conservatives are blocking in defensive jeff bezos. teresting, how convenient. >> greg: because we can change our minds. but jeff -- jeff bezos is a patriot. >> juan: saying that we have a moral issue in terms of facial recognition stuff being used against people. it's not only overseas but in terms of police department at home, what goes on in terms of american rights. i agree that they have a right to speak out and speak to the leadership of the company. i also agree that jeff bezos, when he says the senior leadership sometimes has to make a decision that's not popular, what's the right decision. i think he made the right decision but that's not to say that everybody who has a moral issue is somehow a wimp or unpatriotic. >> greg: i disagree. they are unpatriotic and they are wimps. >> dana: case closed. >> greg: they are bending to a few loud voices because they don't want the p.r. nightmare. >> dana: silicon valley is in a political and ethical minefields. victory in war is increasingly dependent on not just what happens in the batt

emily: who do you put your money on, elon musk or jeff bezos?motto of blue origin is one step at a time ferociously. i think that deliberate method might be the winner. emily: stephen leavy, thank you so much. great to have you here. great piece in "wired" magazine. that does it for this special edition of "bloomberg technology" from the "wired 25" summit in san francisco. tomorrow, catch full coverage of tech earnings. we will cover netflix and ibm after the bell. i'm emily chang. this is bloomberg. ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. manus: our top stories this morning. president trump floats the idea of road -- rogue killers. h

the reverberations of jeff bezos's comments continue to make waves.azon will continue to support the department of defense and big techs must, or the country will be in trouble. this after google pulled out of the running for a massive pentagon contract. companies are in a position where they are being forced to choose. t.j. rodgers is the original silicon valley bad boy. he chose security over the chinese. it may have cost him his top job at his company, but the outspoken co-founder of cypress semiconductor weighs in next. we are coming right back. this is stonington, maine, a town where almost half the population is self-employed. lobster fisherman is the lifeblood of this town. by 2030, half of america may take after stonington, self-employed and without employer benefits. we haven't had any sort of benefit plans and we're trying to figure that out now. if i had had a little advice back then, i'd be in a different boat today, for sure. plan your financial life with prudential. bring your challenges. liz: commerce or country? that is the question on

emily: jeff bezos was on stage and in the cover story.his -- for this celebration, it is blue origin and space. and it is interesting to hear him talk about space as the most important thing, he believes, he is working on. and something he is passionate about, but he is also working on all these other things. so how do you see this space race evolving? with the tech billionaires at the home. -- the helm. nicholas: some of the most influence of people in the world, they are all fixated on this similar idea, but to me it is -- it is all positive. there is no harm that comes out of the effort. so lord knows, we might need this enough along and there is nd incredible of our indy -- r coming along. emily: so it looks like we are coming out of a period of adulation and into a period of tech hating, to put it frankly, and companies like facebook and google are having a reckoning. do you believe this will be a prolonged amount of time? nicholas: it is one of the most interest in questions, because our history is so much about optimism and belief

i do not think jeff bezos has anything to be worried about. we saw some products grow 22% year-over-year and especially in some of the non-commodity products. amazon basics is there but he that sells cell phone chargers and batteries. we saw 60% year-over-year growth in non-commodity products. we also saw a huge growth in advertising revenue. up to 10% of all of the products searches on amazon come from a sponsored search of 3% in january of 2017. there is huge room for growth. emily: let's talk about that. alphabet and facebook have dominated the digital ad markets. amazon is a distant third but could catch up. you will hear what ruth had to say about this in the next segment, but can amazon really get there? jitendra: retail is a big segment for google. it is the biggest from an appetizing perspective. -- it is the biggest from an advertising perspective. now, we see larger brands warming up to amazon lot more given the prime members. the sales shift, the ad dollars shipped with it. amazon is targeting two buckets. one is the search bucket t

jeff bezos is pushing back on that.united states is worth defending and it's a patriotic decision to take. liz: here is nikki haley blasting china over what you just mentioned, internment of religious and ethnic minorities. >> prisoners are tortured. they are forced to renounce their religion and pledge allegiance to the communist party. it's the largest internment of civilians in the world today. it may be the largest since world war ii. >> it's an important point. i think people have missed because of the rumors about haley's departure, she has been tough on countries with violation of human rights. google said only 1% of their search engine would be kren sword. well that 1% is preventing the information about the internment cams and other abused by the government from getting to the people. liz: the mid-terms fast approaching. it turns out democrats are fighting. not just republicans. they are fighting amongst themselves. you won't believe this story. coming up. do you offer $4.95 online equity trades? great question

