becker is traveling overseas and declined to comment. being investigated sometimes deflects attention. sanchez says it's irrelevant that he's an acquaintance of roger stone who has pled guilty to witness tampering and he once did a small business deal with carter page, a former trump campaign advisor. he consulted page about the leak. sanchez is friends with bill howard. he says my friendships have been used as a weapon against me. sanchez urged bezos and his sister to stand down. he says becker risked exposure of the affair by allowing them to appear together in restaurants and on private jets. to beck more has decades of experience in protecting big celebrities claim there are no lapses in security. the photographers were tipped off about the outings and it's not his job to prevent that. he says they are in a forced separation. they agreed not to be together for one month in this hot atmosphere. joining me, buck sexton and jessica tarlov. there is a heated disagreement over p.r. strategy. sanchez says no way i would be involved in a le

"gavin de becker does not believe that jeff bezos' phone was hacked. he thinks it's possible that a government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages."the inquirer's publisher sent him a note threatening to publish the material unless bezos called off his own investigation.now bezos is turning the tables, saying ... of course i don't want personal photos published, but i also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. i prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out." "this was pretty gutsy, i mean to put it out there."according to bloomberg news the u=s attorney in new york is now looking into whether the tabloid violated an earlier immunity agreement.american media, the national enquirer's parent company, was granted immunity last year in connection with its assistance in an investigation into michael cohen, president donald trump's former personal lawyer.that agreement required the company to agree to (

. >> gavin de becker told us he does not believe that jeff bezos' phone was hacked. he thinks it's possible that a government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages. >> reporter: bezos is now claiming the magazine's publisher ami threatened to release nude photos of him if he continued to investigate how "the enquirer" obtained those text messages n a personal blog post bezos says, of course, i don't want personal photos but i also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail and also included multiple emails from ami executives which had vivid descriptions of the images they claim to have. the owner of "the enquirer," david pecker is a well-known friend of president trump and outspoken critic of "the washington post" which again bezos owns. >> mr. president, do you have any rezos' divorce andis affair? >> i wish him luck. >> that's it? >> i wish him luck. it's going to be a beauty. >> reporter: ami has admitted in the past that it engaged in what's known as catch and kill practices to help trump become president buying stories about allege

constitutes the present leadership richard appreciate it my guess is richard becker antiwar activists with the and suppose to thank you richard. but with the situation that intensifying what's happening in venezuela does seem to be similarities to events in the past in a potential explains. they don't really think the whole world is too fullish to notice either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with material and his mayhem when we stand with the syrian people or with their oppressors the former doura regime has oppressed its people for years repressive regime of bashar al assad the tyranny of the now defunct mature regime the assad regime its brutality and repression active threat to the entire region growing threat to regional peace and security it is time for men to go it's time for assad to get out of the way the stories of syria venezuela and the protest movements there are from two separate books but can someone tell me why anyone who's in charge of america always remains off the same manatee let's go through the steps that are a must venezuela versus syria

gavin de becker told us that he does not believe that jeff bezos's phone was hacked. he thinks it's possible that a government entity might have gotten a hold of his text messages. >> and jerry george let me go back to you because as the los angeles bureau chief i'm sure you know of gavin de becker. he is the person people in los angeles turn to for security and personal protection. he has a large firm and provides all sorts of services. he has been doing this for a 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. >> i mean, the

ok let's now talk i believe to brian becker from the anti war on soko elation brian i've got a chance this morning here there yes you are yeah what do you think about we asked than it was it just glossing over a job here or be on the scene as progress been made over the last thirty six hours as might prompt a i've said. well i'm here and the noise at the international media center i think that what we witnessed with donald trump's press conference was a clear indication that this meeting while it didn't come to a final conclusion did not break up in rancor it did not break up in extreme hostility. trump spoke very favorably about kim jong il and he talked about the prospects for peace is still there he said he wouldn't talk about new economic sanctions he said we just didn't get a chance to cross the finish line he made other indications that perhaps they had their intelligence about their new. are facilities beyond young beyond that they sort of. brought up with the north koreans in the north koreans while perhaps ready to close one of the reactors was not aware that the u.s. knew pe

