five four nine nine one again that s eight hundred three two five four nine nine one fourth grimy ties f to china and anti fossil fuels activism blackrock has been blacklisted by the state of west virginia. my next guest, state treasurer riley moore just announced that the board of treasury investments, which manages just eight billion dollars, would not be investing in blackrockkkr treasure more noting that even george soros has saidha blackrok china investments are a tragic t mistake that could potentially damage our national security. wow.wow. riley,y more west virginia state treasurer joins me now. mr.e moore, good to see you g tonight . nowoo why aren t more states doing things like this ?
eight billion dollars a year saved. take action to address climate change, 145 billion dollars in savings. fully fund our irs, so that everybody pays with they already oh. this isn t making any changes to the tax. making sure we let the irs collect the taxes they are already owed in doing. these are the cost of not acting. so when we hear people say that the bill would cause this much, the legislation would cost this much. i think it is very important that the american people understand what president biden is trying to do. will congress is trying to do with these changes. to actually save money. that is what is on the table for year two and it is really important that we take these actions now while we do have a strong economy. and that is what president biden is setting us up to do in year two. as you mentioned, i ve not heard joe manchin and his concerns about inflation ever mentioned prescription drug prices as part of the inflation. no, but it is absolutely true. prescription
doc a, i need you to give me jut six more months. seeab the baby born you know whn to put together the cancer moonshot when they found out i i had i had macer, a lot of other agencies looked at me like what s the matter with you? t she gets one nurse and knows more about radiation than all of you. > that s all so knows better than to put moonshot and cancer in the same phrase. laura , this is not working. i don t know if he thinks politically this is a help, but i mean it biden s really interested in cutting the cancer death rate. he should have been more proactive getting those hospitals to treat and care for cancer patients. there s a study out ofere the university of birminghamha that found that one in seven cancer patients missed their surgeriesat due to the covid lockdowns and the last cancer moonshot we spent one point eight billion dollars on laura. it didn t move the death rate at the lockdowns, her follow up
what you re doing this year in june? oh it s because that s what s he s given away at the first half of this year. last summer, she announced that she gave away almost two billion dollars to historically black colleges then at the end of last year she announced that she d given more than four billion dollars to a bunch of other charities. now today, nearly three billion dollars against just in the first half of this year she s given more than eight billion dollars and its 12 month period. it s an incredible thing in lots of ways. but there s another reason i can t get this headline out of my head today. mckenzie scott of course used to be mackenzie scott bezos. she was married to jeff bezos, who is the founder of amazon. they divorced in 2019 because of his stake in amazon jeff bezos is by far the richest person on the earth. when the two of them got divorced mckenzie scott got her own share of the fortune. her settlement basically in the divorces that she holds 4% of amazon s stock.
when they divorced a couple years ago, that meant she was worth about 36 billion dollars. but now owning 4% of amazon s top means that she s worth not 36 billion dollars but more like 60 billion dollars. and that s even with giving away eight billion dollars in a year, right? giving way eight billion dollars as fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company. giving away billions of dollars a year doesn t affect the fact that her network still just keeps going up and it s not like she is jeff bezos. jeff bezos is himself is something worth 190 billion dollars. it says he has so much money now the only thing he can think of to do with it all is to launch himself into space. i know you think i m kidding or being hyperbolic but he said a few years ago that the only way i can see to deploy this much financial resources by converting my amazon winnings and space travel that is