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The usually pattern of extortion is give me a million dollars or i will kill you. is this extortion? you could see how it would be extortion. hes saying -- bezos has access to something that is very valuable which is whats printed in "the washington post." >> right. >> what ami is saying in the letters is use that power to exonerate us or we are going to embarrass you in this way. i have never heard of an extortion case like that because its a weird set of circumstances, but it doesnt seem out o...

Lawyers trying to settle legal claims between them and bezos and theyre throwing this into the settlement. its much more complicated. theres a bunch of legal issues. its really awful, but i dont think its something that a prosecutor would bring. >> i have said and heard things on television tonight that i never in a million years thought. okay. so, ryan, we know how close president trump is with ami. we know how he despises jeff bezos. is ami still doing trumps dirty work? what is going on here?...

Necessarily criminal, but it is about the sleaziest thing one can imagine, and kudos to jeff bezos for -- at a great personal sacrifice to his privacy for coming back and making their claim zero because he said, you know, what im not scared of you to do this, im going to put out the information -- >> put it all out there -- >> -- myself. >> -- before you, get ahead of it. david pecker, chairman and ceo of ami started cooperating with the sdnys investigation into michael cohene. that was in augus...

Has been how did the national enquirer get ahold of this information? the texts, the other information that they initially had reported on in their initial story concerning the affair between jeff bezos and this woman. that has always been a question. and now they have all these other photos that were seemed to have come from a cell phone. they were text messages and photos that were shared between jeff bezos and this woman. and now they have all of this information. and the big question, what b...

With muellers team to detail payments made by trumps lawyer. that turn didnt dampen the presidents reabout infidelity calling the amazon ceo jeff bozo on twitter and saying this about his looming divorce for his wife of 25 years. >> i wish him luck. it will be a beauty. >> now, no doubt this is a complex web of allegations and personal history but what bezos is saying is clear. ami had reasons to protect and promote the saudis that the washington post and relentless coverage angered amis friends...

Judiciary committee but how much will he say and what will they do to force them to talk? he had refused to talk until they issued a subpoena during the hearing. >> theyre vowing to press him on two subjects, his decision not to recuse himself from overseeing the mueller investigation despite his public rebuke of the probe and his conversations with the white house about the russia investigation. thats something the president recently said never happened. then of course theres the new explosive ...

Have also been investigated for various actions theyve taken on behalf of the saudi government. federal investigators and legitimate media have suspected that mr. pecker has use. the "enquirer" and ami for political reasons. >> thats subjectively true. what hes referring to there is all of a sudden one day probably a year and change ago supermarket dailies found basically a glossy brochure magazine advertising the glories of saudi arabia? why was this coming out? it wasnt identified for what it ...

E-mail from the general counsel of the "national enquirer," that bezos would need to say, quote, he has no knowledge or basis for suggesting that amis coverage was politically motivated for influenced by political forces. thats in an e-mail. we wont publish the pictures as long as you say this, jeff. bezos says he will not agree to that statement because it is a lie and he references president trump in there who is a long-time personal friend with the founder of ami. oliver darcy is out front. t...

Not to be shaken down. john paul getty, same situation. >> kidnapping. >> right at the heart of the family. his 16-year-old grandson. the fact that he just said, okay, here is whats going on. what we have is ami is under a cooperation prosecution agreement in the southern district thats delicate. they are playing a dangerous game. whether this is extortion is a question. who knows what was involved in getting this information that hurt bezoss marriage. this is just the opening shot of the story....

We all know that trump calls bezos bows bays zas bozo. >> they also made $150,000 to karen mcdougal in the famous catch and kill situation where they paid her all this money so she would not tell the story of her affair with donald trump. so the relationship between pecker and trump was beyond simply a supportive publisher, it was an actual money-based relationship. >> a financial relationship. >> yes. >> in this case, bezos, the richest man in the world, coafford to reveal this attempted blackm...