the elections and we know that amazon funds are jeff bezos funds the washington post so you see amazon finding these people and criticizing voting laws in georgia and criticizing him for election process but the 2nd has anything to do with their pocketbooks they do a $180.00 degree turn and so so it's just the irony of what's happening here is just so deep contradictory to what amazon's actually doing well some people say ironies some people hypocrisy in the end i think it's the voters and the workers that lose out thank you so much for joining us both of you. thanks to you. when we return our biden has unveiled a commission to study possible expansion other the supreme court and will he do it before his executive orders on a gun control our challenge we're going to 3 thinks of you right after the break stay tuned. the world is driven by dream shaped by. the dares thinks. we fear to ask. some explaining the ugly truth of what's happening in america so you've got these tens of trillions of dollars worth of debt and having to 50 trillion dollars worth of debt which is just another way to

the elections and we know that amazon funds are jeff bezos funds the washington post so you see amazon finding these people and criticizing voting laws in georgia and criticizing him for election process but the 2nd has anything to do with their pocketbooks they do a $180.00 degree turn and so so it's just the irony of what's happening here is just so be contradictory to what amazon's actually doing well some people say irony and some people think hypocrisy in the end i think it's the voters and the workers that lose out thank you so much for joining us both of you. thanks guys. when we return our biden has had built a commission to study possible expansion other the supreme court and will he do it before his executive orders on a gun control are challenged we're going to give you the 360 viewer right after the break stay tuned. for the industry pieces from the spend millions of you will be. reconditioned will be seen as he's all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of printing diseases that are in e

more on amazon first union, charles watson outside with the latest. reporter: the retail department store union says it will act the national labor board to set aside election results of the union accuses amazon of illegally interfering with workers right to vote. those alleged actions on the part of amazon created an environment of confusion, coercion and fear of retaliation among employees at amazon at the alabama warehouse. >> you saw the results despite the number of people who signed cards was a real fear that they were going to lose their jobs if they voted for the union. they told people have to get there ballots in by march 1 even though the deadline was march 29. reporter: amazon released a statement pushing back on those claims saying it's easy to predict the union will say that amazon won the election because we intimidated employees but that is not true, our employees heard our more anti- amazon messages from the union policy makers and media outlets and they heard from us. senator bernie sanders who supported unionization efforts and visi

but this was a special time for the amazon. in 2012, the brazilian government made stopping the destruction of the rainforest a priority and rates of deforestation were falling dramatically. a few years later, i received an extraordinary invitation. helicopter blades whirring. well, after years of neglect, the brazilian government has finally decided to do something. we are flying into a base camp they've set up just outside the indigenous reserves, and that's where they're operating from. and from there, we're going to go into the forest. it was like flying into a kind of forward base in afghanistan or something. you just thought, hold on a second. the brazilian government, it really means business about protecting the awa. when we went back to the village, suddenly i started seeing all these familiar faces. katou? i think that's hello. hey, hello. i remember you. do you remember me? very good. yeah! 0h! no. we went into his house and he came out with a bit of string and waved it in front of me. not again! i've been tricked on

it didn't come without a consequence and a price i mean amazon dumped big money into trying to defeat people like you're going to put $1500000.00 into local city council races to see you defeated of course you won help us understand how you're able to go back in such powerful entities and be victorious. you're absolutely right mark i mean we really tried to do a corporate takeover in 2019 and millions of dollars were spent unprecedented amount i mean this is a city council race and amazon as you mentioned threw down a $1000000.00 money bomb in the last 2 weeks of the race in october of 2019 and we were able to win despite that because precisely because and this is where you know the conventional wisdom of the democratic party completely sort of betrays the interest of working people if you know you're told not to rock the boat as naomi was mentioning earlier don't mention capitalism in relation to the climate crisis in fact you have to do the exact opposite to mobilize people and organize ordinary people into tapping into their late and power you know individually working people have

