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Its really awful, but i dont think its something that a prosecutor would bring. >> i have said and heard things on television tonight that i never in a million years thought. okay. so, ryan, we know how close president trump is with ami. we know how he despises jeff bezos. is ami still doing trumps dirty work? what is going on here? >> i dont know. i mean, the two leading theories seem to be that ami is either doing the saudis dirty work, president trumps dirty work, or a combination of the two....

Ryan lizza, renato mariotti here to discuss. wow. wow. >> this story has it all. >> yeah, this story has it all. good evening. its like the "saturday night live" skit, this story has it all, its got foul language, its got pictures, its got -- right? money. >> the saudis. >> its got saudis. renato, bezos says this is blackmail and extortion. is he right? does he have a case? >> well, hes right in our common understanding of those terms. i think its possible that he could certainly -- he could see...

Like a crime. >> why would -- there are other aspects i want to get -- why would someone who constantly calls out the alleged misdeeds of others, even often wrongly calls them out when many people think its just projection, and im speaking of donald trump, why would he be associated with someone like david pecker who, in your estimation, says uses -- uses, you know, actions that are akin to extortion and the rico act. >> because i think he finds it irresistible. i think he feels hes above the la...

Somehow in their favor. >> interesting. i wonder if day want to poke the bear with this one considering just how wealthy brkezos is. hes coming out really strong. why is he saying -- why is bezos saying he thinks it has something to do with ami, trump and the saudis? again, hard ball hes playing, too, right? >> yeah, and hes hired top investigators to do this. there are several investigations that are ongoing, bezos says. whats interesting, obviously, that peckers connection to the president, lo...

They have been incredibly aggressive in investigating and getting to the bottom of what happened in that case. and on a parallel track, ami has reportedly been sucking up to the saudis, perhaps because they have some kind of financial relationship or want one. so, you know, theres a lot of unanswered questions about this and what the motivation here was, but just to go back to the question to renato, i think to a normal layperson, this was extortion. right? this was you do "x" or were going to e...

Has been looking into it, and thats the saudis. at one point, bezos writes that, in particular, the david pecker/ami, that pecker was apoplectic about their investigation, the "washington posts" investigations, for reasons still to be better understood, but there was a saudi angle that seemed to have hit a particular sensitive nerve of bezos writes. and of course, one of those reasons could be that the murder of jamal khashoggi, of course, and his relationship with the "washington post." so ther...

Because of how critical the "washington post," obviously, has been, of the administration and some of the stories that theyre been running. but theres this entire other connection, perhaps, that people have been looking into, and bezos says the "washington post" has been looking into it, and thats the saudis. at one point, bezos writes that, in particular, the david pecker/ami, that pecker was apoplectic about their investigation, the "washington posts" investigations, for reasons still to be be...

The "washington post." we also know that the saudis are not very happy with the "washington post" because, frankly, the saudis killed one of their opinion columnists and they have been incredibly aggressive in investigating and getting to the bottom of what happened in that case. and on a parallel track, ami has reportedly been sucking up to the saudis, perhaps because they have some kind of financial relationship or want one. so, you know, theres a lot of unanswered questions about this and wha...

Live" skit, this story has it all, its got foul language, its got pictures, its got -- right? money. >> the saudis. >> its got saudis. renato, bezos says this is blackmail and extortion. is he right? does he have a case? >> well, hes right in our common understanding of those terms. i think its possible that he could certainly -- he could see the "national enquirer" and ami and get some money out of them. obviously, he has very deep pockets of his own. but i dont think a prosecutor would actuall...

Earlier in the evening, you mentioned how ami put out this glossy tourism special then the "enquirer" made a big acquisition. do you think saudis are funding ami? >> i certainly think its within the realm. if you stand back and look at it, for them to put out a glossy magazine that was distributed at walmart and it was -- it was just a valentine to saudi saudi arabia, completely out of left field, and then three months later, they came in to a good sum of money to buy up their competitors. it ju...