joe lockhart, the former chief communications officer for the nfl well. cnn political comment traitor margaret hoover a former staffer foregeorge w. bush. she has been here before. you re a new by joe. president trump attacked amazon by name 15 time limits since taking office and at it again this morning accusing the washington post of being the chief lobbyist. he said the fake news washington post , the chief lobbyist are the amazon have phoney headlines, trump defiant as china adds trade penalties. should read trump admit as u.s. ads indiana typically bad reporting. what do you think ultimately is behind the attacks on amazon, the arctic pz coverage in jealous of bezos welt or something else. you know i think it s a combination. the obvious thing and the thing that gets under his skin most
chief lobbyist, has another of many phony headlines. trump defiant as china ads trade penalties. wrong. should read trump defiant as u.s. ads trade penalties. will end barriers and massive i.p. theft. in other words, intellectual property theft. typically bad reporting. amazon s founder jeff bezos also owns the washington post. representatives for the paper says he has no influence in the journalistic decisions. amazon s stock has been down. it s up today, $40. the most recent dip came in a series of tweets. gerri willis is live downtown on the corner of wall and broad. hello, gerri. that s right, shep. i m down here at the floor of the stock exchange. we have a nice rally coming on.
i ve known kudlow for a long time. for sure, except for the fact that larry kudlow went on the was in the driveway and said there are companies who don t abide by the rules. i m not saying amazon is one of them. so larry kudlow says that. you know who says the exact opposite? the man he s working for. and i want to show this. because just moments ago president trump took to twitter. the fake news washington post, amazon s chief lobbyist, has another of many phony headlines. trump defiant as china adds trade penalties. wrong. should read, trump defiant as u.s. adds trade penalties, will end barriers and massive ip theft. typically bad reporting. brother, please. you tell me what president trump knows about intellectual property. if we re really talking about this economic war china is launching against us, we should talk ip. we should talk about their massive investment in artificial intelligence. where s trump on that?
syria where basically u.s. troops have largely publicly been focused on going on patrols and showing that they are there. but this underscores there is a classified mission in that area of syria. we now know that u.s. army master sergeant jonathan dunbar was assigned to the u.s. army s very elite, very secretive delta force, that he was part of a delta force mission along with the others that day to go look for an isis operative in northern syria when they were killed in combat. very tough business, of course, for the army, and for the british. their families in deep mourning. they are expected to be laid to rest in the coming days. brianna. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you so much for that. coming up, china strikes back after the country slaps new trade penalties on the u.s. overnight. we ll tell you where they could hit american companies. and workers the hardest. live pictures coming to us right
second. this is what it would say and that s what he wants. he doesn t want a deal. he doesn t want a deal. didn t work for hillary clinton in 2016 and doesn t work now. what are you talking about? trump supporters it is the same kind of logic no argument because you guys, you guys no. all right. the facts are $25 billion, president trump said no. people don t agree with that position. maria, thank you so much. jason miller, thank you so much. i love how animated you both are about this issue. the next story we re going to be talking about is david shulkin, the former va secretary, did he quit or was he fired? he says the white house claims that he stepped down are wrong and we ll tell you why it matters, how he departed next. the dow dropping triple digits this morning after china levels new trade penalties on the u.s.