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Motivation here. >> i was with jamals editor last night and they are not letting go of gentlemjamals ca. theyre leading the charge for justice against saudi arabia and that means they have the support of jeff bezos. so if you can get to bezos, and its a little bit murky here and he says in his letter the saudi angle is not fully explained yet. if you can get to bezos and hush bezos, then you maybe able to hush some of the challenging of saudi arabia. >> theres so many bread crumbs in this long p...

A couple of things these e-mails indicate and what bezos released from the "national enquirer" is i guess the "washington post" was going to say some of these stories that the "national enquirer" has been working on were political motivated, influenced by political views and decisions and it seems that ami was trying to get the "washington post" from not publishing some of this. from not saying that any of these stories were politically motivated and they tried to use nude photos that they someh...

Is. hes coming out really strong. why is he saying -- why is bezos saying he thinks it has something to do with ami, trump and the saudis? again, hard ball hes playing, too, right? >> yeah, and hes hired top investigators to do this. there are several investigations that are ongoing, bezos says. whats interesting, obviously, that peckers connection to the president, longtime friend, they may be friends. they may be on the outs a little bit, but, you know, hes protected the president for many, ma...

For a five-alarm fire. its very bad. it took a lot of guts to do this scorched earth strategy from the perspective of bezos. with regard to david pecker, ami and realtime what his relationship with donald trump is they are not in the greatest situation right now. pecker has, according to our reporting been cooperating with federal prosecutors around and about these payments. unclear if the two are sympatico politically as we speak. theres no question they were during the presidents campaign. >...

Pecker, long-time associate of donald trump. jeff bezos owns "the washington post" which the president regularly pill ories for its coverage and says he wants it to stop. he specifically says certain powerful people experience "washington post" news coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy. president trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets. also the posts coverage of the murder of its columnist, jamal khashoggi, is unpopular. david pecker was a long-time ally of trump. be...

Stuff. the worlds richest person is making claims of extortion. it raises serious legal questions, especially when the person involved is david pecker, the national inquirer, head ami the parent company who is close to the president and this moves into the presidents life as well. it involves foreign governments. the saudis and them going to the white house with pecker and then him getting in with besos that the president also hates and threatening him in writing telling bezos if you dont report...

Is that illegal? >> i have to say, i dont know the answer to that. it certainly has the feel of blackmail and extortion, but in a journalistic context, im not sure prosecutors would proceed with a case like this. they certainly would want to know more facts about what went on. they would want to certainly hear amis side of the story as well, but lets be clear. its totally shabby and disgraceful journalistic practice to say we want you to write what we tell you to write or were going to release t...

Extortion made against a key figure in the one crime we know directly implicated to president trump. the target is jeff bezos. you know him. founder of amazon, owner of the washington post, wealthiest person in the world and someone president trump hasnt been shy about attacking, right? bezos made a gutsy move today. he published the e-mailed threats from executives representing david pecker, you know him too. he is the head of ami. the parent company of the national enquirer and they tell the m...

That threat legal as they claim it is and explain how this plays a role in the cooperating agreement they have with the southern district of new york. theres a question whether it would statutes or more likely new york law where ami is based cht it is a question of state law. it is a question of federal law. it is something prosecutors will have to detail into what were the exact facts and whether or not the thing of value that bezos was asked to provide, in other words a public statement where ...

Enquirer" thought. im glad they thought that, because it emboldened them to put it all in writing. rather than to capitulate to extortion and blackmail, i decided to publish exactly what they sent me despite the personal costs and embarrassment they threatened. bezos shares several e-mails, one reportedly from amis chief content officer to the attorney for bezos investigator. here is the key part. quote, with "the washington post" poised to publish unsubstantiated rumors, "the national enquirers...