>> is amazon too big? >> i don't think amazon is too big. >> i think they have monopoly power. >> amazon has become an invasive species. >> so you think amazon should be broken up. >> oh, 100%. >> a journey. >> it's a business miracle. >> and a leader unlike any other. >> this is blue moon. >> i asked people at amazon to wake up every morning afraid, wake up terrified, be afraid of our customers. those are the people we have to pay attention to. >> a cnn special report. >> i can guarantee you one thing, it will be fun. >> "the age of amazon." ♪ >> how has the retail industry changed during this rise of amazon? >> well, you have this great white shark that's kind of looming offshore. >> great white shark? >> this thing does and can eat everything. >> despite holding only a small fraction of global retail sales, today amazon takes claim for nearly 50 cents of every dollar spent in online e-commerce in the united states, an astounding market dominance. you've called what jeff bezos has built a miracle. >> m

amazon is a highly powerful. feature it's naive to say my data belongs to me that sounds good but most people aren't clear about the meaning of that. supposed to mean. andreas was a chief scientist at amazon for only 60 months and that was a decade and a half ago today he travels the world as a doctor expert and a walking doctor machine anyone can find out when where and what he's doing at any time. and greetings from lispund world financial center here in new york one of the situations of not just a few of the small al. qaeda. fundraisers is in great demand as a speaker he advises companies around the world on data masses. pacis reputation as amazon's former chief scientist always follows him and gets him a long way even as far as the german chancellor. i'm convinced our government can only keep up with developments if we continue to seek external advice and that's exactly what we're doing by asking experts from the various fields to health and advise us in the digital council. to fight against andreas is one of

amazon amazon is also manufacturing more and more products and selling them under the amazon name and amazon will then take over the market stalls themselves will no longer be any diversity as an industry to some kind of nightmare market with jeff bezos behind every stand. it's a planned economy with someone in the middle who knows everything and can do everything on this cup. it's not gone unnoticed. here for example more him. more money is being spent in online trading and amazon share is growing and so is crossing the skepticism my name is them a great estate and i'm the commissioner for competition in the european commission . it's not the fact that they grow because in europe you're more than welcome to be successful the question is of course what means are they using is this competition by they book the book or are they cutting corners we made it for study of e-commerce and europe bits and pieces you know had 2 hours electronics all kinds of things that we buy online and in that we found a number of things but one of the things we also found was a concern about amazon and that h

at the end of the day, amazon chose to leave. no one killed amazon. amazon walked off the field. they refuse to change their ways and they simply did not want to risk having to allow their employees to organize. which is outrageous. amazon has turned some of its supporters into enemies. governor bill de blasio said they gave amazon a chance to be a good neighbor. instead, they threw away that opportunity. if amazon cannot recognize what that is worth, it's competitors well. >> i think mayor de blasio is doing some damage control. he was a proponent of the deal his face.up in this is a catastrophic outcome for everyone involved. amazon was looking for a partner, which it fell it did not have any more in seattle. it conducted this very public search. it made mistakes in new york city. it should have trotted out jeff bezos more to help the steel. putting him in a room with politicians and councilman could've helped. i would like to ask the councilman, you're never going to change amazon's stripes. it has historically been antiunion when it comes to its fulfillment centers. these are

offered by amazon offered by amazon in all the markets. and this is why of course i would take an interest in. the digital council is meeting for the 1st time today and on train is getting ready to meet the chancellor. yeah let's see what the day brings. angela merkel has called on just 10 experts to ensure that germany does not miss the digital connection there's another familiar face there too. and if you would have been out before the meeting with mrs merkel victim what should be said that did. i miss how are you today didn't like it i'm great. the meeting in the digital council is strictly confidential of course. but also on his agenda today posting his selfie with the chancellor and his book and even shooting a video with the late chancellor konrad adenauer. i don't i'm addressed by this is the end of the meeting of the 1st day off do you get tired out digitizer bored of germany because i'm going to work at a cabinet morning with some interesting ideas. the value of good in us and now we're due briefing and figuring out what shall we

she hadn't watched amazon t.v. and she didn't have a lexer time but amazon. amazon even knew when i was on vacation because of where the searches were made also some people use amazon prime as their main streaming service too so when you add it all together it can create a gigantic personality profile that goes into frightening detail about someone to. inform information about how customers is an important part of our business we use data to make sure. products better and more convenient for our customers. amazon is a highly powerful. feature it's naive to say my data belongs to me that sounds good but most people aren't clear about the meaning of that. supposed to mean. andras was a chief scientist at amazon for only 16 months and that was a decade and a half ago today he travels the world as a doctor expert and a walking doctor machine anyone can find out when where and what he's doing at any time. and greetings from the lispund world financial center here in new york one of the situations of the day just to be honest. with you. fundraise is in great demand

