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Hold your mobile phone to the scanner and youre in. has leonarda shows me amazons new menus and explains that the language assistant alexa can help with the preparation at home im under constant surveillance. which shelf do i stop. which products and my interest in and. on the ceiling sensors and cameras. intelligent image recognition captures my every move whats my take off the shelf what do i put back and what do i take with me. this branch is still in its test phase but amazon plans to open 5...

So low, the retail industry was already making moves to be more competitive. walmart raised its starting hourly pay to $11, targeted the same to $12. one analyst told me amazons move was a headache for any company smaller than amazon. with a market cap of $1 trillion, amazon cant afford to pay its people more. this time of year, extra turkey as well, retailers make at least one-third of annual sales between halloween and new years. no matter how strong holiday sales are, profits will be narrower...

Senator bernie sanders bill called literally "the stop jeff bezos act." its premise was to attract large companies whose low-wage employees have to rely on government assistance. today, though, from a p.r. perspective, amazons founder and ceo jeff bezos scored a point. >> mr. jeff bezos today, what he has done, it is only enormouslys hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be -- and i think it will be -- a shot heard around the world. >> as of november 1st, more than 350,000 amazon emp...

Accusations of tax evasion and fraud by president trump of the 1990s braided an article published late today, "the "the times" is that trump received at least 413 million entities dollars from his fathers real estate empire, mostly through tax dodges. a lawyer for president trump quickly responded to the allegations, calling them 100% false. just about an hour ago, the new york city tax department weighed in, saying, it is reviewing the allegations listed in the article. the dow was up 123 point...

He was talking about everything else that everybody is talking about. think about that for a moment. people are starved for unique content. they seem to not be getting it elsewhere. the ratings show that and what he covers every night show that. hes also dealing with things that are outside of my per view. i dont have access to those materials. im glad the country is starting to have access to those materials because i think when everybody is calling for transparency and accountable, it ought to...

Story. josh dawson is a white house reporter for the post and a cnn analyst. josh, youre having to write about your owner in this situation. >> right, but were just sticking to the facts and what happened in these meetings between president trump and the postmaster general. he asked for the rates on amazon and other firms, to be clear, to be doubled. he sees the postal services finances. he says theyre bleeding. he said doing this emeliorates him of the financial problems there. thats been pushe...

Personally pushed the postmaster general to double rates on amazon. this looks like hes trying to punish the "washington post" owner jeff bezos by punishing amazon. is that the case. that trump has been pressuring the postmaster general? >> its not the case hes trying to punish jeff bezos. the president has made clear whether its trade with china, renegotiating with mexico or the eu, and amazon, he wants a more fair playing field for everyone. apparently the president told me amazon has a five-y...

Collusion. there was 75 meetings between the trump campaign and the kremlin. the democrats walked away from the daca deal. thats not true. trump walked away. she says trump is not trying to tear down news outlets, yet he does that every single day. hes trying to take away amazons deal with the postal service. its lie after lie essentially. but she does it in a disciplined, robotic fashion that appeals to her client, president trump whereas rudy is all over the place. >> she reenforces this idea ...

Positive l politifact. they said, no, the postal service isnt losing a fortune on amazon, those sorts of issues. >> and as we reported in our story, a number of the presidents advisers do not think amazon is a problem and have told him that. gary cohn, chief economic adviser who left last year. steve mnuchin has held efsevera meetings in the oval office about shipping costs for amazon, and he seems to be one of the main people in the administration who want to raise costs on amazon and other com...

Theres been a presentation of the facts but still the president doesnt believe it? >> no, the president believes amazon is a company just making too much money off mom and pop shops, as kellyanne conway phrased it earlier. the president thinks amazon has too lucrative and too sweet a deal. thats up for debate by others, but the president sees that. the president has also complained about the "washington post" owned by jeff bazos and sometimes complaints about amazon comes after "washington post"...