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Good morning everybody happy Monday we have an amazing show for everybody today what do we have crystal in the new lots of big stories that I'm very excited to talk about namely Amazon first warehouse voting to join a union historic moment I have about a million things I want to say about this and we'll dig into everything we've learned about how exactly they were able to pull this off and a little bit of the media reaction which is always an interesting part of the story also some terrible breaking news in Ukraine about the situation there on the ground will get into that will also talk about these

economic situation as best we can tell in Russia new signs that sadly as we predicted the sanctions that we have levied the economic warfare that we are conducting against Russia is completely backfiring I mean that's just pretty much it may not be working as well as people thought it may not be working well as well as people thought and it seems to be having the effect of bolstering Russian public opinion in favor of Putin and in favor of this war.

So exactly the opposite of the outcome that you would actually want but we'll dig into those details also a new study that's kind of good and bad it reveals that cable news sadly really does impact the way that people think about the world and think about politics the good side of that is that it also indicates that people's minds can be changed so that's hopeful because if you change their information diet you can create a better political landscape so we'll talk about that also it looks like Jen Saki has a new job coming up here.

Low and behold she's going to MSNBC Sagar.

Yes.

And it is pretty extraordinary for someone who is still the White House press secretary to be conducting these type of negotiations it's so extraordinary actually that even the White House press corps was repeatedly pressing on her on it including one of the people at NBC Christian Welker who would be her colleague if these reports are indeed true.

We have on here Christian Smalls might be joining us not 100% sure about that so we had a tentative confirmation he's busy.

We've got extraordinarily busy so we'll see if we'll get him if not we've got another piece of the Amazon story that we want to tell you about another media reaction from one of his appearances on MSNBC but let us start with the news out of statin island and Amazon.

As you all probably already know a warehouse on statin island it's called JFK 8 has now officially become the very first Amazon warehouse to vote to unionize it was not particularly close this was.

And it's not only because it's the first but also because Amazon is such a behemoth because they really set the conditions for labor across the country because they spent millions of dollars to keep this from happening anywhere.

And also because these workers decided to go a completely different path they didn't join up with an existing union Christian Smalls and his colleagues and Derek Palmer his best friend who's a vice president there who still works at Amazon they decided that they were going to start a brand new worker led union called the Amazon labor union and that they were going to start from scratch and organize this warehouse and low and behold that effort and that strategy has succeeded where no one else has been able to.

Let's take a listen to you a little bit of the man himself upon his victory.

Dan two years ago.

My life changed forever.

Now all you want to do the right thing and speak up are the workers behind me Jason is one of them Derek Jordan Gerald everybody and JFK.

They know when COVID-19 came to play Amazon failed us they dropped the ball they lied to the public saying they're doing all these things none of that was the reality about situation.

So I let a walk out after the quarantine just me and nobody else and that walk out.

Let's do my firing.

A couple weeks after that maybe a week or two.

That memo that came out calling me not smart or articulate ironically they also said to make me the face of a whole union as an effort which I had no intention at the time.

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