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Reputation which we vehere because they were threatening to expose these indelicate pictures and text messages in exchange for a thing of value. what value were they trying to get? they were trying to catch and kill stories that bezos and the "washington post" were trying to investigate and report. i see this as classic extortion. there are a lot of bells and whistles on the federal extortion laws. but at its core this is extortion. >> they wanted to stop bezos from investigating. what were they looking for? what was bezos looking for on ami? >> why did ami and picker sort of respond so maniac...

For its murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. and a bomb shell story david peck against jeff bezos of the "washington post." on thursday, bezos, who also owns amazon, accuses the parent can company of "the national enquirer" of extortion and blackmail. this after the enquirer had a front-page expose including pursesinal text messages and photographs. shortly after publication, he hired a team to find out how the tabloid got hold off those text messages and photographs. onblog post yesterday, bezos writes that tabloids editor threatened to publish additional photos unless bezos called off his i...

And you have the saudi arabian government and president trump. what ties them all together? >> one thing is saudi arabia, as you suggest. david picker, the head of ami has been trying to do business with saudi arabia, particularly close to the crown prince. you described this 97-page puff piece they produced about the new kingdom. he brought people wanting to do business with saudi arabia is. my boss, our owner, jeff bezos, said in his statement last night about all of this that he is concerned about the saudi ties to both picker and to the white house. he says this is still to be explain pd. ...

This can be seen as yet another battle between trump ally and his critics. ami says it was merely involved in good faith negotiations. they are using the practice of catch and kill to keep two women from publicizing their claims they had affairs with the president. throughout the campaign ami acted as a pr wing, you might say, of the trump campaign, promoting the candidate and savaging his opponents. joined by former federal prosecutor and former reporter for the "daily beast" and katy feng. thank you all. this is like l.a. confidential but in the middle off a huge blitical fight. give this ba...

Might find about how they obtained those texts? >> about why they're putting out these propaganda documents without any explanation of who's paying for them. anyway, a source familiar tells them that federal prosecutors are investigating whether they violated conduct. in december ami signed the agreement in exchange for providing information in its role in a payment to play boy model who claims she had an affair with trump prior to his presidency, which trump denies. they stipulated ami should commit no crime whatsoever and should they commit any crime subsequent to this date, they should ther...