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"today" show producer, and that was -- >> it happens. it happens. we are in the midst of election coverage. >> yeah, things get tricky. i will pick up from there. what we were saying is that the situation with amazon is two-fold, right? you have a decade of the tech companies surging and there's a connection going on and that's why you are seeing some of the layoffs. with amazon, remember, during the pandemic, that's all people were doing were ordering off amazon, and now the pandemic breaks and people are changing their habits and they are actually going to stores and then you have inflation....

Parton friday night a $100 million grant. it's called the courage and civility award. this is a grant he's formally awarded to jose andres and cnn's van jones. no strings attached. help the world. they spoke a lot about f phila philanthropy. jeff bezos saying although he hasn't signed the giving pledge, he does plan to give away the majority of his wealth before he dies. >> he's estimated to be worth $124 billion. thanks so much. that's going to do it for us today. appreciate everyone for joining us. see you tomorrow, same time, same place. the news continues with alison and victor right after...

Now to a cnn exclusive with one of the world's richest people. khloe malice spoke with jeff bezos and his partner lauren sanchez about his plan to donate a majority of his wealth valued at spl $124 billion to charity. he said he will use to fight climate change and for people that could help unify humanity. dolly parton got a $100 million check for her charitable work. >> talk to me about choosing dolly parton. >> well look at what she's done. and how she's led her life. and the way she's done it, these bold things, always with civility and kindness. she's a unifier. we have big problems in th...

It was wide-ranging. we covered a lot of topics. we spoke for over 20 minutes at their washington, d.c. home. it was their first ever sitdown interview together since they first debuted as a couple in 2019, and we spoke about these tough economic times, and also what is he going to do with $124 billion and what he said to me was pretty interesting. take a listen. >> i don't know whether we're technically in a recession. economists argue over that, and they have certain technical definitions. what i can tell you is the economy does not look great right now. things are slowing down. you're seein...

739 billion. it's going to further erode our energy independence by choking off our oil and gas industry, also going to make everything more expensive by raising corporate taxes. in the media, they are ducking coverage of one major part of this legislation. see if you can figure it out. here's the associated press. what's in bidens big bill? america's biggest action ever on climate change, drug cost cap. what about cvs? ceiling major democratic victory on climate, health care, and taxes. i wonder why no prominent mention of the army of 87,000 new irs agents that are hired. you need to look int...