honest to god, they all have watched "star trek." this is what they are gunning for. virtual reality. we have it in small amounts today. you have to wear a set of goggles and connect to a game console. that will change things. augmented reality, where you can still see the real world. you can't in vr, you can in ar. seen see you, but i can virtual objects. then, everything to do with cars. that has all got to do with ar, ai, br and cars. all those things are big. they are happening in little ways right now. if you are looking at five years or 10 years, there will be an explosion. >> unfortunately, we are out of time. columnistlarge and for recode. he is retiring in june. [captions co

the other nominees the moo too movement, dreamers, amazon founder jeff bezos, colin kaepernick and wonder woman director. the winner will be announced on wednesday. >> do you hate the crowds at the mall this time of year or maybe you just don't want to buy your loved ones, you don't know what to buy them. >> now there's a way to avoid the holiday shopping headaches or get the advice and how to make that list and check it twice. like santa, some make holiday shopping look easy. >> bargain one-stop shopping. >> reporter: for the rest of it it requires more effort. >> i try to do my best in picking out the right guest for the right person. >> i'm going to be one of those last-minute shoppers for sure. >> reporter: what if someone could do it all for you. >> that would be easy. >> not at all. i don't think it's personalable. >> it's still coming from a thoughtful place. >> reporter: susan is a stylist who doubles as a personal shopper. she works with clients to learn about the recipient before finding a perfect gift but also passed along so from advise from picking up on hints to deciding on

to the degree jeff bezos is changing the world in terms of distribution and price efficiency, there are a lot of companies we have in that category. not in theezos is classic securities. it does not look like anything else you on. how do you own amazon? >> reverse that. i won't go shopping now without someone telling me what it would cost to buy a tv set at costco versus buying it on jet, which is walmart. we do price comparison. that is terrific. that is helping the american consumer become more efficient. there will be bottlenecks. the company will get too big and he will run into issues of size and scale. but that is ok. this is the free market. it is innovation, creative destruction. tom: do we see creative destruction in banking? we have come out of the crisis. we are 10 years on. can you own the big banks, regional banks? are you owning a bank i do not know in sioux falls? >> of course. financial interests changing will cause another round of mergers. banks have less regulation. under a certain size, they were crushed. jamie dimon's report a brilliant analysis of the world. on the

the washington post also happens to be owned by jeff bezos who is now worth one hundred billion dollars not since the days that the biltmore estate here in north carolina was built by the vanderbilt family has such a wealth amassed to one.

jeff bezos became the world's richest man. alexa became a household name. what's up for 2018? as amazon sells more smart speakers, consumers will shop with just their voice. it will be a battle between tech titans as they battle to it their devices into your home. expect more third party developers for alexa and a bigger skills catalogue. second, we'll find out if 2018 is the year consumers finally embrace online grocery shopping as amazon continues to lower prices and integrate prime membership into whole foods. other grocers are watching closely and already boosting their delivery capability. third, amazon will select its second home. while the company's seattle hiring boom is cooling off, expect a new growth spurt in a new city. for "nightly business r"n >>> okay. it's the strongest holiday season since 2011. but maybe not for everybody. let's talk about who might emerge as the winners and losers. joining us tonight, a retail analyst at forester research. good to see you again, thanks for jous. >> thanks, bill. >> right out of the black friday weekend, we kept hearing how s

. >> also on the list north korean leader kim jong-un, amazon founder jeff bezos and the so-called d.r.e.a.m.erswho came to the u.s. as children. >> there's trump and then there's the anti-trump list, i guess. >>> lamborghini is out with an ultra fast suv. >> that did a little different. the 2019 190 miles per hour and can go 0 to 60 in less than 3.6 seconds. >> it can empty your wallet as well even faster. prices start at $200,000. who's with me? >> all you, buddy. >>> finally a cheerleader from texas is the newest internet sensation thanks to her jump over an invisible box. check out the video that launched ariel olivar to internet fame. >> so did you see that? >> let's watch it again. >> pat the box. >> and, over. >> okay, so she says that it was only her third time to try this move. she then posted it online. and, of course, it went viral understandably. she's letting everyone in on her secret. >> ooh. >> it's all just kind of one motion. just keep this leg in the air the whole time in the same act spot, so i will whole thing works. like so. >> okay. so it's easy enough. just pretend as -- y

