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Claims that he has been the victim of an extortion plot, not by isis or some international criminal sinsd cat out of a james bond movie but by the "national enquirer," the supermarket tabloid. the one you page through as you are unloading groceries from your cart. trace gallagher has been following this story since the beginning and he follows us tonight. >> he owns "the washington post" but jeff bezos chose to make his stand on a blogging platform called medium where he posted details of the al...

Richest man, jeff bezos, claims that he has been the victim of an extortion plot, not by isis or some international criminal syndicate out of a james bond movie, but by the "national enquirer," the supermarket tabloid. the one you page through as you are unloading groceries from your cart. trace gallagher has been following this story since the beginning and he follows us tonight. hey, trace. h >> hey, tucker. he owns "the washington post" but jeff bezos chose to make his stand on a blogging pla...

Connection. jeff bezos goes out of his way to talk about how this is -- its complicated the relationship, but he does not have any editorial control and oversight of the "washington post" and yet because he bought the paper, that made him a major target for the president who is not happy with the "washington post" reporting. >> right. he describes the post as a complexfier, not a word but a good one, and hes right. owning the post makes bezos life more complex, makes him feel fulfilled and proud...

Stories, and were going to begin tonight with amazon ceo jeff bezos, in a battle tonight with "the national enquirer." tonight, bezos has just gone public with what he says was an extortion plot involving compromising photos. abcs chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, a stunning turn in the ongoing battle between jeff bezos and the leaders behind the national enquirer. it all began when bezos first made the surprise announcement on twitter that he and ...

By having sex with women who worked with him on show. he recently told "the new york times," would have been a good reason to fire me. >> yes. and other people probably would have been fired for something like that. i think dave -- the thing that he did a lot was sort of bring the audience into his psyche as it were and he did the same thing with that episode, when it all came out, because of the extortion plot. he had to admit that he slept with women who worked on the show that he was essentia...

David letterman, i didnt see mentioned something i spent a lot of time covering in 2009. that was the sex scandal that he was embroiled in. he would have been the target of a $2 million extortion plot. lets take a quick look at what letterman said to his audience when he revealed this. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. >> and those women included an intern. how was it when so many other politicians and c...

David letterman, i didnt see mentioned something i spent a lot of time covering in 2009. that was the sex scandal that he was embroiled in. he would have been the target of a $2 million extortion plot. lets take a quick look at what letterman said to his audience when he revealed this. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. >> and those women included an intern. how was it when so many other politicians and c...

David letterman, i didnt see mentioned something i spent a lot of time covering in 2009. that was the sex scandal that he was embroiled in. he would have been the target of a $2 million extortion plot. lets take a quick look at what letterman said to his audience when he revealed this. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. >> and those women included an intern. how was it when so many other politicians and c...

>> laura: thanks for staying with us. im laura ingraham in for bill oreilly. in the factor follow up segment tonight, three hot legal topics, including extortion plot targeting movie mogul harvey weinstein and surprisingly light sentence for a man who threatened president obama. first james holmes, that man accused of killing 12 people in the aurora movie theater massacre last month. in court today. and now its being reported that holmes saw three mental health experts in the time leading up to ...

>> laura: thanks for staying with us. im laura ingraham in for bill oreilly. in the factor follow up segment tonight, three hot legal topics, including extortion plot targeting movie mogul harvey weinstein and surprisingly light sentence for a man who threatened president obama. first james holmes, that man accused of killing 12 people in the aurora movie theater massacre last month. in court today. and now its being reported that holmes saw three mental health experts in the time leading up to ...