resolution this week. >>> a lawyer for the national enquirer ceo denies the tablet extorted amazon's ceo jeff bazos. bazos posted e-mails from a lawyer for ami which owns the enquirer. the lawyers say bazos should say publicly he had no evidence that it's politically motivated. in return they said the inquirer would not publish lewd pictures to and from bazos in its possession. bazos called that blackmail and extortion. on sunday pecker's attorney rejected the extortion claim and the so-called saudi angle advanced by bazos. >> it absolutely is not extortion and not blackmail. what happened was the story was given to the national enquirer by a reliable source that had given information to the national enquirer for seven years prior to this story. it was a source well-known to both mr. bazos and mr. sanchez. all what ami was the truth. bazos and ms. sanchez knew who the source was. it was not the white house. it was not saudi arabia. >> pecker's attorney said he could not confirm or deny if sanchez's brother was the tipster who provided the texts and photos. after the enquirer asked for comments last

and so jeff bazos has launched this investigation, but they have not provided any sort of evidence toor those suggestions in his blog post. we've asked a number of questions to jeff bazos representatives, asking them if they can share details of the investigation, conclusions that they found. they declined to provide an on the record comment. i really think six days out after jeff bazos went and made these explosive suggestions in his blog posts, journalists should be asking him what evidence do you have? why did you mention the saudis, because it was about blackmail, but he went out of his way to mention these things, but we don't know why he did that. >> suggesting it had something to do with khashoggi's death. >> their aggressive reporting on khashoggi and his murder, had made enemies with saudi arabia or maybe trump who's a chief executive at the national enquirer, maybe trump doesn't like bazos because of the critical reporting "the washington post" did there. there were a lot of suggestions in there, a lot of explosive suggestions. and there's been no evidence provided by bazos'

this is jeff bazos, the founder of amazon. today we checked and today technically he is the richest man on the face of the earth. he's also the owner of one of the greatest newspapers on the face of the earth, "the washington post." the president has made no secret of the fact that he does not like "the washington post", he does not like the way "the washington post" and it's reporters cover him and his administration and also been remarkably unsubtle in connecting his complaints about the journalism of the washington post to jeff bazos personally and to his ownership role of the washington post and amazon. in may of last year, for example, you might remember we learned that the president had personally, personally, individually directed the postmaster general of the united states that the post office should financially stick it to amazon, that they should hurt the company and by extension, jeff bazos' personal bottom line by doubling the postal rates that the u.s. post office charges amazon to ship its packages. the president

. >> one of the fascinating history of our times that has sound behind it and that's jeff bazos whi bazost the only interesting part of it was mr. bazos' reaction to it, which was truly courageous. i mean he could have as many people would do is suppress it, do anything he could do avoid continuing -- you know, one of the things you do with stories is you don't want to put fire on them. well, he put huge gasoline flames on them because he said you're not going to blackmail me and get away with it because if i can't withstand it, no one can. and to do that as an individual, a public person who god knows has other things to occupy his time was a matter of i think honor and courage. and that to me was the story. >> on the flip side with american media did you consider this a new low in a company that's already been implicated in lots of other scandals -- >> you can't do do new low. there is no new low. what's lower? national enquirer is a bad rag, meaning all it does is exploit people at kind of the lowest kind of concept of whatever it is that can, you know, excite the super market check li

whether the "national enquirer" was acting of an agent of the saudi government when it went against jeff bazos. "the post" has been critical of the saudi government over the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi inside a consulate. jeff bezos suggested the saudis may have retaliated against him for that coverage with an extortion and blackmail effort run out of the of the "national enquirer" while the trump administration continues to resist blaming the saudi government for the murder at all. just this week, it was announced that the trump administration is being investigated in congress over a secret plan to transfer highly sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia. against the warnings of top national security officials and potentially against the law. this nuclear thing was a plan that several people asoels uaso with the president appear to have a significant personal finance stake in. so the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia is complicated for a long time. it is still messy as all geto ot right now but what we know is the modern history of saudi arabia and pr