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Suggesting american medias coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces. whats remarkable in all of that to me is its written out and its put out there, joe. it would seem to me, again im operating in the realm of reality, that if youre going to try to get someone to do something, that if anybody found out about it might look bad, you probably dont want to put it in an e-mail and, by the way, maybe you shouldnt have your general counsel involved. >> listen, i think this e...

Up. what if trump called pecker two weeks ago and said we got to do something about -- who knows what. who knows what bezos is investigating. for me, nothing else would explain them going so crazy at ami. >> this is going to be a crucial question here and this is why i bring up a long-time relationship and personal between president trump and david pecker who is obviously the publisher of ami. david pecker now cooperating with the southern district of new york investigation into michael cohen an...

A saudi connection here. ami chief executive david pecker reportedly brought a guest with ties to saudi royalty to a dinner at the white house in 2017, later publishing a glossy magazine saluting the brutally repressive kingdom. bezos writes, its unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience "washington post" news coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy. president trump is one of those people. obvioused by his many tweets. also, "the posts" essential and unrelenting coverage of...

Allegations the board has convened and determined it should promptly investigate the claims. upon completion of that investigation the board will take whatever appropriate action is necessary. it is going back and forth between bezos and now prosecutors in new york reporting whether ami might have violate add deal regards hush money payments. >> and i know he wrote that piece. you spoke with others about this alleged saudi election. youll have a lot more on the part of the story which is very ve...

Now, theres a long, long alliance over ami, donald trump, david pecker, the "national enquirer." donald trumps friends behave this way. these are the kind of tactics -- >> these are the kind of characters he associates with. >> exactly. >> and what came to mind to me is this kind of reminds me of paul manafort, who for decades was this influence peddler doing all this kinds of sleazy stuff and it took donald trump coming into the white house before paul manafort finally got the kind of attention...

Ami and saudi arabia. and then number three, he conflates them both. at one point he says, and he points out in a piece from "the new york times," he says after mr. trump became president, he rewarded mr. peckers loyalty 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, mr. pecker was pursuing business there while also hunting for financial acquisitions. so he was looking for money. and, you know, "the post" has...

Outspoken in outrage over the murder of their colleague, khashoggi. and, you know, thats another sinister aspect to all of this, that ami and the "national enquirer" are carrying water for the saudi government as well as the white house. >> yeah. >> i thought -- let me read this, because i want you to respond. it has to do with what he says. this is what bezos wrote about this. hes connecting all of this. this is max with "the washington post". its unavoidable that certain powerful people that e...

Like a crime. >> why would -- there are other aspects i want to get -- why would someone who constantly calls out the alleged misdeeds of others, even often wrongly calls them out when many people think its just projection, and im speaking of donald trump, why would he be associated with someone like david pecker who, in your estimation, says uses -- uses, you know, actions that are akin to extortion and the rico act. >> because i think he finds it irresistible. i think he feels hes above the la...

Involvement in the karen mcdougal story, which remember, michael cohen plead guilty to a crime in connection. he said i was helping an unlawful campaign contribution. as a result of that agreement that brian referred to, ami, david pecker, dylan howard would not be prosecuted. but the condition of that agreement is always you dont commit any other crimes or the deal is off. so what they have to be concerned about is the prosecutor saying well, youve now committed blackmail. youve now committed e...

Legal consequences here. they have an immunitity deal with federal prosecutors in the cohen case and that deal disappears if theyve committed crimes. >> i want to get to that but i want to put more meat on the bones so people can see whats this this letter. bezos is saying that the "enquirer" was trying to force him to say that he didnt think the "enquirer" was going after him for political reasons. so the "enquirer" was trying to get bezos there is in his letter, affirming that they have no kno...