in new york. -- 2500 to 4000 person caps on long island city new york. how much did they give away to amazon and tax breaks? opposition for politicians who said this was briefly this year $1 trillion company. do we really have to mortgage the farm to bring the men? new york argued this would bring in $27 billion over 25 years to the city and people said, where do you get those figures? there was a lot of opposition to this deal and amazon says it does not want to deal with that. david: this is where the world of politics meets the world of his miss. in the press release you show me, is said, we love new york. 70% of new yorkers one is there but there are state and local politicians who have objections. this a permanent decision do we think or part of a negotiation saying, people back down and be nice or we're going to leave? is economic, fundamental that brings another talent. google, expanding and new york city area as are other tech companies. maybe they might want to come back at some point but in a more low-key way. david: win this was first announce

david: to broaden it out, it is not just new york, new york city or new york state, illinois is going through a similar thing. they have a governor there, billionaire, liberal billionaire, governor pritzker raised the wealth tax. they're getting less revenue from that. driving businesses and driving wealthy people out of your state is not too good for the bottom line. >> listen, when i was running ubs we took tax credits when we went into stanford. we had to hit certain hurdles and number of employees, certain number of revenues. getting businesses to come into a city is a good thing. david: this fox poll was really extraordinary on many, many different levels. i mentioned the american stream, the opinion of capitalism, people denigrating capitalism from your party, the democrat party. >> yeah. david: even among democrats, 47% of the democrats have a favorable opinion of capitalism. only 3% -- 38% unfavorable. republicans 72% against 17% against it. overall feeling when you get reading this poll, the vast majority of americans feel capitalism is a good thing and socialism is not. but

potentially exposed even further but miffed at the fact that new york city democrats, especially michael gianaris who is just outside manhattan proper really started in 2017 please come in, we would love to have you here and it flip-flopped, hoping it was to his political advantage. after losing 25,000 jobs, potential upside of year after year of revenue, what did you win? did you win less crowded subways? what are you celebrating? in new york city, the epicenter of american business, that city's representatives just said no thank you to capitalism. jillian: your reaction to this tweet from alexandria carlos ghosn ocasio-cortez. today is the day we dedicated

new york city has issues. but we have housing affordability issues, not employment issues so we're spending money and time in the wrong place. so for people who say hey, it could have been great, you only need look at san francisco and seattle and new york city for that matter to understand that middle-class people, the creative class as richard florida calls them, can't live in this city. they can't live in the city. i was mentioning earlier one of the reasons there's no graffiti in new york city is it's too much of a commute for the graffiti artists. there wasn't going to be a solution to that by amazon coming in on the taxpayer dime. >> right. i think it's important for cities across the country, especially at a time of middle-class precarity, at a time when housing construction is so important, we have a shortage of houses, we need to build more places for people to live so they can afford a middle-class life-style, the issue is not corporate welfare. every year american cities spend $90 billion on corpora

of new york city. where do you think the biggest fault lies? what happened here, amazon has a ton of power. when you are making a deal, you want the best deal possible, you don't want to leave the counterparty in a situation feeling like they had been had. unfortunately for amazon, they kind of misjudged their own power, the optics of what this would look like. this enormous tax incentives, particularly, if you go back to when this deal was announced, google also announce it was adding jobs in new york without any tax incentives. it just led to a narrative that this was a company holding up some taxpayers. then you have this swirl of news happening elsewhere in the country, including in wisconsin, where we had a governor basically lose a reelection bid because of a tax incentive situation. it was a situation where amazon misjudged their own deal and maybe misjudged how their power was going to be seen. a statement from michael gianaris, who was opposed to the deal. he says today's behavior by amazon sh

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it made mistakes in new york city. it should have trotted out jeff bezos more to help the steel. -- to support this deal. 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 white collar jobs in queens. it will sell technology like facial recognition to the federal government. what does losing these 25,000 jobs help your constituents? many of them supported the deal. >> it helps our city in the long run and it helps the nation, quite frankly. if we had not thought this fight -- fought this fight in new york city, we would've had other corporations saying you let amazon not only come to new york city by get $3 billion in taxpayer money the clearing -- declaring themselves to be so antiunion that they would not allow workers to organize. if we allow them to do that, everybody else coming after that will say we are doing the same thing.

