are things is that the national enquirer was helped along the way by the saudi government that the enquirer had been putting out a magazine that was touting the many splendors of the new saudi regime and that in exchange the saudis may have played a role in helping the national enquirer with its debt but the investigators really showed no evidence for this other than a number of. coincidences of timing and. if this were true it would be highly significant because obviously the president has been sympathetic to the saudis in their explanation of the death of. the washington post global affairs columnist who was killed by the saudis. thank you for joining us. at the washington post. ten people have died in a fire. football club flamengo in brazil the blaze broke out before dawn friday at a training facility at the club officials say some of the victims were teenagers from the flamenco youth team was sleeping in the sand at the time. friends and family of those killed or injured are in shock some of them are to find their relatives alive while others wait anxiously for news outside the trainin

there's a story involving jeff bezos and the ""national enquire enquirer". >> jeff bezos, of course,nvolved recently in the "national enquirer" posting text messages and revealing or claiming he was having an affair. just recently, the "national enquirer" reached out to him. ami reached out to him claiming they had compromising photos of him and what he is claiming in a remarkable posting that he just posted online, he said that they were trying to blackmail him, nation"national enquirer" was t to blackmail him because they were hoping to stop "the washington post" from publishing a report on the "national enquirer." jeff bezos released e-mails and other information which describes what the "national enquirer" claimed they have, what kind of photos they have, the description of the photos, really remarkable. the other information that we learned here essentially is that bezos says, i was found in an extraordinary situation. he released all of this information. his dealings between ami and the e-mails they sent. the owner of ami, his relationship with the president, of course, he hims

national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these things? >> all of this is -- i know, right? there's always a tweet and a sound bite, for every, every thing. all of this is much bigger than the battle between jeff bezos and the "national enquirer." the question tonight, though, is what will it mean for the president? lots more on the bezos bombshell, going to dig into it. you seen him. jeffrey brunei is here, max boot, next. carl, i as my broker...invite here. what am i paying you to manage my money? it's racquetball time. ♪ carl, does your firm offer a satisfaction guarantee? like schwab does. guarantee? ♪ carl, can you remind me what you've invested my money in. it's complicated. are you asking enough questions about how your wealth is being managed? if not, talk to schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. run with us on a john deere 1 series tractor. beacuse changing your attachments, should be as easy as... what about this? changing your plans. yeah. run with us. search "john deere 1 series" for m

the national enquirer. so jeff bezos says essentially the national enquirer was trying to blackmail him. he has e-mails. one of the e-mails that came from the national enquirer, it said, quote, "the washington post" poised to published unsubstantiated rumors of the national enquirer's initial report, i wanted to describe to you the photos obtained during our news gathering. in addition to the below-the-vest selfie, otherwise colloquially known as -- and then they write the inquienquir obtained a further nine images. of course, this all comes after the national enquirer wrote an affair. that it did not end. it seems by these e-mails that the national enquirer was trying to get the story killed. >> they're basically saying in these e-mail, describing in great detail the photographs that they have, which might be embarrassing for jeff bezos, but it's pretty remarkable the strategy he has taken. he's obviously got a loft means. he's got a guy named gavin de becker who is a top security expert who is heading up

national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these things? >> all of this is -- i know, right? there's always a tweet and a sound bite, for every, every thing. all of this is much bigger than the battle between jeff bezos and the "national enquirer." the question tonight, though, is what will it mean for the president? lots more on the bezos bombshell, going to dig into it. you seen him. jeff br jeffrey brunei is here, max boot, next. one hour pickup order? got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today. and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team. the team? gooo team... order online pickup in an hour. and, now save big at the buy 2 get 1 free event. at office depot officemax. it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now, from $899, during the ultimate sleep number event. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it even helps with this. so you wake up ready to hit the ground running. only at a sleep number store. save 50% on th

