president trump first term had run-ins with jeff bezos. ere was criticism from the president of bezos who owns the washington post. amazon went to court in the first term alleging unfair treatment of the company saying they had been cut out of contracts with dod. there is history. recently we have seen upbeat comments from jeff bezos about the new administration. tim: thanks. another story, elon musk looking to transform starbase into a new city, the site in texas currently the location for building starship rockets. this created 3000 jobs. several steps need to occur before starbase can be created as a new city including permission from local authorities. the intersection of ain sports, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ i can't believe you corporate types are still calling each other rock stars. you're a rock star. we're all rock stars. oooo look look at my data driven insights, i'm a rock star. great job putting finance and hr on one platform with workday. thank you! guys, can you keep it down. i'm working. you people are (guitar noises). hand o

listen jeff bezos owns the paper. it's his prerogative to do what he wants at the paper. when he was talking about trying to convince donald trump that the press is not the enemy. that's a steep hill to climb with this president. because he entered into politics on a hot dust of grievance. and much of that was directed at the media. you know, the phrase fake news has entered our lexicon because of him. and we should be clear it's not that he sees everyone in the media as his enemy. he has appointed several people from fox news to be part of this cabinet and his in coming administration. what he does not like is scrutiny. what he does not like is a press core that's willing to ask tough questions. what he does not like is a press core that will put his policies and his leadership under a microscope. and, i flattery will not work in trying to change his mind. we've seen that for the last eight years. i applaud his optimism but i don't think it's going to help. >> that may relate or not to his business interest in the next trump administration. i do have to ask about the l.a

billionaire jeff bezos taking on a hopeful tone when he was asked about donald trump's next administrationew york times dealbook summit, bezos said he hoped to help trump i'm actually very optimistic this time around that we're going to see i'm very hopeful about this. >> his he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation and my point of view, if i can help him do that, i'm going to help him. >> what i've seen so far is that he is calmer than he was. the first time, and more confident, more settled bezos and trump have clashed in the past during trump's first term, trump targeted bezos and his companies, including amazon and the washington post. >> joining us now, axios media reporter cnn senior media analyst sara fisher. sara, good morning. it's always wonderful to have you on the show. we don't get to hear from bezos on camera very often what do you think? what did you hear kind of underneath those comments from him? >> well, he's definitely cautiously optimistic. >> and that's something to note because he was cautiously optimistic in 2016. he was one of the big ceos that we

amazon founder jeff bezos visiting the president elect today. >> the latest tech billionaire to make the pilgrimage. >> plus, no one can walk away. >> we must stay in the fight. >> harris's next move the vice president reaching out to young americans. could she be gearing up for another run for the white house? >> and this this was a killing that was intended to evoke terror. indicted for murder. the suspected killer, now facing first degree murder for an alleged act of terrorism. >> 5 a.m. here on the east coast. >> a live look at new york city on this wednesday morning. >> good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. >> it's wonderful to have you with us. another day, another tech titan making the trek to mar-a-lago. >> today it's amazon founder jeff bezos turn to meet with president elect trump at his florida estate. the ceos of apple, meta, tiktok, and more have already made the trip, prompting this observation from senator bernie sanders just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion to buy our recent elections. >> this is not democracy. this is not one person, one vote. this

and i would also note in 2019, trump called bezos, jeff bezos. s wrote back, quote, finally trashed by atreju donald trump will still reserve him a seat on the blue origin rocket. hashtag send donald to space. >> it's all water under the bridge. >> we're a long way from this. >> exactly. it's it's that's that's in the past. look, i mean, i actually did a lot of reporting on that on that defense contract. and what happened to get donald trump to throw amazon under the bus to try to get microsoft that contract. and there was a lot of machinations, actually, by a third company. uh, oracle, which didn't have a chance at actually getting the contract. but they did know if they could show that amazon was somehow nefariously trying to get this contract to donald trump, that they could get, that they could get trump to trash amazon. and that's exactly what happened. i think there's a lot of lessons that amazon, the other tech companies, learned from that experience and others like it. um, amazon's biggest, you know, operation in d.c., of course, is govern