york and new york city will be just fine, as you said i don't think all of a sudden new york city is in dire straits at all even if you think the math was funny at $27 billion and knock $10 billion off in terms of what it might cost in terms of spending, i think the signal it sends -- and this is about the politics where we are in the country, especially when it comes to states like new york, california, elsewhere, in terms of what it means to be friendly and i'm on "squawk box" considered the most unfriendly of the group, you know, i think it really -- there's something going on here and i think that, you know, as i said, this wins a great twitter war. but in real life it's a very different story. >> scott, what are we missing? >> in real life, in real life, maybe there's going to be $27 billion, maybe there's not it's great bragging rights to say that you won a corporate headquarters looking i cover this all year round. we do a whole study based on this top states for business every year the fact is that in the end companies are going to make decisions where to locate based on a lo

we built alternative models and the new york city jails. these therapeutic units, but they are incredibly expensive. those units of wowould be more effective if thy were not in the jails. amy: math incarceration in this country has been taken on a grassroots activist now for years. it is certainly reading i think -- reaching a tipping point were you people across the political spectrum saying we have the largest prison population in the world. how can this be changed? >> there is an important voice that needs to be broughght to this, which is health care systems, health insurance companies. keep in mind while most people do not die in jail or prison, many people are coming home with phphysical and psychological damage from these settings. in the care they need, which they may have struggle to have access, but the care is going to be provided by community hospitals. just the example of traumatic brain injury. we documented the hidden tremendous brain injury i in the new york c city systems and that increases the risks of those people for dem

that amazon is reconsidering its plan to open its sprawling new hq2 campus in new york city, due to political opposition and protests from the local community. the new york state senate recently appointed michael gianaris, a vocal critic of the amazon deal, to a board charged with reviewing the plan. activists, union leaders and other politicians have spoken out against the deal, including new york city congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez. in political news, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar both formally launched their presidential campaigns over the weekend. there are now an unprecedented six women seeking the democratic nomination. klobuchar launched her campaign sunday with an outdoor rally in minneapolis during a heavy snowstorm. >> i do not have a political machine, i do and a come from money.

this is up-and-coming neighborhood of new york city. right across the river obviously from manhattan. real estate prices spiked right away when they announced. i wonder if they go the other way when they made this announcement? >> realtors and developers are most concerned about this. they were hoping for a boom of 25,000 higher income jobs. funny you say the waterfront. this is not like "on the waterfront," marlon brando. this is scandals led to bad optics. this is economic development zone. when you came here, pilates studios and, how much do they need to develop in up-and-coming area. connell: the idea if you don't give it to them, they won't come. now they're not coming. those are high-paying jobs. you know about it, the argument is the multiplier effect. it is not just 25,000 jobs but additions, company's addition, 100,000 jobs in total. >> no question in mike bloomberg was mayor of new york this deal would happen. that said there is legitimate point on both sides. amazon was making a big show going around the country, looking for

to our new york city values and came to our new york city city council and declared not only would they not remain neutral when it came to efforts to organize but they would fight to crush any efforts of their employees to unionize this is a union town and i grew up in a union family and we have to stand up for our values there. as you know, amazon is not really clear about whether or not they are working with i.c.e. and selling facial recognizes technology to i.c.e. we're a sanctuary safety we want to be a safe haven for all immigrants, as well as undocumented ones. how this was rolled out with the mayor is well documented obviously the $3 billion surplus package to the wealthiest man in the world with a trillion dollar company is obscene all of us and more fight this day because at the end day it's a bad deal for work >> many new yorkers would say i believe that while you're fighting on behalf of some of your constituents for what you just discussed that you're turning away the prospect of enormous economic activity and the tax prospects that will come with it for a city that desperat