"gavin de becker does not believe that jeff bezos' phone was hacked. thinks it's possible that a government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages."the inquirer's publisher sent him a note threatening to publish the material unless bezos called off his own investigation.now bezos is turning the tables, saying ... of course i don't want personal photos published, but i also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. i prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out." "this was pretty gutsy, i mean to put it out there."according to bloomberg news the u=s attorney in new york is now looking into whether the tabloid violated an earlier immunity agreement.american media, the national enquirer's parent company, was granted immunity last year in connection with its assistance in an investigation into michael cohen, president donald trump's former personal lawyer.that agreement required the company to agree to (quo

his claim david becker, which owns the inquire is threateningg photos of jeff bezos and his mistressting the inquirer. the team is looking and how the tabloid got a hold of the private pictures and text in the first place and his post to the online -- the site said david becker wanted a full statement and no knowledge or basis for suggesting that american media's coverage of the affair was politically motivated or influenced by political forces. he then pointed to the past cooperation with president trump and his connection to saudi arabian government. remember "the washington post" which bezos own extensive reporting on murder of columnist which many believe was ordered by the saudi government. in his post, bezos noted president trump believes he and "the washington post" are his enemies. as for the threat to publish the pictures bezos wrote "of course i don't want photos published but i don't want to participate in blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption. i prefer to stand up, log this -- roll this log over and see but calls out." but the richest man can't sta

looking into where the enquirer got its information, hiring a well-known security expert gavin de beckerlog posting tonight bezos showed letters he said came from ami, describing the photos the enquirer has allegedly obtained, in graphic detail. but bezos wrote, "any personal embarrassment ami could cause me takes a back seat becauase there's a much more important matter involved here. if in my position i can't stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can?" not long after bezos post - famed journalist ronan farow tweeted this: i and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the national enquirer's arrangement with trump fielded similar "stop digging or we'll ruin you" blackmail efforts from ami. farrow says he did not engage. sot - when one person exposes this kind of activity - if there are othersâ they have an obligation to investigate. tonight stanford university is looking into some faculity members.. with ties to a scientist.. who claims he helped make gene-edited babies. in november.. he jiankui (hu jian-quay) revealed that he altered the

her home portal that was different but he had to stop and there are no us you know the president mr becker i mean chip to give them a piece of it. but it was innocent of anybody money so what actual stuff that was lost any some of the price he's still quite sure especially when the surface of the way proponents. are throwing a point is that with things just as it was the first was that when the started to join the army thank you. don't. be surprised if that was because he's gay but it was for the. purpose of the thread you know is to go right up to the boarding go on but since we're just past the president off the other under some bob goes on lockdown you know i'm a company. if i knew all of the things i know today i would ups will take until because. sometimes we say in russia people would like to have a revolution but nothing should change. based on what i know today if i don't have it i wouldn't have taken a deal they said we came here in. one thousand sixty five and we were selected and we should have a better life than anyone else in russia and with you mr anderson we lost it before y

the owner of the national inquirer is david becker, a friend of donald trump who has done special favorspast. was this a tabloid story, or was it a political hit job on a trump eny? just before the election, karen mcdougal, a former playboy model wanted to go public with , allegations she had had a dolong-standing affair witld trump. the national enquirer bought the exclusive rights to her story for $150,000, and her silence, but never published it, known as catch and kill. ami have said they will launch a though investigation into mr. bezos' claims. this magazine is on the defensive it has not been in a way before. it looks lik they picked a fight with the wrong man. jonew sopel bbc washington. ,jane:o, a brief time discussed this case with cara swisher, executive editor of recode. thanks for joining m this is pretty sensational stuff. j bezos said it was a shock to him. how shocked are you? cara: i am surprised he becaso so aggressivuickly. initially he talked about the end of his marriage before the national enquirer could come out. he wasrying to get ahead of this, and in this case h

