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Amazon ceo jeff bezos accusing the "national enquirer" of blackmail and extortion in a bombshell online post, bezos writes the "enquirer" threatened to release revealing pictures of him unless he dropped his investigation of the tabloid and publicly stated that the tabloid's coverage was not politically motivated. joining us now, john avlon, joe lockhart, brian stelter. not surprising this is getting a lot of attention this morning and all of the papers. i give you the new york post and i just will leave it at that. >> perfect. >> genius. >> what's remarkable in this post, right, is everything...

The enquirer and saudi arabia and you stop this investigation. >> right. it's an unusual spin on a familiar part of what the "national enquirer" does. usually it's about what's in the "national enquirer." here it's about what's in "the washington post." is that there was a "washington post" investigation going on, and the enquirer, the letter says you write the following in "the washington post" or the implicit threat is we publish these letters. these photographs, not letters. >> dictating to "the washington post" what they should say. >> which bezos says would have been false anyway, because...

Want made public about you. so ami lays out demands. spelled out plainly in e-mails, telling bezos to state that ami's coverage of the saudis was not politically motivated or influenced by political forces. that's when he said he made a decision. rather than capitulate to exportion and blackmail i published what they sent me despite the personal embarrassment they threatened. i prefer to stand up and roll this log over and see what crawls out. now keep in mind, this is all happening while david pecker, the head of ami, the friend of trump, is cooperating with the u.s. attorney on a investigati...

>> dictating to "the washington post" what they should say. >> which bezos says would have been false anyway, because he feels apparently that there was political motivation for what "the enquirer" was doing. your question is it blackmail? is it a crime? is it extortion? my answer is i don't know. i think it is worthy of investigation. it's an unusual situation because even though it does have a threat involved, it is part of the news gathering process broadly defined, even though it's deeply sleazy. and i could see prosecutors hesitating to sort of get in the middle of this. it's disgraceful ...

Kind of stuff that you would want made public about you. so ami lays out demands. spelled out plainly in e-mails, telling bezos to state that ami's coverage of the saudis was not politically motivated or influenced by political forces. that's when he said he made a decision. rather than capitulate to exportion and blackmail i published what they sent me despite the personal embarrassment they threatened. i prefer to stand up and roll this log over and see what crawls out. now keep in mind, this is all happening while david pecker, the head of ami, the friend of trump, is cooperating with the u...