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Bezos shared several details in a tell-all blog post claiming that the tabloid threatened to release explicit photos of him and a woman that hes having an affair with. oliver darcy is with us now. oliver, thank you so much, a lot of people might hear that and go, wait a minute, what are the political implications here. can you connect the dots here? >> yeah, at high huge web, complex number of characters involved in this story. really, its bezos and dylan howard, the chief conference officer at ...

Ami put out a statement saying it believes it acted lawfully in reporting the bezos story, but said its board is going to investigate bezos claims. ami rejects any assertion that its reporting was instigated or influenced by any outside forces, political, or otherwise. a spokesman at the white house says he doubts if president trump is even aware of all of the bezos reporting. and asked if his government ever tried to get ami to put out negative stories about jeff bezos, saudi arabias foreign mi...

The material it has for the benefit, the political benefit of the president of the united states. we also know that saudi arabia has indeed had very close ties with the president mbs, jared kushner. the national enquirer has had close ties and business ties with saudi arabia. >> theres several dots and theres also a line. the line is the e-mails have come out and the enquirer are not saying if they are fake or false. te mails outline that go beyond the enquirers desire to enrich themselves or ma...

Br brennonis of that theory. i have no doubt, the killing of khashoggi that he would try to discredit, embarrass and hurt bezos financially if he could. thats the theory that comes from them. >> im a little more skeptical of that because i think that saudi arabia is indeed agast at what the washington post has been writing. in my conversations with the saudis they havent tied that so directly to jeff bezos. they tied it to the washington post. i would just emphasize that we have to be really car...

Campaign finance violations. now, what is it that theyre so desperate to hide that they would try to blackmail or extort bezos to keep him from further investigating, in part, how they got a hold of bezoss private information from his phone, his photographs, his private emails? it must be something -- >> how did they get those? >> there has been some speculation that maybe it was a foreign government who acquired them, fed them to ami and ami is desperate to keep that information from seeing the...

Libel for any malfeasance they did in that particular case or any cases moving forward. >> so lets connect the dots here, if there are some dots to connect, glenn. we know that the ami has been used as a wing for the president to get out some less favorable headlines for many of his rivals over the years, hillary clinton, "national enquirer" covers come to mind and many others in the meantime. we know theres a saudi arabia connection to ami and theres a connection with the president, is there a ...

They are very tough. they are very good. and that is is what theyre facing. >> and then the whole other facet, the saudi arabia angle. mark i want to talk to you about this. bezos wrote about the article about the crown prince and there is the link to jamal khashoggi and so help us here with those dots. >> this is part of the bezos theory of the case where they argue that the reason "the national enquirer" did the -- what they see as a hit job on jeff bezos by exposing his affair was because of ...

Close ties and business ties with saudi arabia. >> theres several dots and theres also a line. the line is the e-mails have come out and the enquirer are not saying if they are fake or false. te mails outline that go beyond the enquirers desire to enrich themselves or make money. they want to cut off bezos, the post, from finding out where they got the stuff. if they got it from a private eye that wouldnt be so bad.a >> jeff bezos seems to think theres a saudi connection. j we dont have further ...

>> im a little more skeptical of that because i think that mo saudi arabia is indeed agast at what the washington post has been writing. in my conversations with the saudis they havent tied that so directly to jeff bezos. they tied it to the washington post.o i would just emphasize that we have to be really careful about speculating here. we have a bunch of dots. we should just be careful about connecting them. what we know is that we have sort of this blackmail model on the part of the national...

The bezos blog post is full of hints that there were larger political connections. but thats all they are. theyre just crumbs. the dots have not yet been connected and i think as is always the case, we need to see how the facts unfold, where the evidence leads. i admit it is insen y, but he d come out and say it. >> maybe im too cynical, but i have to tell you something, when i read this, its not a bad move to reduce the chances that they release the photos and the texts. you do it the way bezos...