. >> the sauce with kaitlan collins next amazon founder jeff bezos is expected to meet with presidentrump in the coming days. >> a source tells cnn that amazon is poised to donate $1 million to trump's inauguration. it's the latest example of a tech leader looking for a closer relationship with the president elect. cnn previously reported that meta ceo mark zuckerberg met privately with trump at mar a lago last month. meta has also confirmed that it donated $1 million to the inaugural fund. that's it for us, the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now trump will regain power in 39 days from now. then pardon the convicted criminals who rioted here. trump says it will happen within minutes of taking the oath of office. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight, the president elect is rapidly accelerating his own timeline for pardoning the very people who attacked the building that you see behind me right now. when it's lit up on a night like tonight, it can be almost easy to forget that on january 6th, things looked more like this. in interview after intervi

trump saw an opportunity and crowned bezos with a new nickname, referring to him in a tweet as jeff bezosmore recently, their icy relationship seemed to thaw after the first assassination attempt on trump's life in july in pennsylvania. bezos wrote on x, our former president showed tremendous grace and courage under literal fire tonight. so thankful for his safety and so sad for the victims and their families. and just last month, bezos congratulated trump on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory in the 2024 election. and in the election this year, the washington post did not endorse a candidate, and jeff bezos defended that decision in an op ed in his own newspaper, saying that he doesn't think endorsements do anything to tip the scales of an election. he also said that it creates a perception of bias. what's interesting, though, is just hours after that decision was announced not to endorse a candidate, donald trump met with executives from blue origin. his space. that is, of course, jeff bezos space company. and bezos had to defend that, denying any allegations that

kara, what did you make of that answer from jeff bezos?acex contract. >> that's what i kept thinking is he really wants to you know, he has a lot of businesses that he would like in ai and all kinds of areas, and so i suspect he's saying it. >> so he could get more business. that's the first thought in my head yeah. >> and i wonder you know, how people are seeing how elon musk's proximity to trump has has, you know obviously he took a risk by coming out and being so fully supportive of trump before the election. we didn't know it was going to happen. i wonder if you think that is having an impact on how other ceos and business executives and tech and ai leaders are approaching trump this time around? >> well, they're doing it really gingerly because they they don't want to anger him and they don't because he can get angry. and he, of course, attacked bezos in the first term quite a bit. and he attacked mark zuckerberg and others. and so elon did take a risk, although i did say last march he was going to support trump. i mean, he was obviou

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aveda, why did amazon erase this scene, and more importantly, is jeff bezos the new mr.lk about mr. potter's version of bedford falls. it says a monopolistic system based off debt slavery, and gambling, and prostitution and completely devoid of christian ethics, jeff bezos amazon is completely devoid of christian ethic, amazon uses its power to crush small businesss, and allegedly steals intellectual property, and silences conservative authors, and is the largest provider of h1b visas, which is something that is devaluing american labour, creating a surplus of american citizens by importing cheap foreign labour, it's capitalism without conscience, and i just -- i think that if you look at the contrast between jeff bezos and mr. potter and george bailey, you see something, george bailey provided people with homes and dignity, and stability, and he rejected mr. potter's author he didn't sell out to mr. potter, and george bailey is the richest man in town, not mr. potter, not jeff bezos. >> that's interesting i feel like we're living in pot termsville, i sort of alluded to

jeff bezos wanted an editorial to be written for an endorsement.n was announced only 11 days before the election. if they had made this decision a year ago or two years ago or three years ago, that's fine. that's a perfectly reasonable decision to come to, but it was not part of an initiative to restore trust in the post. you're the same marty who wrote a memoir in which you were full of praise forjeff bezos. you described going to a dinner with trump and bezos inside the white house in 2017, where you described trump as essentially trying to intimidate the two of you, literally poking you in the ribs, telling you that he was fed up with the bias and the prejudice against him and he wanted change. and you said, "bezos would neither be courted nor "clobbered into submission." you likejeff bezos. you believed injeff bezos. so what's changed ? well, that's a very good question because something has changed, because i was describing in my book what was, and now i'm talking about what is. and something definitely has changed. and i think what has change

