of trump supporters. the committee and the house documented 12 different requests to the pentagon that day. trying to get help from the national guard. 12 different requests. while the attack was under way. five different times the national guard was told that they needed to standby. and be ready to maybe do something. but it was close to five hours before any national guard troops were sent to the capitol. at which point the capitol was well and truly overrun. today one of the pentagon officials who couldn t explain that delay in dispatching the guard on january 6, one of the officials who couldn t explain it, never the less testified about it. was a general charles flynn. he is the younger brother of trump national security adviser michael flynn. who of course called on trump supporters to come to the capitol january 6. who publicly called on trump to declare martial law and have the military take over the country and rerun the election and swing states. where trump lost. m
They found. the amazon that customers don t see. the times interviewed 200 current and former employees for the piece. many work inside the giant facility. and what they were able to thread together is a bluntly distoep yan picture of working in that center. especially during covid. here s one example from the family. on the left there is albert. with his wife and two kids. he worked there for five years. when covid hit new york last spring. he and his wife talked about whether he should stay home from work to avoid getting covid. they are trying to buy a house they needed income. he kept going to work. when he arrived to work on march 24, he heard the warehouse
As fast as she can. amazon is worth so much as a company, giving away billions of dollars a year doesn t effect the fact her net worth keeps going up. she s not jeff bezos. here s worth $190 billion. 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 yo think i m kidding. he said quote the only way i can deploy this much financial resource is by converting my amazon winnings into space travel. that s it. so now he s doing it. funding a space tourism company and heading to space next month himself. wealth that amazon that company generated is almost impossible to wrap your head around. especially the last year. because of the pandemic amazon which was already unimaginably
She s given more than $8 billion in 12 months. incredible thing in lots of ways. there s another reason i can t get this headline out of my head. she of course used to be bezos. she was married to jeff bezos. the founder of amazon. they divorced in 2019. he s the richest person on the earth. when they got divorced she got her own share of the fortune. her settlement in the divorce is sh holds 4% of amazon stock. when they divorced she was worth about $36 billion. now, owning 4% of amazon stock meeps she is worth more like $60 billion. that is even with giving away $8 billion in a year.
Officials new york records show no reported cases from the facility until november. the times noted city officials dispute what happened. believe me bh i tell yo that horrible confusion with the family, this discrepancy with reporting covid cases and facilities started the tip of the iceberg. this block buster paints a picture about american workplace where employees have been fired by mistake. and unable to find any real human being to fix it. let alone reinstate them. a company that suffers from immense turn over. the times found even before the pandemic amazon was losing 3% of hourly work force every week. which means 150% turn over a year. the entire work force was turning over. in less than a year. one former amazon employee telling new york times about what it means for a company to churn through its entire huge