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Been doing for a long time. what you have here is the first guy to say no, im not capitulating here. im going to call you on it. i think they didnt anticipate that response. >> what do you expect having been the spokesperson, what do you expect is the ripple effect through ami or through the head of the "national enquirer" offices right now? what are they thinking? >> you have to ask what they were they thinking when they did this. i think on the editorial side, people working there are happy th...

Candidate trump. >> lets dig into the part where cynthia you have the involvement of bezos personal investigator who spoke out in a interview and said this is a political motivated leak meant to embarrass the owner of the post. do believe this rises to the level of a crime here as bezos alleges? >> well, as bezos alleges, it does rise to the level of a crime. it rises to the level of extortion. but well have to see how the facts flesh out. and what complicates the whole thing is that ami has agr...

And sorry, no for you, youve waived that in the agreement with the southern district of new york. so they have to provide the documents and the testimony and they have to cooperate. theyre in a very different position than your average person being investigated for a crime. and the southern district of new york, who is prepared to use the most -- them as a witness in their ongoing case and has to vouch for them is going to be looking at this very seriously. they are in a heap of trouble. >> if y...

With donald trump. this as others like journalists ronan farrow come out in support of bezos saying he too faced blackmail efforts from ami, the company that runs the "enquirer." were joined on set by glenn kirk as well as jay newton small contributor for "time" magazine. glenn, lets start with you. i noted the tweet you had. this is extortion at its core on ami and bezos, what makes you say so? >> basically extortion is a fancy word but all it really requires is if you threaten somebody to obta...

Been prosecuted for before the agreement. sitting here i dont know what they are. campaign finance fraud for one. and individuals, the corporate liability. so, they are in a world of trouble possibly. and any statements theyve made in the course of these pursuant this agreement. prosecutors dont like to tear up cooperation agreements. they dont like doing it. they dont like doing it with manafort. not something they do easily. its a high bar but more importantly, from justice ami and what will h...

Were not going to get into a conversation between something between jeff bezos and a tabloid magazine. >> that was the official white house account between jeff bezos and the "national enquirer". the amazon ceo and owner of the "washington post" claims the publication tried to blackmail him by threatening to release additional embarrassing texts and below-the-belt selfies connected to an expose it published on the billionaires extramarital affair last month. we should note american media incorpo...

However, i would imagine that that is a really tough line to follow. theyre not asking for any money. i mean blackmail as i always heard it, give me money or im going to go with this. the threat if they dont take back what bezos has been saying theyll go ahead with pictures, the damage had already been done. once they published that story they lost a leverage they would never usually have with a person like that. bezos i have to applaud his confidence in stepping up to the plate and saying im no...

>> francesca, thank you very much. the rest of the panel is sticking around. up next he might have helped propel donald trump to the white house but is david pecker working in concert with someone entirely different and why jeff bezos says ami should be nervous about its connection to saudi arabia. ervous about its connection to saudi arabia

Texts that exposed his extramarital affair. today the face off between the worlds richest man and the tabloid run by ami chief david picker has riveted the media with headlines like this and raise said serious questions about the "national enquirers" tactics. ami released a statement that reads in part american media believes fervently that it acted lawfully in the reporting of the story of mr. bezos. further at the time of the recent allegations made by bezos it was in good faith negotiations t...

Good western media coverage. to buy good western media coverage for themselves and bad western media coverage for their enemies. the "wall street journal" describes how the saudi government, in particularly, the saudi crown prince that took over the saudi government, they essentially have been lining up really lucrative well paid media partnerships with a bunch of western media outlets including bloomberg and vice and the independent and the u.k. and others. and that is really clarifying reporti...