bezos i'm happy with that member jeff bezos of the washington post democracy dies in darkness that is driven by quote hash tag the resistance the resistance wants amazon google you tube twitter facebook all these tech giants they want them to determine what is they want them to get determine what is speech that is good they want them to determine what is the media that is accessible what should the peasants the people of fresno be able to read or see so it's part of the same story but here the pitch that fresno gave to amazon come to was come to us lord bezos write the proposal shows a park with a sign his park brought to you by amazon but the company smiling arrow corporate logo quote the community fun projects would give amazon credit for the funding of each project the. proposal says the potential negative impacts from a project will be turned to do positives giving amazon credit for mitigating it. public i mean just look at where this all ends up look at great britain for example once you leave the dominion of buckingham palace and around the shires you know but two of those drunk

bezos i'm happy with it member jeff bezos of the washington post democracy dies in darkness that is driven by quote hash tag the resistance the resistance wants amazon google you tube twitter facebook all these tech giants they want them to determine what is they want them to get determine what is speech that is good they want them to determine what is the media that is accessible what should the peasants the people of fresno be able to read or see so it's part of the same story but here the pitch that fresno gave to amazon come to was come to us lord bezos write the proposal shows a park with a sign this park brought to you by amazon but the company smiling arrow corporate logo quote the community fun projects would give amazon credit for the funding of each project the. proposal says the potential negative impacts from a project will be turned into positives giving amazon credit for mitigating. fflick i mean just look at where this all ends up look at great britain for example once you leave the dominion of buckingham palace and around the shires you know but two of those drunk pe

bezos i'm happy with that member jeff bezos of the washington post democracy dies in darkness that is driven by quote hash tag the resistance the resistance wants amazon google you tube twitter facebook all these tech giants they want them to determine what is they want them to get determine what is speech that is good they want them to determine what is the media that is accessible what should the peasants the people of fresno be able to read or see so it's part of the same story but here the pitch that fresno gave to amazon come to was come to us lord bezos write the proposal shows a park with a sign this park brought to you by amazon but the company smiling arrow corporate logo quote the community fun projects would give amazon credit for the funding of each project the proposal says the potential negative impacts from a project will be turned to depositors giving amazon credit for mitigating. public . i mean just look at where this all ends up look at great britain for example once you leave the dominion of buckingham palace and you're out in the shires you know but two of those d

bezos ok this is really. just too early and we work and woman are going to try to take over america through the back door of their small we were base i was there i saw it with the representation the steering the so. it gets worse than that as it gets worse chicago's bid so they look at fresno fresno is even more grotesque in how they're kneeling before the lord bezos asking the lord bezos please shine your look upon us don't avert your gaze from our ugliness well but the most far reaching offers from fresno california that city of half a million isn't offering any tax breaks instead it has a novel plan to give amazon special authority over how the company's taxes are spent fresno promises to funnel eighty five percent of all taxes and fees generated by amazon into a special fund that money would be overseen by a board half made up of amazon officers half from the city they're supposed to spend the money on housing roads and parks in and around amazon by the way you know that railroad of course that was the la

bezos the. very he's going to marry somehow there kneeling before the load that city of half a million isn't offering any tax breaks instead it has a novel plan to give amazon special authority over how the company's taxes are spent fresno promises to funnel any taxes and fees general half made up of amazon officers half from the city they're supposed to spend the money on housing roads and parks in and around amazon by the way you know the railroad of course that was the last time robber baron that's the last time we had the robber barrons vanderbilt built being giant biltmore estate here it's amazing to see it but here. you know that was the last time you saw the vanderbilt had you know they kicked everybody out of the city of the all the locality around where they built their estates they got to get mayors and and people writing laws here and you know altering the way the state runs here they're doing the same thing so they would put these officers from amazon on the board. all of the tax aut

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 settings these extras plus manufacturers increase cost for labor and materials have pushed average pric

bezos they believe in 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 properly horrible businesspeople of two thousand and eight by getting themselves in over their head too much risk too much debt they would have gone out of business there would have been a lot of sell off we would have had a new generation of entrepreneurs. and we would have had capitalism as a concept was understood in america is tied to the idea of free market economics is tied to the enlightenment this ties to the thinking that went behind that the. intellectual bedrock of america based on the rights of man to go back to the french and lightman to french thinkers james lock these types of people who gave us the idea of government by and for the people now you've got government by and for all of darks and kleptocrats it's not capitalism it's kind of like socialism but it's more like monarchy a club talk or see

shery: one has to be jeff bezos. amazon 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

others include the pope, john mccain, elon musk, and jeff bezos. hillary 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 po

he frequently criticizes amazon and jeff bezos, who have installed the washington post. trump's message affected 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

we're out of time. >> jeff bezos wants to get on a rocket ship. let's make 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

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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 eight hours of sleep is 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

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, money from flowing into dc, raging wildfires leave my "business" was going nowhere... so i built this kickin' new website with godaddy. building a website in under an hour is easy! 68% of people... ...who have built

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it will get to jeff bezos. coming up, the open on bloomberg markets. a conversation with oppenheimer. 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 --

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

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 scorching homes and businesses in california. a new plan to pay for all the rebuilding. don't let type 2 diabetes get between you and your heart. because your risk of heart attack or stroke is

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

jeff bezos, for example, wrote a piece that went crazy viral, and the headline was "why am i getting eight hours of sleep is good for amazon shareholders?" and he broke it down and when he only got six hours of sleep, his decisions, he wrote, or not as 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 see their feedback, and their feedback is i wish i had a chance to build a deeper relationship with my coworkers, and process some of the things i a

we could give one million reasons, and that would be jeff bezos. clearly 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

that would be jeff bezos. big 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 an

we could give one million reasons, and that would be jeff bezos. clearly 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 $30others lost a combined 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 be

jeff bezos, for example, wrote a piece that went crazy viral, and the headline was "why am i getting eight hours of sleep is good for amazon shareholders?" and he broke it down and when he only got six hours of sleep, his decisions were not as 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 thou which still valorize is people who ignores the data, that has a very negative impact on business metrics. emily: when it comes to entrepreneurs and the way you communicate with your portfolio companies, how do you deal 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 see their feedback, and their feedback is i wish i had a chance to build a deeper relationship with my coworkers, and process some of the things i am b

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.

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

for example, for example, jeff bezos owns a big chunk of amazon. the man is worth, his wealth 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: y

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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

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

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.

. >> also on the list north korean leader kim jong-un, amazon founder jeff bezos and the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers, immigrants who 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 pr

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

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

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

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 amazing year for stocks. >> golodryga: and we kno

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 settings these extras plus manufacturers increase cost for labor and materials have pushed average

today they put at the shorted list, including chinese president xi, amazon president jeff bezos, dreamers, undocumented 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. ♪

. >> jack ma, the push to brick and mortar and why jeff bezos struggled in the chinese market. >>> a turning 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 mo

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

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.

today they put at the shorted list, including chinese president xi, amazon president jeff bezos, dreamers, undocumented 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. 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 w