jeff bezos lost $9 billion in one day. bill gates down to billion dollars.e we feel too worried about them, just basis is up $46 billion year to date. you cannot say that to anybody, can you? >> i wish i had $9 billion to lose. a function on the bloomberg, you can see where jeff basis stands right now, $145 billion. another person who took a big hit was warren buffett standing at $8.8 billion. all in all, american billionaires were the hardest hit at $55 billion. sure if i can be sad about that. >> it is hard to muster of sympathy, it is true. >> if you missed out on any charts or if you want to check out risk go, go ahead. another function you should check out for all of the transmission we showed you throughout programming, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore,

joining us, gillian melchoir, jeff bezos was in the eye of the storm. r sanders put out the bezos text. but he put out a communication today that he applauds what bezos has done. it don't do well for the retail stocks. >> it's a preemptive move on bezos' part. this is an attempt to thwart it off. i think having record-breaking profits is not a bad thing when companies do it voluntary. but they are also committing to lobbying for $15 an hour minimum wage and when you start coercing smaller come betters that's problem. charles: the retail index got hammers. carol, i know you don't like this sort of thing. gillian brought up the point about the profits. corporate america put $2 trillion in their pockets the second quarter of the year. do you worry as the market goes up, one individual is worth $160 billion. that these companies are buying back $100 million of their own stock every day, that the general public is going to say something is not right? >> it makes good business sense to invest in your employees. but there are market forces in play. there is onl

that is why jeff bezos is getting a lot of credit for what he said this week. is titled bezos bucks the bullies, the amazon ceo says patriotism matters more than political fashion. in an op ed in the washington examiner it says jeff bezos and google's ceo, one patriot ceo and one chinese poodle ceo, they're talking about google's eagerness to explore ways to operate a searche engine in china, and in the process turning its back on a country that made its rise possible. don't you guys think? maria: absolutely. dagen: freedom is not free. google is not standing with the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that they enjoy every single day. and the freedoms that those employees enjoy every single day. they're not standing with the people who have died for this country and died for those freedoms and it is shameful. maria: it is shameful. dagen: good for jeff bezos. maria: i think you have to also look at this, you can't look at it in a vacuum, you have to look at what else google is doing to go with the search engine to china. laure

perspective, amazon's founder and ceo jeff bezos scored a point. >> mr.f bezos today, what he has done, it is only enormouslys hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be -- and i think it will be -- a shot heard around the world. >> as of november 1st, more than 350,000 amazon employees will be paid double the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. jeff bezos says he listened to his critics and decided to leave. here is his quote. "we're excited about this change, encourage our competitors, and other large employers to join us." with the national unemployment so low, the retail industry was already making moves to be more competitive. walmart raised its starting hourly pay to $11, targeted the same to $12. one analyst told me amazon's move was a headache for any company smaller than amazon. with a market cap of $1 trillion, amazon can't afford to pay its people more. this time of year, extra turkey as well, retailers make at least one-third of annual sales between halloween and new year's. no matter how strong holiday sales are, profits will be

jeff bezos makes that amount every nine seconds mr bezos was named by forbes magazine as the world's richest man in twenty eighteen with an estimated fortune of one hundred and sixty five billion dollars a notable elements in that vast fortune is the washington post newspaper which mr bizos own personally. indian authorities have moved to legally declare a major national infrastructure builder and solvent in order to prevent what some foresaw as an approaching lame in moments of systemic financial instability on monday india's national company lost the company last tribunals granted the indian government's request to take control of infrastructure leasing and financial services a major so-called shadow wonder also known as i l n f s the action was taken under authority created by india's insolvency and banking code which only became law in two thousand and sixteen iowa fast has been a large and prominent participant in the is building boom. notably built in the is longest tunnel that shahani national tunnel which opened in two thousand and seventeen but.

we look at what is behind jeff bezos' move to bump the minimum wage.

