amazon. there is always an amazon story and there's one today. they are going to spend $700 million to retrain about a third of their u.s. work force. now, the stock's gone to $2,022. tell me about this. susan: basically, just ahead of prime day as well, where we are expecting a worker strike at a minnesota facility for them. amazon says they will retrain about a third of their work force. that's about 100,000 workers by the year 2025. stuart: $700 million. susan: it breaks down to roughly $7,000 per worker. they are saying look, we are trying to help those that -- whose jobs might be lost because of automation when it comes to robots and facilities and deliveries, that last mile delivery. we are going to try to help those 300,000 they already employ, 100,000 will get extra training. stuart: the story is surely prime days next week, two days, and the stock is back over $2,000 a share. what more is there to this story? >> spending $700 million on retraining and they didn't have to ask for a government subsidy to do it. go figure. stuart: you would

amazon workers on strike. it is prime day but that is not stopping employees at one shipping facility in minnesota, from walking off the job about one hour ago, calling for better working conditions. more job security, higher wages. we are live on the scene with the breaking headlines. >>> a new warning after a massive blackout crippleed heart of new york city. what officials are saying today. how the mayor of the city, who wants to be president by the way is defending himself for being thousands of miles away. >>> the first hurricane of the season to hit the u.s. is making its way north where we are he can track barry's past. residents begin cleanup efforts. ashley: so much to go at. fox business team coverage. jackie deangelis at the new york stock exchange. edward lawrence as always live at white house. susan li at a amazon fulfillment center warehouse in shakopee, minnesota. we begin with you, jackie. reporter: even though these were small positive gains on nasdaq and dow, hitting records psychologically s

amazon is the enemy? before microsoft, before amazon, seattle in the '80s was a dying timber town. there was no wealth there at all. microsoft came, amazon came, they created the wealth. they created literally millions and millions of millionaires. now as you're seeing just in fact how mobile money is and the more difficulties administrators and bureaucrats make it to create jobs because seattle's minimum wage is just one example, more money not just leaves seattle but leaves america writ large. >> the positive is that the reporter said it only at the end, they are going to bellevue and will create a 40-story plus building over there. they are still focusing on washington area. to add to all of this, apple, just within the past two weeks, announce they hare doing this five-year expansion plan in the united states and specifically within seattle, i know it's not amazon, but apple announced they would be adding 2,000 jobs. hopefully that could offset some of the loss from amazon overall. i still think it's good. you have amazon investing in bellevue, they will build a light rail syst

one council auld amazon's founder enemy of the city. it would have cost amazon more than $12 million a year. the rationale, amazon was driving up wages, housing prices so much it was largely responsible for seattle's homeless problem. so it should pay to build subsidized housing for poor. a venture capitalist told the city council that they are chasing jobs away. >> amazon has been unfairly blamed for challenges that we as a region experienced, that we would have experienced regardless of amazon. reporter: amazon just issued a release showing what it has done for seattle over 25-year history. $4.5 billion in capital investment. it has paid out to employees $32 billion in wages which of course is spent locally. now the company is looking across lake washington to bellview. it announced plans for a 43 story story next to twin 15-story towers. it has five other sites under development. >> city staff met with amazon. we want to make sure that they feel welcome in bellevue. reporter: clearly amazon does feel welcome over in bellevue. in fact

i think they have to understand that amazon's amazon. they can pick up kind of the rest of it if you will. dagen: which retailer does the best job riding on amazon's coat tails. walmart would be the obvious one. >> i would say walmart. i would say target has done a phenomenal job. they're using retail stores more than a lot of other retailers will use them because of the sortments. -- assortments. a lot of retailers are using the actioam xiom if we take the stot of the h equation, we reduce co. >> i'm a regular amazon prime shopper. i didn't know it was amazon prime day. are they advertising -- i mean, how come i didn't get an e-mail about this. you have to turn on "mornings with maria." are they advertising this in a way i'm missing. >> good question. i've been getting hit. they've been blitzing me over the last several days, weeks. the big announcement was june 25th where they announced exactly when it would be. you kind of knew if you're an amazonophile. then they hit you with it's going to be 48 hours this year instead of 36. they ma

amazon shares are lower after record run of earnings come to an end. something tells me it is temporary condition. jeff bezos don't care about share price. his focus is world domination. we have jackie deangelis, and rob luna. jackie, listen, i think the numbers are phenomenal we've seen so far. >> they are. even the weakest link, amazon, one of the reasons they missed they reinvested $800 million back in the company. bezos said in order to grow and deliver what we promised users the one day delivery, we need facilities in check. we, top of this. aws, that is the shining star, future. charles: that is the cloud business. >> the cloud business. growth was 37%. a little less than 41% than we saw previously but still -- charles: getting more competitive there. google for first time i notice bragging about their cloud business. before i go to rob on the investment part of this, technology accounts nine billion dollars, up 25%. fulfillment, 9.3 billion, up 17%. marketing up 48%. amazon spent the money to build the empire. they're not worried about minutia a

