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This lengthy, lengthy, very detailed statement that was put out by jeff bezos which is clearly potentially very problematic for david pecker and ami. you wanted to weigh in? >> i think theres another interesting angle to the statement that jeff bezos put out. he hints at some possible connection to saudi arabia which i think goes back to reporting that "the washington post" may have doing because he said several days ago an ami leader advised us that mr. pecker is apoplectic about our investigat...

>> we are anxious to get a response from the justice department. everybody stand by. i want to bring in shimon prokupecz. theres a story involving jeff bezos and the ""national enquire enquirer". >> jeff bezos, of course, the amazon founder and who has been involved recently in the "national enquirer" posting text messages and revealing or claiming he was having an affair. just recently, the "national enquirer" reached out to him. ami reached out to him claiming they had compromising photos of h...

Motives. it wanted "the washington post" to acknowledge that or it will public these photos. what makes that so weird is that david pecker -- i have written about this and others, david pecker is a well-known friend of the president. he told me and others that the reason he paid karen mcdougal $150,000 was to suppress her story and help donald trump get elected president. the idea that the "national enquirer" is some journalistic enterprise that is independent of politics is just absurd. you can...

But it is, for democrats, a really tough sticky thicket. >> it is. and i mean the real question now is what happens if northam just rides it through? i mean, they cant impeach him. they cant force him out. he has one term. and as someone said to me who knows him if he quits now his obituary is written and he could rewrite it the politics of just grinding through just complete scandal, the whole party tells you to step down they cant actually force you out. >> bret: speaking of scandal jeff bezos...

Extortion proposal and very graphic, mollie. this is -- he is getting ahead of whatever this is but its going to be a big, big story. >> as we have learned time and time again in recent years it is better to not live your life in such a way that you can be open to extortion and we are seeing a lot of powerful men who are having to deal with these things. it will be interesting to see what amis response is this seems like the kind of journalism that theyre more comfortable with than some more mai...

President and if the democrats took over the house that this day would come. that is what everybody has been preparing for. i think we obviously expect he will implicate the president in campaign finance violations. lord knows what else he has on his mind to reveal. >> does this potentially open the door to other witnesses and other key witnesses coming before congress, storm hi daniels and mcdougal, for example? >> absolutely. they will not stop with kcohen. i think youll see david pecker, the ...

Admitted in court documents it worked with the trump campaign to pay former play mate karen mcdougal for exclusive rights to her story about an alleged affair with trump. the tabloid then killed the story. trump has repeatedly denied he had the affair. pecker, along with amis chief worked with former lawyer michael cohen to deal with negative stories about trump. both received immunity in federal prosecutors probe into cohen last year. howard was one of the authors credited on the bezos report. ...

Hush payments. so thats what im more interested in. >> why was he lying? thats part of the question. obviously to protect donald trump but why at the risk that he took on. i want to bring the former prosecutor in the southern district of new york, ellie. you heard our m.j. lee saying that a lot of this is documented when it comes to michael cohens involvement, ami, the "national enquirer" that would do catch and kill certainly in the case of karen mcdougal to squash her story. what are you think...

President and he has admitted as much so this is going to be a very, very different michael cohen with different motivations that we see really for the first time and as far as what im interested in hearing from michael cohen, im actually less interested in what he has to say about these hush payments because those things have actually been pretty well documented in all of our reporting and what has come out from the sdny investigation and really important to point out that michael cohen, ami an...

You know, is a big player in some enterprise, sometimes you give immunity to somebody who is a little bit larger player. it is so important to your making case against other folks that you give special privilege to that person, so they have that. i think thats very significant. and they also have people who are not necessarily within the trump organization, but someone like david pecker who is the head of a.m.i. that owns the "national enquirer," also has the same grant of i am "up to the minute...