this is a great trade for amazon. the tax code is nothing, but something they manipulate and $2,000 will end up in jeff bezos' pockets and this is a great trade for amazon. >> all right, then and a great trade for amazon is certainly a great trade for the guy that owns 17% of the company. scott, always good to see you. >>> before we go to break, i have to share some heartbreaking news. this morning we are mourning the loss of a fierce force of a woman who you saw many, many times on this show throughout the years. our dear friend midwin charles. she's passed away. her family says they will miss her for a lifetime. so will we, and as we honor her and her extraordinary life that was cut too short, i want to let her share her own words and tell you why she was unapologetically proud of the woman she was. >> both my parents are from haiti. i am first-generation american and when my parents came here they did so like most immigrants looking for a better life and they've done an extraordinary job in raising two daughters wh

boom bust someone's business show you can't afford to mess time rachel blevins in washington coming up amazon could be on the verge of facing its 1st union avar as a massive company is hit with even more antitrust allegations from small businesses who say it's time to stand up to the giant corporation a lot of european regulators are now saying there could be a link between astra zeneca covert vaccine and rare blood. back seen prices continues and the same agency to withhold approval from sputnik the then the job market may be ready for the buy in in ministrations new $2.00 trillion dollars spending plan both corporate america says it's not ready to help pay the bill well discuss it all that we have a lot to get to so let's get started. amazon is steps away from what could become the company's 1st ever union as votes are counted in alabama this week and while amazon has pledged to resent every legal challenge possible it is now getting hit with a new campaign from small businesses who are calling for one of the largest companies in the u.s. to face accountability for antitrust violations a ne

caroline: amazon blowing it away , a dip u.s. as well, firing -- aws as well, firing on every cylinder. s&p 500 at a record high, even though we saw pullback in the automobile sector, really hurt by the supply chip issue, even caterpillar. >> absolutely. apple as well. it if you look at these correlations, i'd love to look at these correlations, if you look at the semiconductor index, which will be a key portion when we are talked about what is priced into the market, you have seen the shortage showing up in that come up because when you have more demand, it pushes stock higher, and you wonder how that will show up another's thoughts, so industrials is a great example, because we did hear from caterpillar, like you mentioned, how is that showing up? if you look at the correlations with industrials, you have seen that build up. if you see that semiconductor rally continue, given the shortage, the demand into 2022, perhaps that means a pullback for other stocks inhibited by it. joe: great stuff. thank you. another thing moving mark

and efforts to create the 1st union there's an amazon warehouse in the west looks to have failed i'll speak to a worker who wants to unionize. a doctor has emphatically rejected claims that george floyd's drug use and underlying health problems caused his death long in critical care specialist dr martin toben testified that floyd died from a lack of oxygen while being pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck the trial of former police officer derrick shells and was shown animations of him and 2 other officers holding floyd down during the arrest elvish reports from minneapolis. this was a significant day in court a phase of testimony covering important medical evidence the 1st witness martin tobin. a doctor with more than 40 years experience a pulmonologist a breathing expect mr floyd died from a low level of oxygen and this caused damage to his brain that we see and it also caused. a rift that caused his heart to stop how mr floyd pinned to the ground restrained by police simply couldn't get enough breath to survive that contain forces that are going to lead to the shallow brea

there being pressured by amazon to simply start selling on the amazon marketplace as third-party sellers. i got the local governments in these schools say it will just buy from you on amazon. that means a course amazon's going to take a 15% cut at least from that transaction and that middleman transaction. will get routed little to the one click said that direct interaction between office-supply the local office by company and the buyer. the business owners have talked about how much that bothered them not just the cut there losing but they just knew that this new arrangement was going to cost the community in terms of tax revenue. the gristle that holds the community together. such a big part of what's being lost right now. >> there are two movies that came to my mind during the book. if you join american factory and. [inaudible] bridget going to love this book. there's a very aversive statement, fulfillment this idea of the winner takes all. and that motto. that model is indivisible we cannot do anything about it, just the way it is. take it from a quote we say things like amazon behav