ceo and founder jeff bezos, who is the wealthiest man in modern history, did say this was a response to critics. and he hopes that this change will push competitors to raise the minimum wage for more employees. now, other companies -- we saw this happen already with walmart. it was really one big critic. it was bernie sanders out there. >> for walmart. although it's convenient when the market dictates you have to raise your wages to be able to assuage your critics an s and them the credit. there may be more to this. they were actually having difficulty with the numbers of people they had to hire. let's bring in jared bernstein to figure this out. he's a senior fellow at the center on budget priority policies. he's a progressive liberal economist who probably likes the idea of the $15 minimum wage. the question is, is it critics or is it the market, why did they do it? >> i think it's both. thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk about good news for once. >> we're quite pleased about it too. >> it's not only they're raising the wages for 350,000 walmart workers, amazon -- >> amaz

to me the more companies that are using space as a platform the more people up there the better jeff bezos and blue origin's recently built a big new building right by the visitor center of the kennedys of driving past that so you can see the check because you the changes that are going on at kennedy right now so it's just more knowledge in general because there are more people doing it. well i mean i want cheaper ways to get into space i want ways that you know more more access can put up more smaller satellites students can actually practice building their own satellites because launch them for less money the more access to space the more people the more students the more professors we have using this the better for everybody on the planet the. title you carry astrophysicist why would you want to do that for a living i do jeff first you know so i am i am definitely not a great person to ask that because the answer is since i was conscious but my mother said that when the my parents are not scientists why mom so this is i could walk i want to go out look at the stars and i couldn't even t

that could feed everyone that could house everyone and we're supposed to celebrate that you know jeff bezos gave what to him is a couple of dollars to help these people that are exploited in our system. the economic standoff between beijing and washington is escalating both signs of slumping hefty and poor tariffs on each other the u.s. vice president mike pence is now even claimed that china's goal is to help our president trump. china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections china wants a different american president after donald trump brought in a first wave of tariffs on chinese goods beijing and sit with restrictions on u.s. imports it also filed an official complaint with the w.t. washington then followed up with well than two hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs against china in a crucial retaliation china announced that stopping all american oil imports of the country's top crude carriers admits the business is quote totally stopped

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it is not all truism, jeff bezos is playing hardball strategies when it comes to minimum-wage.? >> this kind of economy should be helping republicans big-time but the problem they had for a long time is selling it. they have not done a great job linking tax cuts and regular shortcuts to the economy and the growth we are seeing. if they can do that they are in trouble. jillian: donald trump has been trying to do that. a lot of people from the party have been trying to do that but there are so many other things the focus has been on. >> democrats have done a really good job trying to distract, call attention to everything they can besides the economy because they know the economic story is so good. it is hard for republicans that they have to cut through that. in the last month they have to be more focused than they have been, money in your pocket, you better vote for us because the people who could get elected in november could change these economic policies. jillian: the president -- quite a bit. it does speak to something bernie sanders did push for this and points to the flaw

followed by warren buffet and mark zuckerberg and 259th, president trump. >> jeff bezos owes me a thank time i spend on there. >> exactly. right? >> at the new york stock exchange, thank you so much, diane. >> thank you. >> still to come, hitting up your phone, fema conducts a test of the national alert system with a presidential message. message. new d-con. so d-licious mice risk their lives for it. now 10 times tastier to mice than the lead competitor. mice love it to death. this morning: what went down at this millbrae intersection. plus: backlash over plans to build affordable housing in san jose. parents say: it shouldn't involve tearing down their kids' schools. construction... driving away business. we now know... the mess on one of san francisco's busiest streets.. is going to stick around longer. join us for kpix 5 news this morning... beginning at 4:30. good morning. it's thursday, october 4th. >>> here's a look at today's >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. >>> a washington d.c. high school student that wasn't allowed to play football beca

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sanders who joined the criticism says other companies should now follow the lead of amazon boss jeff bezos . and want to congratulate was based on doing exactly the right thing yes raise the minimum wage to fifty dollars and i will go this is because those who support for raising the national minimum wage earlier we spoke with our teens lee camp host of redacted tonight who thinks amazon's real aim is to attract good publicity i don't know if sanders still has some complaints i certainly hope he does it is not something that amazon just willingly did it with big came about because workers organize they work together they spoke up about their situation and i think that's great i think it's great for these employees to have fifteen dollars an hour but the truth is we as a people are now waiting for the crumbs of of corporate america we're waiting to see what little pieces they'll dish out to us and that two billion that he gives to charity is better than nothing but it is a disgusting scenario in a world that has abundance a world that could feed everyone that could house everyone and we're

