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This is extortion. >> they wanted to stop bezos from investigating. with the help of gavin debecker. what were they looking for? what was bezos looking for on ami? >> this is the the big-ticket question. why did ami and perker respond so amma nighically. ? it seems they are desperately fearful of something. is it really just about some of their stories are politically motivated? duh. so i think that really is the $64,000 question. >> today the president remained uncharacteristically sound. asked by reporters if the president was aware of the allegation. here's what he said. >> is it president ...

Private eyes get hired, take a picture of a guy with his girlfriend, to put it bluntly. this is classic. >> in 10 words or less the law of extortion. chris, $1,000 or i break your thumb. , right? that's it. it's threatening harm to obtain a thing of value. it seems to me what we have here is a threat of harm. harm doesn't have to be physical harm. it can be harm to one's reputation, which we have here because ami was threatening to suppose these indelicate pictures and text messages of bezos, right? in exchange for a thing of value. what value were they trying to get? they were trying to catch...

President trump say. we want to be clear that mohammed bin salman has changed systems, is taking responsibility for what he's done, there's accountability and hasn't happened. >> the idea i won't kill anybody again. but let me ask you this. what's the access? we had ami, the notorious "national enquirer," which is basically a sleaze mag. you know what it is. it deals in scum. and you have the saudi arabia government and president trump. what ties them all together? >> one thing that ties them together is saudi arabia, as you suggest. david pecker, the head of ami has been trying to do business...

Ami, owner of "the national enquirer," want to get back in the good graces of the president of the united states? well, he signed an immunity agreement, which means he's part of trouble trump's in because he told them stuff they wanted in exchange for his freedom. he wants to get back in his good graces. so he unleashes his dogs, photographers and perhaps the brother of bezos' girlfriend and puts it all together and he goes to war so he can win the graces of the president back. what do you think? what other motive is there? >> that's certainly what a lot of folks in jeff bezos' orbit seem to s...

Think about why is it that ami, which is by virtue an extension all accounts an e tension of donald trump and his surrogates. why would ami cordsinate legal liability with jeff bezos, which is what donald trump tweeted about. he said that shareholders of amazon should know about how bad jeff bezos a guy is. and that's exactly what ami said interestingly when they told bezos team it was okay to do all these stories. what's an interesting twist is the following. the deputy general counsel for ami worked at amazon for nine years. you would think the deputy general counsel would have a pretty good...