unionizing or not you know she has we've all seen and read the stories about how hard amazon workers have to work time toilet breaks that kind of thing you know the story of being an amazon employee behind the headlines on the face of it however it would appear that most of the workers in alabama who are employed by amazon quite happy with that. well it depends on how you interpret these results yes i was there just 2 weeks ago we were talking to workers and the word you kept hearing was dehumanization of being expendable there's such a high turnover of staff and i was on warehouses at one point during the pandemic in november i guess they were hiring $2100.00 workers a day it's quite clear to the workers that the that if if they step out of line of anything they do displease amazon in any way they can be fired i was talking to a diabetic woman who said that she doesn't want to even check blood sugar levels because you feel she will be fine because every minute you're not packing a crate or box for and i was on customer you are being judged and you're in and it's going down badly wit

today the biggest employer in town is a small mom and pop retailer called amazon. what is essentially a warehouse to, quote, fulfill orders for the internet giant. and where any day now, history could be made if the bessemer location votes in favor of negotiating to form a union, which would be the first american branch of amazon to possibly unionize. maybe many americans don't realize, but amazon workers in continental europe have long been laborized. strong labor unions haven't pushed their global push into that market, only here in the u.s. for some reason. if bessemer's employees vote in favor ofunionizing, it will mark the largest group of workers in 30 years. this is perhaps the most important graph to explain the state of our rigged economy today. by the 1950s, unions in the u.s. have been growing steadily. unionized workers and the top 10% of earners in the u.s. were collectively taking the same amount, taking the same share of national income. look at those lines. follow where they go and look at what's happened in the decades since. the top 10% is taking

you've been heavily involved in the amazon unionization attempt. we're expecting a result from that vote. maybe as early as tomorrow. what will a yes vote mean? not just for amazon and labor unions in this country, but for american capitalism? >> well, as you know, mehdi, amazon is one of the largest corporations in the country. it is own by the wealthiest individual in this nation, jeff bezos, worth $180 billion. when i was down in birmingham talking to the workers, what you heard is tales of incredibly bad working conditions, people who are disrespected, people whose concerns are not being heard and they want a union to represent them. obviously, if they win that union organizing drive, and i hope they do, it will not only be important for amazon workers in birmingham, but i think it will spread all over the country, and i think it will be a shot in the arm for union organizing all across this country. it is no secret that wages have been stagnant for decades. we've got to grow the union movement. if we are successful in birmingham, i think we'll

amazon pays no taxes. here's what i'm going to do. i will boycott any company that doesn't agree with raising the taxes. we need to have money for the infrastructure he wants to create. he is not going to get it, they are not going to tolerate it. you can say what you want to say. everybody seems to be owned by the corporations which are not people. the people needs to know the truth right now. maybe you should tell them the truth. people have the power, they are going to use it. right now, the corporations on us. they have owned us for the last am 50 years. i am tired of it. most people that i know are tired of it. so, that is all i have for you right now, but i will boycott. and joe mansion needs to get out of office. he is not a real democrat. guest: you trust on an important problem here, you can raise the tax all you want. do tax rate is going to be zero. 20% would make is one of the highest in the world. must be clear about that. but, what really matters is with actually pay. now, if you're going to boycott every company that op

saying amazon is forcing them to compete side by side on line when amazon has an unfair advantage. they have access to data and pricing that helps them, they say, undercut their third party competitors. but amazon says that's not the case disbelieving fox business -- gives fox business this statement, quote: sellers having the opportunity to sell right alongside a retailer's product is the very competition that most benefits consumers and has made the marketplace model so successful for third party sellers. amazon has also been accused of ripping off third party products that go viral on its marketplace by using that insider data to then build a amazon brand dupe and then sell that for a cheaper price side by side. amazon has denied this saying that they have rules that forbid their workers and employees from using this data to create these dupes, but jeff bezos testified on capitol hill to lawmakers that he could not guarantee that that rule had not been broken. david? david: very interesting. hillary, thank you very much. >>> democrat lawmakers meanwhile, are pressing facebook fo

i was just in mobile, alabama, where amazon was unionized, and the folks who work fo amazon voted three to one not to immunize. and i noted how robust the economy is with boeing moving there, and walmart, and significant business announcement. i think that is a constant process in our rule, mountainous areas where people have migrated to the cities. those counties struggle with poverty. arkansas -- we and arkansas have been working to tackle it. host: let me ask you about that amazon vote. do you think that is a one-off election or do you think that is a broader lesson for the administration in particular, because in their spending proposal, they are calling -- in their proposal for infrastructure, rather, they are reportedly going to call for more unionized jobs. guest: yeah. if my memory is right, unionization of the private sector workforce is less than 10%. it has been declining over the last five decades. employees in this country have choice where they worker, who they work for. employers have to have fantastic employees. need more employees. everywhere i go there is a help wanted

