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Refer to a.m.i. as the former a.m.i. if they want to get into this sort of a match with jeff bezos. its very clear to me whos going to win there. its skrord that he got fwr a.m.i. at the and here are the picture we had and have thoo and that w why. as you said, jeff bezos is not around "the washington post" every day. by he lives in seattle and he does his day job and he leaves the journalism to the yournists. there was one time he came to an all-staff meeting and he was uking about the post a...

The "new york times" now, i think we have seen the senate standing up to the president, especially on foreign policy. and i expect that we will continue to see that. by the way, just going back for a minute about donald trump and a.m.i. is i cant help but think that ted cruz, that expose they did on him, it kind of comes together again. is this just a campaign contribution? is this what the southern district could also be looking for? there are just so many different threads to pull apart here t...

Ties. we have gabe sherman, a media reporter that understands the world of ami and mr. pecker, jim kavanaugh, a law enforcement analyst that has worked with his share of extorters. and mimi roker. i never thought i would have a quartet like this, but that is how strange this story is. let me start with the legal aspect of this and the idea of whether or not this is extortion or not. i will ask you first, what is the definition of extortion and does this fit it because i will be honest, i certain...

Order to enter into that non-prosecution agreement. which means prosecutors know a lot about ami and their operations, including their operations that are considered to be federal crimes and for which somebody is about to go to prison and which the president himself has been implicated in. so they are in a spot, and they were desperate enough to try to do this to bezos. and i have no idea how this is going to end, but, boy, was this a surprise. >> and they might be in much worse legal trouble to...

Well be back in the success sflushlg all right. im going to get to the big story of the morning. amazons ceo accusing of parent company of the national enquirer off extortion and black male for claiming to show a.m.i. threatened to release the information if he did not stop an investigation into how the inquirer got exed lauren sanchez. bezos says that ami demanding he for reporting about the about the frrnl in a letter posted on

Into this sort of match with jeff bezos, its very clear to me whos going to win this. its extraordinary the way he published the e-mails that he got from ami, and they are, they certainly look extortionate to me. either you stop looking into us and our political motivations or we be pubbish the following things and he has this and has that, and he published all of that. there was, as you said, jeff bezos is not around the "washington post" every day. been there -- a bunch of times, but he lives ...

Southern district of new york might think is extortion, the arrogance is really staggering. >> well, you know, you reference what, to me is one of the most amazing aspects of this story, in that david pecker had cut a deal with the special prosecutor and is back in the batters box basically on the fringes of extortion, joe, as you just pointed out. gene, you are housed in the paper that jeff bezos owns, runs. he doesnt operate it every day. we all know that, but this is a staggering story, and a...

Information to anything, saying look at i think the saudis will turn out to be key. its not clear that extortion is a crime. stealing the texts and photos is a climb. if saudi intelligence perpetrated a criminal act against bezos on behalf in which a.m.i. was involved in which trump or kushner had some knowledge or somehow it was on behalf of them that, is a genuine intelligence conspiracy with ties to conceivably the white house. >> mimi, before you go, an update on a story you wrote about rece...

Statute. the question is what were they demanding of besos. what they were asking besos to do for not taking that action they were threatening. is that a thing of value? i think conservative prosecutors would say not really, they were getting him to not pursue an investigation. they were getting him to agree to make a certain type of statement. thats horse trading. i think the more aggressive expanded view is that yeah, it is because that is something of value to besos. he was trying to investig...

This is taking it a step further and im just wondering, what are federal sfrm who have done a deal with a.m.i., who have done a letter with pecker and so i think it looks like eggs portion, it smells like eximportance and, if is it a crime under the federal extortion statute? maybe. its actually a very specific statute, you need to sort of get someone o to give up something of value is the key fry but i think there are some legal