Jeff Bezos & Andrew Ross Sorkin at Blue Origin 5/20/26

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CNBC

Investing, Business, News, Business News

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Bezos sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin for an extended interview at the Blue Origin Rocket Park in Florida. In a wide-ranging conversation, the world’s fourth-richest person discusses America’s wealthiest class, U.S. tax policy, philanthropy, working with President Trump, and our country’s future. Bezos predicts AI-prompted deflation and an AI-prompted job shortage, and he doubles down on the concept of data centers in space. Plus, as owner of The Washington Post, Bezos comments on that newsroom’s mass layoffs and the current state of journalism. Eamon Javers 8:36 Jeff Bezos 20:53 In this episode: Jeff Bezos, @JeffBezos Eamon Javers, @eamonjavers Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	bring in show music please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:06.9	Today, on a super-sized squawk pod,
0:10.5	Jeff Bezos, from Amazon to rocket ships to the Washington Post and everything in between.
0:16.2	Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with Bezos at Blue Origin to discuss wealth.
0:20.5	I pay billions of dollars in taxes.
0:22.9	And it's a perfect...
0:23.6	Again, if people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate.
0:28.2	Productivity.
0:29.2	We live in the wealthiest country in the world.
0:31.8	America is the greatest country in the world.
0:34.3	We have more entrepreneurial dynamism here than anywhere else in the world.
0:37.8	This is the best time to be alive in America.
0:40.6	Politics. I've worked with every president since Bill Clinton, and I hope to work with,
0:46.9	you know, the next couple of presidents, too, if they'll have me.
0:50.6	AI and more, the world, according to Jeff.
0:57.8	We're in a phase where every experiment is getting funded.
1:01.7	The good ideas are getting funded and the bad ideas are getting funded.
1:05.4	That is coming up. It's Wednesday, May 20th.
1:07.7	Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:12.0	Stand Becky by in three, two, one.
1:12.6	Cuel, please.
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