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Things and in courts, once the major decisions have been made, be turned back over to the justice department for trial for sentencing and other dispositions. that doesnt mean that muellers primary mandate cant come to a conclusion. it sounds like thats whats happening. neil: can i get your thoughts on jeff bezos taking on ani and national enquirer. its rich in details and a captivating story. what essentially bezos seem to be arguing, ami could be doing this as a favor to donald trump and chasin...

>> 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...

Believe and that is unfortunately the state of affairs today. a lot of unknown thats are very intriguing. the fbi files a complaint, is the fbi going to look at ami now as a subject. do we need to look at the cooperation agreement that david pecker signed off on. was it transitional. is it blanket immunity. it is a new crime being exposed. this will like i will be prosecuted and i think ami is in deep trouble. later on this, the international intrigue, it is very plausible. i can tell you that s...

Former ap editor saying we were warned that ami hired private investigators to digging into the background of journalists on behalf of trump. never saw evidence of this either waw and it didnt stop our reporting. im wondering if this is a feature of the way ami operates that theyre running research on journalests. >> thats a great question and the associated press, the journalists were some of the folks at the forefront of reporting and digging into the allegations that trump was actually workin...

Has benefitted from its relationship with trump. if truable to basically get theo cover up stories about him and promote negative stories about hillary clinton. that david pker in turn may have received benefits from his close relationship with the white house, especially when it came to business pursuits that he was pursuing with the saudis. and so -- listen. trump is not the only person on whose behalf david picker has done favors and has like waited into questionable -- and question whether o...

Karen mcdougal. this horrible rose gallery of people. and now were basically doing l.a. confidential in the white house. this can crapol oora story we h to cover. >> and the reality for donald trump is you surround yourself with people like that, youre obviously going to be implicated by guilt. that association by guilt. why is it that ami, which is by all accounts an e tension of donald trump and his surrogates. why would ami cordsinate legal liability with jeff bezos, which is what donald trum...

Troubles from ami. >> help us understand that vis-a-vis the nonprosecution agreement. >> ami is unlike anyone else who might have engaged in this with bezos because they are under this, they entered into this pron prosecution agreement. once youre in this agreement you need to be on good behavior. cant commit any more crimes. cant even come close to the line because if do you we the southern district are going need to look into it. once they start looking in to it, like everything else will they...

Reputation. i pulled up the nonprosecution agreement that ami has and right on page two it says its understood that should ami commit any crimes subsequent to the date of the signing of this agreement, all bets are off. im paraphrasing that last part. any crime includes, not only the federal crime of extortion, but if they violated new york state extortion laws, which ive reviewed them and theyre actually much more lenient, theyre more prosecution friendly than even the federal extortion laws. s...

He just came out and said i didnt hack the phone, that was particularly bizarre. >> this is a story were running today snd. >> no, we already ran it, today were looking into what is a well known history of ami of using things liex extortion and blackmail to get these types of stories. it is crazy that were getting a clear view of it thanks to jeff besos posting about it. >> what is intriguing to me a the president not hiring the best team. st team.

Way that was reporting that they -- i guess they did some of the same kind of reporting during donald trump during the kpa campaign. there was no ads. it wasnt clear who paid for this. pecker said he paid for it out of his own pocket for reasons that unclear. the state department, interestingly, last year when this came out was asked whether there was a connection between the united states government and the publication by ami of this hundred page magazine about how great saudi arabia is and the...