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Bezos, in response to that article, launched his own private investigation, and then wrote an article in medium, where he basically lays out what he says was a blackmail attempt by ami to get him to stop his private investigation. he then went on to throw out some series of how he thought the "national enquirer" got its hands on all of those pictures and texts, including a kind of elaborate plan that he said might have been in the hands of a state actor, some had hypothesized that was saudi arab...

Some people say campaign finance laws are not prosecuted all that well. they are working on something else. what do you make of that? >> what they are working on is a campaign finance law violation. thats what michael flynn pled guilty to and the people from ami got immunity on. this is a serious campaign violation. >> this is not a missed file. >> this is someone deciding they will deceive the american people by hiding all of this money they paid to the two women, karen mac dougal and stormy da...

Published. so youre left wondering exactly how that happened and whether more is going to shake out in this story. >> and stephanie, how do the politics play into this? because it sounds like -- you know, certainly in that e-mail, what they wanted jeff bezos to deny was that there was any political motivation around any of this. did we learn anything new about that? >> yeah. i mean, we dont learn anything new in this article, but it gets a bit conflicted. david pecker, friends with donald trump....

About this rather juicy report? >> hey, there, kasie. what i would point out in this article that jumps out is an interesting anecdote where david pecker, who is the ceo of ami, hes good friends with donald trump, he had a lunch an chiprianis with his attorney and found out that michael sanchez has been paid up-front this $200,000 and he was apparently furious about it, which would suggest, at least, that he wasnt onboard with this project. he did eventually go on to approve it. i think at the e...

Now to that growing public saga between amazons billionaire founder jeff bedeposit the company that owns the "national enquirer." were learning new details about how the tabloid allegedly obtained racy text messages and nude selfies sent between bezos and his girlfriend, lauren sanchez. "the wall street journal" reports that according to people familiar with the matter, bezos messages were actually sold to the "national enquirer" by sanchezs brother, michael, for $200,000. in a statement, michae...

Aware of it at the time that it was their intent to bury the story, but i think that they had clearly announced their editorial preferential candidate. they were spending a copious amount of time burying every other candidate for the office than mr. trump. >> heres miss mcduougalcdougal former client, she said it was very clear that ami was trying to make the stuff go away and she felt deceived by them and you, ami meaning the enquirer. take a look. >> okay. >> why do you think they squashed the...

Everyone noticed was odd, at best. >> i think what they were doing is they were living up to their contractual agreement to put her on a cover. >> did you get the impression that sdny was looking at whether the enquirer broke any laws in its service of donald trump? >> yes, absolutely. >> and do you think theyre done and that means no ones getting charged with that. sometimes they look at things and thats the end of it, or do you think there could be more? >> you know, its tough for me to say. i...

Talking about stormy daniels. and then did he tell you i paid that money. not him. >> what did you think of that? >> i didnt know what to make of that. i thought he was probably a very good soldier. >> but what sense -- because usually the principle pays let alone when its a billionaire. an alleged billionaire. at the time you just thought well this is the way they handled things? or did it to you speak to his secrecy? >> no, what it spoke to me, they had a very unique relationship. at that time...

That sufficiently deterred those crimes from occurring again. >> prosecutors working out of the southern district of new york also revealed that david pecker, the publisher of the national enquirer admitted that his company, ami, had paid playboy model karen mcdougal $150,000 for her story about an affair with donald trump, a story they never published. pecker has not been charged. >> with david pecker cooperating not only is it possible this will lead to indictable impeachable offenses, but als...

Apprentice." >> he asked me to call you and tell you to meet him tomorrow morning at the new york stock exchange. >> despite her loyalty to trump, she passed on a job at the white house to remain in new york with her family, but soon, washington came to her. investigators from the house intelligence committee then led by republicans interviewed her as part of their russia probe in december 2017. now, democrats are following up with a lengthy wish list for her. which includes documents pertaining...