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last night ceo jeff bezos explained why. >> thinkg about inrying to decide do we want to change? we realized we made a decision, well you can offer compensation or you can decide to lead. and as soon as we framedt that way, we're like, let's decide to ad. >> that'great. >> i think people will follow. >> mr. bezos made t comments ter receiving the spirit of service award organized by the partnership for public service honoring people making a difference through work. >> general motors and honda team up to build a new car. but not just any car. itself driving and sold around the world. the reaction was med. shares of gm rose. while honda's stock fell. phil lebeau tells us why the auto giants do it together instead of on their own. >> reporter: general motorshe world's second largest auto maker is joining force was honda. technically honda i investing just under $3 billion and taking a small ske in gm subsidiary cruise. ers will the auto m develop and build an autonomous vehicle. this is a partial image of what that vehicle might look like when it's finally sold around the world at

carol: jeff bezos is also a member of the solar system's most executive -- exclusive club.dominating the industry of commercial spaceflight. jason: now they have a with even deeper pockets, china. here is max chafkin. max: what china has been doing is encourage private sector companies to compete with the big aerospace giants and the big national space agencies. carol: the government has lucian -- has loosened regulations to loosen the monopoly the government has in this space. max: as we write in this issue, there are three of these upstart rocket manufacturers. ing thee all kind of ap spacex model, taking the launch market. they are starting with lighter, low earth orbit launches rather than trying to do the big, heavy launches, which is what spacex can do now, and following the elon musk playbook. if you take a step back, this is what china has tried to do in other parts of the technology agency, encouraging the manufacturers to get into developing their own intellectual property, and trying to take this model of transitioning from a lower end manufacturer to developing

a level jeff bezos has done recently.s had a couple of home runs with the minimum wage and now this statement. what'swrong with having the country? i have been to afghanistan and iraq and supported troops, there's nothing wrong with supporting the military . while google and these other groups have done, i think is a political faux pas i think it is bad for the country. stuart: maybe he is angling for that big contract that the pentagon is going to award. why wouldn't you want to? >> he says it's a gem and a great country and it needs to be defended. well said! stuart: right. i wonder if mr. trump will weigh in on that. we shall see. all right, john, stay there as well. more from you in a second. some numbers on money. the treasury took in a record amount of money from an individual taxes in the last 12 months. $1.863 trillion. at the same time, our deficit went up to $779 billion. james, that is not supposed to happen. a four percent growth with a rising deficit and record tax income. >> yes. some things have changed sin

. >> jeff bezos today has done is not only enormously important for amazon's hundreds of thousands of employees it could well be, i think a shot heard 'round the world. melissa: well, giving credit where credit is due. senator bernie sanders, previously one of amazon's most vocal critics applauding ceo jeff bezos raising minimum wage for all workers at his company to $15 an hour? what do you think about that? this is the free market at work. amazon deciding good pr. good for their efforts lobbying. they made a business decision? >> i don't know if it's a business decision. it is kind of a public relations decision. melissa: well, that's business. public relations is business. >> government relations i guess i should say i guess you could say it is part of business. you could dismiss bernie sanders simply as a marxist kook. he really has impact, getting a lot of senators to walk the plank and endorse medicare for all as he calls it, government-run health care. this is really disturbing because it was the result of a very misleading attack on amazon. he said their median u.s. pay was mu

that could feed everyone that could house everyone and we're supposed to celebrate that you know jeff bezos gave what to him is a couple of dollars to help these people that are exploited in our system. russian president vladimir putin is in india for a two day visit as expected that putin on the indian prime minister new renter modi will discuss broadening nuclear time with russia bidding to build another nuclear power plant in the country in addition to the one already on the construction moreover the two leaders are to sign a multi-billion dollar contracts for the delivery of the russian s four hundred defense system that the prospects of india purchasing it has ruffled feathers in washington just like it did with other countries on earth explains why. for russia selling its weapons is not exactly business as usual in the strict sense of the word has inadvertently expanded into the realm of geopolitics because the united states gets visibly upset when anyone shows interest in buying brushes arms even made it official that preventing russia from exporting its weapons is part of their game