of course conserving the amazon, conserving the amazon in brazil, in the of the countries that the amazon spans is a service that is provided to the rest of the world. because as a term that has come out that some people use and i particularly like, we can go into the explanation of this term from is the amazon is really a carbon bomb in the sense that it retains a lot of carbon under the soil. and the moment that you start d4 sting, this carbon is released into the atmosphere in very, very large quantities. so the service that is being provided by keeping the forest in fact, is that of keeping all of that carbon underneath the ground. and it is an issue of how to actually set up payments for this kind of environmental services which would be very beneficial from the point of view of incentivizing governments, particular governments that have recently taken different stances on deforestation. it provides a powerful incentive for them to change the policies back to one of preserving and conserving. this is an area where the international community have to think more about and has to do som

i have to think amazon decision after amazon so you with the foxconn jobs in wisconsin without subsidies were not panning out. that in my opinion changed public opinion on this as well. melissa: lindsay, the flipside, amazon would not pay enough tax, they had gotten a sweetheart deal. is the answer keep amazon away or cut the tax burden to others that are carrying the load? >> the congressman said the best point of all, 27 million of revenue in new york over 25 years. the return on that 3 billion-dollar investment. so that is a pretty good investment. what they're doing chasing amazon out is absolutely the wrong idea. aoc might have won the twitter war against big bad corporate greed in america but they have lost the reality of new jobs, good jobs, high-paying jobs and more tax revenue coming into this city. melissa: if nothing else they would get revenue on income to those people. regardless, stick around. thanks to both of you. connell? connell: all right. melissa i want to bring in our buddy jonas max ferris, max funds.com contributor. he is here with me. beautiful long island city wa

sells it on amazon. great for her and great for amazon because the more people to become amazon prime customers to buy this product. instead of seeing the fruits of her success, this hard-working rhode island are discovers amazon has rolled out a direct replica of her product. amazon gives itself top billing and to moats the entrepreneur to page through results, which most people will never see. how would anyone in light of that sequence of events, how would any entrepreneur invest in this kind of environment where that can happen, where there is no assurance it won't? >> our incentive is doubt ththe seller succeeded. they have many options. we apply the same criteria to vote and we do not use their individual data when we're making decisions to launch private brands. nate sutton answering the questions of the rhode island congress membeber david cicilll. stacy y mitchell, urur response? >> it isis simply not true that merchants have other options. amazon, one out of every two dollars spent online, and h

>> amazon is a big cnglomerate . there are so many businesses that amazon is in, retailer and marketplace business. amazon web services and logistics businesses and devices. today is a conglomerate business. i think any business size brings complexity and size brings the need for over site and so i do think that scrutiny on all of these large companies needed. >> should we think of amazon as an operating system? >> certain parts of it is an interesting question. certain parts of it i think do have some of the essences of an operating system. i think some of their supply change capabilities where they are providing tools to othe sellers to help managen stt bec operating system, echo and alex voice operating system. i t amazon that has some of the operating system. >> that's maybe where amazon maybe does get the attention of government oversight or whatnot is when it is full staff. i say something to echo and it goes and delivered and then it is a third party that's part of amazon's infrastructure environment. they're

amazon chose to walk away. amazon chose to walk away rather than fight for what it believes in because what they believe in is fighting the rights of working people, the rights of men and women to organize. in those centers, the distribution center workers, men and women making $18 an hour, $20 an hour, amazon declared that they would fight their rights to organize, that they would crush their rights to organize and form a labor union. that was wrong. forproud that we thought our values, new york values, the rights of immigrants, the rights of workers. that is what was important here. fromt to recognize deborah make the road new york, to say a few words. incredibly -- we win! .> when we fight >> we win! we are incredibly grateful to stand here with the most extraordinary allies and elected officials to say that we are reclaiming our economy and our democracy. these are our neighborhoods. we have stood against ttempts toes' a extract our tax dollars and shove us out of our communities. we are grateful to stand h

