a lot more people like to buy from them because of steve bezos.pany to reach the $1 trillion market valuation. the danger with that is that once a cavity size to get out the cover is asked to get the attention of regulators and competition creeps in and becomes very clear that donald trump is not afan of very clear that donald trump is not a fan of amazon. do you think it could almost be a poisoned chalice for them? the issue is it is a problem if it is not diversified. they competing growth, and they are not dominating the market. you have advertising revenues which are profitable and they are not a major play there. we are seeing growth in all parts of the world. so they may have a challenge in parts of their business in the states, but in other parts of the world, they will continue to dominate. and there will be on to dominate other sectors today where they are also not big players. they are disrupting machine and they can go anywhere in the world and do that. great to get your thoughts on that. let's stay in the us where the latest gdp figure

let's talk about the visionries that brought them to life, people like bill gates, steve jobs, steve bezosportant were these individuals to this era of technological advancement? >> you can kind of see it in the stock market today. the biggest companies in the world today are the ones that were created by those visiona visionaries in the late '90s or the ones that came back, thanks to those visionaries in the case of apple. you know, steve jobs really in his second stint at apple during the 2000s he really changed the entire face of the tech industry. he gave us the ipod, changed the way that we understood and we got entertainment, and then with the iphone kind of changed the entire tech industry and became kind of the dominant platform for development for -- until now. jeff bezos, you know, created this store that then changed a lot of else in our lives. made everything more convenient and gave us cloud storage, kind of everything we access online is based on -- is running from amazon servers. and you know, you also had sort of upstarts. mark zuckerberg created facebook in the 2000s in hi

steve jobs? or by jeff bezos? >> a lot of people benefit from them. >> by definition, let's ask around. w many have ordered off of amazon in the last month? how many own apple? what we want is hundreds of steve jobs and hundreds of jeff bezos. because equality means the lifestyle involved between rich and poor is shrinking. simply because the needs of people are being met. what it means in terms of jobs is what people get to do for a living. thanks to all of this inequality, thanks to all of this massive wealth creation, we live in a world today in which someone can make a career out of their love of lying. someone can make a career out of the love of shopping. love of putting on makeup. contrast that with the past. what about a baguette maker in paris several weeks ago in the new york times. he is a tunisian immigrant. he is viewed as the best baguette maker in paris. in the past, that would have been viewed as just a job. just some mechanical thing. and they asked him and he says you have to understand, i am an artist. what i do every day is magic. this guy is doing what he loves uncon

you know minimum who is harmed by steve jobs or jeff bezos or michael dell. >> a lot of people benefit from them. >> let's ask how many people have ordered something off of amazon, how many people own apple. what we want is hundreds of steve jobs and hundreds of jeff base sews -- base sews because -- base -- dessews, the needs of more and more people are being met. but what it means in terms of jobs is what people get to do for a living. thanks to all this inequality, thanks to all this massive wealth creation we live in a world in which someone can make a career out of their love of wine. ... in the past, that would have been viewed as just a job, some mechanical fame and he said he have to understand i'm or would i ever-- what i do everyday's magic. this guys doing what he loves uncontrollably. that's what you get with prosperity it frees people from drudgery sunday night since it because monday is because it when they get to be a superstar again? host: you are talking about a work concept and one is that i'm going to show up one day and there will be a robot adamant the office and i

visionary and freud reminds us the world has changed by society's discontents steve jobs was not an easy person jeff bezos they do change the world on the other hand, this guy what's got 25% of the ownership of this country quarter of people on the board, it's not that you can displace him easily it's an incredible salary. two and a half billion as it's looking like and how we, he's holding a board hodgstage. 50 people, 30 this year alone, who is there besides him if something happens to him or he threatens to walk, who do we have as back ups i think investors should ask questions. he has serious operational and finance issues he has problems, strategic positioning and he's expectations >> what is ceo to do and you can use mr. musk as the subject. what are they supposed to do if they feel as though the coverage is decidedly negative. unfair or exaggerated if you can't in this digital age, go on social media and go to the source, what resource is there for a ceo? z>> you have to have a board that's a stronger board than what jonathan bush had at athee na health or cline field where the ceos were unable to

steve ahead. scarlet: and i have to bring you in for your story for bloomberg business week, jeff bezos perhaps catching elon musk. -- compareontrast and contrast their ambitions when it comes to space. both of the names are out there, but elon musk is pushing spacex in a different way than jeff bezos? brad: and when we said catching up, it is almost tongue and cheek. spacex is far and away ahead, and elon musk has been opening up space to private companies. there was a test of a rocket we saw last week called blue shepherd, and jeff bezos is different. he does not want to go to mars yet, he wants to lower the cost of getting to space and bring a lot of entrepreneurs into the ms. it -- into the visit. blue origin has been secret for multiple years, but they are now starting to open up and make some big moves. project spacex a vanity or a business move? at a i would look different category and call it long-term philanthropy. the bezos looks at lowering cost of access to space and moving entrepreneurs and heavy industry into space as an earth preservation project. he called it the most important work that

turn into jeff bezos and reunvent the company, roll it out and person executes it and manages transitions, don't you think? >> the person that musk has been compared to over and over is steve jobs and in fact steve jobs as we all know got kicked out of his company once. had to go wander around in the wilderness, become more mature, came back and carried out the most radical successful transformation of corporate history. musk isn't there yet. he may be at that first stage. melissa: that's a great analogy. guys, thank you. adam? adam: the white house showcasing products made in america this afternoon as president trump continues to threaten more tariffs abroad. hillary vaughn is live for us at the white house. she has more details. reporter: hey, adam, the whole point of this event was to send a message, the president cares where things are made. it matters to him. it may not have mattered to past administrations whether or not manufacturers were fleeing the country but he intend to bring them back and the president thinks that is a good thing of the president toured several is companies, products from all 50 states, products made in the usa and companies own and operated b

bezos is worth making the amazon founder the richest man in modern history. worth $55 billion. that's more than bill gates the world's second richest man. unbelievable. over to you. steve summit he tweeted quote president trump's press conference in helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. it was nothing short of treasonous. not only with trump's comments emb imbecilic he is wholly in the pocket of putin. republican patriots. where are you? not too long ago officials were saying this. >> the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the cold war has been over for 20 years. >> russia has been an ally. >> he acts like he thinks the cold war is still on. >> mitt romney talks like he has only seen russia by watching rocky iv. >> are there pai parallels? here for debate is cailee mcenany and wendy osefo. good morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> no doubt about it, the media reaction has been ferocious as has reaction from both sides of the aisle. wendy, let's start with you, you think that john brennan is right. >> yes, i do. i think that every president in modern history has struggled with russia. what we see on