>> y with the national enquirer act t in that way? the national enquirer is in a curious position.hey are in a tremendous amount of debt. their top two executives, publisher and head of their editorial department have madee an agreement with federal prosecutors s were looking i ino the 2016 presidential campaign and that agreement was they would not be prosecuting the executives if they agreed to stop doing the kinds of things they were doing to protect donald trump. the national enquirer was the gossip magazine that had protected trump from allegations by a number of women that they had had sexual relationships with him. and what the inquirer did is they would buy the story of those women, pay those women a certain fee and then the national enquirer would not publish the story but would bury it, kill it. it would never see the light of day. that practice known as catch and kill washat t got the inquirer's losses in trouble. they made a deal w with the prprosecutors that they wouould cocooperate with prosecutors, ty would refrain from that kind of activity. now, theieir prorotectio

are things is that the national enquirer was helped along the way by the saudi government that the enquirer had been putting out a magazine that was touting the many splendors of the new saudi regime and that in exchange the saudis may have played a role in helping the national enquirer with its debt but the investigators really showed no evidence for this other than a number of. coincidences of timing and. if this were true it would be highly significant because obviously the president has been sympathetic to the saudis in their explanation of the death of. the washington post global affairs columnist who was killed by the saudis. thank you for joining us a senior editor at the washington post. now to some of the other stories making news around the world and british prime minister teresa mayes holding talks with the irish counter hotly of varadkar in dublin this is may say he is seeking changes to the so-called backstop this is the plan to avoid a return to the hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic is the main sticking point in i don't see actions. italy has begun to

the national enquirer his coverage was not politically motivated so what does this tell us. i think what you've seen here is the inner workings of a large p.r. machine that's long been in service to donald trump. being expose i think bezos made a very very bold decision to take the short term hit personal embarrassment for the warm term hit of removing what is essentially an organized business model based on sexual blackmail. take it out take it on head on and i think the reason that i am i was seeking to have bezos stop was that there were two reasons one their first under a cooperation agreement the southern district of new york given the michael cohen case and they've got a non prosecution agreement they have to stay in the lanes and behave properly if they're going to stay out of trouble so the decision on the michael cohen case of course this is mr trump's film a personal love lawyer who has who has been investigated for where his fixer has been sickly areas is is to gotten together to curable terms very very dirty laundry but what you're seeing is a second way this sec

"the national enquirer" fired the first shot last month.ow bloomberg is reporting federal prosecutors are reviewing whether "the national enquirer" parent company ami might have violated an immunity agreement type to hush money payments made to women who had affairs with president trump. the amazon ceo and owner of "the washington post" said he is not done yet and is continuing an ongoing investigation into how the tablet got sensitive photos and texts tied to his affair. he pointedly suggested that even the saudi government has a role in the story, leading us that's leaving us with the ultimate cliffhanger. wow. joining us now to discuss is greg farrell, an investigative reporter on our team. let's start with what has crawled out so far. what exactly are prosecutors looking at when it comes to ami? >> they are going to try to determine to what extent this was actually just reporting that was generated by "the national enquirer" staff or if they get any help, any coordination with any political actor. we saw in jeff bezos's note, not just t

it was a story that the national enquirer gets.s. >> thehe national enquirer believes these photos wereewsworthy but they are offering not to publish them in return for a thing of value from jeff bezozos, saying it was not polilitically motivated.d. how isis that t not extortionon? >> all ami wanted wawas the tru. theyey knew who thee source was. in t the investigator knew w whe source was. it was not the white house, it was not saudi arabia and thehe libebel was that this was a political hatchet job sponsored by a four nation or somebody -- a foreign nation or somebody in this nation. amy: that was elkan abramowitz, an attorney for national enquirer editor david pecker. while abramowitz did not name the paper's source, the daily beast is identifying the source as michael sanchez, the brother of bezos' lover lauren sanchez. michael sanchez reportedly has ties to several people with connections to donald trump including roger stone and carter page. we turn now to the pulitzer prize winning journalist glenn greenwald, co-founder of the intercept who joins us from brazil. headlined,piece i

the enquirer published his personal texts.n started looking into where the enquirer got its information, hiring a well-known security expert gavin de becker. in the blog 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 sc

is this how the "enquirer" does business?ll, you know, if you'll excuse the ve knarnacular, for years, david -- donald trump has had a hard-on for bezos. you know, professional jealousy. the acquisition of amazon. "the new york times." he's taken shots at every chance he got. so it's no surprise that he turned to his good buddy, david pecker, at the "enquirer," you know, to do a hatchet job on him. the surprising thing, i think, is, though, that the "enquirer" would do such a story and play it up so big for, you know, for a name that while everyone in the world knows, you know, bezos, "enquirer" readers aren't that familiar with him. it's not like he's george clooney. >> uh-huh. >> so it just doesn't smell right, and for ami to have almost squeaked by this investigation unscathed and then to go back in to face more potential charges, is baffling. >> yeah. so, listen, this was a bold move by bezos. do you think david pecker and his attorneys, do you think they're surprised, you think they're worried? >> i -- i think that they'

