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Long-standing friendship with the man selling the post, don graham, whose family had owned it since 1933. >> newspapers are a business and they are something more. aim the sound of someone named katherine graham who ran the paper with famous distinction for many years by standing back from politics. and i think jeff was worth between 25 and $30 billion. and i didn't know what his politics were. >> bezos recognized some of his amazon strategies could be applied to the post. >> one of the things under jeff's leadership we went to work on is making the site faster and easier to navigate and also ...

Blackmail him. now he's turning the tables on the tabloids. >> a tech guy. even though seems like a laughing fool. smiley. he's a tough customer. >> and he's no stranger to controversy. >> president trump often attacks bezos publicly. going after amazon and the washington post which the ceo also owns. >> so he uses the "washington post" for power. and he thinks that he's going to get the politicians to do what we wants. >> they chose the wrong person the bully in jeff bezos. he has wealth, courage and self confidence. and he's angry. ♪ >> commanding alexa to turn on our light, bing watching ...

Economic incentives and something more. >> dozens of cities had to put together these massive packages for amazon as they said here is all the information about my city. they gave amazon massive amounts of data. that is valuable data that amazon paid nothing for. >> amazon said it will use the data for future infrastructure investment and job creation. after a 14 month search involving more than 200 cities the company announced that hq2 and its 50,000 jobs would be divided between two locations. arlington county in northern virginia and long island city, new york. the local opposition to the n...

A company produced a amount of extraordinary wealth probably should be holding itself to a higher standard. >> in october 2018. amazon made a major move in that direction. announcing it was instituting a men mum wage of $15 an hour. for all u.s. workers. >> i want to congratulate mr. bezos for doing exactly the right thing. >> we're a gold standard for innovation. we should lead. >> after being criticized he wasn't giving enough of the fortune to krarty. he announced the day one fund. a $2 billion commitment to programs to help the homeless and preschools in low income areas. making him 2018 t...

The beginning of a sustained attack. >> the president has not let up. and every time you see the "washington post" write a story that's critical of the administration, the president blames jeff bezos. >> president trump has escalated what many see as a personal crusade to bring the tech titan down. bezos who has always played things close to the vest has for the most part refused to engage with president trump or his other critics. until now. >> jeff doesn't spend a lot of time telling you what he might be doing at some point in the future. he spends his time on doing it. >> he's made a career...