. >> i think you're completely right that's one of the reasons like jeff bezos standing up at the ende washington post and saying we i don't think we should endorse and be in the business and all these media organizations if you look around the landscape we consume so much media and read so much of it, even some of the people of the publication might lean right or be ideologically conservative productive cheerleaders for trump they're not the cheerleaders for maga to have anybody on most of the networks was representing the views of the vast majority of americans who voted for the former president and wanted him back in office and want this agenda to be at the center of american life. they don't have any representation and instead they lie about what it is and they will continue to lie to the readers even as they lose more and more grip on the culture of the country. it's sad to see from some perspective but is something that has to happen but these institutions need to change or die. mark: when we return the head of the media research center compares the so-called mainstream media's

so it's not only zuckerberg, you know, it's jeff bezos and altman. and, you know, you see them all there and they're you know, they're they're just trying to make sure that they start out the administration on a on good footing. you know, there's no downside for them to to give a million bucks to donald trump's inauguration. it's it's it's an easy call. >> lauren tomlinson is with us as well. lauren, presumably these billionaires want something in return for the millions they're donating to his inauguration. what do you think? >> i don't know that they necessarily need anything in return. i think this is pretty standard washington play. you'd see it in a republican or a democratic administration. when someone who one handedly the election, the popular vote comes in, they other companies, not just tech companies, are going to want to make sure that they are positioning themselves in a favorable place in which they can influence policy that will impact their companies. these tech ceos have a lot to lose as far as antitrust i other issues they're curren

jeff bezos and samsung are betting big on tenstorrent. us to discuss is the ceo of the company, jim keller, who is himself a legend in the chipmaking world. the money you are raising, what is it you are hoping to do? you are wanting to make a cheaper operation an option for ai accelerator chips? >> that is right. we are building up a team. we are building out our products. we are starting to ship products. our mission is to bring on developers and early customers. caroline: let's talk about the customers and what you offer that is not in the market. what is your selling point? jim: we have a couple of things. we license our i.d. and we are building a business on that. we are selling low-cost systems. i'm interested in hitting a lower cost point. people like the transparency. they can see exactly what the technology is doing. it has turned into a great recruiting vehicle. for software. caroline: let's go to the price point. a cheaper offering. a lot of that is being done by having less pricey components. nvidia chips are incredibly expensi

think about it, jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, and the owner of washington post and he also runspace exploration company that competes with elon musk company, what's musk doing, he has a deal in mexico to build teslas and he's not moving on it at all. partially it seems to be that he doesn't want to upset trump when he's talking about putting tariffs on texaco are then you get jeff bezos weighing into the controversy of not endorsing kamala harris during the campaign. you've got the two wealthiest people on earth, competing with one another to see who can be kinder to the president elect. i mean, call it what you want but it's quite an achievement. and unsettling. you have to think about it . i can only imagine people we don't even know the names of, what they are probably doing behind the scenes as well. >> i think they are doing it because they want good government. the billionaire class, gives money to powerful politicians because they expect something in return. they expect the rules will be written further in their favor and the rest of us, we are not at mar-a-lago listening

when jeff bezos first bought "the washington post" a decade ago, many people in journalism and nonpartisan fact community that said that was a good thing. and the post leaned in. touting its role as a newspaper holding the trump administration accountable even buying, do you remember this? a pricey super bowl ad in 2018. you might be thinking, newspapers are usually pleading for donations or offering you a mug or a tote bag to buy or subsidize them and i enkorge you to -- encourage you to do that if you like your local business. they had a billion years owner and here is what ad. >> because knowing empowers us. knowing helps us decide. knowing keeps us free. free. >> democracy dies in darkness and bezos in that, era spoke o about trump. >> it's dangerous to demonize the dangerous and dangerous to call the low lives. we live in a society it's not just the laws of the land that protect us. we do have freedom of press. it's in the execution. but what it's also the social norms that protect us. those -- we -- we -- it works because we believe those words on that piece of paper. and every time

jeff bezos in that sound bite, he is using common sense as a business man.ows if donald trump is president for next four years, he wants donald trump to like amazon and him and isn't it coincidence, jeff bezos "washington post" before election did not endorse joe biden, which everybody was expecting to do. he saw writing on the wall and knew, if i try to tip the scale, that could bite me. more interested in hugging than biting, just saying. aren't you more interested in hugging than biting? i didn't say biden, i said biting. look who is right over there? frank siller joins us next how he is honoring our american heroes at tonight's patriot awards and all holiday season long. (♪) (♪) voltaren... for long lasting arthritis pain relief. (♪) your business needs a network it can count on... even during the unexpected. power's out! -power's out! power's out! comcast business has got you covered, with wifi backup to help keep you up and running. wifi's up. let's power on! let's power on! -let's power on! it's from the company with 99.9% network reliability. let's p

