to allow companies to get products to market more quickly and to customers more quickly that is certainly something we want to encourage. reporter: amazon, the largest online retailer as a case in point, amazon just announced it will be hiring 7,000 new employees at its distribution centers across the united states. jamie? jamie: doug mckelway, live at white house. keep us posted, doug. bill: lot to analyze. stephen more, senior writer wall street journal. sister publication. promise on this? going anywhere? we ve been waiting three or four years for the grand bargain, right? this is the latest iteration of this. my opinion president obama has it half right here. there is lot of economic value to cutting the corporate tax rate. boy, do the republicans believe that as well. so that will be music to their ears. we have as you know the highest corporate tax rate in the world that puts america in a very competitive disadvantaged situation. what they re not going to like is a call for
well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you ve mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is different now. you don t even have to bid. master hahn taught you all that? oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) you still owe him five bucks. your accent needs a little work. a day after a very emotional hearing up on capitol hill on the deadly benghazi consulate attack. the house speaker john boehner is accusing the obama administration of stone walling while the secretary of state john kerry is pledging answers. joining us now our chief national correspondent john king. our chief political analyst gloria borger. and the senior correspondent for time magazine our sister publication michael crowley. thanks very much for coming in.
cat haven sanctuary in dunlap, california, near fresno. we expect to hear about the tragic mauling of an intern killed by a lion, a 350-pound african lion inside a cage. we ll get an update. we ll go there as soon as he shows up into in the meantime, other news we re following, including important news concerning women. we re talking about the chief operating officer of facebook and sheryl sandberg is creating a lot of buzz. the cover story for our sister publication, time magazine. she says this. women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world but when i say the blunt truth, i say men run the world
print watched these leaps into the digital world and hope that they re wildly successful. you know, i have a real soft spot in my heart for newsweek because it was our sister publication for all that long time and many years at the post, when i was in new york i d drop by the old newsweek office on madison avenue. it was a wonderful place. but i wanted to ask tina, what was the meeting like? we kind of saw this coming. which meeting? what was the meeting like? which meeting, gene? when you talked to your staff about well, listen. i feel we have the most incredibly talented editors and writers at newsweek. and obviously the painful piece of this is that inevitably, it s going to mean reduction in staff. for all of us, it was a somber meeting in that regard because i to tell the staff that. and that s very difficult and very unfortunate. but at the same time, i think that everybody there
never. i was going to make a joke about russell brand being on our channel but it would have fallen flat. still have 30 seconds. want to talk about the jack welch. do we have that confirmed? i don t know that we do. jack welch may have resigned we don t have it confirmed. this is how we do things on fx. tweet about it right. i read the story. a story in fortune that says jack welch has resigned from his columnist job at fortune and reuters in the wake of the conspira his conspiracy tweet. it appears that he appears he was miffed about the fact that those publications wrote stories critical of what he had said. i wrote a critical story. sister publication. just for the record was totally insane. totally insane conspiracy theory, one of many floating out there. the repercussions also in the same piece asked to see obama s birth certificate. yes.