are people saying about unlikely source of this leak well you know the security consultant gavin de becker his work which of business right now is a well regarded security consultant in the us he handles all of a quite high profile cases for high value individuals and for for prominent individuals and their forensic assessment right now is that the phone was not compromised by a user or by a friend or something like that but in fact that there may have been a you know some with the kid builders of the nation state the that accessed his phone's data so i think we're a very interesting position right now as to just. suggest you know what how the technical matter was accomplished but if it wasn't nation state in the fingers of already pointed out very quickly to saudi arabia on that front desk all speculation as of now but i certainly think we're going to end up with that being a top of mind question ok so a saudi arabia possibly in the frame and does the president get to get touched by this until. well look david pecker the publisher of the national enquirer and donald trump are very very cl

he then employed security expert to the stars, gavin de becker, to uncover how those texts were accessed. a person close to the investigation says one person suspected of leaking the information is sanchez's brother, michael. a.m.i., which had ended a nonprosecution deal with federal officials, may have violhetes of the allegations of threats bezos made public. >> i mean, this is one of the stories of the year. >> reporter: "wired" editor in chief nick thompson. and if jeff bezos' investigator gets to the bottom-- gets this material, effectively, can you track and see who sent it to whom and when? >> it's possible. so there are a couple of methods. there are little bits of digital information that are added. you know, in the process from my phone to your phone, each step of the way, little bits are added, so it's possible you could look at the image that the "national enquirer" has and see, had it left bezos' phone? had it gone through the cell carrier? had it arrived at sanchez's phone? >> glor: so many layers to this story, errol. >> reporter: absolutely. >> glor: there is an internati

chance for a happy conclusion well lots of questions what's going to come out of this summit brian becker from the anti war answer coalition has the view of what north korea needs before it will give up its nuclear weapons. no country disarms itself when it's al war with another especially a more powerful adversary so what the north what the north koreans are saying is let's have peace and then we can finish the process it least defining what d'you hear is ation is i think they will get rid of nuclear weapons if there is a guarantee that there's a new peace regime on the can the korean peninsula that's the missing piece here and that's what they expect to have the american government come forward and say yes we've pledged to end this war once and for all that becomes the catalyst for the new day i mean i'm going to ponder to donald trump on almost all things but i have to say that if it wasn't for donald trump i don't see this process going forward donald trump has been the most invested political figure in washington saying yeah let's have a new day let's end the korean war once and for

prost talking us foreign policy i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition is well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio also in washington we have john city leaders he is a political strategist and trilogy advisors and in auburn recross alou rockwell he is a political analyst at lou rockwell dot com all right john cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you first just kind of throw my introduction again trump wasn't really have be. on the.

foreign policy i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition is well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio sputum and also in washington we have john city leaders he is a political strategist and trilogy advisors and in auburn we cross alou rockwell he is a political analyst and lou rockwell dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you first just kind of throw my introduction again trump wasn't really have be on the on the foreign policy though i had to give him kudo's i thought it was a very conciliatory. address considering it came from donald trump but let's stay with foreign policy he didn't talk much about it is it because he didn't want to disappoint his base and he didn't want to spar with the deep state which he's had a lot of problems with even individuals very close to him in his own administration and i'm talking specifically one instance like. taking troops out of syria and afghanistan what was your take go ahead brian.

go live now to and he will activist richard becker thanks for joining us i could type in the program today what do you think is the motive behind the u.s. aid deliveries are they trying to help the venezuelan people in a time of the companies in crisis old is this a pretext for an intervention as nicolas maduro says well i don't think that there's any question it was a pretext and a provocation you know if we really look at the situation objective we take a step back the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today by a choir where half of a pack relations war two million people i threatened with starvation is in yemen where the united states has made it possible for a saudi arabia to carry out this awful war that's been going on there because a the next country because of badly needed supplies we've seen. the images of the starving children who are just going to vote in yemen over and over and over again we're seeing those images i have to point out coming from venice well i have i've been following the media widely and closely and you don't see any of this and are all people fro

foreign policy i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition is well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio also in washington we have john city leaders he is a political strategist and trilogy advisors and in auburn we cross alou rockwell he is a political analyst at lou rockwell dot com all right john cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you first this kind of throw my introduction again trump wasn't really have be. on the foreign policy though i had to give him kudo's i thought it was a very conciliatory. address considering it came from donald trump but let's stay with foreign policy he didn't talk much about it is it because he didn't want to disappoint his base and he didn't want to spar with the deep state which he's had a lot of problems with even individuals very close to him in his own administration and i'm talking specifically one instance like. taking troops out of syria and afghanistan what was your take go ahead brian. well the foreign polic

