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

$10 billion contract from the government. last week the president said he's 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 you learning about efforts to influence the president and is it working? >> right, so, jake, cnn c...

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 wasn't actually competitive it was designed fro the very start to be fulfilled by amazon and all monthly by amazon. several defense secretaries aidesfe had prior professional ties to amazon, a key official working on the ...

The biggest really concerns about corruption always there reason to believe over the past couple years worked to enrich amazon already the world's recidivismest company. 10 billion-dollar cloud computing contract. according to critics, the contract wasn't actually competitive. it was designed from the very start to be fulfilled by amazon and only by amazon. several of defense secretary's jim mattis' aids had prior professional ties to amazon. a key official working on the pentagon's cloud computing program was carrying out secret job negotiations with amazon even as he worked on the pentagon's...

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 president's 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 defer you to the department of defense -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> and this is a process run by ...