before joining amazon, mr. sutton was a trial attorney with the department of justice antitrust division. he also worked at the law firms of william & conley llp from 2001 to 2007. he received his b.s. in nuclear engineering from north carolina state university and jd from the university of chicago law school. the last witness or our panel is kyle andeer, vice president of corporate law at apple. prior to joining apple, mr. andeer spent four years as deputy chief trial counsel with the federal trade commission's bureau of -- he also served as the principal competition attorney adviser to commissioner jay thomas roche as well as the doj's antitrust division. mr. andeer received his b.a. from the university of pennsylvania and jd from the university of california berkeley school of law. we welcome all our distinguished guests on the first panel. now if you please rise, i'll begin by swearing you in. please raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to gi

amazon's value hit $1 trillion. but few realize how close the almighty amazon once game to going under. >> so they are predicting that we're going to run out of cash by december which is just complete absolute pure unadulterated hogwash. >> the 2000 dotcom crash sent shares of amazon into a nose dive. luckily it had gotten an infusion of cash only weeks before the crash. >> amazon borrowed a lot of money in 1999 and even as late as 2000. we needed that money obviously. >> bezos went on a crusade to make amazon leaner. 1300 workers were laid off. most important bezos convinced wall street to be patient, selling investors on the long-term vision of amazon over short-term profits. >> despite all of your success, profit remains a dim light at the end of the tunnel. >> well first of all you're right. of course we are a famously unprofitable company. but that is a deliberate strategy. we are investing. >> bezos took his profits and used them to fill the site with ab ever expanding list of new products. toy, electronics, h

she sells on amazon. sales soar which is great for her and great for amazon because the more people to become amazon prime customers to buy this great product. instead of seeing the fruits of their success the next thing is this hard-working -- amazon is rolled out a direct image of her product. anderson gives itself top promoting and demotes her to page three. how would anyone in light of that sequence of events come how would any entrepreneur invests in this kind of environment where that can happen with is no assurance it will not? >> rfs is to the seller succeed because we rely on the if we did that we know they would go elsewhere. the many options. we apply the same criteria and do not use their individual data when we're making decision to launch private brand. >> i will now turn to the google search for a moment. similar results, everyday people think they're getting the best most accurate results for searches for the products and services they're looking for but instead what is happening is divorc

amazon may face a d.c. battle with much higher stakes. it's own survival. the bigger amazon gets, the greater the chance federal regulators will move to break it up. >> they're going to face some real political head winds in that way. >> we break them up because we're capitalists and it's time. >> calls to take anti-trust action against amazon have grown louder, especially as bezos continues to swallow up companies. he bid for control of disney's 22 regional sports networks. brought the video game streaming site twich and online prescription company pill pack for about a billion dollars each and paid more than $13 million to get into super markets. >> amazon says it's buying whole foods. >> almost every industry out there has, in the back of their mind they're worried that jeff bezos will come knocking. >> his philosophy is relentless cost cutting and lowering prices. >> amazon is playing by the rules and they're playing to win. so stop complaining about it and get on and figure out how you're going to comp

the fallout from amazon scrapping its hq to plans. how this could change how all companies do business with government. u.s.-china trade talks will continue in washington. two days of high-level talks in beijing have wrapped. the chinese president says negotiations have achieved important progress. president trump was positive about some kind of a deal friday. >> tariffs are hurting china very badly. they do not want them. if we can make the deal, it would be my honor to remove them. we are having billions of dollars pouring into our treasury. we have never had that before with china. emily: the u.s. is scheduled to raise import taxes on billions of chinese goods if the world's two biggest economies cannot resolve their differences. sarah mcgregor joins us now from washington. what we know about what kind of progress is made? >> that is a great question. we keep hearing from the trump administration. after every round of talks we have heard this line. but we have not presented with much evidence yet about what that progress is. we hea

♪ >>> we have netflix, amazon. some have said their best position to respond, we'll see what happens >> they've been trading along with the other names the cloud. >>. >> we'll see what happens in the latter half of the suggestion. let's get to sully and the half. >>> thank you very much. have a great weekend i'm brian sullivan in for scott wapner after a big january, can stocks keep rolling right into february >> the bulls breakthrough the ice. wall street is on again. >>> energy and industrials leading the way so far in 2019 both sectors have big news today. earnings good enough today to lift chevron and exxon mobile. on the industrials side, respected analyst stephen

