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Process of going through some of the e-mails that harvey weinstein had like towards the end of us starting to expose his wrong doing, we came across e-mail exchanges that he had with dylan howard, including one in which dylan howard said, hey, sorry, i cant talk right now, im in saudi arabia working on business efforts. >> what was dylan howard thing emerged. >> did he have any contact with government officials? >> there is now a growing body of evidence that ami has enjoyed very close relations...

Weinstein. why was ami in that? >> they were involved in a business deal together, trying to get a talk show off the ground. they were financially test test test testt test tes test test test test test tes test test immunity and may lose it over this alleged blackmail. the question becomes, it may be unanswerable but ill put it to you, are they doing real business with all these people or is that a cover story for them operating as these sort of information thugs? >> i think there are a million ...

Government entity was responsible for obtaining the texts. now, theres a separate question which is, the "national enquirer," did they pursue this story with the vehemence that they did and devote the resources that they did to it in an effort to please some other party? whether thats president donald trump, who, of course, ami ceo david pecker is longtime friends, the saudi government, which we find out today was collaborating with the "national enquirer" on a glossy issue that was very praise-...

>> reporter: [ inaudible ] ami investigating jeff bezos? >> reporter: shut the mueller report be made public, sir? >> the president taking questions about china, the trade deal, which is facing a march 1st deadline as well, saying that if theyre close to a deal, hes going to extend it, also saying hes not wild about this congressional deal but he has some other options, not ruling out the declaration of an emergency, but it seems to be leaning more towards moving around some funds and adding to ...

"enquirer" was working as a potentially illegal arm of the 2016 trump campaign. >> this is not a case that ami wanted to fight. theres a real risk theyd have to engage in discovery and the things we alleged would be established so they folded. >> was "the national enquirer" acting as an arm of donald trump and michael cohen? >> we strongly suspect they were. >> can you prove it? >> if the lawsuit continued, we would have been able to prove it. >> the lawsuit ended but the federal probe didnt. an...

They said it involved no foreign funding and the company was not approached by foreign officials or representatives about this. this was purely a business decision, quote, unquote, based upon anticipated revenue. doj responded we agree. in this instance the corporation does not have an obligation to register under this act. is that it in your view? case closed, were all good? >> a couple of interesting things here. first is the timing. this happens in the summer of 2018 after bob muellers predil...

Campaign finance fraud. but to get the benefit of that agreement, they had to avoid committing any additional crimes. and it seems that there is the specter of criminality in this arrangement. we dont know for certain. maybe mr. sanchez had his sisters permission to take this information and brick it to ami. but theres also the possibility of hacking. theres also the blackmail scenario weve been discussing as ami reached back out to bezos. they took a lot of risk here. and the question is were t...

Blackmailed by "the national enquirer." there are reports ami asked the justice department about whether it needed to register as a foreign agent after publishing a magazine promoting saudi arabia and the new crowned prince. bezos suggested a saudi connection. they say they threatened to publish racy picks of jaeff bezs and his girlfriend. im joined by our panel. thank you for joining us here for the first time surrounding the table. fill us in on what you are hearing from your sources. what the...

The saudi government in exchange for other favors. then all bets are off and dojs advice wont be binding and ami would be exposed to further risk of prosecution. >> joyce vance, appreciate your legal perspective. thank you for coming on. come back again soon. coming up, if you look close enough, you can see beto oroarke somewhere in the crowd. if you listen close enough, you might hear him getting closer to a presidential run. what hes telling the other guy in the frame. plus the congressional...

Agent of the kingdom. it promised inside look at the kingdom and its future goals while calling mbs the next king and the most influential arab leader. ami claimed at the time saudi arabia played no role in the magazines publication. in a letter to doj ami admitted it asked an unknown saudi adviser to submit comment and gave the official an early draft of the review and made changes based on his suggestions. a letter to the department shows the department told ami it did not need to register due...