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Rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail ive decided to public what they sent me despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threatened. ami have had no response so far. >> all right. >> bill: matthew whitaker now in the room about to testify, arriving on capitol hill a moment ago. this could be an explosive hearing, too. were watching it closely and bring you that testimony live here today. >> virginia still dealing with a political crisis of its own as the states top three democr...

It had texts between he and his girlfriend. bezos hired his head of security to find out how they got the texts and the inquirer followed bezos and sanchez across five states and 40,000 miles to get the story. in last nights post bezos published what he says are emails from ami which owns the national inquirer and appear to show extortion. in one allegedly from an ami attorney telling bezos to drop his investigation of the national inquirer and go public with acknowledgement from the bezos parti...

Lawyer for ami. in them, ami says they have ten compromising photos of bezos and sanchez and one of them is a below-the-belt selfie. ami says the only way the pictures wont get published is if bezos makes a public statement clearing their coverage of him and saying it was not motivated by politics. bezos yes on a blog, rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, i decided to tell what they did. >> shepard: his entire interview is online. theres more from the parent company from the nation...

Between media moguls especially considering one likes to fly under the radar. jeff bezos is accused of blackmail and extortion. bezos launched his own investigation the same day he announced he was getting a divorce. he wanted to know how they got texts between laura sanchez and him and if the story was politically motivated. david pecker is a an ally of president trump and investigated by the department of justice for paying to kill a story of an alleged trump affair to help him collected. now ...

Crimes whatsoever. if the company violated that, theyre in a heap of hope. i spoke with professor scott galloway. he said ami is bankrupt but they dont know it yet. jeff bezos said the national inquirer is trying to blackmail him. this friction between the founder and ceo of amazon started a month ago. the magazine published an expose with lauren sanchez. the national inquirer said they saw explicit photos of bezos. bezos hired a private investigator to see how the magazine got the photos. bezos...

Part of ami. think ami severely miscalculated jeff bezos. they thought they had something on him that he would have to hide and he just didnt fall for it. so theyre in a lot of trouble right now. >> thanks, katie. >> thank you. >> shepard: coming up, the threat of the crown prince of saudi arabia that the crown prince reportedly made against "the washington post" columnist, jamal khaishoggi a year before he said to have ordered his murder at the consulate in turkey. also, democrats in virginia o...

And might they be pros cuted if theyre found to commit a crime here? >> absolutely. these types of clauses in the federal plea agreements have very common. the agreement is that the person entering into it or the entity entering into it will not commit any further criminal misconduct. theyre saying in exchange for this benefit, im going to be a law-abiding citizen. so everything you do will be looked at more closely. so yes, absolutely theres going to be a question about whether or not these e-m...

The head of amazon says he wanted to figure out why and how. so he started his own investigation into the tabloid. remember, the publisher of the inquirer, ami, david pecker, friend of the president, made a deal with the feds over the tabloids involvement of hush money payments made in the 2016 election. the feds said karen mcdougal was paid $150,000 for her story on how she had an affair with the now president before he took office but they never published it. its a strategy called catch and ki...

Look, the bottom line is, this was dumb and stupid and this -- i taught organized crime at american university. these guys are acting like juvenile organized crime members. >> neil: who is acting -- >> meaning ami. its unbelievable. also, you have some dumb lawyers that ami that do this kind of thing. so theyre in a heap of trouble, neil. >> neil: so jillian, one of the things that ami put out, a statement later, they are fervently believing that they acted lawfully. in between, i have a sense t...

Claims. amazons stock price is triadin lower. lets go to a lawyer. kate is a former prosecutor who is now a defense attorney specializing in criminal law. i know this is a gray area. but unless they said if you do the following, then we wont release the bad stuff on you. is that blackmail or bribery? >> yeah, i think it absolutely is. ami messed with the wrong guy here. the e-mails, weve seen them in black and white. its textbook extortion. its very simple to look at the law. the law requires th...