post" investigation into this mess. buck: people have mixed feeling about bezos' decision make on a number of levels. we saw this with peter thiel when he decided to go after gawker. a lot of conservatives believe it was a great service to the public. when you play games with billionaires and decide you are going to ruin their reputations and use your media outlet to do that, you open yourself up to this kind of retribution and counterattack. i think bezos understands once the photos got out it was likely somebody was going to leak them. but you can't allow people to hold this over your head. i think the perception of how damaging this is, consenting adults. that's changing, too. howie: the federal prosecutors are looking into bezos' claim of blackmail. so we'll see -- there is a lot of layers here as buck said to unravel. and we'll see whether -- i don't think it's helped by all this behind the scenes stuff. it was an effort to have a truce and that fell apart. ahead on the...