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What do you make of this connection that bezos is drawing or tieing between the national inquirer and saudi arabia. >> just be clear, this is only coming from bezos, a lot of butts, professionals in the space, and vip protection have told me that bezos and a security team would not be so careless by throwing out saudi arabia out there. there is also -- a likelihood that theres an insider, someone with a girl friend, the girlfriends brother, whoever it may be that hacked the phone. i think we do,...

As outlined in the e-mails bezos has published. maybe it is simple as that. american media thought they would get away with it. thought they would get bezos off their proverbial backs. and instead, that didnt work. i think that is where the story is heading now. the question of the federal prosecutors here in new york, looking at this, reviewing it, to try to figure out if american media has broken the law and that means that the immunity deal would be off from last year. >> the hush money case....

The saudi embassy in washington claimed they had no involvement or knowledge of that publication with the prince on the cover. a man the cia concluded ordered the violent murder of jamal khashoggi of "the washington post" which bezos owns. the saudis call the finding false. the associated press reported that according to sources embassy officials got an electronic copy of the pro-kingdom magazine three weeks before it came out. a top saudi official says he has no idea of any relationship with am...

Thats not discussed. i think we should be careful about that. when i look at it, by the way, i looked at both california statute, the florida statute, the new york statute, this is extortion at least by state statute. >> you do? >> i do. because you can say that any positive press at a time when youre working a contract would be something of value. i think its going to be easy to prove the thing of value is -- >> i get that. >> that was the one piece of the extortion that wasnt there. they said ...

Ami published a 97 page glossy magazine last year praising saudi arabia. >> what ami said at the time, what american media said at the time was hey people are fascinated by royals, and this is saudi royalty. and it is an exciting time in saudi arabia. >> bezos also seems to suggest ami could have gone after him, to please president trump. the president has long complained the posts coverage is unfair. trumps ties with david pecker go back to the 1990s. and pecker helped trump cover up an alleged...

The man trump nicknamed jeff bozo, amazon founder and ceo jeff bezos appears to be winning in the court of public pin after a scorching checkmates to "the national enquirer" and its parent company. he posted on medium, claiming that they up planned to publish more salacious pictures that exposed his affair, unless he agreed to make a public statement saying the tabloid coverage of his affair was not politically motivated. that sounds to you like extortion and blackmail? well, bezos agrees. he sa...

Saying -- you know, they would typically say, we did nothing wrong. we had every right to do this. this was just a dispute. again, their argument is, in essence, we thought they were about to publish falsehoods in ""the washington post"." they thought we were about to publish pictures in the "enquirer." we were trying to work out a negotiation or a deal. thats amis essential defense here. whether that holds water, its not an easy defense, but its also not a frivolous one. >> in 2016, the "nation...

Also this is critical, its first amendment. the idea of engaging the justice department to look into this after theres a threat of exposing information about bezos, theres nothing untruthful about it. hes just saying the leaks were dirty and the justice department should jump into this thing. i think its a violation of the first amendment. >> okay. well, is it a misuse, you know, of this powerful tool, you know, richard, the power of information? and is there anything that would then make these ...

Exchange for immunity to detail those payments made by trumps lawyer. calling the amazon ceo jeff bozo on twitter and saying this about his looming divorce from his wife of 25 years. >> i wish him luck. its going to be a beauty. >> no doubt this is a complex web of allegations and personal history. what bezos is saying here is clear that ami had reasons to protect and protect those saudis, correct? driving home the point that this was politically motivated. >> joining us now. criminal tax turn, ...

Access to the photos without hacking it and then gave them or sold them -- again, no evidence to suggest that yet that we know of. but if someone got access to them and sold the pictures, thats not a crime in and of itself. now, bezos could sue over it in civil court and say, you know, theyre copyright potential issues with regard to the pictures. theres a potential invasion of privacy tort. but when it comes to the criminal law, there really would have had to be a hack to hold someone responsib...