>> and that's particularly because it was such a clear victory for amazon. 1798 amazon workers voted no to a trade union, while 738 voted in favor. union organizers say however that the fight is not over. amazon may be breathing a sigh of relief, but organizers plan to launch an appeal now that the vote is over, based on accusations that amazon intimidated voters in the run-up to the vote and that prevented it from being a fair ballot. what happens now is the appeal will be sent to the national labor board them and they can study it and th have the power to orturn the result and grant victory to union organizers. the likelihood of that happening is difficult to gauge at this stage, because we don't fully know the extent of the case organizers willring to the board, but we could see this turn into a long legal fight, even set in front of officials in washington. one thing is sure, the end of the vote does not necessarily mean the end of the story. anchor: staying in the u.s., president joe biden set out a 1.5 trillion dollar budget proposal friday. what are the main takeaways from tha

and all we're seeing is amazon repeat that history. excellent points to consider herr professor richard roth thank you so much for your time thank you. the vaccine crisis in europe continues as the region's medical regulators announced wednesday that there is a possible link between astra zeneca is coated vaccine and the rare blood clots that were reported in less than 100 cases out of more than 20000000 doses of the shot that were administered. safety committee the for the good that you do it's in risk assessment committee of the european medicines agency has confirmed that the benefits of the astra zeneca back c. in preventing qubit 19. outweigh the risks of trying to fix the problem after and a very in-depth analysis has concluded that there are 3 cases of unusual. following vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine should be listed as possible side effects of the vaccine meanwhile the same agency continues to hold its approval from russia sputnik me instead of claiming it plans to launch an investigation next week and whether clini

economy and a later we take you down to alabama where a vote is underway to unionize an amazon facility a 1st in the united states the packed show today let's dive right in. and we lead the program with wall way the chinese telecom giant which has been at the center of the tech battle between the world's 2 largest economies and now said slightly profit growth in 2020 despite being placed on a u.s. export blacklist now while the company's foreign sales were down domestic business spurred positive growth. thank you. the crackdown from the us has brought a direct impact on us particularly in our consumer business. in such a crackdown and that's a lesson here is that chinese market contributed over 65 percent of the revenues we had an excellent performance in the chinese market in the carrier that is this. business and the consumer business of you will be firmly in the kind of wishes person of all who expects the chinese market to remain strong and secondly we predict that after the pandemic is brought under control the global demand will get back to the rising trend so we also have an opti

now this stories, a vote even bigger than the 020 election for amazon -- 2020 election for amazon. workers in the bessamer, alabama, warehouse striking down efforts to union nice. an overwhelming 1798 employees voted against unionization despite some workers' claims of unfair conditions and intimidation. the retail wholesale and department store union would have represented those workers, and now it says plans, of course, to challenge the results. let's bring in "kudlow" host, the aptly named larry kudlow. larry, what to you make of the win here for amazon? larry: i think it's really bullish. by the way, i think it's one of the reasons the market is closing so well today as final numbers come in. 71 -- last i heard, 80% voted, maybe more, 71% against the union and 16% in favor of the union. but, ashley, in general terms i just see this as a big victory for individual worker freedom and choice and a big defeat for the top-down, left-wing leadership of this particular union and, frankly, in today's world most unions. i see this as a victory of freedom over left-wing, ultra-progressiv

i was just in mobile, alabama, where amazon was unionized, and the folks who work for amazon voted 3-1 not to immunize. and i noted how robust the economy is with boeing moving there, and walmart, and some significant business announcements. i think that is a constant process in our rural, mountainous areas where people have migrated to the cities. those counties struggle with poverty. we have that arkansas have been working to tackle it. >> let me ask you about that amazon vote. do you think that is a one-off election or do you think that is a broader lesson for the administration in particular, because in their spending proposal, they are calling -- in their proposal for infrastructure, rather, they are reportedly going to call for more unionized jobs. >> yeah. if my memory is right, the unionization of the private sector workforce is less than 10%. it has been declining over the last five decades. pretty mightily. employees in this country have choice where they work, who they work for. employers have to have fantastic employees. in fact, they need more employees. everywhere i go t