it is not a coincidence, i don't think that jeff bezos was at mar-a-lago this week.ley: they call him union joe and a lot of union workers were not for joe biden and the teamsters union didn't endures either candidate in the presidential election which was an indictment on kamala harris. how do you think, what will our relationship be? would you consider him a union guy and what would that do to the economy? >> things are changing at donald trump is looking at the world in a different way and i think he realizes he has an incredible job to do here because he has to fix the disasters that happened the four years before so his relationship with the unions will be different and he can't negotiate. it's amazon negotiating but he's talking to jeff bezos and having these conversations, stay tuned. carley: are we hearing anything on that front? >> 10,000 workers, the ball forward and it is about making the point before christmas, it's a topic of conversation. people talking about you, your issues are on the table. carley: amazon is saying unions donors doesn't all our membe

so it does not matter what jeff bezos has said before.h. guess what, senator collins said the same thing. oh, when he was in impeached, donald trump will learn, he will grow. i did not realize that adolescence persisted into year near 80s. i had no idea, but evidently it does. >> using they are doing this out of fear or access? >> yes. really, it is fear and access. they don't want to be iced out. they don't want to, when the terrorists hit, they want to make sure they are exempted. their business. amazon, they deal with so many imports. so many imports from china. then you have meta-, they want to make sure they still have access, that they are not going to be frozen out for whatever comes next. and the way to do it is through the inaugural slush fund. donald trump does not have a hotel in d.c. anymore where people can book rooms,'s you have to be able to get cash in his hand in some way. >> the sad things is it is not just republicans, it is not tech ceos, it is democrats, as well. let me share this with you. politico reporting democrat

jeff bezos made it say for them to come out and support president trump.are going to see more of that and if you have people on capitol hill and elsewhere who seek to stonewall that, the pressure is then going to be applied on them to get with the program. >> they are going to learn americans had a moment, this is a complete change. monica congratulations, we will see a lot more of you coming up and inc. you for joining us. >>> -- and thank you for joining us. joining us now florida senator, thank you for joining us we are so familiar with both gentlemen with elon musk, he had a little ask, his son on his shoulders. the nature of the mandate is shocking in the moment of what americans have wanted. yet, we are adjusting to it, it's real, how did it feel on the hill and what is your feeling about the nature of this new energy coming in? >> this is exciting, i am a business guy and business guys know you have to constantly look at how things cost. here is what elon musk is going to do, donald trump is going to do this, we have got to have dramatic change if w

so it's interesting for someone in jeff bezos' position to semper fi this problem down to just that and having a one to one relationship with the national debt. we have productivity boom growing, inflation is down, it's interesting people still characterize the economy this way when it's fine. >> peter, sorry, i'm thinking about peter navarro. david, we know peter was in prison, he was in the last trump administration. the last time around he was bouncing all over the white house. he wouldn't be accepted and treasury, and he eventually ended up with wilmer ross, because he was the least affected. trump is bringing this guy back, why, because he is super loyal? he went to jail to standby trump? >> yes, he is newly out of jail, and the president-elect praised his tenacity. but you look back on that first term, and he was somebody, who was always mixing it up. every cabinet official feared he would have at the last minute he would be able to do something dangerous. i think what's interesting about this is when president- elect trump-- that donald trump is taking a safe approach now, he's p

donald trump had heavily criticized jeff bezos at the time when he bought the washington post.e also know that amazon was directly impacted by some of donald trump's policies during the first. his first. administration. amazon lost a $10 billion pentagon contract to microsoft. we also learned later then that the former defense secretary, jim mattis, his speechwriter, wrote that donald trump directly called mattis and told them to, quote, screw amazon out of the opportunity. so again, i give you that example. just because this has happened in the past, where donald trump has gotten involved and it negatively impacted amazon. and so there's a reason i think you're seeing a lot of these leaders wanting to meet with donald trump and make sure that they have an open line of communication as they look ahead to the next four years. now, i will also say, though, that bezos tone has totally changed as well since donald trump, i'd say in the lead up to the election, but also since donald trump has won. he was behind the decision for the washington post not to endorse a candidate, somethi

potter, not jeff bezos. yeah, that's very interesting. are we? i feel like we're living in pottersville. i sort of alluded to that before. i mean, we have degraded towns and cities. they had prostitution. and in pottersville, you know, we have internet porn. we have, you know, uber eats, less family dinners. there has been an erosion of that. all american bedford falls american culture. can we still return to that? is it too late? well, what's obvious is that america wants to return to george bailey's america. trump won the popular vote. i think that's the sign right now. we have overregulation. we have monopolies. we have american visa policies that are destroying the middle class. look at covid. covid was the greatest transfer of wealth in american history. you had amazon and walmart open, main street closed down. and this gets to the question of what is america? are we profit margins? are we gdp growth or are we a physical place, a nation of real people who have a shared identity and christianity? and by the way, this is not collectivism. comm