the billionaire becker never agreed to that. after ami sent a letter with x rated pictures of bezos. this was putting what it had on the table. but it read like a threatening letter. allowing bezos to blow up the talks by accusing the company of blackmail. ami executives believe that. but people on both sides believe bezos led them into a trap. federal prosecutors are now looking into the matter. you can read my full report now at foxnews.com. mccabe talks about donald trump and the 25th amendment. howie: andrew mccabe who was fired for lying is puddling a book and he's getting a big boost from a "60 minutes" interview airing tonight. >> the discussion of the 25th amendment, rod raids it with the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort, counting votes or possible votes. howie: the president wasted little time in tweeting andrew mccabe pretend to be an angel when he was part of the russia hoax. a puppet for leakin james comey. he said they had discussions about the cabinet invoking

yesterday steve becker was saying pretty derogatory things about her —— biker.body knows what the outcome is going to be. i feel it is a game of chess that nobody wins at the end of the day. we have just seen the way in which society is polarised, talking about this earlier, it doesn't seem to be able to have a conversation and have able to have a conversation and have a conversation able to have a conversation and have a conversation on a able to have a conversation and have a conversation on a middle ground anymore. you are either for a conversation on a middle ground anymore. you are eitherfor or against or in and out and it is pretty shocking. the sun on sunday have also got a very interesting interview with glenn hoddle and whether you are interested in football or not this is an amazing story, the fact he collapsed in a tv studio rather like the one we are sitting in. no plans. it effectively saysis sitting in. no plans. it effectively says is heart stopped for 60 seconds and it was a sound engineer who saved him by breaking seven of his ribs in order to r

there in illinois thanks for the thanks the update i spoke to two of brian becker from the anti war on soko elation he thinks even though the meeting ended the way it doesn't mean it went badly. i think that what we witnessed with donald trump's press conference was a clear indication that this meeting while it didn't come to a final conclusion did not break up in rancor it did not break up and extreme hostility. trump spoke very favorably about kim jong un he talked about the prospects for peace as still there he said he wouldn't talk about new economic sanctions he said we just didn't get a chance to cross the finish line he made other indications that perhaps they had other intelligence about other nuclear facilities beyond young bonn that they sort of. brought up with the north koreans in the north koreans while perhaps ready to close one of the reactors was not aware that the u.s. knew perhaps about other facilities i don't think this means the process is ended he did trump did not agree to another or second summit he certainly didn't rule it out either and again the tone was all

security council meeting there we're going to bring in richard becker from the anti war answer coalition to discuss what we've just been listening to now thanks for coming on to the program richard so much as said there wasn't. we've seen two resolutions on venezuela fail the u.s. and the russian can anything in your opinion be achieved through the u.n. security council. i doubt it very much actually at this point i mean i think that what we just saw from the u.s. . with is a colonial colonising countries that particularly the us. which is the most brazen power proceed cynicism i mean. because humanitarian crisis in the world today is not in venezuela i want it is in yemen we're happy christian is bracing hunger and starvation and we're the u.s. and the u.k. i'm providing the weapons and the support and the training part of this out for the saudi forces which are carrying out this terrible number and they have the gall to turn around and talk about humanitarian concerns in venezuela and there is no real evidence that people are starving in venice where the government is pure i'm not a ve

bezos started an investigation into how the obtain that information which angered david becker, the chairmanquiry which got us to where we wear yesterday, in a blog post the amazon founder accused the publishers of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail. he wrote, quote, they said they had more of my text messages and photos, that they would publish if we did not stop our investigation. bezos also posted what he says is an e—mailfrom a also posted what he says is an e—mail from a ami also posted what he says is an e—mailfrom a ami lawyer demanding bezos make a public statement that the national enquirer‘s coverage was not politically motivated. that brings in the political relationship between president trump and interactions with the chairman of ami, last year ami admitted paying hush money to women making allegations against president trump. no investigators think the brother of the mistress of bezos may have been the one to have leaked the photographs. this all has a lot of meaning and when it comes to the president who is facing investigations of his own as we know, but in writ

