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Also tim o'brian is with us. he has studied donald trump's relationship to david pecker. and joyce vance is here to cover the legal points for us. she is a former federal prosecutor. and we're joined by jerry george who spent 28 years at the "national enquirer," including as the los angeles bureau chief. has david pecker ever been up against anyone like jeff bezos before? >> i think for the first time david pecker has met his match. we have finally gone through the looking glass, and we are way beyond yellow journalism. we are now in the area of the rico act. this is extortion. >> yeah. joyce ...

Publication in america. >> you know, two things i think worth pointing out here. jeff bezos -- the "national enquirer" already published a piece about jeff bezos and his extramarital affair, which relied on stolen personal property. >> yes. >> whether it was a federal agency that intercepted it or it was a hacker, information was stolen and put to use. jeff bezos launched an investigation to find out what happened. the "national enquirer" says to him, we are going to use more stolen information to prevent you from continuing an investigation of how we used previously stolen information to emba...

General. jeff bezos published a statement tonight in which he said, rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, i've decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten. attached to his statement were a series of written exchanges between people working from "national enquirer" and a los angeles attorney. dillon howard, an editor of the "national enquirer" sent the e-mail describing every stolen photograph of jeff bezos that the "national enquirer" now possesses. in the last line of the e-mail, dillon howard says, i hope common sense c...

Long time. there is no one i'm aware of in the country, in the private sector with more experience and resources in knowing how to handle an investigation like this. >> well, gavin has had the reputation of being the best in the business for the past 25 years. so his involvement alone bespeaks a major concern. >> yeah. and tim o'brian, you have been studying donald trump's relationship to david pecker, who runs the "national enquirer." the idea, the idea that they were trying to, in effect, extort out of him a statement that the "national enquirer" does not have a political agenda. >> right. >...

He says the post's essential and unrelated coverage of the murder of its journalist jamal khashoggi is unpopular in person circles. the "national enquirer," the company, has been trying to obtain saudi finance. and, so, that they have an interest in making life difficult for jeff bezos and hoping they can possibly also influence saudi coverage in "the washington post." >> well, it's quite plain from looking at jeff bezos's letter that he published tonight that he's interested in what would be described as the saudi angle, whether that ends up developing and becoming a major part of the story i...