wait a minute, jeff bezos on "the washington post" and i bet trump will remember that.will have a new team, david sachs, ai encrypt so, bill carr scc so what does this mean for the big tech tightens and howe can they use thebiy are billions for the republican friends? the heritage foundation care of, welcome. if you are a big tech billionaire sitting on your yacht right now, what are you most worried about? >> i most worried about $1 million not being enough to make up for what they did in 2020. you take mark zuckerberg for instance, $419 million to stop . he's got a long way to go. but i generally think most of these guys are worried about is that they are attempts for capture of the u.s. techoing marketplace is not going to continue working. you look at david sachs the new e teapis are, he's a little bow little tech and all about competitors and he will not allow a handful of big technt companies to t controlled the ai marketplaceit which is what they want to deal with overburden certification and licensing procedures. another thing, two faces we didn't talk about. ga

i can tell you elon is another and jeff bezos is coming up next week. i nt to get ideas from them. we want to get ideas from everybody. we want people to love. when they wake up in the morning, get up and i love to go to work. i want to go to work. we want people working and we want them working for a lot of money. >> thank you, mr. president-elect. >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. >> nothing like an impromptu

and i want to get ideas from them. >> reporter: mark zuckerberg's meta, jeff bezos's amazon, and now sam altman, who runs openai, are planning to donate a million dollars each to trump's inaugural fund. zuckerberg recently had dinner at mar-a-lago, even though earlier this year trump publicly threatened him with life in prison if he did anything trump viewed as illegal during the presidential campaign. since then their icy relationship has apparently thawed. especially after trump survived his first assassination attempt. >> he called me after the event, and he said that was really amazing. it was very brave. >> bezos meanwhile is touting trump's promise to reduce regulations. >> i'm actually very optimistic this time around. he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. >> reporter: and billionaire elon musk has been by trump's side virtually non-stop since the election. musk owns x, formerly known as twitter, as well as spacex, so he's a direct competitor of both zuckerberg's meta and bezos' blue origin. trump joking about his new business meetings with leaders. >> i

jeff bezos doing one better, the inaugural and a million for the rights to stream it on amazon.you can't beat them, might as well join them. >> jeff bezos called me, we are having dinner. mark zuckerberg came in, a nice dinner. i had dinner with him, people like me now. >> so funny. it's important, all of this is happening. no one seems to mind. he's already acting like he's president of the united states. joe biden has gone mia, clearly his already checked out. even joe biden seems anxious to turn the page. host then shapiro show. great to see you. why is this happening and how long will it last? wife suddenly acceptance of one of the most famous people in the world? what changed? >> i think everybody is relieved trump was elected not just because the biden harrison administration has been trash but also the recognition, joe biden is not there. joe biden is not the president, there is no president so a giant power vacuum in donald trump is not only their but this transition is moving faster than any transition. his already said who he will appoint and people in conversation wit

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mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos, sam altman each donated to the trump inaugural fund.last two weeks, trump has met with zuckerberg, sergey brin, tim cook, sundar pichai. they've all flown down to mar-a-lago. he will meet with jeff bezos sometime this week and if reportedly meet with netflix's ceo later on today. we'll see i -- see. now listen to what the president-elect says about how people are treating him this time around. >> i did have dinner with tim cook. i had dinner with sort of almost all of them, and the rest are coming. one of the big differences between the first term -- in the first term everybody was fighting me. in this term everybody wants to be my friend. i don't know, my personality changes or -- changed or something. we do have jeff bezos of amazon coming in sometime during the week. look forward to that. the topics thetives, the top bankers, they're all calling. stuart: mollie hemingway with me this morning. what's different now versus 2016? his personality really hasn't changed, has it? >> donald trump hasn't changed, but definitely the situation i

