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Look, its a news decision to decide whether how many times youre going to write the same story. the story was already out there. i think people misunderstand that this was a post publication negotiation to resolve the outstanding issues. >> from a legal perspective, do you think the inquirer can make the case that this was a matter of journalism. this was a news decision? >> its an up hill battle. i think they have an argument to assert. let me say that. the first amendment is an extremely impor...

>> theres certainly question about whether or not the national inquirer owned by a close friend of president trump was trying to help him by going after jeff bezos. >> federal prosecutors say david pecker publisher paid a woman to kill her story claiming an affair with president trump before taking office. trump attack bezos for ownership of washington post and coverage of him, they, the white house were silent. >> we will not get into a conversation about something between jeff bezos and tap ll...

Practice of blackmail, political favorites, political attacks and corruption. i prefer to stand up and see what crawls out. " the attorney representing ami and david pecker told abc this wasnt extortion or a take down to please president trump. bezos owns the washington post which the president has been critical of and pecker who owns the inquirer is friends with the president. >> bezos didnt want another story written about him or those pictures published. ami did not have to have the liable ag...

Them by a.m.i. and its something the media should be discussing. howie: when say there was involvement in the hush money payment. jessica: over the affair with playboy play mates didnt make it. howie: a.m.i. said this was a negotiation about naked pictures, not blackmail. they said the source to his was close to both jeff bezos and lauren sanchez. thats the line a.m.i. is taking. whats your take calling out the extortion for what he seize as extortion, and for trying to pressure him into droppin...

The allegations today on abc this week. he says the story involving bezos was already out there and that the negotiations between the paper and bezos were part of journalism. >> its absolutely not extortion and not blackmail. what happened was that the story was given to the national inquirer by a reliable source that had given information to the national inquirer for seven years prior to this story and it was a source that was well known to both mr. bezos and ms. sanchez. >> bezos last week pos...

Control. sánchez told me that while he was negotiating with american media, inc to soften the story, launched world war iii against ami in part by advising bezos, misleading tweet about divorce from his wife. he said its a disgrace that filthy rich and powerful men are using media to take shots at each other, the simple truth jeff and lauren fell madly in love. sánchez has been on receiving end, hes looking into the leaker in and has spoken to sánchez as part of that investigation. pecker is ...

Part of the journalistic process. >> absolutely not extortion and not blackmail. what happened was the story was given to the national enquirer by a reliable source that had given information to the national enquirer for seven years prior to this story. it was a source that was well known to both mr. bezos and ms. sanchez. >> bezos last week posted e-mails from ami, the publishing company claimed to have intimate photos that were exchanged between bezos and his reported mistress sanchez. bezos s...

Sanchez says no way i would be involved in a leak that would be bad for my sister. buck: there are a lot of layers you can dig into here. bezos coming forward and showing the legal exchange between the lawyers raised questions about the tactics of ami and the "national enquirer." as to whether bezos was poorly advised to get ahead of this story, its tough to tell. because we dont know how did the photos get out there? whose hands did they get into. and jeff bezos decided to declare war. howie: a...

Inquirer for him to drop the charge if theres anything political about their story on him and alleged mistress. chris: is that blackmail? >> looks like brack mail, i will leave the prosecutors, prosecutors do have a right to look and especially given what youve described which is a previous deal between the prosecutors and ami, national enquirers holding company that says they are not to engage in this type of behavior and, again, this is linked to payments to karen mcdoogle. chris: we asked you...

Over. the attorney represented, ami told abc this wasnt blackmail or a take down to please president trump. bezos owns the washington post which the president has been critical of and the owner of enquirer is friends with the president. >> bezos didnt want another story written about him or those pictures published. ami doesnt want to have the liable against them that this was inspired by the white house, inspired by saudi arabia or inspired by the washington post. it had nothing to do with it. ...