amazon has shown an ability to go into so many different businesses. >> amazon has amazon web services, too, which is the base behind all the services it provides. uber has nothing like that. if my competition is coming up on uber's heels very fast and furiously. stuart: if i buy uber stock, you better turn bullish on me. >> i will be neutral. stuart: facebook releasing its annual report on work force diversity, says that it wants to double its number of women globally and black and hispanic employees in the united states. are they detracting or distracting from their privacy concerns? i notice the stock is back to $200 a share. >> you looking for me to say something negative about facebook wanting to hire more -- stuart: no, i'm not. >> that's not a hand grenade i'm interested in jumping on this morning. i think it's a great move on facebook's part. stuart: is this diversity move a distraction away from their privacy concerns? does it matter? obviously not, because the price of the stock is 200 bucks a share. >> they've got concerns, they are going to hear from, you know, from the lef

i do take a look at ebay versus amazon. year to date, ebay is outperforming amazon. if you look at the 52-week view, though, amazon is outperforming ebay by about four percentage points. we are joking about amazon prime day, you said it's 48 hours for the first time. i think there's a lot of analysts who say obviously this is good for amazon but it's also probably going to benefit target and walmart are trying pretty hard to keep pace. you can order a lot of stuff on an app on your phone, they will run it out to your car if you want. i'm not kidding. stuart: i want. i want. deirdre: why not. stuart: to immigration. nationwide i.c.e. raids in cities, new york, los angeles, rounding up illegal immigrants for deportation, but it reportedly only happened in a handful of neighborhoods. we are talking to the mayor of miami, florida. i want to know what happened in his city over the weekend. we'll be right back. ♪ - did you know that americans that bought gold in 2005 quadrupled their money by 2012? and even now many experts predict the next gold rush is just beginning. s

amazon is huge in the cloud. the stock is down 8 bucks, 1903. >>> facebook says its digital currency, the proposed libra could help law enforcement. do we have anymore on this, why they're saying that? susan: basically facebook is trying to sell libra to regulators saying it is okay people thought and do say cryptocurrencies is a haven for money launderers, i will is lit activity, drug dealers as well. david marcus, the head of colibra and libra at facebook says if you look at blockchain technology which is behind crypto, it's a public ledger of transactions, you have to put information out there in the public. using that information you can trace people, to help law enforcement track down who is using this, the bad guys in all of this. but of course, you know, we heard from the president and saying that if you want enact libra you better get a chart, a new currency at play around the world. stuart: before we close out this block, i do want to thank my colleague and friend mike murphy sticking with us religiously

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reporter: amazon is getting a clear showout for thinking ahead. i would be remiss, jpmorgan chase has a partnership with mit. at&t has a partnership with notre dame university. other large companies are trying to figure this out. it is not for altruistic purposes. connell: so many industries. one you would think of, ours as half a joke. i was at hong kong, in hong kong at "wall street journal" tech conference. they had the artificial intelligence news anchor there. there was no deirdre bolton. >> that is google is working on, have the computer make the appointment with the hairdresser. it sounds completely natural. the front end, direct customer relations will be handled in automated, computer or a.i. fashion. connell: crazy world. >> those studies, the oxford study, they talk about the pace of change, if the pace of change is matched by retraining then we're okay. if the pace of change goes too fast, then you will have more people out of jobs because they -- connell: you can't keep up with it. we have to go. thanks, lance, deirdre, appreciate it.

this is amazon in particular. amazon is celebrating an anniversary today. we will tell you about that later. the dow jones industrials down about 118 right now. s&p is down by a greater amount percentage-wise. the nasdaq's the worst performer in premarket activity. that could change as investors begin to realize the effect of so many more people coming into the work force. that's why the unemployment number ticked up despite the big jobs numbers. 335,000 people coming back into the work force. that is a huge number. >>> now this. president trump held his salute to america event on the washington mall. hoor here's a clip of his speech. >> from the banks of the chesapeake to the cliffs of california, from the humming shores of the great lakes to the sand dunes of the carolinas, from the fields of the heartland to the everglades of florida, the spirit of america's independence will never fade, never fail, but will reign forever and ever and ever. david: come in, larry o'connor, "washington times" associate editor. i heard the rain kept you away from the mall b