sorts of things everywhere and i'm curious when you think, when you see the projected version of jeff bezos and the real jeff bose he is, that is the reason i wanted you to be here today because i've had the opportunity to get to know you over the years. i'm curious, from your vantage point, what do you see that public doesn't? >> well, what an interesting -- i wasn't expecting any questions like this. let me think about this. you know, i gave up on being well understood a long time ago. i kind of thought -- i realized it was a -- it is kind -- it takes so much energy and you would probably still fail. >> to be understood. >> to be understood is too difficult. as a public figure. it is hard enough by the way to be understood well by your loved ones, your kid and your close family members and closest friends. that is difficult. it takes a lot of energy. and i think to be well understood by the world, i would pause it to you that if you think you understand any public figure, you probably don't. there may be some exemptions where the people -- i don't know, like oprah when she had her show be

do you think jeff bezos really wants to be donald trump's friend?rtainly wants to be in sync with what trump is thinking because trump, by every measure, has a majority of man kates, and he's going to the rule supreme for at least two years until the midterms. that includes tech, that includes social media which you've been talking about this morning. and all of these leaders, whether they like him or not, are going to success up to him, and that's to -- tuck suck up to him, and that's exactly what they're doing. to be cut out of the circle of friendship is a diminished position if you're a technology leader. and you want to be in that circle of friendship with trump right now, love him or hate him. a lot of these ceos bashed him pretty hard, so they've got a lot of sucking up to do. peter: it feels new. were these ceos not sucking up to joe biden? >> biden really didn't take a position on tech. his administrators did. they beat it up pretty badly, and they were pretty -- not in support of innovation. they preferred regulation. and that's obvious be

trump took aim at jeff bezos at "the washington post."ou got the sense things would be different in my view when jeff bezos told people at "the washington post" we are not going to endorse a candidate leading up to the election. he had a bunch of people quit. a guy losing $70 million people get so upset they would quit on him. jamie dimon has been talking to the president for weeks. used to be somewhat of a critic. you see elon musk who walked off the president's business council after what he thought was a controversy at charlottesville. firmly on board and those two are bros it seems. now is he working for him. the latest one to come aboard is jeff bezos of amazon saying nice things yesterday. >> ainsley: he said he was optimistic with working with a calmer trump and help him reduce regulation. listen to what else he said. >> if we are talking about trump, i think it's very interesting. i'm actually very optimistic this time around that we're going to see -- i'm very hopeful about his he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing reg

. >>> still to come, how elon musk blew off that stopgap spending deal, and jeff bezos knocks down ank 4-hour cough liquid? [cough] unlike robitussin dm, delsym liquid offers 12 hours of cough relief all day or night. delsym, cough crisis averted. howard: elon musk tweeted 150 times on x to blow up that bipartisan spending deal on the stopgap measure, and donald trump weighing in only later and taking that half a joking swipe at his billionaire buddy. >> you know, he's not going to be president, that i can tell you. and i'm safe. you know why? he can't be. he wasn't born in this country. [laughter] howard: so, griff, the media chatter is that trump may be getting a little annoyed at being upstaged by elon? >> to be clear, trump is factually accurate. foreign-born, can't be with president. howard: yes. >> but there's a different message in there, and it's the unwritten rule of the trump world. there's only one star of the show, and his name is donald trump. that said, you've seen mismusk become -- musk become, quickly, a highly influential pot-stirrer. he stirred the pot, and the spend

there is jeff bezos right there.t saw on the daily mail apparently the founder of google, sergei bryn had dinner. tech millionaires lining you up. they said crooked. pay a big price for what they're doing. next things you know he is sitting down with the guy who founded it last night. these people are smart. they know he's the president. he is incoming that's why jeff bezos is going to go down to mar-a-lago and, you know, have a caesar salad or some of the really good meatloaf the trump clubs are famous for with the former president. >> lawrence: bry? >> brian: it was critical change with the president. the president said in the "time" magazine argue why do these people come and see you. would you be asking to come see me if i lost? they basically laughed i'm for it. i want everyone on board. he calls his victory 72 days of fury. i tapped into the angle the people had because i had the same anger. that's why it seemed to work. the people that were against me just don't seem to be against me right now. it's going to b

trump hosted jeff bezos at mar-a-lago. it was a pretty successful meeting. re's what they had to say about it. first up, bezos said, "i enjoyed discussing the future of amazon with the president-elect." then donald trump said, "i'm eager to help amazon grow into an even greater company." [ light laughter ] then elon musk chimed in and said, "so was this like a a casual thing? i just think it's weird that you didn't tell me about it." [ laughter and applause ] and jeff bezos said, "i look forward to meeting with trump again soon." and elon musk said, "whoa, jeff, ha-ha, you know trump already has a billionaire, right? i mean, we're a pretty public item! #elonald." [ laughter ] then bezos said, "dude, i'm not trying to replace you. relax! we're just friends!" and finally, musk said, "hands off my zaddy!" [ cheers and applause ] someone's -- >> steve: wow! >> jimmy: someone's jealous. hey, listen to this. i read that uber just donated $1 million to trump's inauguration. [ audience oohs ] not to be outdone, lyft changed their pink mustaches to this. and i just th

