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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, there are 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 respon...

The second risk is that he and others at ami have already admitted to the campaign finance violations that michael cohen was convicted of and they were going to not be prosecuted under this agreement. the agreement can be torn up and they can be prosecuted. >> it is pretty stunning. the president has made it very clear his views on jeff bezos and the "washington post." after the bezos news broke, the president couldnt contain his excitement. i shared the tweet, so sorry to hear about jeff bezos....

Presidents bidding? and i wonder also, on top of that, if you look at all of those negative headlines and stories about hillary clinton, many of them that were not true, if theres any recourse there. one, are they doing the presidents bidding? two, can hillary do anything about it? >> well, first of all, on the deal that ami made with federal prosecutors, its clear theyre admitting some sort of wrongdoing here. and it relates to, you know, the payoffs of people on behalf of donald trump. so that...

Ami, if they realize the writing is on the wall, and the nonprosecution agreement will get written up, the lawyer tells them, its over, guys. this agreement is over. but if they thookd get those text messages, there could be a crime apart from that so thats another place they could be in trouble. >> why do you say you would bring these charges even though others say they wouldnt? >> i grew up as a prosecutor, prosecuting the mafia here in new york city. i think they took a page right out of the ...

Says you shall not commit any further crimes. now youre on our watchful were the prosecutors. if they committed a crime, that goes out the window and now ami, pecker, perhaps, are facing prosecution for the hush money payments and extortion as well. there is a healthy legal debate out there about whether the actions conscience institute extortion. i think they do. >> what about the second part of the question where em, what about how they acquired the material? >> they should and can ask that. a...

Silence. >> reporter: they agreed to provide information on hush money deal. cnn learned that deal could be in jeopardy if they found pecker of ami broke the law, they could lose their immunity in hush money cases. ami says it believes it acting lawfully in reporting the bezos money but the board is going to investigate bezos claims. they reject insertion they were influenced by any outside forces, political or otherwise. a spokesman at the white house says he doubts if president trump is even a...

Me down, threatening violence. theyre saying we have a right to publish. we would like to talk about what we can do to resolve it. or is it one publication trying to influence the content of the ownership of another publication? >> well, intriguing question, but it does default on the question of first amendment. as soon as you have people in power say we want to shut down the press, that has profound first amendment implicationings, freedom of the press and i think thats what this case is about...

>> whats been reported and ami which owns the national enquirer. was looking for investors. policy take out on the saudi crowned prison. and some kind of trade off. who knows. but, yeah, its all, you know, the saudis need to step back and ask, on the one hand, why are we in all of the stories and at the same time, i want to be fair to them. there is no proof here, bezos may have been putting that out as a lure to get people to look into it more. both the saudis and trump were -- had a grievance ...

Three years after i signed my clients up for that deal, its not hard to do because youre not supposed to commit crimes anyway. its a pretty low threshold. theyre going to look at one of two laws. one is the federal law that says you cant e-mail a threat in order to get something of value. but theres also a new york law that says you cant train someone to do something unseemly or horrible in exchange for them doing something for you. i think that misdemeanor alone could be violated here. if thats...

Prosecutors in the southern district of new york are now questioning whether the "national enquirers" parent company may have violated its cooperation deal in the wake of jeff bezos accusation that the enquirers publisher attempted to extort and blackmail him. today amis board says they are going to investigate the claims made by bezos. here for some analysis, mr. dan abrams. how are you doing? >> good to see you, don. >> if federal prosecutors, dan, in new york find that amis actions are crimin...