the awa live deep in the amazon rainforest. they're some of the last people on earth who still try to live as traditional hunter—gatherers. wow, the village... i really felt that they welcomed me in. we felt like we had a real connection together. i'm not going to dress like that, no. laughter. pira'i was probably my best buddy in the village. he was the one that instigated most of the jokes. you know, towards the end, we went on this big hunt with them that took two or three hours. when we got back, everybody was really hot and sweaty and they got to this lovely waterhole. and i thought, "yeah, ok, i'll go swimming" and itjust seemed right to take my clothes off. laughter. then they played a trick on me and it became clear that they were trying to, essentially, dress me like they dressed to hunt. laughter. you don't want to see it. laughter. it seemed they lived an idyllic life. but when i asked my new friend pira'i about what life was like when he was growing up, i learned just how traumatic things had been for the tribe. t

that the company interfered with the process, something amazon denies kate moody is here with more. you've been looking more broadly into the state of labor unions in the united states. reporter: union members peaked in the 1950's at about one third of american workers, but in the 1980's, it was closer to 20% and dropped 10.8% in 2020. that's not much different from the french membership rate, but unions have more weight in the french labor market. companies cannot replace striking workers while american employers can. as in other companies -- countries, public-sector workers are more likely to be unionized. some of the most powerful unions are in the field of education, trucking and auto manufacturing. anchor: why aren't more people members of unions? reporter: it is partly because of the changing landscape of labor. tourism and hospitality are less likely to unionize and manufacturing jobs have dipped in recent decades. younger people are less likely to be any union, suggesting a generational shift in the workforce. activists say america's labor laws need to be modernized. 27 stat

did you have any sympathy for amazon? >> i don't have any sympathy see, i want to think the producers here at "gutfeld!." the system they built into these so we can while we are talking to you -- i'm not even a move. >> you have a system? i've got to use that. >> there has to be an invention. i've seen them and mail order, but there has to be a way to solve this problem. america is made of roads. and this is a problem that's been around for years and no one is fixing that. >> america is made of roads by greg. >> i got it, you have to make your time. if you get out of the car and go on the side of the highway, somebody's going to see it and take a picture of it and you are done because you are exposing yourself to the public. see you don't want to do that either. so they do the best thing they can. >> did you see the excuses? we thought you were talking about the supply line that's why we denied this happening. >> you drive and you have to make that time. you now. >> because i have solutions all the time, it was the third

more than 70% of votes were in favor of amazon. how much should we read into this employees recognize that, hey, compensation and benefits are actually pretty good at amazon, relative to the rest of the sector >> yeah, we should read a lot into this. it does feel that amazon is indestructible right now i mean, find me a company that handled a union drive worse than amazon did over the past few months they had employees, you know, basically sending photos of them peing in bottles on the job. the workers have come out and provided that proof. and yet they crushed the union in this effort it really just goes to show you that the state of american labor right now is pretty weak and amazon -- that was the biggest challenge to them. were they going to change the way that these fulfillment centers work and it doesn't seem like that's going to be the case anytime soon if you're amazon, you're in a pretty entrenched position right now. >> yeah, i mean, you have a point. there was peegate, traffic lightgate, mailboxgate, so many pr missteps.