and jeff bezos is expected to head down to mar-a-lago next week.e just playing catch-up to elon musk who spent over $250 million to get trump elected in the first place, and these other tech giants have no doubt been watching as the bet has paid off for musk. they have been watching as trump and elon musk have basically if refused to separate since election day. every time trump goes somewhere, it is kind of like the where is elon version of where is waldo? what is going on in this photo, i can't even totally figure it out, it is definitely strange. these other billionaires have also probably watched as the shares of tesla soared by 70% since election day, and they watched trump top musk to serve as cochair of the newly formed department of government efficiency, or doge if you want to call it that. and as some of these companies were promised billions in government contracts, having a role like that might be a conflict of interest, i suspect, but for some reason, his competitors are giving him the benefit of the doubt. >> i believe pretty strong t

>> of course jeff bezos only does what's in jeff bezos' interest and obviously, because of biden inflationally see donald trump succeed and i do agree with the magnificent steve moore on two things. at christmastime never have an airline strike and certainly don't delay santa claus bringing presents but this is a case with the two unions, one of starbucks and one at amazon are basically using the backdrop of a holiday season to make a point when they don't have as much leverage as they think they do. >> for one more with your political hat on, put 28 days left in office president biden commuted the sentence of federal death row inmates and talking about extending status for migrants who illegally cross the southern border. when that's an issue he lost on, this is all not helping the democratic party recover, is it? you have about 30 seconds. >> no it's not helping the democratic party recover. this is about handcuffing president trump and as an attorney, the death penalty is a vital tool because people need to understands there's consequences when it comes to illegal immigration you're hur

jeff bezos and mark zuckerberg don't even notice a million dollars, unfortunately.or them to write a 7 figure check to the presidential inaugural committee to say they are committed is a fallacy. i'm sure they could do much, much more. their businesses, many of them, have enormous contracts with the federal government. they are doing this from a strictly business perspective. we know what their real position is we're happy that they're on the team. let's not pretend they are fans of donald trump all of a sudden. >> todd: important clarification. clearly doing this to curry favor in the most unobtrusive way. a million dollars. that means nothing to them. that said, it's good to see everybody kind of getting under the tent maybe not fully under the tent but one foot in. >> ashley: $600 million drop in the hat. >> todd: he denied it. we appreciate your time and leave everybody with this. a virginia zoo got a hip pot that must for christmas. >> ashley: no more. >> todd: ashley was so mad when i sang that in the commercial break now she is really mad. the endangered hipp

go google's and amazon's jeff bezos will be at mar-a-lago soon.ns for ai and space projects. president-elect made a rare trip out of florida or new york to maryland for saturday's army-navy game. daniel penny was there, and tulsi gabbard was there, so was pete hegseth and ron desantis, rumored to be backup if pete hegseth does nat make it through. lindamcnann, will meet with senators and r.f.k. jr., hhs pick has 25 meetings lined up with senators. the thing that could be tricky to navigate with republicans, long history of being pro-choice on abortion. key republicans will want commitment that he will not expand abortion access, that is what this week is about. back to you. >> steve: peter, at conclusion of many president's terms, they say, i was able to create x million jobs, president-elect trump is not president yet and you mentioned unveiling $100 billion in investments in the united states, that will create 100,000 jobs in ai and infrastructure and add to the tote. i wouldn't be surprised if trump put out, i'm not even president yet and i cre

and then of course you have jeff bezos through bezos expeditions joining along with lg electronics d that nvidia can't have 100% of the market share. there has to bsomeone that can he take on the big giant. this is the bet. stuart: you don't think much of nvidia, do you, david? is an incredible company. i think in the price, tradinat 65 times earnings and broadcom signifint competito it's done very well there but this whole space is going to be riddled with deaand bankrupt companies. stuart: i sll remember that a few months fm now. >> i didn'tay few months. you remember dot-com, don't you. stuart: i was the. he was there. have a look at tesla, please. i thk the stocis uthis moing. self-driving software.ion of the what's n about it? >> so software 13, stifle analts are calling it a game change took to 411 from 287, that how excited some are over the weekend.thame out it's aend to end net work. e's camera systemst are working, apparently it's worth some of the hype we're heari stuart: i'm a skeptic. i' move on. stelntis, thceo just resigned. down goes the stock, 7% lowe at's the big de