looking into where the "enquirer" got its information, hiring a well-known security expert gavin de becker. an a.m.i. leader advised us that mr. pecker is apoplectic about our investigation. they said they had more of my photos and text messages that they would publish if we didn't stop our investigation. describing the photos, the "enquirer" has allegedly obtained in graphic details. embarrassment a.m.i. could cause me takes a back seat because there is a much more important matter involved here. if in this position i can't stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? bezos, the founder of amazon is the world's most richest man. he also owns "the washington post" and has frequently been criticized by the president as being fake news. >> more to come on this, obviously, elaine, but a jarring headline. jeff bezos accuses the "national enquirer" of extortion. elaine. elaine. thanks ♪ ♪ ♪ and everywhere i go ♪ there's always something to remind me ♪ ♪ of another place and time ♪ ♪ ♪ of another place and time ♪ my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are o

the billionaire becker never agreed to that.t a letter with x rated pictures of bezos. this was putting what it had on the table. but it read like a threatening letter. allowing bezos to blow up the talks by accusing the company of blackmail. ami executives believe that. but people on both sides believe bezos led them into a trap. federal prosecutors are now looking into the matter. you can read my full report now at foxnews.com. mccabe talks about donald trump and the 25th amendment. we're family. we'd do anything for each other. but this time... those bonds were definitely tested. frog leg, for my baby brother don't frogs have like, two legs? so they should have two of these? since i'm active duty and she's family, i was able to set my sister up with a sweet membership from navy federal. if you hold it closer, it looks bigger. eat your food my big sis likes to make tiny food. and i'm okay with that. navy federal credit union. our members, are the mission. smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. bu

roger mcnamee has gone from becker to vocal critic.his is from a memo that he sent to facebook's leadership. recently facebook has done some things that are truly horrible and i can no longer excuse its behavior. facebook is enabling people to do harm. it has the possibility -- capability to stop harm. what next is an incentive to do so. this is laid out in his new book. he joins us from new york. that was before the election was called. haveears later, we confirmed that russia meddled in the election. facebook has admitted what a big problem fake news is. the company still reported record profit and user growth. is there a mismatch between your concerns about facebook's harm to the world, the media concerns and what the public really wants? >> here is the thing i would say. with respect to the earnings, it makes total sense that they would have had a blowout quarter. advertiser, you have to go where the audience is. facebook has a largest audience on earth. it has the big -- best targeting. i am trying to introduce people to a book. a

becker. >> he thinks it is possible that his phone was not hacked, but a government entity got ahold director john brennan said i have no doubt that given "the washington post's" relentless condemnation of mbs of journalist khashoggi, they would target him. jason johnson, have at it. >> this is some house of cards stuff you have going on here. people have too much time. i'm fromgenerally skeptical, bu anyone knew the technology behind how his phone could be hacked, it would be him, he has access to people with these resources, i don't think that is a flimsy claim, but it also speaked s to this, and he hired investigators, and we have talked about it with this administration as a hole. whether or not it is president trump, saudi arabia, the president, his relationships with these dictators, they're dangerous. going after jeff besos because he owns a newspaper doing real investigation is the scary part about this. not whether or not pictures ended up on tmz or the enquirer. >> one of the problems they face is it is all just so plausible. it is so plausible to anyone with a television o

then they come to take $20 million to say beckers. -- beggars. put out your hands. we beg for nobody. >> we have spoken clearly to the armed forces. it is now a humanitarian issue to prohibit the aid which i insist is destined to save lives in this first stage could be considered as a crime against humanity. >> the relief items are currently stockpiled in neighboring colombia. it's unclear if they will ever reach the rzen people the open six says he'll try to deliver them next week. cnn's isa suarez has more from the colombian-venezuelan border. >> reporter: flour, vegetable oil, rice, medical kits, nutritional supplements. this is the first batch of u.s. aid coming into colombia, stand income a warehouse at the moment waiting to be going into venezuela. we are about 300 meters or so from that block aid in on the venezuelan side of this bridge and this aid is going to be waitsing here until there is a decision exactly to you to take it into the country. let's be realistic here, this is a trop in the ocean for what the people of venezuela truly need. to give you a se

