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Has been looking into it, and that's the saudis. at one point, bezos writes that, in particular, the david pecker/ami, that pecker was apoplectic about their investigation, the "washington post's" 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 there's still a lot here that needs to be developed, but these are things that according to bezos the ...

Because of how critical the "washington post," obviously, has been, of the administration and some of the stories that they're been running. but there's this entire other connection, perhaps, that people have been looking into, and bezos says the "washington post" has been looking into it, and that's the saudis. at one point, bezos writes that, in particular, the david pecker/ami, that pecker was apoplectic about their investigation, the "washington post's" investigations, for reasons still to be better understood, but there was a saudi angle that seemed to have hit a particular sensitive nerv...

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, there's 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 laype...

Live" skit, this story has it all, it's got foul language, it's got pictures, it's got -- right? money. >> the saudis. >> it's got saudis. renato, bezos says this is blackmail and extortion. is he right? does he have a case? >> well, he's right in our common understanding of those terms. i think it's 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 don't think a prosecutor would actually be able to bring this as an extortion case. you know, typical extortion case is where you s...

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 it's 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 just doesn't make sense. >> what do you think ami is going to do now? you said you think they're worr...