from the standpoint of new york, so there's 300,000 tech jobs in new york city. so, not gaining 25,000 more is not that big a deal. however, it's the messaging that new york is sending to say, we are not really receptive to having tech giants come in and maybe we don't want to compete for their business anymore. and one other thing, and you and i talked about this, charles, when amazon went to the $15 an hour minimum wage, the left was praising them. now what happened? amazon becomes the enemy instead of the friend of the left, go figure. >> i think the fact it comes across that new york city isn't business friendly. that's what's concerning. charles: there's been a mass exodus out of new york city and new york state for a long time. >> make new york more friendly to all businesses and not the company, didn't pay taxes, and even though the owner is a billionaire. the top six cities in the world for venture capital are all in america and they collect, boston, new york and four in california, l.a., san francisco, whatever. google is going to add-- is going to be a

you have to be tough to make it in new york city. we give amazon to do business in the greatest city of the world. instead of working with the community, amazon threw away that opportunity. joining us now, our new york state senator, working in the state legislaturelegislatures. he lives near by the long island city site where amazon planned to built. you have been opposed to this hq-2 project. you were going to be in the position to sink this project. would you have done so and are you pleased with the decision? >> we never knew what was going to come before this board that i was appointed to or not. the fact that amazon showed us today why it would be a bad partner for new york. can we make sure that we are accommodating this massive presence that would land in the middle of our neighborhood rather than engaging in our serious conversation. i think mayor de blasio is exactly right. >> other fellow democrats, carolyn maloney have said the opposite today. we are missing out opportunities to improve infrastructures in long island city

you treat them like trash and they will leave new york city and they did. i hope they are accountable in some way from their constituents in this matter because it is ridiculous that amazon found their way being so unwelcome after the disingenuous -- rob: they didn't want to pay 3 billion jobs to incentivize amazon to come here. how much money did they lose out here? >> $3 billion in tax incentives, billions, to say nothing of local businesses like long island city-based jetblue, that would have been a huge thing for airlines like them in new york city, laguardia, jfk, matching the amount of air traffic to do business with amazon. doesn't make any sense to me, has me perplexed. am i in america? this is not a very american thing that happened. rob: we will be right back. before the binge-watching begins... that's when you know, it's half-washed. next time, add downy fabric conditioner . . jillian: good morning and welcome back. president trump expected to declare a national emergency in just hours. rob: nancy pelosi says the president is setting a new preced

york city and get away from new york city mayor now he also says that he's a supporter of u.s. president donald trump now this change will say to the law doesn't affect. other. garments we'll call them relate related to health and safety and also we're going to hear now from a mississippi t.v. anchor who says that she was actually fired because of her hair. i didn't mind because my father told me i did a little of the beauty and then i naturally it was best known now my theory all anyone wants to talk about i didn't is that happy so that's a woman in mississippi so this is not just a new york situation no it's a york city in fact and the thing is of course across the rest of the united states this is going to you know it's really got a lot of interest but it's not just there it's across the water in the united kingdom in fact and in africa where many black women straighten their hair or even wear wigs to cover their natural hair using and we're just seeing here a tweet from charlie bring curst cofs she's an award winning magazine writer and she says well you know new york city

york state and mayor bill de blasio of new york city work together now they're political enemies and they don't like each other but they worked together to get this deal done and they got the deal done and then of course they face a lot of pushback from city council and others who said well we weren't involved but you know cuomo has called this when last friday's report came out the washington post saying that amazon might pull out he said if they do that it's going to be political malpractise on the part of those politicians that drove them away from the deal he's blaming the politicians who have spoken out against this deal for driving amazon away he went so far to say i'll change my name to the admins on cuomo if i have to to keep them here but it wasn't enough bill de blasio on the other hand the mayor of new york city today is taking a slightly different tack he's going after amazon saying well if they don't want to be here if they're not happy or that you know we don't want to buy it why is as the statement from amazon read it was really outspoken political opposition that drov