should be char now, the president has never been a big fan of amazon ceo jeff bezos. but does he have a point? morgan brennan delves into the finances of delivering packages. >> reporter: the u.s. postal service does make money on package delivers, but margins are thin compared to regular mail. >> it's subsidized its parcel delivery, that's why its rates are less than ups or fedex. >> reporter: the postal service probably should be charging more. starting next year, rates in fact will be going up. regulators dictate those prices. critics argue they're still artificially low, something fedex and ups have voiced concern about on the hill. for its part, amazon relies heavily on the postal service for the last mile to home. two-thirds of its packages are sorted by the company in its warehouses and handed off to the quasi governmental agency for fi delivery. it's less expensive option for amazon, as well as, at times, ups and fedex. >> there's clearly a need for a participant beyon fedex and ups which arguably operate a duopoly. i think what we're talking about here is get

today, in one tweet asking the post office where it's making amazon and "washington post" owner jeff bezos "richer and the post office dumber and poorer. should be charging more." most previous presidents have rarely, if ever, done spur-of- the-moment interviews with no staff present, but this president makes clear that he refuses to be reined in. bianna. >> golodryga: chip reid traveling with the president, thank you. wall street closed out 2017 with a triple-digit loss today on the dow. but for the year, the dow gained close to 500 points. jan, traditionally wall street doesn't like uncertainty. there's so much uncertainty in the world. what's behind the run-up this year. >> oh, my god, 2017 a fantastic year if you look at all three of the major indexes. we're up somewhere between 20% and 30%, best year since 2013. the biggest reason is we had global growth, almost everywhere, at the same time. that helped to propel corporate profits much stronger than anticipated. and the third issue, which is really important, interest rates are still pretty low. you put that together, and it was an am

i said to jeff bezos, are we in the first inning? we are in the first batter of the first inning. that is how early it is. the ceo of google said, it is at least a 10 year horizon to get to a place where these machines can understand us. i think of it as the starship enterprise. there is a computer that exists in the starship. it understands. you can have a conversation with it. there are others. it's knows everything. honest to god, they all have watched "star trek." this is what they are gunning for. artificial intelligence. virtual reality. we have it in small amounts. you have to wear a giant set of goggles and connect to a giant computer. i think that is coming along. i think it will change things. augmented reality. you still see the real world, you were looking through something like this. i can see you also see virtual objects like pokemon go, and sophisticated way. then everything to do with cars. which has to do with ar, the yard, all these things come together. all those things are big happening in little ways. objects like pokemon go, and if you're looking at five year

amazon c-e-o jeff bezos.. the "me too" movement.. wonder woman director patty jenkins.. the crown prince of saudi arabia.. chinse president xi jinping. and the daca dreamers 5:xx and adrianna is here with a look at what's trending. the world's largest starbucks is now open.. and it's not your average coffee shop. take a look. this is in shanghai, china... more like a coffee paradise. the new starbucks is 18 times the size of a normal starbucks. and - the multimillion dollar building actually coffee bean when viewed from the sky. check out this video going viral online -- santa claus, ditching the sleigh for a parachute and skydiving onto a beach in florida. but it doesn't go so well. he hits a tree -- and comes crashing down. the daredevil adventure left santa with a broken leg.. everyone talking about this picture from last night's sports illustrated awards.. eseven foot n-b-a center joel embiid towering over all the other athletes .. making jose altuve look tiny!! imagine you're flying from new york to seattle and you have to make an because the toilets are full. it ha

. >> jack ma, the push to brick and mortar and why jeff bezos struggled in the chinese market. >>> aurning point for snap, a key 2018 outlook upgrade shares are up in the premarket. futures are pointing to a higher open after the record setting day for the dow and s&p off-set by the sell offin technology microsoft and amazon had the biggest impact on the nasdaq and optimism surrounding tax reform. we did manage to get the vote in the house to go to conference with a little bit of drama last night. jim, you said the reversal yesterday, doesn't bode well >> well, look, i was doing my show and you posted a little squib about reversal and i did not realize how serious reversal was obviously it's more serious for the -- but i find reversals catch people out of position when you're out of position, you scramble and start reaching for things you shouldn't or reach for gap stores or reaching for macy's, i like these but then you decide there isn't any place that i won't sell a western digital. there's no price i won't sell a micron the key to the market right now will be to see when the mone

today they put at the shorted list, including chinese president xi, amazon president jeff bezos, dreamersdocumented immigrants brought to this country as children, and wonder woman director patty jenkins, north korean dictator kim jong un, quarterback colin kaepernick, the me too movement, saudi crown prince mohammed bin salaman, special counsel robert mueller, lancier's winner, president trump. it is the 25th anniversary of the text message. the first was sent from a computer to a cell phone. british engineer neil hathworth wrote, "merry christmas." there was no reply. the mail could not send messages. here's another first: a pizza party in space. italian astronaut christine paoi said he missed pizza, so nasa sent up all the trimmings. one astronaut called them flying saucers of the edible kind. coming up next, the greatest dentist you'll ever meet. this holiday, the real gift isn't what's inside the box. it's what's inside the person who opens it. ♪ give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions- and open up a world of possibilities. ♪ save 30