jeff bezos talking about potentially being blackmailed by the national enquirer and ami and david beckerey had an agreement with the southern district of new york. bloomberg is reporting that that is under review and under investigation. so, let's go back to trade. we will talk a little bit about that with pimco's head of public policy. trade, the state of the union, it feels like it was 100 years ago. >> it dominates the news cycle, and then this year has already felt like years. jason: as you pull back from that and you have had time to synthesize it, what do you take know you look at infrastructure, but any hope for movement there? >> what we saw from the state of the union was really what we had seen on the campaign trail in 2016. president trump is consistent in terms of his priorities, he really reinforced his america first strategy and he talked about trade, he devoted time to immigration, and we know that issue important to the president. and then he did talk about infrastructure. of course, he did not talk about how to pay for it, and that is the premier issue, how do you pay fo

becker. he's good. >> he's also been for a while jeff bezos' personal security guy.o he tasksed him with figuring out how this got into the national enquirer and they shortened it to a list who basically ended up being it sanchez, jeff bezos' mistress and he just happens to be an associate personally and professionally of certain trump figures like roger stone and -- >> what would -- who would want to get the dirt in the press? >> theories that have been kicked around by bezos' investigators is there was a possible political motivation. i'm not sure they know what it is though. >> a war they were willing to launch on the mainstream press? >> specifically "washington post" and again these are just theories. people like michael sanchez, who is a suspected leaker and people he's associated with. >> i don't know how high got these so-called texts or pictures or whatever. >> he just happens to be the mistress of jeff bezos. via my reporting, all we know is bezos' people suspect he is the prime suspect and he is very publicly a pro-trump person and has a relationship with

bezos began investigating how the national enquirer obtained those photos and that angered david beckerf ami. he demanded jeff bezos make a public statement that the national enquirer coverage would not be publicly motivated. >> any time you withhold information that could hurt somebody's reputation, that is extortion and it is not legal. >> david is a longtime friend of president trump. last year ami admitted to paint hush money two women making allegations against trump. jeff bezos owns the washington post, a newspaper the president often criticizes. >>> diane king hall of cbsmoneywatch.com story on the wells fargo bank and more on the stock exchange and good morning. >> good morning, kenny. the dow dropped 220 points and the nasdaq fell 86 with futures indicating a low open this morning. twitter getting the first prophet ever at one point to million dollars but the social media platform says there were 321 million monthly active users during the final quarter of 2018, down by 5 million from the previous eight and lower than last year. the stocks failed yesterday. >>> sears is given a

washington post" owned by jeff bezos said he has spoken with bezos lead security consultant gavin do becker. watch. >> gavin told us he does not believe that jeff bezos phone was hacked. he thinks it is possible that a government entity might have gotten a hold of his text messages. >> trace: even though earlier cap and he thought the brother of bezos mistress lauren sanchez played a role in leaking those private photos and texts. we shall see, mark. >> laura: trays commit great job. the next guest finds invasion of privacy complaint from bezos warrant to do also hypocritical peter schweizer with a new documentary with how operate in stolen and manipulated information. that is your information, by the way. peter joins us now and peter the "national enquirer" seems to be in the wrong care after they came after abuses. it is kind of ironic, crying foul about stolen tech and tech companies can be guilty in the end of much worse. >> peter: yeah, that is exactly right, laura. about a decade ago, google declared that privacy was dead. and that tech tightens essentially have been selling everybody