i don't see it in amazon, neil. the worst thing i saw in the complaint of the workers is they weren't getting enough bathroom breaks. that could be handled through the federal agencies that oversee it. >> neil: yeah. union or not, you have a right to go to the bathroom. thanks very much for that, rebecca. we'll be exploring this tomorrow. here's "the five" right now. >> hello. i'm katie pavlich. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." hunter biden goes hollywood. he hit up late night television for laughs with jimmy kimmel. hunter joking around act his drug addiction and dismissing the laptop scandal that big tech tried to censor. take a look. >> if that was your laptop, you say you don't know, which is hard to believe unless you read the book. and then it's like

amazon has a -- alabama has a right to work state. we did see house democrats last month pass the pro act and elements of that pro act that are embedded into this infrastructure proposal from the biden administration, as well. part of that process actually i think would move to strip the right to work provisions away. are we gearing up for a bigger, broader, more federal level push to see more unions or to see the ability of more workers to create more unions right now >> i think there is a push towards getting an elagantarian set-up the act was created to level the playing field, to give equal opportunity for workers to have a free choice in the selection of their representative. when franklin dell nor roosevelt pushed for the nation allay boar relations act the idea was since corporations are free to structure their corporation and select their officers and managers, workers should have the same ability to do the same thing. the election process as it has evolved involves now a lot of employer interference. president biden stated th

what the hell is 28% going to give us when it was 35% report was knocked out, amazon pays no taxes. i will boycott any company that does not agree raising the taxes higher. we need to have the money for the infrastructure you want to create. and he's not going to get it because were docketed tolerated. you could say what you want to say everybody seems to be owned by the corporations which are not people. the people need to know the truth and maybe you should tell them the truth, the people have the power and were going to use it. but right now the corporations own us and they've owned us for 50 years. that's all i got for you right now but i will boycott and joe manchin needs to get out office is not a real democrat. >> you touched on an important problem you can set at any rate that you want but there's good ways to avoid it with deductions andre exclusions and chiseling away here and there and so forth, bb attack string will be 0. 20% limit is highest in the world as a rate but what matters is what they pay. if you're gonna boycott every company that opposes a corporate tax incre

larry: first of all amazon is a fabulous company, i don't happen to agree with jeff bezos philosophy and politics and so forth yes a washington post editorial board but the facts, amazon has doubled the minimum wage they pay $15 an hour in alabama which is bad money for alabama at all, generous health care benefits, they do not like the cost of union dues because the leadership has the far left union leadership as the far far left giveaway of the union doers of the hard earned workers, that's the part and i think it's going to backfire despite what joe biden says. >> the past three months it's all been a power grab from the white house, taking away the rights of people in this country and it's no different than the working people and as you said amazon is a great company and they're supplying a lot of jobs in the doing an excellent job and mostly taking care of their employees and i thought a lot were all well pleased. it's a shame the federal government wants to control everything in this group is making the government larger and larger we don't need a bigger government, we need les

the elections and we know that amazon funds are jeff bezos funds the washington post so you see amazon finding these people and criticizing voting laws in georgia and criticizing him for election process but the 2nd has anything to do with their pocketbooks they do a $180.00 degree turn and so so it's just the irony of what's happening here is just so be contradictory to what amazon is actually doing well some people say irony some people say hypocrisy in the end i think it's the voters and the workers that lose out thank you so much for joining us both of you thanks guy. when we return are biden has a valid a commission to study possible expansion other the supreme court and will he do it before his executive orders on the gun control or challenge we're going to give you the 360 viewer right after the break stay tuned. and when else seems. just don't. get to see it just comes out to. and in detroit it looks betrayal. when something is find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . i'm explaining the truth of what's happening in america you've got these tens of tril

just because amazon is a private company does not actually mean they get to collect any data they want on an employee we americans have already decided that employees have is if you have a criminal record and sometimes they're not allowed to ask if the person has plans to get pregnant say or if they smoke pot in the past although biden recently forced some staff to resign if they revealed they had once smoked weed but even if you're all of the mind that employers should be able to ask about say criminal records etc do you really believe and employees should have no privacy what if a boss wants to keep track of the employees bowel movements or how often they wax their we when we maybe the company would say well we don't want employees stopping to take too many so we like to monitor that type of thing and also we find that if employees at a lot at home then they don't want to be at work because holmes seems a lot more fun so we only hire the sexually downtrodden you know guys with a wink he slumped over like an 80 year old monk carrying a cord of wood pun intended. there's been a long hi

