Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin 201508

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin 20150817

And in the flash is bright orange, chaotic scene followed by people running down the sidewalk. At least 18 people were killed, including chinese tourist. More than 100 were injured. In the heart of bangkok, near a hindu shrine. The timing and location here are key. Absolutely. As you mentioned, this is in the heart of bangkok. Its an intersection that is incredibly popular amongst locals and tourists. The shrine itself is hugely popular. You mention that its a hindu shrine but buddhists seek members and hindu members over bangkoks considerable Indian Community go there to worship and, of course, 7 00 in the evening, people are heading home from work. They want to go and give pay their respects at the shrine. They bring flowers, insents. Its a popular location for people coming from all over the world as well. A major tourist hot spot. Ana . Who or what are behind it . Are investigators saying its terrorism . They are calling it a terrorist attack. Who is behind it they simply dont know. They dont want to speculate so early on. Weve seen a number of attacks in bangkok over the years. But, of course, thats when the military stepped in. Last year we had the antigovernment protests there. I was there covering both and this was all around this area, ana. It was on lockdown by thousands of security presence since then and last summer we did see a pipe bomb in january this year and people are saying that was a warning shot that things may escalate and today that is what weve seen in the heart of bangkok. Ana . Reporting in bangkok, thank you so much. 18 people killed. Now to politics. Who else . Donald trump. Hes not the most likable republican, according to a poll. Most people dont think he won the recent debate. Trump is still the top choice for the gop nomination. Nationwide fox survey found donald trump fully on top, a commanding lead over the two other antiestablishment republicans. 25 , you can see the ben carsons, and they say he did the worst job in the gop debate and the least likable of the republican candidates. Lets talk all about this with maeve, our national reporter. Trump is still on top by a lot. How do you make sense of that . What is really interesting is when you actually talk to voters about him, they love the way that they are thinking but once you start digging down with them and asking them what they imagine, when they think of him in the oval office, there are a lot of people that back away a little bit and say, yeah, hes my first choice right now but im still looking at all of the other candidates and im not sure that i would ultimately vote for him for president. So i think what is important to remember, as we all look at these polls, is that support right now is not that firm. And there are still a lot of other candidates out there who have yet to air commercials, who have yet to show voters really what their background and credentials are. And when you see those guys up against trump and compare their records, voters might be singing a different tune if you get a few months down the line. Right. Its still early. A lot of people have not made up their mind. Trump released some details, policy details on Immigration Reform plan. I want to take a quick look at that in addition to that wall hes been saying he wants to build along the mexico border. He also said that he will deport millions of Illegal Immigrants and hes going to put an end to birthright citizenship on american soil, u. S. Citizens. Its part of the constitution. Maeve, is he planning to repeal the 14th amendment . Well, i think that would be a very difficult task that he has ahead of him if he thinks that thats actually something that is realistic and would actually make its way through. Thats the thing about donald trump, is that a lot of the details of how you work with congress in washington, what some of these policy changes are required. He doesnt talk about that. This was the most detail that hes put out on any policy that hes talked about so far and, of course, this is the issue that is really galvanized voters around him. If you think even about the idea of deporting that many people, that is just a massive undertaking. That would be incredibly expensive. Right. No one else has been able to figure out how to do that yet. And down the line when the rubber meets the road, its a different story. What he sees is what he wants to do, what he plans to do but not necessarily what he plans about how to do it. Maeve reston, thank you so much. Its not just trump that has people talking. Take a look at who else is with him in that top tier. Theres trump followed by ben carson and ted cruz. Three candidates who have all built their campaigns by criticizing the party establishment. And look who is falling behind. Jeb bush down by 9 to 15 in an earlier fox poll. Also slipping in the survey, wisconsin Governor Scott walker, senator marco rubio. Clearly, the establishment candidates are in decline. The outsiders appear to be on the rise. An oped columnist, rob, thank you so much for joining us. When you look at this movement and who trump is representing, i mean, all of a sudden gop is the party of populism led by a billionaire. How does that happen . Well, part of what is interesting about trump, right, is that if you look if you dig into his polling numbers and look at who supports him, he isnt just a candidate of the Republican Party base. So, you know, when we talk about the gop, if we go back to 2012 and look at mitt romney and his various rivals, theres a pretty clear narrative where very conservative voters werent wild about voting for romney and they went from gingrich to santorum. With trump, its a different story. He has a fair amount of support among very conservative republicans but also has a lot of support among selfdescribed moderate republicans. Hes got a lot of support for me and the less religious. So hes a distinctive candidate and picking up that real right wing populism but also more of the sort of ross perot radical center, you know, the kind of the voters who arent deep dive and ideological. Right. If you look at his pitch, what he is trying to do is make a pitch on issues where the establishment in both Political Parties tend to discount Public Opinion and immigration is the prime example of that. If you compare how americans feel about immigration to how leaders in washington behave about it, the country is clearly a little bit to the right of washington, d. C. , but the same is true on some of the issues hes talking about. Hes always harping on trade, right, and talking about how were getting a raw deal from our free trade agreement, how were losing to mexico and china and so on. This is another issue where theres a strong elite consensus and then a lot of americans who dont agree with that consensus and dont feel represented by either party. You could go down the list. Hes talking about medicare and social security, for instance, in a