but today is amazon prime day. tomorrow will be amazon prime day as well, and there are these protests all across the country. legitimate at this point? or is amazon just being targeted here? >> it's both, right? not one of these things that has to be one or the other. certainly there's an opportunity for employees who have been denied reasons who have legitimate complaints about their working conditions, who have legitimate complaints about the waps treats employees to say all eyes on amazon right now and we'll take this opportunity to stage job protests and make our voices heard but as i wrote about last week, in the axios market newsletter, you're seeing this pushback to the minimum wage hikes all over the place. walmart employees, target employees when they got minimum wage increases they said this is nice but not enough. we haven't gotten a raise in 10, 15, 20 years and now you want to give us an extra dollar more while we see booming profits coming from the company we deserve a bit more so i think you'll see

the basically the argument is amazon and google have too much control. they control what you search for. they pretty much providing the platform, so the information about pricing what have you is in their hands. what do you make of this? >> companies are so worried that google and amazon are taking all of the oxygen out of the room. i think this goes to show how important search is among other things, right? so if you can't find something, based on internet, basically doesn't exist in the mind of the consumer. the question though they will be facing regulators if they decide to look at this more closely, how are you going to set up rules that will debate, design how much people can search what they can search for? connell: right. >> how would you even enforce those rules especially dealing with a company like amazon that is not only a marketplace, 50% of all e-commerce sales cross the internet? it is huge. connell: this retail group is saying you have to do things disclose where products are from, erin. you should talk about whether they are new or used.

amazon, everyone points to amazon as the bold case for netflix. neil: but netflix isn't building a structure as much a lot of stuff to for people to watch. it is very different than amazon building you know a infrastructure that would support all of this. >> amazon is leveraged? >> i don't know that. >> i don't think so. >> they have been, amazon can make a lot of money if they want to. >> right. anytime, turn on the switch. >> problem with netflix they have off-balance sheet long term obligations. this company, you you 2011, 2012 like a ferrari. reed hastings is genius. they got the company moving quickly. today they don't have the luxury. they have committed to content. neil: are they raising prices? >> they are trying to. it is tough. the bull case from here, that unit adoption where it is, that we will continue to raise prices aggressively. our work suggests, once you get over $10 a share, $10 a month for streaming service, when price sensitivity, consumer kicked. this quarter we -- >> i can't figure it out. i can't find anything. >> there is

amazon, alphabet set to report after the bell. the trend has been the friend of the earning are looking pretty good as charles payne. charles: intel that was one of the big names. nobody talked about it. they report after the bell. who cares. neil: i'm sure you do. charles: but i'm weird like that. good afternoon, everyone, i'm charles payne. this is "making money." the stocks are lower as investors wait two powerhouses, amazon and alphabet/google. buying stocks after everybody writes off the company. i can tell you how when we go in depth. most americans in decades review the economy postively. they are giving p

used to be you couldn't sue amazon if the product you bought at amazon was defective. you would have to sue the manufacturer of that product. the court ruled you can now sue amazon. maria: all the retailers wanted it to go that way. they thought amazon got a free ride. a lot to come, the border crisis, mike pence visiting the southern border this friday. i'll speak with his chief of staff, mark short, next. stay with us. most people think a button is just a button. ♪ that a speaker is just a speaker. ♪ or - that the journey can't be the destination. most people haven't driven a lincoln. discover the lincoln approach to craftsmanship at the lincoln summer invitation. right now, get 0% apr on all 2019 lincoln vehicles plus no payments for up to 90 days. only at your lincoln dealer. maria: welcome back. good wednesday morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo. it is wednesday, july 10. your top stories right now, 7:3. jay powell on the hot seat today. it is day one of his two-day testimony. his prepared remarks will come out at 8:30 a.m. e

i don't think it impacts amazon's business model one iota. it is no different from a market manager in heidelberg or recommending the bourse at christmas. they don't know retailers than any other. the question is whether or not the internet is involved. neil: target of various government probes is that a high point you say slow down or what? >> not for me. i'll tell you why. because most of the antitrust regulation, the concerns over business practices, those were levied at a time where the consumer was being hurt. arguably it is not the consumer that's being hurt. prices have gone down. delivery times have gone down. so the benefit is very, very real. if they go after them on something like that, they have to change structure of the laws. that won't stop them from trying to grab headlines. neil: keith, thank you very much. good catching up. >> thanks, neil. neil: there are numbers. there is emotional testimony behind those numbers, from families of boeing 727 max victims today. fbn's kristina partsinevelos with the very latest. reporter: nei