think about amazon, they sell a lot of goods. record profit after close of trading last night for its most recent quarter and just as important for amazon is it signaled it expects consumers to keep spending and we think about the next phase of all of this and we are starting to see that to some extent as more people get vaccinated. economists think that drives another round of consumer activity. as we transition from goods to services, people get out more and feel more comfortable, more public settings in disneyland a moment ago, they have that, and you feel more comfortable, getting your nails done. it helps the economy as people feel more comfortable which they are doing a lot of. neil: i can't wait to see you in person to get back at you for that comment. it is all psychological. people follow everyone else and if they are buying they feel the psychological boost. thank you, i think. we have gary with us, what they just heard the, one thing that is interesting is the steady process of getting us out of the pandemic and the gr

says brazil will reach climate neutrality by 2050 despite presiding over soaring deforestation in the amazon and. on your intelligence is al jazeera live from london also coming up patients turned away and overwhelmed as india sets a new global record for daily covert cases. russia orders its troops to withdraw from near the border with ukraine but leave their heavy weapons behind last. may that harris fire all that was worth a $1000000.00 when you watch the you little. tears and tributes at the funeral for 20 year old daunted right 11 days after he was shot dead during a routine traffic stop. the u.s. president joe biden is trying to make good on his pledge to be a global leader on climate posting a major summit on earth day and starting it with a big pledge he says the u.s. will now aim to cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent of 2005 levels by the end of this decade that's nearly double the previous target it tops off a week of similar bold promises the u.k. aiming for a 78 percent cut the e.u. by $55.00 and canada by 40 to 45 percent all off $990.00 s. emissions to put it in perspective the

amazon saying it will boost pay by $.50 to three dollars per hour over 500,000 staff. they will be boosting from mid-may to early june and it is going to be investing over a lien in incremental -- over a billion for incremental pay. joe: jay powell said earlier he wanted to see wage growth. also breaking news from dow jones. verizon exploring the sale of media assets. those include aol and yahoo!. we will see more about what the plan is. probably not a huge surprise. more next. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: ijoe: let's get a quick recap on those apple numbers that just came out. basically crushing on everything. q2 revenue, 89.5 a billion. all ahead of the 7.7 we estimates. every category. iphone, ipad, services, macs, all crushing estimates. stock up 3%. caroline: apple sales crushed wall street. other news on big tech to amazon saying they are hiring tens of thousand jobs in the u.s. boosting pay for three dollars an hour. amazon makes more than 100 billion per quarter in terms of revenue. it is investing in people. they are doing this sort of political gesturing as ap

it's up $38, 1%, $3500 a share, that's amazon right now. then we have endeavor, that's the parent company of ufc ultimate fighting championship. they made their debut yesterday, but the bigger news may be who joined their board. i have a pretty good idea, though head. susan: why don't you tell me how they got elon musk on their board. that's what i'm wondering, the only board ce has in a company he didn't create and is not the ceo and founder appeared that's a big plus for endeavor which had that successful ipo yesterday and it also owns william morris a talent agency and is now worth $10 billion and when you had that star power like elon musk on the board i think that gives a lot of confidence for investors to buy in a. stuart: i guess, i'm just surprised because i always think of ufc as a kind of not the home for liberals so. i don't know why i say that. susan: no. stuart: liberals are big on ultimate fighting championship so i don't understand why a liberal like elon musk-- susan: i wouldn't call him a liberal. stuart: i think he is a li

but amazon lost money for years and therefore we're going to make money just like amazon last year there are $248.00 specs and this year already in 2021 in the 1st quarter there were $296.00 so he is saying but let's look back at the internet bubble a v.c. firm with i.p.o. $4000000.00 shares at $20.00 the stock would open at 50 and at the end of day it was close at $100.00 everyone chased it to get him then the brokers would upgrade it in the c.e.o. would go on television with a $4000000.00 share flow it was easy to manipulate the shares higher off of the newly i.p.o. company with level out well north of $100.00 a few weeks later it was a virtuous cycle and everyone played the game what was left unsaid was that there was another $46000000.00 shares held by management and the seas and the shares would hit the market $180.00 days later you know in an era of no velocity of money lost is low the fraud velocity is fast playing the at these frauds have to come in fast we know that the last then 20 percent of income for high net worth individuals and corporations in america is taxed roughly 80

