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Ryan lizza, renato mariotti here to discuss. wow. wow. >> this story has it all. >> yeah, this story has it all. good evening. its like the "saturday night live" skit, this story has it all, its got foul language, its got pictures, its got -- right? money. >> the saudis. >> its got saudis. renato, bezos says this is blackmail and extortion. is he right? does he have a case? >> well, hes right in our common understanding of those terms. i think its possible that he could certainly -- he could see...

Potentially find. unclear if these bread crumbs are real, likely to lead to a story or issue or snags nefarious or even worse or hes kind doing this as part of a crisis management term to try to get back at ami, but also put out the bad stuff himself before somebody else does it for him. >> i want to talk about your reporting, pretty significant reporting. you broke it here on cnn about kelly an conway over the president at the white house. she told you for the first time back in october of last...

Was murdered last year, and theyve been investigating the saudi government and its involvement in that murder. and there was a glows -- so theres been issues between the saudi government and "the national enquirer." maybe there was a connection here with the saudis and "the national enquirer" that didnt like jeff bezos publication president with its articles. >> it doesnt seem that any suggestion that jeff bezos is going to slow down. ami did respond a while ago. what are they saying? >> theyr...

Enquirer" made bezos affair with a woman a front-page story. that came hours after bezos posted a statement on twitter from he and his wife of 25 years announcing their plans to divorce. after the tabloid story, bezos launched his own investigation to find out who leaked photos of him with his girlfriend, lauren sanchez, a former tv news anchor. tonight he is going after the enquirer and its parent company ami because he says they resorted to blackmail to stop his own investigation. bezos writes...

To be a close american ally and we see this pattern of behavior across the board where people say hold is, this is not what responsible allies do. this is a battle being fought out not simply about the role of crown unprince and the inner circle man but what should be the relationship of the suxu.s.d saudi relationship. the part of the world where were likely to see a serious crisis is this one and the united states have to be careful about what we do about saudi visa see a ran because theres a ...

Sanchez. it in his blog posted last night he posted a quote from a new york times piece saying after he became president he rewarded with a white house dinner to which the media executive brought a guest with important ties to the royals in saudi arabia. at the time he was also hunting for financing for acquisitions. today he said he doubts his government had anything to do with reporting on jeff bezos. the white house clacims and her is what ami is saying tonight. american media believes that i...

And in the investigation they obtained text messages. bezos wonders how they got out there so he starts this investigation into how these messages came into the possession of the "national enquirer." what youre seeing here is the lawyers, i guess, for the "national enquirer" or the parent company, ami, reaching out to mr. bezos and saying that if he does not stop his investigation into how these messages came to light, they will make more of the material they have public, risque pictures and thi...

Ami and its links to the president and its role in the political climate are no publi an offer i couldnt refuse, or at least they thought that. im glad because it emboldened them to put it all in writing. >> bezos quotes entire e-mails accepts by ami to his representatives. ami is the same company former trump fixer michael cohen admitted giving money for hush payments to women who claimed they had affairs with mr. trump. bezos blog also makes a cryptic reference to actions ami has taken on beha...

Week and "the washington post" this week. and that sent the "national enquirer" folks, it blew them up. they were like you cannot come out and say this, you cannot claim its politically motivated and thats what led us to this alleged blackmail plot. >> thats such a good explanation here. why did it leak? bezos wanted to know why did it leak and who -- >> who found out. >> and he was told it was politically motivated. just one more connection is necessary there. when you say that whats the implic...

In the post he puts in the e-mails he received from dylan howard whos been mentioned in other instances including harvey weinstein. also from the general counsel. through the pictures we referred to mentioned in one of the e-mails and the fact mentioned there that these concerns about this appearing political. to chriss point and franks point, as we look at that, we have not heard word one from ami. they are not responding. we took a look. they have not tweeted from the national enquirer in 15 h...