finally amazon, get this, hitting $2,000 a share for the first time since october. this is one week before the amazon prime day, the big sale starts. very exciting there. i have to tell you, a good day for the markets. we like i had down here. melissa: save the hat. it looks good. gerri, thank you. connell: we'll eventually get there. jonathan hoenig joins us on the panel, capitalist pig hedge fund founding member, fox news contributor. todd horowitz with us, bubba trading show host. obviously been for some time, jonathan, it continues to be all about the fed. we know what we're getting in july, get a rate cut, 100% chance in the futures market. now i guess the debate whether, how big after rate cut we get, not whether we get one. what do you think will happen on that front? the other part of the question, what should happen, right? >> amazing turn of event, connell, look back to the end of 2018, we were talking about rate hikes. as you said virtually 100% of a rate cut. even a 30% chance of a 50 basis points rate cut. federal reserve as you mentioned citing issues

amazon produces products cheaper than if you buy it off-the-shelf. it will be hard to show as a result of what they did they're keeping prices up, rather than lowering them, expanding their base. connell: you see this as an uphill climb from the government's point of view from the get-go? >> i do. can i make political comment? allegation more likely to see in the obama doj than the trump doj but here it is, things get flipped whatever in this day and age. good to see you. the department of justice looking a broad new antitrust review. new tech companies. we'll stay on top of it, meantime overseas, big story, new leader for the uk. he was born in new york city, boris johnson but he has been chosen by members of the conservative party to be the next prime minister of the united kingdom, vowing to get the country out of the european union by the halloween deadline. deal or no deal. >> some waggles pointed out, deliver, unite, defeat was no the perfect acronym for an election campaign since unfortunately it spells dud. they forgot the final e, my friends

with amazon. in one of their cases here in the state much california, they are saying we shouldn't be overregulated because all of the customers that go on to amazon are our customers. they are not reseller's customers. then in another court case they said they are not our customers, we don't want to be liable if something goes wrong with the product. we need to update the law. we are a 21st century economy. we can't let the rules of the 40s and 50s apply to this current marketplace. reporter: google is denying it has ties with china. >> it's very peculiar back ground where google is working with the chinese communist government and not with the u.s. military. so the project decision was not to work with ai with the american military but they are working with the communist chinese. the question is what in the world is going on there. reporter: google reresponsibilitied, as we've said before, we do not work with the chinese military. what about the president and the fact he says his administration

. >> problem with bernie, he made a moral case, gone after walmart and amazon. >> big corporaterations. >> right, but, the more difficult question, small business owners or campaign like his, he needs the people to be knocking on doors, 60 hours a week, but can his campaign afford to pay them at $15 an hour, not. kennedy: they get 4 weeks off expesmeemployer based healthcart single payer. >> right, i think his problem, full of hypocrisy. all over. but i think the fact he made the moral case is all right biting him you know where. kennedy: does not matter what the moral case is, you know milton prid friedman, they point you can have good intentions but the bad things that happen on the way are not worth it. >> 15 in new york is not same at rural america, the idea that is a federal minimum wage is something to think about. kennedy: also in this something we don't talk about enough. employees will never pay anyone more, that is the most anyone will get paid, that is why businesses should be able to determine if someone is just entering workforce, they don't ern as much as someone who has

amazon down by 2%. alphabet, sometimes the options markets get it right, they were pricing a move up or down of 6%. stock up 6.25% after the earnings release. >>> intel reporting its second quarter results. that is another big one to get too. jackie deangelis joins us with those numbers. what do we see, jackie? reporter: connell, intel soaring because we have a beat top and bottom line. revenue 16.5 billion, surpassing the 15.7 expectation. earnings per share $1.06. that was well above the 89-cent estimate. where intel tripped up last quarter was on the guidance. it gave weaker guidance, even though beat on top and bottom line. that was a problem. this quarter raising the full-year revenue outlook, up 500 million from april. so investors are looking at that in a positive light too. before the earnings came out we saw headlines regarding apple acquisition of intel's smartphone modem business. that is in fact happening. that will happen for a billion dollars. apple is getting a majority stake in it. after

the second one would be amazon. the reason is that if you look at the other fang stocks, google and facebook are going to have regulatory overhang here and then you have netflix which is a whole separate issue around competition. so i would put a distant second at amazon. liz: amazon, distant second. gene, great to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you, liz. liz: gene munster. what's the next musk moonshot? we have a major hint for you. closing bell ringing in 36 minutes. the eccentric billionaire elon musk rolling out his plan to connect your brain to something he calls neweurolink? what is that? find out next on "the claman countdown." >> if someone has broken their neck, broken their spine, we can solve that with a chip. this is something that i think most people don't quite understand yet. from fidelity. a visual snapshot of your investments. key portfolio events. all in one place. because when it's decision time... you need decision tech. only from fidelity. you need decision tech. my body is truly powerful.