jeff bezos. >> bumping bill gates from the spot for the first time in 24 years. >> there was mixed reaction today to the first test of the presidential alert system. >> that was wild. everyone is buzzing. >> i haven't gotten the alert yet. >> i didn't read it. >> i think it's great. >> mine went off, but it was also my alert my food is here. ( laughter ) >> glor: good evening, i'm jeff glor. and this is our western edition. we are going to begin with some breaking news. authorities say five law enforcement officers were shot this afternoon in south jericka duncan is here in the studio with the latest. >> one officer is zed and six other law enforcement officers are wounded after a gunman opened fire in florence, south carolina, about 60 miles west of myrtle beach. police say when officers arrived at the home the gunman opened fire, the suspect is now in custody. >> fire was being shot all over. the way the suspect was his view of fire was several hundred yards. so he had an advantage. >> reporter: around 5 this evening florence county emergency management officials posted this facebook mess

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fine isnd you know that not acceptable for jeff bezos. what do you make of this? >> we are seeing strong growth. i don't think jeff bezos has anything to worry about in areas like private label products, where amazon is placing a lot of value. and on commodity products. amazon basics is their behemoth. we saw 60% year over year growth in non-commodity amazon private label products and huge growth in advertising revenue. i mean, up to 10% of all product searches in amazon come from a sponsored search. and that is up from 3% in january 2017. there is huge room for growth. emily: let's talk about that. amazon is a distant third, but could catch up. you will hear what was said about this in the next segment, but can amazon really get there? >> retail is a big segment for google. and now we are seeing larger brands warming up to amazon a lot more. 100 plus million prime members is too big to ignore. so now what happens, as sales shift so do the dollars with it. amazon is targeting 2 buckets, the search bucket and the trade promotions bucket. so they do get to benefit f

that could feed everyone that could house everyone and we're supposed to celebrate that you know jeff bezos gave what to him is a couple of dollars to help these people that are exploited in our system. ok that brings you right up to date thanks staying with ati my colleague nikki allen all behave at the very latest for you at the top of the hour. quite frankly i think only just in the season to be have deteriorated and have fragmented and it is extremely important that we have a new digital you see over the presidency that has the votes of the libyan people people who have aspirations like freedom and they do have aspirations like living in dignity and quite frankly to deny them the right to vote with the pretext that oh it's not time it or you don't have bread so you should not be asking for the vote you should vote for people who will provide the bread and who will provide the services. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop sla

carol: jeff bezos is also a member of the solar system's most exclusive club.ith elon musk and richard branson. together, they are dominating the emerging industry of commercial spaceflight. jason: now they face competition from a rival with deeper pockets, china. here is features editor max chafkin. max: what china has been doing is trying to encourage private sector companies to compete with the big aerospace giants and the big national space agencies. carol: the government has loosened regulations to loosen the monopoly the government has had on this space. kind of opening it up. max: as we write in this issue, there are basically three of these little upstart rocket manufacturers. they are all kind of aping the spacex model, taking the launch market. they are starting with lighter, low earth orbit launches rather than trying to do the big, heavy geosynchronous launches, which is what spacex can do now, and following the elon musk playbook. if you take a step back, this is what china has tried to do in other parts of the industry, encouraging the manufacture

part because the founder and owner of the company is basically the richest man in the world his jeff bezosis worth hundreds sixty five billion dollars and amazon is a very profitable company and one quarter just last quarter they made two point five billion dollars in profits and so there's been a lot of especially progressive people saying they need to lead the way they need to set an example they need to pay their workers more in an attempt to address this wide gap an income inequality in the united states. in some of the most part prosperous cities in one of the richest nations in the world many americans live in poverty and they will to find affordable housing for more than a century thousands of chicago locals have been spared from homelessness by inexpensive single room hotels but this john hendren reports from chicago these are fast disappearing. for many this is the difference between home and homelessness have in this place it gave me a broad vision on why the room is about the size of the prison cell ernest roberts once occupied but for less than five hundred dollars this diminut