community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. play in our planet it's not only like like you said a species it is if it homes but also it's our economic it's controls our temperature and it slows climate change it also is home to most of the. freshwater we can drink but it's just shells what present with the brazilian government says that that if you did have. towards this criticism coming from a from international bodies is that the amazon is brazil's and not the world's research. and the control of the amazon rain is the cover and position you mention i need a community of just how low you are in that community go ahead figures not just gesture not open for business open for predatory b.c.'s you're not a muslim no funds short of a very nice example of that is it possible to develop adama's when you know us you still your way does not ask too much well it only can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give you a window for the people who lives in numbers on a sus

within the amazon itself. they have actually put together a small task of course of a small group of people to actually come up with recommendations as to pathways forward. there are a few things that have emerged as kind of an essential ingredients for your solving these challenges. one is real-time and accurate data. where are the fires and honey deploy in real time, brigades to put out the fires. another one and put together a significant fund for your investing in reforestation. because it not only increases the carbon absorption, but also creates livelihoods and jobs. and third, is really recognizing and doing the rights of indigenous peoples. in the fourth was generating the revenue so that the protected areas that can exist can only be secured. and another is really happening in engagement with the commodities and the agriculture industry to look at one of the effectiveness for your their behaviors to shift into one of enthusiastic compliance instead of can we actually get around this one way or another

firstly, this will seem obvious, amazon is firstly, this will seem obvious, amazon is enormous. firstly, this will seem obvious, amazon is enormous. so, these big percentage increases in growth are becoming more and more difficult, the more valuable the company gets. second, the company is more concerned with making more profit thanit concerned with making more profit than it used to, so it is making fewer acquisitions and embarking on fewer acquisitions and embarking on fewer new ventures, which is a big source of growth. thirdly, some of the acquisitions it has made, such as whole foods, have been in areas that, by their nature, have slower growth generally. that could be dragging down the rest of amazon as well. joining us now is natalie berg from nbk retail. thanks forjoining us. now, amazon just reported in lots of ways its best quarter ever. in lots of other ways, it is its worst quarter ever as well. the fact both of those state m e nts as well. the fact both of those statements can be true at the same time sort of speaks to the dichotomy at the heart of the company? abso

at the end of the day, amazon chose to leave. no one killed amazon. amazon walked off the field. they refuse to change their ways and they simply did not want to risk having to allow their employees to organize. which is outrageous. emily: amazon has turned some of its supporters into enemies. mayor bill de blasio said they gave amazon a chance to be a good neighbor. instead of working with the community, amazon threw away that opportunity. if amazon cannot recognize what that is worth, it's competitors will. >> i think mayor de blasio is doing some damage control. he was a proponent of the deal that blew up in his face. this is a catastrophic outcome for everyone involved. amazon was looking for a partner, which it fell it did not have any more in seattle. it conducted this very public search. it made mistakes in new york city. it should have trotted out jeff bezos more to help the steel. putting him in a room with politicians and councilman could've helped. i think that on the other side, and i would like to ask the councilman, you're never going to change amazon's stripes. it

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

anger over amazon. protesters in manhattan set to go under way businesses and real estate stunned by amazon's decision was it time to crackdown on corporate welfare. all-star interview, adam silver will join us live. we have a slam dunk edition of "power lunch". it starts right now. >> welcome to "power lunch". i'm tyler mathison a strong rally on wall street. the dow up more than 300 points. nasdaq breaking above key technical levels on track for its longest winning streak since last agriculture transports aiming to close above their 200 day moving average for the first time since december 3rd and on track for their seventh positive week out of the past eight let's get to dominic chu, tracking the action from the new york stock exchange. >> like you said a 340-point rally so far on the dow. what you got is optimism over trade than idea that perhaps some of the concern about global economic growth is at least waning for a tiny bit. let's take you through some of the big movers in terms of points on the

amazon has whole foods, the amazon go convenience store, is this something in between? spencer: that's what we're not so sure of. we reported over the summer about a major expansion plan on amazon go, and you think of all of amazon's experiments in brick-and-mortar, the cashier store this -- cashierless store, they have books dale -- bookstores, amazon four star, and amazon go is the most differentiated. if there was something for them to expand that would break from the norm, it would be amazon go. we are trying to figure out if this will include some of that cashierless grab and go technology or not. emily: what if this is just amazon go stores? are you as excited then, tom? tom: yes. i would argue maybe it's a large-format amazon go store. if they continue to move forward in the whole foods transformation, there would be a time where the amazon technology will be leveraged in whole foods. i would still be excited if this was a larger format amazon go store that maybe had a lot more perishables like what you see in some of the amazon go locations in seattle or chicago