amazon is seen as the leader to win that contract but the president says he's been presented with many concerns. >> we're getting tremendous , really complaint from other companies and from great companies some of the greatest companies in world to complain about it having to do with amazon and the department of defense. and if i will be asking them to look at it very closely. president also met thursday at the white house with executives from airline industry that included the head of airwaves along with united jett plus, and american. the white house says that discussion was on transparency and competition. back to you in new york. >> blake, thank you let's stay with the white house because president trump is planning to nominate eugene he tweeted last night gene has a great success in legal and laicial field highly rpghted as a lawyer but with great experience working with labor and everyone else. the 55-year-old is the son of the late justice angt antonin and step down from the position just last week costa after rules of prosecutor negotiating plea deal with jeffrey epstein. >> th

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amazon. lauren: facebook said the ftc opened an investigation into them. this follows a settlement with the ftc over privacy allegations. facebook posted stronger than expected second quarter results, able to grow their user base, despite the investigations. cheryl: tesla shares, we're watching that stock in the premarket right now. the company's second quarter numbers missed the street's forecast. tesla said it is working to increase production capacity. the stock is down 10 and three quarters of a percent. also, the company said that they lost over $400 million in the quarter, despite record sales led by of course the new model 3. and then there was this, another tesla executive is pulling up stakes. chief technology officer jb strobel is leaving after taking in $30 million in share sales. lauren: more earnings today, southwest, american, 3m, durable goods orders, north korea firing two short range issues into the he sea of japan. cheryl: tracee carrasco has details. tracee: the missile fil

lauren: amazon is the exception here. for the week all three major averages ending in the green for the third week in a row. >>> at the white house president trump is about to sign a safe third country asylum agreement with caught maulla. we will bring you breaking headlines from the president as we get them. connell: fox business team coverage of all this. kristina partsinevelos on floor of the new york stock exchange. watching those records. jackie deangelis in new york with the newsroom. with the news breaking at white house as usual, blake, let's start with you. reporter: president trump pulled out his favorite punching bag once again hitting federal reserve as we got the gdp reading at 2.1% for the second quarter of this year. the president tweeting the following after that reading saying quote, not bad considering we have the very heavyweight of the federal reserve anchor wrapped around our neck. almost no inflation, usa is set to zoom. now the president's top economic advisor larry kudlow suggesting on "wsj at larg

amazon is a bellwether stock. a make-or-break for any quarter. i own the name. likely will stick with it. charles: nicholas, you have reservation about mow moan mum names? >> i throw out ford, if you're retiree investor, good out look, 6% dividend, company like ford. charles: full disclosure, that is in my model portfolio, if it breaks 12 bucks. david, i love the suit. we'll talk to you. >> thank you. charles: most liberals pushing for $15 minimum wage, congresswoman, fellow "squad" member, rashida tlaib upped the ante that minimum wage should be $20 an hour. we're diving into the economic ramifications. >>> he was brutally attacked by antifa. journalist andy ngo is about to meet lawmakers. here with his story is his attorney, harmeet dillon. you've done a lot of good for the world. but i feel like you have the potential to do so much more. can we build ai without bias? how do we bake security into everything we do? we need tech that helps people understand each other. that understands my business. we've got some work to do. and we need your help. we need your s

executives from facebook, google, amazon and apple all facing congress ppg antitrust panel of the house judiciary committee is looking to find out whether company have become so big that they need to be broken up. the hearing coming as regulators around world are voiceing concern about tech giant market power and data correction policy. >> facebook is planning for cryptocurrency libra expected to face tough questions today at another hearing on capitol hill. facebook executives david marcus basically the head of the libra project will answer questions from the senate banking committee, president trump and federal reserve chair jay powell have already raised serious concerns about facebook libra projects. now treasury secretary steven mnuchin says he has his own reservations. >> cryptocurrency sughs bit coin have been exploited to support billions of dollars of illicit afnght like cybercrime, tax evasion, extortion, ransomware elicit drugs, human trafficking. mnuchin says facebook has, quote, a lot of work to do to convince regulators that libra will have the proper anti-money landering

