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Trump seems willing to weigh in on amazons chances at winning a $10 billion government contract and his long-time perm rival with the companys founder, jeff bezos, may have something to do with it. michael warren joins me now. break it down for us. whats at issue here? >> reporter: thats right. theres cnn reporting that the president in recent days has seen a document prepared by one of amazons rival, the tech company oracle. this document essentially suggests a conspiracy theory at the pentagon...

$10 billion contract from the government. last week the president said hes looking to get involved. >> some of the greatest companies in the world are complaining about it. having to do with amazon and the department of defense and i will be asking them to look at it very closely to see what i going on. >> cnn has learned that a competitor of amazon has been lobbying like mad to get president trump involved. i want to bring in kylie atwood and michael warner breaking the story. michael, what are...

In massive consumer of tax dollars come of the biggest really and for that reason concerns about corruption are always there the reason to ru believe over the past couple of years some of the pentagon have worked to enrich amazon are really the worlds just company. in 2017 the pentagon announced in billion-dollar cloud computing contract rate according to critics the contract wasnt actually competitive it was designed fro the very start to be fulfilled by amazon and all monthly by amazon. severa...

The biggest really concerns about corruption always there reason to believe over the past couple years worked to enrich amazon already the worlds recidivismest company. 10 billion-dollar cloud computing contract. according to critics, the contract wasnt actually competitive. it was designed from the very start to be fulfilled by amazon and only by amazon. several of defense secretarys jim mattis aids had prior professional ties to amazon. a key official working on the pentagons cloud computing p...

Economic principles and making sure that we have a strong and stable economy and that is exactly what the president is doing. jim. >> question on amazon. the pentagon could potentially award a very large cloud computing contract to amazon. given the presidents recent criticisms, is this something he would have concerned about amazon getting this contract and would he intervened in the contract competition? >> the president is not involved in the process. d.o.d. has a bidding prose and i would de...