retail economy. donald trump tends to think in terms of tangible objects. so i think what is bothering him here, among many other things, is the sense that our economy is a shifting in way that his friends who deal in small retail businesses or commercial properties like malls are losing out to this major internet giants. bret: let s just say if he woke up tomorrow and said, walmart is taking out mom-and-pop stores, too. two things going on. one, there is a lot of retail and trump towers around the country. he is probably suffering along with everybody else. but the idea that the president of united states would go after an individual company, why isn t the chamber of commerce bret: they put out a statement. speak about isn t the entire republican party, who was absolutely obama went over coke industries pretty specifically. it s not totally unprecedented. that was egregious and rightly called out. this is absolutely and bret: last word. keep in mind, they were
amazon as a company, the founder jeff bezos, or the washington post, which jeff bezos owns personally. now there is no interaction between the washington post and amazon, the e-commerce company. but president trump has tweeted five times in just one week about amazon and about various parts of this business, even calling the usps, the united states postal service, a delivery boy for amazon and implying that amazon gets bigger breaks than it deserves. most strategies that i ve been speaking with, say, okay, listen. amazon has not done anything wrong from a tax perspective. they say they company has been around for two decades, it provides cheap goods in a convenient way, hasn t broken the law. they are still longtime buyers. i would be remiss if i didn t say that since the president started tweeting about amazon about a week ago, the stock lost about a 10%, which represents about 12 billion to 16 billion depending on the day, for jeff bezos personally.
a major break from other leaders in the arab world, at least publicly. crown prince mohammed bin salman is blasting the iranian supreme leader also, the crown prince calling him the hitler of the middle east. and the crown prince also supported president trump s opposition to the iran nuclear deal, as we ve heard him say before. a russian company will build a $20 billion nuclear power plant in turkey, that announcement comes as russian president vladimir putin visits his turkish counterpart. they are setting aside traditional rivalries and differences on regional issues to form closer ties. this also head of a meeting with two leaders as well as the president of iran. russian president putin says russia wants a thorough inquiry into the poisoning of a former kremlin s bites and great britain. british officials have accused russia of being behind that attack.
peter doocy live in charleston, west virginia with more. what happened that shook up this race there, peter? bill, it got really shaken up when one of the most polarizing business figures in west virginia got out of jail and into the race. his name the former head of the massey energy company. he served time that contributed to the big branch mine tragedy where 29 miners lost their lump. he thinks the charges were political to help rally republicans around him. i m sort of the point man for west virginia on conservative causes for the last 20 years and most people know i got assaulted by the president obama because of that. operatives in d.c. working with republicans say that if he is the republican on the ballot it might endanger their chances to pick up the manchin seat.
yazoo city, and right fou what they they re saying is this is a marathon, not a race. this thing is going to be this disaster is going to be extended through june at least. thanh truong live for us in vicksburg. the results of a federal investigation into last year s deadly coal mine explosion in west virginia. mine safety and health administrators say the report released today supports original findings that the massey energy company rek lassly ignored safety and allowed dangerous conditions to build up unside the upper big branch mine. mine officials were found to have bp able to prevent the disaster with standard safety prevention. california police say a known white supremacist was killed by his own 10-year-old son because the boy was tired of being beaten. according to court documents,