amazon is bad for consumers? they are reducing costs, not raising them. >> they created all of this. there was no internet comments. the same argument in the 90s, it was going to be no kia, other companies that would be the monopoly. this is government meddling. >> you say that but then look at the ad revenue and how much google dominated across the board. according to this report, they look at how the companies leverage their network of users. >> why did they dominate? they provide a service people want to use. >> are they taking advantage of the fact that they are so large? he said i don't think anyone would come to the conclusion that we are a monopoly. can we say that? they are simply looking into it. they are simply looking into it. >> how many times when politicians are simply looking into something to the end up doing something that hurts the marketplace? - i think most of the time. this is not standard. he was holding the country hostage. you look at maybe google, google was the only one who could maybe h

and amazon prime day. so what has -- what started as just a day for amazon is now bigger than amazon. but we still anticipate amazon to break records next year. melissa: we are running a list of companies that have been hammering my inbox with offered. when you see things like this funny report googling cancel amazon prime membership was up 18% as people were joining to get the deal then canceling. >> we still expect to see amazon break records with the number of mimms they are driving and the number of deals they issued is much more than last year. and they are driving sales of their own branded devices, which is one of the keys to their strategy. melissa: i mountained that. when you go on prime day, the only stuff on sale is their product and i want to buy other stuff. do they make money on the whole prime thing? i get preshipping on about 5 million items during the year because of the prime thing. are they still making money on me? >> absolutely. amazon is not known for having the biggest discounts. the

focus today on amazon. tell us what your experience was like there, through the context, what do you mean, they treat you like a robot. >> so when it comes it a robot it is more like that you are sort of held to robotic standards of productivity, which in my kay when i was a picker at f-8, we carried around a scan gun. it would assign you tasks. when you got, every time you scanned something to complete that task, it would immediately give you a new one. there is a bar at the bottom, that would start ticking down the seconds you had left to do it. connell: they were tracking you, you were saying the whole time? >> yeah. the thing was gps enabled. connell: amazon has responded, i will tell you what they said in a second. >> i know what they're going to say. connell: here it is, let me get to it first. i will ask you another question. for someone who only worked at amazon for 11 days, emily's statements are not an accurate portrayal of working in our buildings. we're proud of the safe work places and allegati

amazon. do you feel amazon miss treats their workers? >> i can't speak about whether or not amazon miss treats workers but the conditions in my company are becoming more and more burden some as amazon increases the pressure of the operations. >> what does that mean, in your case, because we've heard from workers here who say they have to pack a lot of goods in 16 minutes but as a pilot what does that mean for you? >> that means we have a staffing problem with the contracts that we have today we can't recruit enough pilots to stock these airplanes and amazon has really ambitious growth plans, and just getting the airplanes staffed and crewed properly in order to serve amazon is becoming a problem. >> so they're asking a lot of you. i'm just wondering do you feel that you're being paid enough to meet those expectations? >> actually we're losing pilots because we're not paid enough. if you compare the jobs we do to a company like ups or fedex and amazon clearly put themselves into that segment,

amazon. >> i'm getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the pentagon and with amazon. they're saying it was not competitively bid. this is going on a long time, probably before this administration. we're looking at it very seriously. one of the biggest contracts ever given, having to do with the cloud, a lot of other things. we're getting tremendous really complaints about other companies and from great companies, some of the greatest companies in the world are complaining about it, having to do with amazon and the department of defense. i will ask them to look very closely what is going on. i have had not such few things where there is complaining, not only complaining from the media, asking questions about it from the media, complaining from different companies like microsoft, oracle, ibm. great companies that are complaining about it. we'll take a look at it. we'll take a strong look at it. thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you, press. right this way. thank you, press.

. >> yep. >> amazon also. lot of people want us to take action. reporter: the president wouldn't say if the doj will get involved, but trump does say that twitter makes it difficult for people to find and follow his tweets. he thinks they are using their political bias to suppress his followers and that companies like google and facebook are against him and using their platforms to fight back. i reached out to all three companies, but they're not commenting on the president's remarks. neil? neil: thank you very much. meantime, "wall street journal" reporting that youtube and facebook overrun with false claims about cancer treatments. susan li has more on that. susan: we call medical snake oil in the social media age. "wall street journal" did this extensive piece taking a look at a lot of misinformation, scientifically dubious cancer treatments, alternative cancer treatments that could be harmful to patients who are looking for hope, right. hope that isn't necessarily there. so the "wall street journal" says t

to answer some of those questions we have amazon's senior spokesperson, the head of amazon operations pr, we have ashley robinson to join us to answer some of these questions. what do you make of their claims? >> look, it is prime day, which is great for amazon but it has become an event our critics like unions and politicians have used to raise the visibility much their cause and in some cases to increase their membership dues. and the fact of the matter is, they have a business cause to conjure misinformation about amazon and we, we provide the things that they are already reporting are their cause. we provide industry leading benefits. we provide safe working conditions. we provide great opportunity for career mobility and we think a lot of people protesting outside if they do show up are simply not well-informed what goes on here port the to you don't think a lot of staff members will walk off the job in protest and they want full-time jobs? >> i am confident majority of our employees will work business as usual. they're excited about prime day. there is a lot of energy going on h