nevertheless, amazon up now by 0.5%. guy: we are also getting the budget details coming out, the skinny budget if actively being delivered by the biden adminstration. the biden adminstration is seeking an 8.4% fiscal year 2022 budget increase. that takes the number up to $1.52 trillion. the headline this dropping on "the new york times" is worth bearing in nine. basically, an increase in terms of the budget for fiscal 2022. the money just keeps pouring into the economy in terms of the physical process being delivered here. it is going to be interesting how the politics works around all of this. i continue to follow mr. manchin on that front. alix: so $14 billion in climate change investments, for ev and charging stations. that is a pretty interesting one as well. also, biden is now creating a commission to study expanding the supreme court. it is interesting because that has been sunday discussed once you had president trump at the last justice on the court. the real issue is how much more of that nondefense spending is

the union says that hundreds of ballots are being challenged by amazon. the union, which is the retail wholesale and department store union, also says that more than 3,200 votes were cast, roughly 5,800 amazon workers could participate. now, after the votes are counted here today, like i just explained, one by one, hand counting to tally up how many yes votes, how many no votes have been cast, then at that point the national labor relations board will turn to address the votes that have been challenged. we also just learned during opening remarks that it is a majority of the votes that are needed to win here, and if there's a tie, then the union will not be able to unionize the workers here at the bessamer, alabama, plant. now, there's a lot on the line here. labor organizers are hoping that a win here will inspire thousands of workers from other companies across the country to also organize and create unions at their respective companies, and for amazon if the union wins in bees her, that will be the first -- bessamer, that could bring about costly chang

dish network is also higher after reaching a deal with amazon will use amazon's aws cloud services but amazon is not making an investment in dish dish still up 12%. amazon up fractionally. >> >>>ocugen is soaring after a vaccine in india their shares are up about 10%. >>> with most of the world stuck inside last year because of the pandemic, grocery sales surged you may well know that the global grocery sector grew a record 10% but we sort of knew that was happening why what's interesting is what we have been buying it's growth in home cooking. powered by sales of canned meat. oh, you -- oh! now that's cooking. >> desperate at home but not -- other than tuna. >> is canned meat cooking? meat okay sugar. i got that get that baking banana breads. >> coffee. >> herbs or herbs as you prefer and alcohol sales surging in western europe there sales increased by 25% there was a lot of baking going on last spring. >> the herbs and seasonings one makes me laugh i bought more spice canisters. usually like once a year i feel like every two months i'm getting paprika. i didn't know what it was five

later today, we get the results from amazon. of that stock is already moving up in anticipation of another blockbuster. stock is up one and a quarter precent, $3500. it's helping the overall market and if so also is the news america's economy grew at a strong 6.4% pace the first three months. that points to an even better gain in the second quarter of the year. the dow jones up 170, s&p about 31 and the nasdaq 155 points higher. we already received mcdonald's numbers and again this is premarket stock quote with a huge 13% jump in same-store sales. how is that for a pandemic rebound? you will see former president trump and his interview with maria, yes, he is one 100% thinking of running in 2024, those are his words and then you will see tim scott answer president biden. he will also see that media will be fawning all over the president's speech. it is thursday, april 29, 2021. "varney & co." is about to begin. ♪♪ stuart: you really have to stay up very, very late to see all of the president's speech last night. it started la

meanwhile progressives and torque if bone crushing defeat of the amazon vote goes down in flames but take heart, president biden just took his first step towards asking the supreme court. and what is next in my backyard. and why should suburbanites price with the new neighbors, we will tell you, all that is so much more on making money. ♪ ♪♪ charles: will the market continues but the very cautious vibe that reflects sort of the moderately bullish market rep we have seen recently and we keep the internals are not that great. it is not about fair however because it started the recession at the slope levels at february of last year and i think that yesterday session though really is a perfect example of what is been happening with this market. narrow trading range, onshore for most of the session and we did get that late start this in the s&p to new record high and vesper sparked from the federal reserve chairman jerome powell and he said that he they do not think yesterday. and he has two goals in mind i think, to let us know inflation is coming really big is going to happen but