way that republicans never talk about. Republicans usually talk about reforming those programs. Trump is saying dont touch those programs. And that resonates with a slice of Republican Voters who often depend on medicare and social security. He doesnt tip toe on issues. It does seem to have an appeal. I want to ask you about ben carson because hes moved up a lot in the polls. Hes number two right now. We havent been talking about him a whole lot. His style is sort of the antitrump. He hasnt had a lot of time speaking in front of people, at least on the media stage. Didnt say much in the debate but hes in second place. Yeah. And thats been a surprise for a lot of debate watchers, myself included, actually, that, you know, if watching the debate as a pundit who knew something about ben carson going in, a lot of people said he didnt get a lot of time to speak. He seemed a little out of his depth and so on. But it seems like he came across to a lot of voters as both very decent and deep and intelligent person and he obviously has a fascinating and inspirational story. I would guess, based on where his appeal has been in the past, that he is getting more a more ideological base of support than trump. Hes been a big favorite on the conservative speaking circuit. Hes been very vocal in attacking president obama and so on. He may be more case study in sort of the more traditional conservative populism as opposed to trumps mix and match, say whatever i feel like kind of thing. Well have to wait and see where this all goes. Thanks for your time. Sure. Still ahead, just moments ago, Carly Fiorina also rising in the polls. Slammed donald trump over hormones. Hear what she had to say. Plus, crying in the workplace. Employees ratting each other out. Scathing allegations against amazon. Someone who has worked with that company. And another passenger plane disappearing carrying 54 people. Well tell you what has just been discovered. Im ana cabrera in for brooke baldwin. Stay with me. But that hasnt stopped me from modeling. My doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. With only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. Stelara® helps me be in season. 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Another employee was warned of potential performance issues who was just diagnosed with Breast Cancer and one woman was later considered a problem because colleagues reported she wasnt working hard enough. Amazon boss jeff besos did respond to the New York Times article with a memo he sent to his employees. It reads in parts, the times claims our intentional approach is to create a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard i dont recognize this amazon workplace and i hope you dont either. Mark, i know at times youve worked with amazon in sort of a partnership role. Youve had students who have gone on to amazon. Was this article surprising to you . Ive found the article completely unacceptable. I just cant connect the experiences that ive had with amazon and the experiences ive had in the Retail Industry with the comments that were cited. Let me just say this. I started in the business as an executive trainee alongside 37 other people at macys, then a division of federated. Four months in, four people were still employeed. Everyone else had either quit or been fired. What became apparent to me is that the Retail Business is not for everybody. And that was a different company. That wasnt amazon. That wasnt amazon but it was a highperformance Retail Business. Fast forward to about 2003, i was the chairman and ceo of sears canada. We spent about a year working in teams with groups of people from amazon, midto highlevel executives on a mutually interesting project. We were quite taken with the talent, professionalism, toughness but fairness of their folks. Now fast forward to today. Ive got quite a few of my very best students in the last few years who have gone on to work for amazon. Many of them stay in touch and i just havent heard any complaints. No complaints at all . Well, they talk about how tough of a business it is. A lot of hard work. But thats kind of the context for the retail represents. Being a journalist myself, you dont want to take anything out of context. So are you do you believe that theres any truth to the New York Times article . Well, what is described may or may not be true. In a very large organization, theres always the possibility that someone behaves badly, that someone does the wrong thing. Thats unfortunate if, in fact, those characterizations are true. At the end of the day, the article brings to bear that the companys culture is built around this exploitation thesis which i think is completely false. Where do you draw the line between toughness and a toxic environment . Well, toxic environments dont retain talented successful people. Amazon is loaded with talented and successful people. Although their turnover as been cited as high, thats a characteristic of highperformance companies. And not to mention, amazon has some success going for it, when you look at the numbers themselves. They have recently eclipsed walmart in terms of market valuation and they are on track to expand to 50,000 employees in the next three years or so. So they must be doing something right. The company didnt exist 20 years ago. The company today is one of the most important, powerful forces, almost a force of nature in the Retail Industry and in related businesses that they have found, like cloud services. They are going to be an extraordinary paradigm shifter for consumers for the foreseeable future. They have employed a number of committed people but not all of whom are suited for their business. And were hearing some complaints which may or may not be grounded in facts that are certainly not, in my view, indicative of the companys culture. Let me play devils advocate. Weve recently talked about netflix giving unlimited parental leave, for example. And that amazon doesnt give any paid leave, at least to fathers. There does seem to be a conflicting nature of companies and this round of the retail round, the tech world, and netflix is also a thriving company. Amazon has chosen to be a mean and performance enterprise without perks and benefits of any consequence. Their focus has been on building businesses, making them successful. They have chosen that and the people that join them either buy into that or not. They have chosen not to create an environment loaded with other things like parental like child benefits, parental leaves of that sort and they are not requiring people who work for them as a matter of involuntary servitude. So the folks who sign up and are suited for that highpower, highpressure role, if you will, seem to enjoy every minute of it. The folks who find it less than suitable are folks who tend to leave on their own. Take it or leave it. Thats right. If you sign up, you know what youre getting into. Mark cohen, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thank you. 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