york city. there were some people that stood apart, that's fine, and that's democracy and i respect them. amazon just took their ball and went home and what they did was confirm people's worst fears about corporate america. here is the 1% dictating to everyone else even though we gave them a fair deal, and i think it will frustrate people all over this country to see a company treat a neighborhood and a city like that. >> well, if you're in amazon's shoe, the deal that was offered to them they take it and now you want to change the deal. is that -- if you're in their shoes, that's what it might have looked like to them, did it not? how did it look like oh, it looks like they want to change the deal, how long do you want to do that and at some point i have 20 other cities in america. >> no. you have to be a good corporate neighbor. i think things are changing in this country. i think working people are rightfully are demanding their fair share and they look at a situation where health and power a

the reason which people don't really know about is that the new york city parks department laid off over eighty percent of the workers over the past ten years they used to work and weed by hand and now so they decided to do a chemical approach to replace the workers who used to lead by hands so there's a labor dimension to this as well as an economic dimension as well as an environmental dimension that cuts across all these different lines and categories. really and there's also a new york we've been sprayed here in new york for since the one nine hundred ninety nine and yet see that mayor former mayor giuliani is now the advisor to the legal advisers at the trough it was giuliani who poisoned the entire city. through the help of the office of emergency management which later became the model for the homeland security and so everything comes right out and it's. really interesting you brought up the ninety nine nine hundred ninety nine spring because i moved to new york city in the fall of one nine hundred ninety nine and got out of a cab and my truck rolled past when they were trying to

i love new york city. it was a big loss for new york city. >> [indiscernible] arrested guard member [indiscernible] >> i'm getting a final briefing and a complete briefing in about two hours. i think it is a shame. i think it is a shame when things like that happen. i have expressed that. i'm getting a complete briefing in about two hours. >> [indiscernible] >> no, i don't, i think my language is very nice. >> [indiscernible] >> people's daily? >> [indiscernible] >> great cooperation. both ways with china. a lot of good things are happening. so many people every day, they're not going to make a deal. they have no idea. they have fake news. do they have fake news in china? [laughter] i think we have a very good chance of making a deal. both parties want to make it a meaningful deal good -- deal. i can speak for the vice premier, president xi, myself, we want to make it a meaningful deal. we want to make it a deal that will last many years. a deal that is good for both countries. but we want to make it meani

college from being all white to resembling more of the diversity of new york city. a fantastic accomplishment. >> did she grow up in brooklyn? >> she spent seven formative years on the island of barbados. and, barbados was transformative to her even though she was a young girl. she was raised mainly by her aunt and her grandmother, two stern but very loving and capable women. she also was in barbados at a moment where the struggle for independence begins. the struggle for labor rights begins. one of her uncles wrote for the black newspaper. and i am absolutely convinced that she had her racial and gender consciousness raised those years in barbados. host: put in perspective the significance of her election, she took office 50 years ago in 1969. elected in 1968. the civil rights movement was at its peak. the voting rights act signed into law. what did it mean for her to be elected? >> well, it was the front page of "the new york times." prior to that, they never mentioned her by name. it was as much of an earthquake as the only thing that it almost comes, that close

services sector, having deep ties in new york city. to lure an amazon to new york, it would seem as if it would truly be a boom. where was the breakdown from your perspective? what was the specific turning point that turned amazon away? rep. maloney: first of all, i would congratulate mayor de blasio and governor cuomo for fighting to win. they went into a competition where it was reported roughly 220 localities, cities, states all wanted amazon. new york won. we are the best city in the world. we should have been rejoicing. you could be for a project while you are working to improve it. i was working with my constituents trying to get some assurances and help and commitment for entry-level jobs, lower-paying jobs. and they were being amenable, they were responding to this. i think the breakdown is everybody got in their corner and they did not move. government's always a process. you can work to make it better. i think also a huge breakdown was there was a negotiated tax refund of $3 billion. many elected officials and others were por

it's bad for new york city, it's bad for queens and bad for new york city. the mayor and the governor caved to the richest man on earth and handed the bill to each and every new yorker. >> amazon's presence is vital to our efforts to safeguard the economy and and future downturns. liz: that was amazon battling the hard left new york city council. amazon may be ditching building its headquarters in new york city because of backlash. the bills were approved and given to them by democrats. andrew cuomo, the governor and bill deblasio the mayor of new york city. jeff bezos who runs "the washington post" and amazon accused the "national enquirer" of blackmail and extortion. we have more details on that story coming up. to alexandria ocasio-cortez doing olympic level head-turning flip-flops on her grand green new deal. she said yes her plan to remake the entire american economy requires government intervention. but then she said the exact opposite as a lot of moderate are not on board, including nancy pelosi who ridiculed it. it has big economic impacts for your f