he will meet with jeff bezos at mar-a-lago next week. top executives, and adoring audience at the new york exchange says a lot. after all it is a trump rally on the stock market. time is up for us. coast-to-coast starts now. neil: we are focusing on donald trump at the stock exchange. last sitting president who was there was ronald reagan in 1985. they can hold that against you when the market goes into a severe correction. a couple years after ronald reagan was there in 1987, other presidents after that time avoided the floor of the stock exchange like the plague. they couldn't attach blame or credit either way but the trump rally is on, donald trump being there meant a lot to the folks there and doesn't edward lawrence know it. >> reporter: the second time donald trump rang the stock exchange bill. for this term the president more focused and starting his agenda before he gets into office. in the crowd on the floor of the stock exchange, huge names in the industry including james frazier, bill ackman, donald trump telling the crowd he

this could be the reason jeff bezos is hanging out with trump in mar-a-lago. who blinks first? >> again, very hard to say what is going to happen. amazon has a lot of power, they are big and have control over what they are doing. teamsters are strong voice and they are trying to say pay attention to us. who is going to blink first, hard to say, we'll find out. >> todd: carley and i took care of the staff, they got their gifts, they can't yell at me. from amazon to walmart, walmart joining other companies to stop thieves with employees wearing body cameras in some stores, is this a good idea? >> walmart is piloting this program putting body cameras on employees, they are saying it is not just for theft, it is for employee safety. customers can get intent tense, and there is impatience and st stress by customers. they want to record what is going on and maybe customers will behave better. >> todd: i see that argument and agree with that urma, there is the other side, why is it up to a cashier making minimum wage or slightly higher to have to then add this to the

you played that clip from jeff bezos. elon musk did so much blocking for silicon valley, and business leaders like jeff bezos made it safe for them to come out and support president trump. you're going to see more and more of that. and if you have people on capitol hill and elsewhere who seek to stonewall that, the pressure is then going to be applied on them. well, it has to get with the program. >> yeah. so they're they're going to learn that this wasn't like americans had, you know, a moment. this is a complete change. monica crowley again, congratulations. we'll obviously see a lot more of you coming up. and thanks for joining me tonight. i really appreciate it. all right. now, president elect trump has made it a point of emphasis to cut waste in his upcoming term, appointing elon musk, as i've noted, of course, and vivek ramaswamy to the head of the department of government efficiency, known as doge. earlier today, the two of them met with lawmakers on the hill to discuss trump's doge vision for cutting government wa

you saw jeff bezos tell his newspaper not to endorse kamala harris. you have seen an effort by comcast to divest itself from nbc. you've seen abc pay off donald trump $15 million. you see, over and over again, members of the press started to decide it's just better not to fight him. these three things taken together show you the pla playbook -- threaten political opposition with jail, throw a few of them into jail to show you're serious, sue and intimidate and harass anybody that does anything that is helpful to your political opposition, and intimidate and harass the media in the hopes that they will just go away and stop criticizing you. i don't think it's a coincidence that during this period of media harassment by donald trump, when liz cheney was referred for criminal prosecution, all of the headlines played it totally straight. none of the headlines suggested that the criminal prosecution was bogus, was built on lies, was built on no understanding of the law. the headlines just said liz cheney referred for criminal prosecution. i think it's real

enter jeff bezos courting the president-elect. giving a million bucks to the trump fund.ere. what do you think? >> you get to make a decision when you run corporations like this. either you are an adversary or you are on the side. when you have the president and you also have the house and senate, these people would rather be on the side of making decision with them versus against them. so smart move. they are the wealthiest lobbyists ever that have come down the pipe. and nothing bad can come of it. i think there are going to be people out there yelling and screaming about it. but if i run a company that has a market cap like amazon and 1.6 trillion like meta. this is the right thing to do. >> neil: if you look at it, he did meet with donald trump. amazon is doing a couple of things. jeff bezos seeing him next week. they are going to stream the inauguration on prime video. they are making nice. where does this go? >> i just think -- and i think they like the policies. i think they like the policies of less regulation, lower taxes and i think they like somewhat of the dem