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Including fake jake over there at fake news and even cnns van jones who used to work with obama, the green job czar whatever job he h take a look. democrats are a lose lose situation. if they dont do something. trump gets away too much. if you go through with the impeachment though you can divide the country further. take the oxygen away from your candidate and still dont solve the problem with foreign interference. >> sean: even professional jump hater jeffrey tuben. today one of many really du...

And he is essentially threatening to resign in these text messages if the white house withholds this military aid here. that is pretty significant. and it shows that this isnt just a washington conversation about whether or not the white house was threatening to withhold this if they didnt get their investigations. it shows that career diplomats thought that was happening as well. >> so jeffrey, we can read the text messages with our own eyes. we heard the president with our own ears yesterday s...

So much. >> thanks a lot. >> day of ehrenberg, if youre listening is it extortion or bribery? >> potato potato. a black face scandal didnt cause virginias governor his job but what about the prime minister of canada? >> just keeps going. >> well talk about justin trudeau. >> he cant even say that these three are the only ones out there? >> he doesnt know. >> did this guy just walk around with black shoe polish in his back pocket? >> now stop. >> whats wrong. who does that? >> as we go to break...

Bezos. you seem to agree. >> i do agree with that. lets start by saying i dont think the white house cares one iota about jeff bezos junk, for starters. number one. number two, whos the bully here? when you read jeff bezos job that he was going to punch national enquirer in the nose, thats what they do. they want to post it. it probably would have quietly gone away, more quiet than it is now, without jeff bezos saying how dare you. is it extortion or negotiation? i say its negotiation. >> julie:...

Claims, he just sort of threw that out there in the wind for all of us to discuss. and so now theres this public relations battle happening which may very well turn into a legal battle, but a public relations battle happening over the question of is this something that is politically motivated? does this tie in president trump and saudi arabia or come down to as david peckers lawyer said is this really just sort of old fashion tabloid fair where you have a source who has access to these photos a...

Amazon ceo jeff bezos accusing the "national enquirer" of blackmail and extortion in a bombshell online post, bezos writes the "enquirer" threatened to release revealing pictures of him unless he dropped his investigation of the tabloid and publicly stated that the tabloids coverage was not politically motivated. joining us now, john avlon, joe lockhart, brian stelter. not surprising this is getting a lot of attention this morning and all of the papers. i give you the new york post and i just wi...

The enquirer and saudi arabia and you stop this investigation. >> right. its an unusual spin on a familiar part of what the "national enquirer" does. usually its about whats in the "national enquirer." here its about whats in "the washington post." is that there was a "washington post" investigation going on, and the enquirer, the letter says you write the following in "the washington post" or the implicit threat is we publish these letters. these photographs, not letters. >> dictating to "the w...

Want made public about you. so ami lays out demands. spelled out plainly in e-mails, telling bezos to state that amis coverage of the saudis was not politically motivated or influenced by political forces. thats when he said he made a decision. rather than capitulate to exportion and blackmail i published what they sent me despite the personal embarrassment they threatened. i prefer to stand up and roll this log over and see what crawls out. now keep in mind, this is all happening while david pe...

>> dictating to "the washington post" what they should say. >> which bezos says would have been false anyway, because he feels apparently that there was political motivation for what "the enquirer" was doing. your question is it blackmail? is it a crime? is it extortion? my answer is i dont know. i think it is worthy of investigation. its an unusual situation because even though it does have a threat involved, it is part of the news gathering process broadly defined, even though its deeply sleaz...

Kind of stuff that you would want made public about you. so ami lays out demands. spelled out plainly in e-mails, telling bezos to state that amis coverage of the saudis was not politically motivated or influenced by political forces. thats when he said he made a decision. rather than capitulate to exportion and blackmail i published what they sent me despite the personal embarrassment they threatened. i prefer to stand up and roll this log over and see what crawls out. now keep in mind, this is...