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yes, amazon is one, as is google. these are companies who are strangling consumers' access to information and ultimately leading them to potentially make decisions that are not the best for them. liz: let me play devil's advocate. arguably, both of these companies are competing and in fact, i know for a fact both of them either started in apartments or garages, and here they are, they had the fastest runners and you are saying they shouldn't be allowed to win. >> we are saying, we are answering the question the ftc has asked, which is has technology changed the marketplace such as the rules need to change. the answer is yes. those are gigantic companies today. they represent, the two of them, amazon and google represent 60% of products searched. amazon alone represents 50% of all e-commerce. liz: people are choosing them. tell me your biggest beef. where do you feel, because you just said these names sometimes restrict access or are not allowing the consumer to have access to certain things. give me an example. >> tha

he's offering things that have nothing to do with amazon. if you are a worker at amazon and you want to go take a nursing degree there, you can do that. charles: see, most businesses would be afraid of losing employees as they enhance their skills. i think that's where the issue is. we've got 7.34 million jobs out there. deirdre: we talk about this a lot, that are unfilled every single month. this is sure a great way to attack that. human psychology is so interesting. there has been so many studies on this. people are actually very loyal to companies that allow them to grow and improve their education. they are more loyal than companies -- to companies that don't invest in their people whatsoever. this is clever on many, many different levels. in theory, it lets amazon retain more of its work force which is cheaper for them. it makes the people who are there more motivated and also lets the people actually be more skilled. for example, they were saying people who work in the warehouses, you mentioned bernie sanders criticizing, they need to

. >> this is a hit to amazon this weekend now news points 7 hundred million dollars to retrain or train workers providing them degrees in unrelated fields or basically paying for them to go back to college. >> while working. >> while working, already amazingly managing to provide free college bernie sanders says government should do. >> kate? >> paul my hit for uber debuted a new feature where riders kayx for uber comfort allows you to tell your preferred air-conditioning settings, quit ride where driver doesn't talk to you and a lot of worry when uber started that this wouldn't be competition, now the competition from lyft lied sharing services fierce that uber rolling out hilarious onions prestate nothing one circulate speak to you in car. >> a tongue-in-cheek social justice lawyers wore one halle berry cast in live action disney mermaid a couple people upset animated version came out defending her but for the last couple years all we have been hearing from social justice crowd that if the actor rules don't match race gender sexual orientation i am happy to see they are coming around

amazon is being moral. what did amazon do? they cut stock compensation, they cut bonuses and cut worker jobs. they have 100,000 robots now. so that's the point. you're not suddenly moral if you raise the minimum wage. you've got to look at the market impact and there is one as the cbo just noted. stuart: i don't think government should be in the business of legislating wages. it always backfires. there is always a downside. there are unintended consequences. liz: china mandates the minimum wage. they can pay a dollar an hour. there's a flipside to that. stuart: that's true. they could. look at that. the market is down 90 points on the dow industrials right now. charles, i think this is all about the fed. there seems to be some disappointment that maybe the federal reserve won't drop rates 50 basis points at the end of this month. we have had people on the show saying they aren't going to cut rates at all. what say you? charles: i think they will. i think jay powell has sort of backed himself into the corner talking about an ou

top executives from google, amazon, apple and facebook are about to testify. it's one of at least -- it's been a crazy, crazy week already. four hearings scheduled on the hill this week involving big tech. are we at a tipping point for the stocks? a house judiciary aide telling hillary vaughn today's hearing was decidedly not part of an effort to start a critical investigation into any of these tech companies. but the aide did blame a lack of bipartisan consensus, not a lack of desire, to do it. hillary has been following all the developments, reporting the story from on the ground in capitol hill. what is your sense that the mood there, as this is about to begin, do big tech companies think that it's the start of a critical investigation or more hammering on their businesses? reporter: certainly they have to make that case, that they do not pose a threat to competition and that they need to defend their dominance in front of lawmakers on the house judiciary committee antitrust panel today. but we did get a quote from ranking member doug collins, who does say