. >> we've been speaking with gavin de becker, bezos security consultant leading the inquiry.nfident he has not seen evidence of a hack. it doesn't look like that was how they were obtained. there is also no definitive evidence to date that some sort of foreign state actor or government agency was involved. points towards the brother and that's what our source is telling us as well. >> the reason why foreign sources and government agency was even indicated was that bezos, in his initial post, referred to the saudis and there was a suggestion that some of the tools that were given to the saudis by our own government could have been used. and the saudis had a vanity -- a vanity piece brochure, published by ami about the crown prince at a point where he needed a lot of publicity. >> right. washington post was running sources on it. back to lauchlin's point, auckland's razor, the most obvious explanation is the explanation that goes. and you have a president of the united states that is sort of at least accused of perhaps engaging -- being soft on saudi arabia, a newspaper that th

kevin to becker told us he does not believe that jeff bezos phone was hacked. it is possible that a government entity might have gotten a hold of his text messages. >> greg, you look like you are enjoying the story. i'm up and support anyone who stands up to blackmail and that's why we should stop going after billionaires. because one of the only ways you can fight extortion is if you are super rich and you've got nothing to lose, three examples, peter, billionaire, brought down caulk or an inch and of malice, donald trump got the daily telegraph to apologize after mirroring his wife. and i'll bezos the world's richest man who actually come i would look at this as somebody doing for other people like meag a lot of people can't endure extortion. we don't know. i don't know what's going on right now, but the moment they find me with that giraffe -- cut me loose. >> lisa: really interesting, you in a dress. >> greg: i needed the money. he's trying to say that david invited to the white house. >> juan: david packer is the boss, the owner of the "national enquirer."

america are looking into whether or not a long on medium.com, the post posted jeff besos over david becker. it started last month when the nation national enquirer published an alleged affair between jeff besos and a former television host. it included intimate pictures, messag messages between the two. he had to enlist his long-time security chief to investigate how exactly they obtained their investigation specifically their text messages. then on february 5th ami warned besos away from raising any public speculation. they demand besos to affirm he had no knowledge or basis that ami's coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces. nbc has not independently reviewed this e-mail. besos said thaw got my attention, but not the way they hoped. any embarrassment ami cause cause me takes a back seat because there much more important matter involved here. he went on to say of course i don't want personal poe foes published but i also won't participate in their well known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. i prefer to stand up, roll

what we would like to do is turn to tim bowers, the ceo of operation underground, and also to alex becker, the founder and president of the international network of -- be talking about their spirit assisting victims -- their experience assisting victims. >> i spent 12 years as a special agent, an undercover operator working on the southern border, working sex trafficking cases. i can tell you, you are exactly right. one little girl i can tell you about. during a private briefing. this little girl was kidnapped in central america, 11 years old. groomed for two years with the intent of getting her ready to come to america. why? because we are the highest consuming nation of child pornography. we are the clientele that is the big money. they brought this little girl through a part of the southern border were there was no wall. goddard in york city and this is hard to hear, but everyone needs to hear this. -- got her to new york city. raped for money every day 30 to 40 times a day. not emergency, i do not know what is. had there been a barrier, this little girl likely would have been saved, b

trying to blackmail the richest man on the planet and putting in writing, the latest on bezos versus becker after this. i switched to liberty mutual because they let me customize my insurance, and as a fitness junkie, i customize everything. like my bike and my calves. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ you won't find relief here. congestion and pressure? go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray only relieves 6 symptoms, claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more. >>> yesterday, amazon ceo and "washington post" owner, jeff b bezs revealed, how it ainquiried texts that exposed his extramarital affair, unless he put out a statement that the actions were not politically motivated. the faceoff between the world's richest man and the tabloid run by david pecker has riveted the media with headlines like this and raised serious questions about the "national enquirer's" tactics. ami released a statement which reads in part, ame

he's got a guy named gavin de becker who is a top security expert who is heading up his investigation. and by making these e-mails public, he is basically throwing down the gauntlet, saying i'm not going to be blackmailed. i'm not going to be extorted here. >> that's exactly what he is doing. he is obviously trying to get ahead of it. and he knows, and everyone know what's the national enquirer has done in previous cases, and he himself here trying to get ahead of it. and you're right. he did hire an investigator, but he says that there are several investigations into this. the big question also, anderson, has been how did the national enquirer get ahold of this information? the texts, the other information that they initially had reported on in their initial story concerning the affair between jeff bezos and this woman. that has always been a question. and now they have all these other photos that were seemed to have come from a cell phone. they were text messages and photos that were shared between jeff bezos and this woman. and now they have all of this information. and the big que