amazon canceling its move to new york city. senator michael jgianaris speak to us earlier. >> this is not in a vac kul. why not give them $10 billion in incentives if you get $25 billion back >> because we didn't >> you have to stop the madness of saying -- >> let's get woke. >> all right now leaders in neighboring areas are attempting to step in. one of them, new jersey governor phil murphy. he issued this statement new jersey is open for business and now more than ever newark is the next choice for amazon corporate office amazon now has the opportunity to join in newark's story. joining us on the phone is governor phil murphy just be glad it's me and not my coanchor andrew that got assigned this. because you don't want to -- it's like a buzz -- i'm watching politicians just walk into a buzz saw >> as a new jersey resident, i'm blessed by that. >> i want newark so bad. i think it'd be so great it's the perfect place but governor, one of the things that i think we've talked about and this is where you're not going to like what

the magnitude of new york city to take. that's a challenge to step up to and succeed at, especially if you are going to promote yourself as one of the, if not the premier tech city in the united states. >> i'm sure there's a lot of americans watching that don't live in new york and think who cares, we are always talking about new york, because these jobs could go elsewhere to them, to other states. you are seeing a lot of people on twitter even just now saying hey, come to michigan or hey, we support you. but if we bring it back to new york because this is where our story is, the tech hub here, is it growing? is it something that we are still overly reliant on the financial services industry and therefore, we should be investing in all kinds of tech companies no matter who they are if they come knocking on our door? >> the new york market in general is going through a sector shift right now where technology is actually surpassed securities industry employment. it's larger than it is right now. and it's growing at a much fas

city mayor so they can affect health standards he says ok now this isn't just a problem in new york city i mean this is also taking place elsewhere have other places that we acted with similar guidelines yeah you're right but before we move on to that in fact it's affecting like made mention to the health issue and there's hair napster's toys and all that are still going to be required for health and safety and in fact i think the best thing is that we hear from a former mississippi t.v. anchor who claims that she was even fired because of her hair all right and we've got to leave it there a problem is thank you so much for bringing us up date on those well trendsetting guidelines certainly thank you. for a young football players across the african continent the chance to play for a top european club is a dream fourteen year old boy. is such a dream are you hoping to be a global football star in our correspondence a flourish to followed him as foreign munich's top talent scout visited nigeria. for fourteen year old jabril the next few days could be life changing he's one of eighty boys h

it's bad for new york city, it's bad for queens and bad for new york city. the mayor and the governor caved to the richest man on earth and handed the bill to each and every new yorker. >> amazon's presence is vital to our efforts to safeguard the economy and and future downturns. liz: that was amazon battling the hard left new york city council. amazon may be ditching

city and new york state. i think it's fair to new york city and to long island and buffalo and westchester i don't think anyone across the state has a problem keeping that system running helps the entire state. it has worked with new york city to make the investment we should have made for decades to keep that transportation system vital and more than anything we have to do it this year. because the status quo has got to go. the writers are fed up. the situation only gets worse you can pay me now or pay me later. the system is just continuing to deteriorate and if we don't invest now we will pay more later and suffer in the meantime so let's address the mta. let's do it this year. [applause] we also have to make progress across the state to keep building the economy $70 billion of the first term 100 billion in the second we would be leading the nation of all the states actually build a new transportation system of infrastructure the economy comes with the state with infrastructure and that's why it's coming t