a trillion dollars for amazon. we'll be right back. ♪ connell: there is all kinds of things going out, going on in sun valley. big tech executives not at white house. they're out there today. secretary of state showing up. bigger than all of that, charlie gasparino who is still there. here he comes flying in for us. charlie, talk about your scoop or scoops. can you look up, please, charlie, if you're on the air. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. connell: i thought you didn't like me. >> i got my cue. connell: t-mobile, sprint, i was going to get into, your scoop or scoops, start from that, move from there. what are you hearing? >> here is what we got. reason i'm looking down, here is what i have my notes. this is what we've been reporting, i can't tell you this thing will definitely happen tomorrow the next day. what i said earlier in the week, i said two things, number one, likely tuesday or wednesday. that is how the deal talks were progressing, that doj would get comfortable with the structure of deal, sale of spectrum

amazon saw a record run of earnings come to an end. profit margin compression came from $800 million in spending during the quarter. that was to improve the business. things like delivery, infrastructure changes, amazon prime makes one day shipping the norm. aws is the cloud, it is the growth part of the business. it is the shining star. 37% growth for the quarter. not so bad. lower than first quarter, 41%. twitter hitting it out of the park as well. the stock sharply higher. the president's favorite platform doing well, neil. neil: indeed. that was a surprising there. i guess the big goal is that that people, more people getting involved, staying a little longer, makes a big difference. >> it does. neil: thank you very, very much. meantime how is the fed reading all of this? does it necessarily mean given the environment, and given the slowing gdp data we have been seeing, whether blamed on the fed and rate hikes prior or not? are they more inclined to go ahead and cut rates, a quarter point? that seems to be consensus bet end of next

. >> she is killing jobs with the intro of the green new deal and she killed jobs with the amazon deal in new york. we elect representatives to legislate. right now they are not legislating. they are more concerned with the limelight than delivering results. liz: aoc saying calling someone communist is rooted in white supremacy. she tweeted out the president is calling communists white supremacists. she is saying, i have a long history of believing in democracy and economic rights. but the president was not talking about civil rights. it's misleading. it's about their big government socialist communist takeover of the economy. even democrats are warn being that. >> absolutely. aoc's suggestion that somehow calling someone a communist is rooted in white supremacy is rubbish. the words and phrases communist and socialist have been used in insults in this country because americans understand from the cold war and from the principles of communism and socialism that they are incompatible with the founding principles of this country. people are called those things obviously during the cold w

>> i think this week we have to watch amazon. i know it doesn't come out until thursday and it comes out after facebook, which you also have to watch, but remember last week the bulls twisted an ankle a little with netflix when they missed? it took a little of the power out of tech. if amazon doesn't come in strong, if the guidance isn't great, that stock doesn't respond well, i would have to think tech loses a bit of its luster but if they actually come through, i think we can get back above 3,000 in the s&p and some momentum could cam back because we have been lacking momentum the past few weeks. liz: facebook is up just about 2% on that news about the settlement. amazon is up 1%. luke, give me your names that you watch. you being down at the nymex and in the oil space, you have a different perspective. >> yeah, well, just on the tech names, you are absolutely right. google, amazon and facebook. that's going to be really important. amazon is going to be important because they are going to tell you how people are shopping. you g

amazon, for a start. this is the second and last day of their amazon prime days. they took in $4.2 billion worth of sales last year. some expect it to hit $6 billion this year. amazon stock is down a tiny fraction at $2,020 per share. >>> retailers, back to school shopping season starts up soon. new reports say this season's going to break sales records with each grade school family spending a whopping $697. add about $200 to that if you're off to college. $97 $978 per family. only walmart is down and they are close to a record high. $114. >>> the big board shows a gain of 28 points. we set a series of record highs on the dow this morning. right now we are at 27,386. we are watching interest rates. the yield on the ten-year treasury not doing very much this morning. 2.12% is your yield. >>> now this. joe biden out front, selling his $750 billion health care plan, repeating president obama's very famous promise. remember that one? you can keep this, you can keep that? sound familiar? roll tape. >> if you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can

so amazon can add singles day and amazon's unstoppable on prime day or any other day, selling hundreds of items a second that no one else can match. >> is there some sort of risk that with prime day there's going to be a lot of loading of purchases into those two days, could that affect, say, back-to-school for a lot of retailers including amazon? >> great points. it will affect back-to-school for everyone that you referenced. and at the same time, though, it will add more prime members so amazon with over 100 million prime members will probably add millions more. and at the same time, with price discovery, people even if he or she spends the same amount of money will buy more units. so it will raise the standard of living and also lower prices and that's one of the reasons maria and dagen report every day the fed can be more accomodative because amazon is a key catalyst in price deflation and a lack of overall inflation. >> i agree with that as well. >> people think of amazon as a retail company. if you actually look at how it makes most of its money, it's the idea that it provides cl

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