we've been talking about the american oligarchs we've been talking about the new robber barons jeff bezos now worth over one hundred billion dollars cities are handing over the keys to democracy for him to come bring amazon second headquarters there we talked about bill gates not quite worth one hundred billion dollars but he is a philanthropist giving a lot of money to help create clean water over in africa and we found that the people of alabama and the his own home country which has made him so wealthy well he's not helping out down there so much and now we turn to warren buffett yet another one of our favorite cuddly billionaires he's the most cuddly of all actually and he's in the news because you know we've had hurricane after hurricane many natural disasters but we also have the baby boomers retiring this has created . basically a backlog of people wanting mobile home. mobile homes are so expensive now hurricane victims can't afford them the industry led by warren buffett's clayton homes peddling such price. the interior designer touches us breakfast bars and his and her bathroom s

the other nominees the moo too movement, dreamers, amazon founder jeff bezos, colin kaepernick and wonder woman director. the winner will be announced on wednesday. >> do you hate the crowds at the mall this time of year or maybe you just don't want to buy your loved ones, you don't know what to buy them. >> now there's a way to avoid the holiday shopping headaches or get the advice and how to make that list and check it twice. like santa, some make holiday shopping look easy. >> bargain one-stop shopping. >> reporter: for the rest of it it requires more effort. >> i try to do my best in picking out the right guest for the right person. >> i'm going to be one of those last-minute shoppers for sure. >> reporter: what if someone could do it all for you. >> that would be easy. >> not at all. i don't think it's personalable. >> it's still coming from a thoughtful place. >> reporter: susan is a stylist who doubles as a personal shopper. she works with clients to learn about the recipient before finding a perfect gift but also passed along so from advise from picking up on hints to deciding on

the washington post also happens to be owned by jeff bezos who is now worth one hundred billion dollars not since the days that the biltmore estate here in north carolina was built by the vanderbilt family has such a wealth amassed to one individual in america amazon is company is also seeking to build its second headquarters somewhere in the united states and the most vial situation of democracy is dying not in darkness but in open for all the world to see the city hall brought to you by amazon this is a headline from the seattle times and this danny westmeath wrote this and he says the review of some of the bids to woo amazon's h q two to other cities and states shows it's not all about the money in some cases democracy itself is a bargaining chip they are offering up and we're going to go through these details but they're offering up the taxes collected by the city to amazon to disperse as it wishes in that city or that locality so here he's saying that's a perfect phrase for the guy who owns the washington post where he's saying democracy dies in darkness kerry saying democracy itse

the big winner, the world's richest man, amazon's jeff bezos, added $34 billion. he's now worth $100 billion, which qualifies him for free ship prime. >>> that's "nightly business i'm tyler mathisen. than >> this is "bbc world news america." funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and now, "bbc world news." sharanjit: this is "bbc world news." i'm sharanjit leyl. our top stories -- supporters of george weah celebrate as the former international footballer wins liberia's presidential election. 41 people are dead and many

out of everybody yeah as opposed to as opposed to big brother and you're right about amazon when jeff bezos founded the company he said his goal was that you log on to amazon dot com and very it is something you've wanted all your life but you didn't realize that because it's aggregated your data and the data from the people who also bought what you bought now as a result of this report senators ed markey and mike lee respectively as left and right as it gets on capitol hill have together asked d.h. has to hit the brakes on this facial scanning program lionel if that's not a bipartisan concern what is. complete window dressing they don't even mean it listen there's a big even bigger problem you see the question that people are asking watching this this show is ok now that you've got our picture are these three and some mugs what are you going to do with it here's what happens all of this information everything about you everything biometric and your finances and everything goes into this huge database method data to be used later on through brute force computing as mike mentions predictive

weapons for syrian rebels and some wound up in the hands of isis terrorists meanwhile jeff bezos and the gang over at the washington post originally threw up this juicy little headline stating how u.s. weapons help the islamic state fueled the industrial revolution of terrorism later they shifted that headline to the much more isis blaming isis stole u.s. supplied rockets weeks after they arrived in syria reports that. three years in the making of the new report compiled by the conflict armament research group which tracks how weapons supplies find their way into conflicts that an authorized retransfer is a significant source of islamic state weapons and ammunition and that the united states and saudi arabia supplied most of this material without authorization apparently to syrian opposition forces which was then sold to sold to or recovered of by our forces you see the river of blood that is arms dealing flows damned and we are definitely all covered up in it so it's time to start getting clean by watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the fallout of that if you. like you