there's another new york city bagel here in chicago. corey: not a new york city bagel. -lemonis: what is it called? -corey: new york bagel. lemonis: oh, i'm sorry, i forgot the "c." -corey: that's correct. -laurie: wait, wait, wait. -corey: the "c." -lemonis: and the likelihood of confusion is zero. do people ever walk in and say to you, "oh, i went to your place in skokie"? -corey: they do. lemonis: do they ever go to that place and say, "i went to your place on dearborn"? -corey: they do. lemonis: great. do they ever put reviews on there and you're like, "that's not us"? -corey: they do. -laurie: right. lemonis: i don't want to spend my money and your money and your money to build the brand in a market that somebody else is gonna draft off. i don't like the generic nature of the current name and its lack of specificity or something special, and i feel like there's some underbelly here to why he's resisting. i still don't understand why corey's disappeared. you had built years and years... -corey: to building the brand. -lemonis: ...of building the brand, and then you

white to resembling more of the diversity of new york city. it was a fantastic accomplishment. >> did she grow up in brooklyn? >> she spent seven formative years on the island of barbados and barbados i think really was transformative for her in many ways even though she was a young girl. she was raised mainly by her aunt and her grandmother, two stern but very loving and capable women. she also was in barbados at a moment where the struggle for independence begins, the struggle for labor rights begins, one of her uncles wrote for the black newspaper and i am convinced she had her racial and consciousness raised by those seven years in barbados. >> she took office 50 years ago in 1969 and was elected in 1968 . the civil rights movement was at its peak, the voting rights was signed into law, what did it mean for her to be elected? >> it was the front page of the new york times, prior to that they never mentioned her by name and it was as much of an earthquake and the only thing that comes close to it was the election of which was well how did t

new york city is new york city. cheryl: it's not open for business. that's my point there wa. there was overwhelming support for this deal among new yorkers. 70% supported this. this small group, which is what de blasio talked about in the new york times op ed, this small group, they were the big winners. he goss on to say that ocasio-cortez needs to read up on her facts. the progressive party could really damage business, not just in new york city, anywhere across the united states. this movement is i think should be frightening for ceos right now. >> look, i agree with everything you just said. however, i don't know why amazon needs to go to long island city. all you're really going to do is shut down a lot of small businesses and jack up the rent for people who can't afford it. cheryl: but hire dog walksers , you can't tell me people weren't happy to have the jobs. >> there were losers in this and the losers got their voices heard louder. cheryl: you and i, we love each other, we disagree on this one. thank you for being here this morning. we appreciate it. lauren: still ah

it did make mistakes in new york city. it should have trotted out jeff bezos more to help support the deal. i think putting him in a room officialsiticians and like a kasselman would've helped. but, you are never going to change amazon's strips. jobs, andwhite-collar it is going to sell technology facialfed like recognition and departments like i.c.e., so what does this 25 thousand jobs help your community at all, many of phone support the deal? our city in the long-run, and also our nation, quite frankly. if we had not thought this fight in new york city, we would've had other corporations saying , look, you let amazon not only come to new york city to get $3 billion in taxpayer money, solaring themselves antiunion that they would not allow members of their workforce to organize. if we allow them to do that, everybody else coming after that will say we are doing the same thing. and i feel like a van of the day, this is a fight that needed to be fought. also, with respect to their use and support of i.c.e. work against imm

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well, the news for amazon is that they're not bigger than new york city. >> reporter: amazon's new faclity would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city. but local politicians were infuriated the company was offered $3 billion in tax breaks. in washington, newly elected democrat alexandria on, casio -- alexandria ocasio-cortez called it a victory for everyday new yorkers. >> we were looking at a deal that was not primarily putting the community first, and i think th wabsotely come together to create an economic plan that actually invests in new yorkers. >> reporter: this is the queens neighborhood where amazon was planning to build its headquarters. new york competed against more than 200 cities to land the project. new york governor andrew cuomo had argued the company would transform long island city into an invigorated, high-tech powerhouse. he accused the state senate of doing tremendous damage and of losing an economic opportunity. it would have benefited rockaway brewing company across the street from where the headquarters was planned. what was positive about amazon coming here? >> i th