it is great for amazon. more people become amazon prime customers. instead of seeing the fruits of their success, this hard-working man discovered the road on a regular gopher product. because amazon controlled the platform, because of self- taught billing and demotes the entrepreneur to pay results which most people never see. how would anyone in light of the sequence of events, how would any entrepreneur invest in this type of environment where that can happen.>> our incentive is to help the sellers exceed. we know they would go elsewhere. they have many options. we apply the same criteria to both. we do not use their individual data. >> i am now turning to the google search for a moment. everyday people think they're getting the best most accurate results. for the products and services they are looking for. people are seeing results for google's own services. in 2004, they said the purpose of google is for people to come here and to quickly find what you want. would you agree that google still claims that is your principal or guiding principle. >>

who really owns the amazon? obviously, most of it is within brazil, not all of it.way down its impact on the rest of the qu world, especially vis-a-vis ther climate challenge, is huge. where are we in terms of tippin points? we know asoint climate change progresses or worsens, it can accelerate bad outcomes. are we close to that today in the amazon? then there are a host of other issues. what about the other amazon ome. countries? what about the role of indigenous people and impacts on indigenous people? or biodiversity itself. we're going to try to touch on all those issues.am i get to ask questions for abous 30 minutes, then we'll open it o up to all of you, okay? peter, are you all set? try t can you hear us and everything?? >> i can hear you perfectly.all can you hear me?et? can >> yes. >> sound good. all right. let's start. i'm going to start by asking dan to just give us an assessment of where things stand.? again, i think it is hard to know by reading the paper. what's causing what right now?ni what is th

>> amazon is a big company, but it is a cong fora amazon and the retailer, the marketplace business, amazon web services, logistic businesses, devices businesses. today it is a conglomerate business. i think like any business, size brings complexity and size brings the need for oversight and so i do think that scrutiny on all of these large companies is needed. >> should we think of amazon as an operating system? >> well, i think certain parts of it, that's a really interesting question, certain parts of it i think doveome of the essences of an operating system. i think some of their supply chain capabilities where they're providing tools to other sellers, to help manage their psystem.hain start becoming like echo the alexa certainly is -- has the potential of being a voice operating system. so i think there are some parts of amazon that has some of ths oversight or what not is when it is the full stack. it is the i say something to echo, it goes, delivered, a third party is part of amazon's, you know, infrastructure, its environment really, they're in control of all of that. >> in c

was an amazon tablet. that's an amazing business and one we continue to invest in and we're really excited about. >> i'm trying to figure out how -- what business to compare alexa to it seems like a search business if say google mostly monetizing search by selling its own product. is that the way to think about alexa's role in amazon's business is its getting people's intent and pointing them towards things within amazon they want to purchase? >> i think the long-term goal was to try to invent the star trek computer. i grew up watching it and loved it and it was a lot more innocent than you might make it out to be. can we invent that computer. we loved watching it the science had moved up enough and you see it a lot here we thought we had a shot at it. it's going to take us years if not decades more to get to the shining star that is that star trek computer. but we think we can do it. if you have that in your house or in your car or in your conference room, you're going to find all sorts of things to do it

back to amazon. first-quarter earnings are out and the tech giant reported profit of more than seven dollars a share, handily beating estimates. amazon says it is still reaping the benefits of investments made in 2016 and 2017. the big question now is -- are investors more excited about record-breaking profit or will they be more worried about more hiring and spending coming later this year? thank you both for joining us. first to you, a busy day in the tech sector, but for amazon, the stock is up 2% on this beat. some concerns about next quarter. what do you make of the results? >> the last four quarters, there is a trend, in line revenue, massive beat on profit. advertising margin contribution continues to be strong. aws growth continues to be strong, so what we are seeing in the concern building about spending is they are moving from prime two-day shipping to offer more one-day shipping to secure the market share longer-term and that is where the incremental spending is going to come from apart fr

>> right now we're working with amazon this product itself is amazon lex based. and what we're doing is attacking what is the largest, we think the most pressing problem in america and health care today, 180 million people with chronic conditions. and we'll use any technology to make it easier for those people to stay healthy. that's where the challenge is in the health care system for people today, despite all of the technology it has been more confusing, more costly, more complex than ever before we want to use technology to make it easier. >> you say that they're sorting the signal from the noise. explain for viewers how this is tirch. how the technology will nudge people to pay attention to the right signals, maybe give a sense how your own son's type one diabetes inspired you to pursue this path >> well, there's a lot of questions in there my son sam was diagnosed with type one diabetes and i was amazed how hard it was, how hard we made it for people to stay healthy. i wanted to use my background in software and technology to start a company to make it easie