emily: does jeff bezos cap about it personally?rad: he went there a couple of years ago and wanted to hand over an oversized check to the head of the india division on an elephant. they could not find i an elephant. he is using his notoriety to build a business showing how much he cares. emily: if only more indians knew who he was. brett stone, thank you so much. check that out in this weeks edition of bloomberg businessweek. areman sachs and galaxy betting big on crypto by pouring $15 million into the cryptocurrency custodian, bitgo. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: goldman sachs is getting deeper into bitcoin. goldman and one of their ventures are investing in cryptocurrency custodian bitgo. they put in the $15 million of fundraising. guards digital currencies for institutional investors. for more, let's bring in their ceo. what you get out of this investment from goldman and galaxy aside from money? >> it was not about the money. it is much more about the strategic nature of this. institutional custody is something is a

late show with stephen cobett stephen colbert. >> you got jeff bezos, his wealth is increasing everyday but he pays his workers wages that are so low and many of them are on food stamps or on medicaid >> last month senator sanders introduced the bezos act, to tax corporation every dollar their workers receive. we got this, jim, on top of oil and transportation cost and tariffs maybe going to 25, we'll see. >> we keep on hearing about cost we'll talk to hugh johnston. if cost goes up, you know why the fed are so aggressive it is because of the cost. if you look at the actual new nafta, what you get is wage inflation in other country that historically kept the price of other things down. it is the classic case of why we do not like tariffs. you raise the price of overseas. our prices are depressed already, there are too many cars and homes. i don't know whether this is going to, we look at what david did on that excellent, excellent special. >> years ago at this point though >> it was like yesterday >> it does feel like it. >> it was like the 13th amendment here >> these people were makin

but should the rest of us be as excited about this as jeff bezos? no. because when the president and bernie are excited about the same things, that's populism. is this a bad move by amazon? >> maybe it's okay for amazon. i am so disappointed. bezos was my hero. he's being trashed by bernie sanders. but by doing that he lowered prices for all of us and saved us trillions of dollars. his stockholders are paying billions in corporate capital gains taxes. bernie makes him out to be a villain and he caves. if he wants to say i'll pay my workers $15, great. but now he's going to lobby and make sure everybody has to pay that so he doesn't lose the competitive advantage. kennedy: but the competitive advantage here hurts other people. those most of in need of entry-level jobs probably aren't going to get work at amazon will be are they? >> they are screwed by this. kid, people who never worked before. mentally disabled people. saying i will give you a chance for $8 an hour, $15 an hour. automation will be increased and people will lose jobs. kennedy: people act s

we look at what is behind jeff bezos' move to bump the minimum wage. amazon is also looking to reduce energy bills as it continues its push into our homes. we will speak to the ceo of the smart doorbell company which amazon bought on the part it will play. first our top story, tesla reported its first delivery numbers since it settled its case with the sec. the company rolled out more than 83,000 vehicles, double the number it made last quarter, and 55,000 cars were the model three. will this be a turn for the better for tesla? musk forked over $20 million to the sec. i want to bring in cathie from new york. she is the ceo of easy go, which provides public charging stations for electric the eccles. studio, with me in the dana. the numbers weren't bad. what are the most significant headlines? >> they delivered more cars than they produced in the last quarter. they are finally getting rid of some of the inventory that was hanging around. the stock is sort of muted today. the big question is demand. is there still a huge demand for these cars? emily: the

i don't think jeff bezos has anything to worry about in areas like private label model x were amazon is placing a lot of value. commodity products. amazon basics is their behemoth. we saw 60% year over year growth in non-commodity amazon private label products and huge growth in advertising revenue. up to 10% of all product searches in amazon come from a sponsored search. in januaryfrom 3% 2017. there is huge room for growth. is a distant third, but could catch up. can amazon really get there? >> retail is a big segment for google. brands are seeing larger warming up to amazon more. plus million prime members is too big to ignore. amazon is targeting 2 buckets, the search bucket and the trade promotions bucket. they get to benefit from that shift that is happening from digger brands. they can deliver. you are advertising the product and you know how much becomeso the targeting better. google needs to go the opposite direction. commerce.ps with we think google should be more aggressive in e-commerce and take the cloud stance more aggressively when amazon is encroaching on them from an