ron kim is a member of the new york state assembly. he recently cowrote an opinion piece for "the new york times" "new york should say no to amazon." back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we continue to look at amazon and corporate welfare is new york and virginia have agreed to give amazon over $3 billion in tax breaks to build new office complexes in new york and there washington, d.c. according to the bloomberg billionaires index, amazon ceo was $99os' as net worth billion. on may 1, it was $132 billion. meaning a rose $33 billion in just a few months. if you divide that difference by the 120 days of that period, you will find he made 270 finally and dollars per day. divide that by 24 hours in a day to get about $11.5 million per hour. the equivalent of roughly per minute. or $3182 every second. that according to bloomberg. amy: you compare that to the medianan amazon employee's sala, $28,000. jeff bezos makes more than that in 1

amy: we will speak with new york councilmember ron kim, who has introduced a bill to block the amazon deal and redirect taxpayer money away from amazon anand toward d student t debt r. then as dedefense secretetary js mattis visits the u.s.-mexico border where thousands of troops have been deployed, we speak to fernando garcia of the border network for human rights. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in california, the death toll from the deadly fires has reached 50, with scores still missing. report the paradise fire is 30% contained. in southern california,