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Campaign finance violations. now, what is it that theyre so desperate to hide that they would try to blackmail or extort bezos to keep him from further investigating, in part, how they got a hold of bezoss private information from his phone, his photographs, his private emails? it must be something -- >> how did they get those? >> there has been some speculation that maybe it was a foreign government who acquired them, fed them to ami and ami is desperate to keep that information from seeing the...

Reputation which we vehere because they were threatening to expose these indelicate pictures and text messages in exchange for a thing of value. what value were they trying to get? they were trying to catch and kill stories that bezos and the "washington post" were trying to investigate and report. i see this as classic extortion. there are a lot of bells and whistles on the federal extortion laws. but at its core this is extortion. >> they wanted to stop bezos from investigating. what were they...

>> reporter: jeff bezos firing back accusing the "national enquirers" publisher american media of extortion of blackmail. writing in a personal blog ami representatives including owner david pecker are threatening to publish more imminent texts and photos if his attorney continues to investigate how the enquirer obtained arrive texts and messages between bezos and his mistress used by the magazine in this cover story. and posting emails he says are from ami demanding his investigators release a ...

Libel for any malfeasance they did in that particular case or any cases moving forward. >> so lets connect the dots here, if there are some dots to connect, glenn. we know that the ami has been used as a wing for the president to get out some less favorable headlines for many of his rivals over the years, hillary clinton, "national enquirer" covers come to mind and many others in the meantime. we know theres a saudi arabia connection to ami and theres a connection with the president, is there a ...

That supermarket tabloid which is caught up in the trump campaign finance felonies and all this stuff, theyre now caught up in in this jeff bezos thing. there have been previous reports that that company, ami, was working on a very sort of similar expensive deal with the saudi government. a very rich deal with the saudis. that never made sense. what would the saudis want to do with this tabloid? what would the saudis want to do with this "national enquirer" company? is that all that valuable to ...

That implicates the president and that is sending the presidents lawyer to jail in order to participate with prosecutors in that, in order to help them build their case, the tabloid itself had to come clean with those federal prosecutors about its own illegal payments to benefit the presidents campaign. and we can tell from the fine print toward the back of that agreement that as a consequence of entering into this agreement with prosecutors, the tabloid, that company, they are bound now, they a...

Investigate the connection between politics and trump and the revelations against bezos. there has to be something there or they wouldnt be acting this way to stop him from investigating that connection. >> hey, stu, last question to you. that being can ami, can the "national enquirer" withstand this kind of scrutiny and remain profitable or are they going to take a hit because of this? >> profitable is a tough word to use. in print media, they lose money. however, i think theyre going to contin...

Faith negotiations to resolve all matters with bezos, nonetheless, in light of the nature of the allegations published by mr. bezos, the board has convened and determined that it should promptly and thoroughly investigate the claims. in he is sense, jay, theyre going to investigate themselves, they dont necessarily deny that they tried this? >> it seems to be that way. everything -- bezos himself said in the medium post that when he began his investigation that he was surprised to find that he w...

They end their investigation that led to cohens guilty plea have actually acknowledged they were doing things to help influence the presidential race. but they have also -- but at the time before this all came out, before the feds nailed that information, there were reporters who were trying to figure out and piece together that the pieces of that puzzle and theres no doubt that ami went after, like basically pushed back against the reporting efforts, not just the associated press but else water...

Of course there is the stuff that is going on with the d.o.j. and how pecker and ami dealt with cohen and the stories you were talking about. but i also think it cant be understated, president trump, you cant talk about jeff bezos and what trump levelled against him, and "the new york times" and other news outlets get under his skin because he doesnt like things that get reported out there. when you talk about trump and the latest thing about bezos, it is at the heart of it. this is obviously no...