antonio pettit worked on a seven-month contract for amazon s alexa team. not a lot of care seems to be taken to ensure that, you know, people aren t just burning out working there. that s what i see not always taken into account is the cost of having this convenience is oftentimes built on the backs of the people who are working at amazon. talk a little bit about the culture. there was that 2015 new york times article about culture here at amazon. and employees saying that it can be cut-throat and can be relentless. when you read that, what did you think? i think it was quite skewed and i think if you have a company with several hundred thousand people like we do, if you want to write a certain perspective, find some people to support it, you can really write almost anything you want. but the times interviewed more than 100 current and former amazon employees including executives across departments. describing, quote, sometimes
other places as well. joe biden as a lot of support, not to mention he s president obama s vice president. there are questions whether other candidates can make inroads. elizabeth warren is making a pitch for african-american women, kamala harris is making another pitch, a number of these candidates. we still have so many months to go but we do need to see if joe biden can hold onto the support. and to your way of thinking, do you think joe biden has a lock on the african-american vote or are there those who can make inroads? i don t think he has a lock on it at all. we re still early enough in the process that those who have name recognition, have enough of a history for a why in the polls, right? but as more people start to pay attention, they learn about the debates, they start to warm to other people and start to learn about other people, it s not a lock and he has to make an
message of, no, we re still an ally and the message will endure. to pema s point, certainly uniformity in trying to condemn trump about it, but they re also partly urging israel to reverse that decision they initially made. what is the takeaway from their reaction? the democrats are in a response to change the course. they we they were going to let her see her elderly grandmother and then she decided not to go, so there was some back and forth there. jewish voters are a huge supporter of the democratic party, so i think this is a story that will continue to play out. sure. another story continuing to play out is guns, and it seems the president is somewhat in a reversal mode, no longer talking about background checks. instead he s trying to lock onto
voting block that could tip the scales in 2020. back and forth. the fallout from israel denying entry it two u.s. house members. a new reaction from the president and congresswoman rashida tlaib. tackling gun violence. two weeks after mass shootings, demonstration s on a huge scale across this country today. will it work? ivanka for 2024. while she may prefer the oval office over her penthouse, talk about that this summer. good evening. welcome to alex witt. planned gun control rallies in every state this weekend, some in effect right now after two mass shootings in el paso and dayton. asking to keep gun legislation in the national spotlight hoping it won t fade as it has after other large-scale shootings. a new poll found a majority of
scaramucci, i have to look at it with a grain of salt why they might be bringing it up. they might be right, but i would look at kelly rather than anthony scaramucci. you said yourself the that the president might drop out in 2020. if it becomes clear he most likely won t win, is this plausible? do you think that quote, a paraphrased it to some degree, but do you think trump is saying he s not going to run again, or is it just wishful thinking for his opponents? i think it s wishful thinking. i don t rule out anything involving donald trump, but his public rating is still around 90% right now. i think some of the more probable challengers, like john kasich who could have given him