nobody is forcing new york city to do this deal. i don't think it has an impact on the company overall. i found it amusing they decided they needed to have a second headquarters in the first place. emily: dying to hear what you both think about the bezos blackmail revelation. brad, you have obviously covered amazon and jeff bezos for a long time. for many years, he gave up the expression -- impression of being a family guy, hates the spotlight, does not do interviews. since then, he has expanded into a number of different industries and then comes out with this blog post. what do you make of this evolution? brad: there certainly is one. amazon was the thing that mark and i would talk about, and now my mom, did you hear the news about jeff bezos today? i think it is partly a virtue of how important and intertwined amazon has become an on oe in af our lives. he now has the mental of the wealthiest person in the world. and his ownership of the washington post. what i think has been pretty consistent throughout is he does want to attend

as if there was not enough bezos related news, amazon is plans for a second quarter in new york city. that is called a different kind of extortion. leak but do not cause him a victim yet. jeff bezos accused the publisher of "the national enquirer" of extortion and blackmail, including apparent cooperating details. the national --"the national enquirer" fired the first shot last month. now bloomberg is reporting federal prosecutors are reviewing whether "the national enquirer" parent company ami might have violated an immunity agreement type to hush money payments made to women who had affairs with president trump. the amazon ceo and owner of "the post" said he is not done yet and is continuing an ongoing investigation into how the tablet got sensitive photos and texts tied to his affair. he pointedly suggested that even the saudi government has a role in the story, leading us that's us with us -- leaving the ultimate cliffhanger. wow. joining us now to discuss is greg farrell, an investigative reporter on our team. let's start with what has crawled out so far. what exactly are prosecu

york state and the mayor of new york city and new york city mayor bill deblasio has somewhat changed 0 tune on amazon saying, hey, we gave amazon the opportunity to be a good neighbor an do business in the greatest city in the world instead of working with the community, amazon threw away that opportunity i mean, the lesson here from neighbors is that maybe if you want to come in and get more support, amazon says that they had 70% support from new york state, but if you want more support locally, come in and involve the community in the groundbreaking you do to say, can we come in here? how much are you willing to pay in tax incentives? what does it do to the transit and the real estate prices in this case, the opponents won. guys >> contessa, thank you very much for that to discuss further, joining us is executive editor cara swisher. you called this essentially. >> yeah. >> now that it happened what is your take? >> i wasn't surprised. i don't think amazon wanted the headache and growing and growing and had not just local and state politicians but someone like representative ocasio

duked it outnd amazon announces it's pulling out from its new york city deal. this was supposed to be the largest economic development deal in new york ate's history, a deal that would bring 25,000 to40 00 jobs. jobs that would average $150,000 a year. w york governor andrew cuomo is pointing the finger at localr leaders ending this deal. a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community. one of those outspoken opponents was local new york city councilman jim van bremer and he did a victory lap news conference. >> we are proud that we fought for our values, proud that we fought for our values. our values in new york city are to defend m workingen and women. >> but the constituentsho live here, neighbors and local businessmen, are furious. >> job killer, everybody! >> ty feel likehey have lost out on the opportunities, and they pushed back loudly during that news conference. >> i think it's a sad day for the community, i really do. there were a lot of jobs coming our way. there was a lot of energy in th community. and it

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hq2 in new york city. we're looking closer at the controversy including the impact on real estate just ahead. and putting the stars in starbucks, details on the coffee giant's plans to recommend drinks based on your zodiac sign. [ laughter ] cheryl: here with me to break it down, dee deirdre bolton, alg with matt shl a apapp and michal block. i've got to ask you, deer degree, what'deirdre,what's you. >> if you talk about zodiac and coffee, i'm in. cheryl: some airline got in trouble -- it feels like a throwback to the '70s. your zodiac sign, what is this all about? >> i don't care about that. i might be more hesitant to give out the phone null better. >>> you're okay with the zodiac sign? >> yeah, who cares. >> this is like a hippy throwback. i don't know. >> i just want my coffee. >> i go to dunkin' donuts or mcdonald's. i don't know about starbucks. >>> that's too high brought? >> way too high brow. >> says the man with the beautiful rolex on. >> it could be fake. >> this starbucks rubrics, if you will,