iran's nuclear program and we'll examine what has been achieved also coming up trying to contain the amazon forest fires that are causing global alarm to 7 leaders hatching plans to help of brazil's president tells us they are treating the country like a colony we'll cross live to brazil. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program french president emanuel mccrone and u.s. president donald trump have held a joint press conference to conclude the g. 7 summit in france world leaders had been holding 3 days of talks in the town of beer it's now president trump said that he is open to meeting soon with iran's president under the right conditions to try and resolve tension over the 2015 iran nuclear deal president mccraw also adding that the u.s. and france have made progress on a dispute over french plans to tax tech giants opposes the tax and have threatened to tell it to retaliate tory tariffs appear part of what president mccracken said about his talks with trump on. issues relating to iran but. there are 2 very clear things that matter to us iran should never have and you could a weapon and neve

the president has been tweeting at amazon's ceo for a long time, calling "the washington post" the amazon washington post. he is striking back. this will be potentially open war. emily: there is a complicated web of relationships at play here between ami and the president and who knows? maybe even the saudi government. what exactly is next when it comes to whether or not criminal activity was committed here? greg: first of all, you got "the national enquirer" as part of payments to stormy daniels that were basically hidden campaign contributions. because of that legal settlement and the nonprosecution agreement that "the national enquirer" parent company entered into, the magazine has been in the penalty box. they have basically the equivalent of a three-year stint in the penalty box. don't do anything wrong. if there is a determination here, and this is the last thing i'm sure they want is to have several prosecutors looking at this. if there is any determination they have gone at the well again and have done something that basically amounts to a campaign hit piece or something that shou

amazon is up 2.5%. oft has exacerbated some these gains because it looks like we weren't doing much of anything throughout the day. that is the story of this earnings season so far because if you look at the average move of any stock, it is completely flat. stocks arehink that doing nothing after earnings. but you look at the breakdown, the likes of amazon and ford and exxon intel mobil. it is two sides to the story. a $1ine: so close to trillion market cap. >> this is not just about individual stocks. you want to see something more broad-based. i want to bring in the head of institutional equity strategy. thisaw the gdp print morning. what is your read on that with regards to how the market responded to it and how they should have responded? what is calledat real final sales to domestic purchases, it was not that strong. i was listening to the show earlier. it was inventories and some of the government spending that helped drive the beat. i think what is going to happen is -- i heard the comment earlie

record-breaking sales for amazon. the e-commerce giant posted its largest advance on the s&p 500 index on thursday. amazon didn't release specific sales figures, but the statement backs up broader reports that online shopping picked up this year. i want to bring in spencer and darren baker. spencer, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. spencer: in terms of their statement, we didn't learn much. every year is another record for amazon and e-commerce. what we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their one-day shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. i think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. everyone was wondering how they would do this year. taylor: and darren, every year is a record year. is amazon just riding the wave of e-commerce or are they doing something special? darren: a little bit of both. the department of commerce came out with the state

he thrills his supporters with talk of opening up the amazon. since he came to office, bullets were fired at the sign marking the land of the uru—eu—wau—wau. tensions are escalating. up the road, we get talking to some localfarmers, and they say exactly the kind of things the president says — that the system of forest reserves for indigenous people is wrong, and that farmers need more land. with the president on their side, farmers and loggers feel a new freedom to clear trees. we found this vast area of bare earth and dead trunks. huge tracts of forest are being wiped out. my footsteps and distant birdsong are the only sounds. it is tragic to see this close—up. to bring these trees down to the ground, theyjust knock them over with a bulldozer. this is happening all over the amazon to create new farmland, and the result is that the great forest has never been under such pressure. many trees have already made way for agriculture, nearly 18% of the forest, and the president is now pushing for much more aggressive development. we are guid

community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. play in our planet it's not only like like you said a species it is if it homes but also it's our economic it's controls our temperature and it slows climate change it also is home to most of the. freshwater we can drink but it's just shells what present with the brazilian government says that if you did have. towards these criticism coming from a from international bodies is that the amazon is brazil's and not the world's reserves. and the control of the amazon rain is my cover and position you mention i need a community just how low you are in that community go ahead because not just get a lot of the bill for business you open for predatory b.c.b.s. you know they are muslim funds short of a very nice example of that is it but should walk to develop adama's when you know us you still go away there's not too much money and it can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give you a window for the people who lives the numbe