The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
named four or five fish and down here, and then he rattled off like a dozen fish and that s why the fish has been here. you know what the lesson is a lot of loving going on in the mud. your mississippi accent is pretty good do you practice that in the mirror? will: gulf of mexico is dirtier and clears up over by florida and swirls towards texas an we get the worst of it but in that brown water a lot of fish. kayleigh: good accent. good accent. well on to this, ron desantis he says voters tell that i theyt like trump s rhetoric listen to him in iowa. i ve been around just two days here. number one thing people comp come up to me and said trump attacking kim renolds they are not now doing that so if that is not the way we win as republicans. the way you win is to unite republicans, win independents and even win some democrats. here s ron desantis attack about verbal jabs between he and trump i ll tell you there s two sides to what you heard from ron desantis. one side i
working to discredit the special counsel s claims about president biden s memory. made by that prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. rachel: the endorsement from donald trump that could change the balance of power in the senate. pete: the secret to saving of the us economy, eating more bacon. we will explain when the third hour of fox and friends weekend starts now. joey:nothing is going to stop us. lake worth. will: when did jefferson starship become starship? rachel: sometime in the 90s. same thing. if you like the 90s, i had kennedy on my podcast and we had an all 90s extravaganza. we talked about mtv, the 90s. joey:did you talk about jingo genes? rachel: the will kane show is too highbrow to talk about is this but anyway, starship. let s begin with this. the biden administration is on the defensive dealing with the fallout from the special counsel report on the president s handling of classified documents and president biden s press conference thur
next step, a showdown in the senate. jack smith now challenging former president trump s efforts to delay his criminal trial on the classified documents until after next year s election. raising the possibility he could pardon himself. jared kushner has spoken to prosecutors about trump s alleged attempts to overturn the election. we will check in on trump s republican rivals without him in iowa for the informal launch of the republican caucus campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. hollywood comes to a standstill for the first time in more than six decades. sag-aftra, the union representing film and tv actors is now on strike after talks with studios collapsed following four weeks of negotiations. in a blow to the $134 billion industry, of course, the two sides clashing over residual payments in the age of streaming and the usual of artificial intelligence to replace actors. the union president blasting the studios yesterday. i am shocked by