i come from new york city. i love new york city. yes. final briefing in a couple of hours. sad when likevery that happens i'm actually getting a very complete rethink about two hours. shame. it is a thing whenis a sad that happens. i have expressed that. you bear any responsibility for moderating your language? president trump: no. my languages very nice. been oneconflict have year. what do you think? president trump: who are you with? >> people's daily newspaper china. the cooperation. president trump: we have great cooperation both ways with china. a lot of good things are happening. so many people everyday, they are going to make a deal, they aren't going to make a deal. it is fake news. do they have fake news in china? i think so. are they going to make a deal? i think we have a very good chance of making a deal. both parties want to make it a meaningful deal. i can speak for the vice premier, for the president, for myself, both parties want to make this a real deal, a meaningful deal. we want to make this a deal that is going to last for many years and that is going to

new york city, known for big business and amazon blames the unions and state officials? it is interesting, if you like the history of american capitalism, little town, the railroad comes, you build a town around it, everyone gets more wealthy and moves on. that is, if you like, the american model. but if you like, the american model. but if you go to seattle, which used to be a sleepy, north—west pacific town where amazon's headquarters. lots of residents feel they have been squashed by the amazon, rents have gone through the roof, change the nature of the town. not always for the best. you see those emerging feelings here. $3 billion to this company when they say we have crumbling subways and what have you. quite an interesting grassroots campaign repelling one of the most successful companies in the world which is quite un—american. successful companies in the world which is quite un-american. queens isn't manhattan, but isn't that part of the problem, new york city has seen businesses come along, and residents are conscious of that?” think there will be a lot of

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. captioning funded by cbs >>> it's friday, february 15th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump is expected to sign a bill to avert a government shutdown, then declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border. >>> whose city? >> our city! >> amazon presses the cancel button on its planned new york city headquarters. >>> and a monster storm drenches california, unleashing flash floods and mudslides. washaw

york state and new york city. to pay $3 billion which you aren't paying it's tax relief seems like a good deal if the state next door does a better deal they will get the 30 jobs that's why we do it. they don't need the subsidy but they get it because it's a gold mine for the citizens. >> did this go wrong governor dean because the negotiations were so much held in secret, number one and because the state did not get from amazon the kinds of contributions to infrastructure improvements, to housing and so forth that amazon clearly might have been able to pay if they negotiated harder? >> i actually think the way amazon set this up was bound to result in something like this, because in order to do something like this you have to pre-sell it there are always nay sayers to every deal some reasons they are nay saying are decent and reasonable and some are not but there are always nay sayers. the way you gate deal like this done you and the company go sell the deal to the public and then when you find out what they are

that's just a given in new york city. maybe what it has drawn attention to is just how many snacks incentives there are that are thrown around routinely. >> absolutely true. most, not all. there was also a $500 million cash reimbursement to jeff bezos for building of the buildings tucked into the deal. $2.5 billion. but you are right. we as a city need to take another look at these incentives. which at a time were meant to encourage smaller corporations and companies to invest in the outer burros. i don't think anyone could be tell plamented someone as big as amazon would choose to take advantage of these particular tax incentives which then ballooned the payments to an object seen level. >> i -- obscene level. >> i wish we could carry on the debate. coming up, the hedge fund bail on u.s. stocks in rocky fourth quarter? rebreak it down. >> hedge fund in the fourth quarter investments. abigail has the breakdown. >> this is the last date for hedge funds to make the filings. major investors updating what the position changes

its second headqrters between our area and new york city could pose possible problem. the state senate majority leader in new york has nominated an outspoken critic to serve on a state board that would have the power to reject it. state senator michael gianaris called the giving blions in subsidies offensive. the government ctld rej that, arguing amazon is expected to bring at least 25,00 jobs. it is not clear tonight any move to stop the project would have implications here in norern virginia. >>> the public health emergency involving measles cases in washington state is worsening. 50 e are now more than reported cases and only one b patient hadn vaccinated for the virus. as a result, hospitals in the outbreaks epicenter are on high alert. >> a lot of precautions tot prevnyone from entering with signs and symptoms of

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