the usually pattern of extortion is give me a million dollars or i will kill you. is this extortion? you could see how it would be extortion. he's saying -- bezos has access to something that is very valuable which is what's printed in "the washington post." >> right. >> what ami is saying in the letters is use that power to exonerate us or we are going to embarrass you in this way. i have never heard of an extortion case like that because it's a weird set of circumstances, but it doesn't seem out of the question that the new york city district attorney or the u.s. attorney in the southern district would at least look into it. >> why do you think ami was so intent on getting bezos to publicly state there were no political motivations here.