the national enquirer had already published intimate text messages between bezos and a woman not his wife. but now he says they threatened to publish compromising photos of him if he did not stop an investigation into how they got those texts. he posted the information himself, emails he says are from a executives that can scribe the photo that enquirer was going to post, including a below the belt selfie. and we've reached out to both ami and amazon. he ebegan personally investigating after it published its intimate text messages. since then he says quote numerous people have contacted our investigation team about their similar experiences with ami and how they needed to capitulate because for example their livelihoods were at stake. he asds quote in the ami letters i'm making public, you will see the precise details of their extortiont proposal. they will publish the photos unless gavin picker and i make the explicit message that we have no knowledge or basis 23r suggesting that the coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces. last year the department of ju

his most famous tabloids the white house jeff bezos says he's being blackmailed by the national enquirer over leaks about his personal life and suggests that the revelations of politically motivated i don't feel gail in berlin and this is the day. last month. post jeff bezos announced he was divorcing his wife of twenty five years on the same day the national enquirer published intimate text messages between mr bezos and. mr bezos investigation into how the texts were leaked through suspicion onto what the washington post described as a government entity now he says the enquirer has threatened to publish intimate photos unless he makes a public statement saying that the tabloid coverage was not influenced by political forces. also coming up tonight we get the latest from the berlin film festival. and david leavitt's will join us from where it's all happening. the red carpet the legendary international film festival we'll be taking you to two world premieres two european dramas competing for the top prize bear. we begin the day with the world's richest man facing off against america's mos

we had ami, the notorious "national enquirer," which is basically a sleaze mag. know what it is. it deals in scum. and you have the saudi arabia government and president trump. what ties them all together? >> one thing that ties them together is saudi arabia, as you suggest. david pecker, the head of ami has been trying to do business with saudi arabia, has been particularly close to the circle around mbs, the crown prince. you described this 97-page puff piece that they produced about the new kingdom. he brought people who wanted to do business into the white house. at the same time he's donald trump's friend and media adviser. so the fear -- >> david peckerish. >> my boss, our "washington post" owner, jeff bezos, said in his statement last night about all this that he is concerned about the saudi ties to both pecker and to the white house. he says this is still to be explained, but there's obvious reason for concern. >> congressman, the president shows no interest in observing any deadline. he basically says i don't have to observe it, just like that. he doesn'

of jeff bezos that the "national enquirer" now possesses. in the last line of the e-mail, dillon howard says, i hope common sense can prevail and quickly. the common sense that dillon howard and david pecker who runs the "national enquirer" wanted to prevail was the jeff bezos team of investigators led by los angeles security expert gavin de becker would stop says it is a political motivated organization. it is a politically motivated publication. also attached to jeff bezos's statement tonight is a letter from a lawyer in new york named jon fine. he is the deputy general counsel of the company that owns the "national enquirer." this is an e-mail to martin singer, the lawyer in los angeles, and it is an e-mail that could end jon fine's career as a lawyer if it is adjudged to be, as jeff bezos says, an attempt at extortion and blackmail. it demands that jeff bezos and his team publically state that, quote, they have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that ami's coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces. and in exc

number one, the president loves the "national enquirer."ere he is. >> the "national enquirer" did a story, they actually have a very good record of being right. >> i have always said, why didn't the "national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards. and oj simpson. and all of these things. >> it doesn't mean you can't knock the "national enquirer." it has brought many things to light. not all of them pleasant. >> and number two, the president can't stand jeff bezos. >> the "washington post" was purchased by the gentleman that runs and has a big stake in amazon, right? you know his name. correct. bezos. you know his name. so now, he uses that as a political weapon. he uses the "washington post" as his power tool. >> the "washington post," that's basically the lobbyist for amazon. you know, he uses that, bezos, who has bigger problems than anybody right now, but bezos uses that as his lobbyist, okay? as far as i'm concerned. >> and yet, white house principle deputy press secretary says he wasn't sure if the president was even aware of th

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prosecutors probing where the publish the "national enquirer" violated his own non-prosecution agreement by trying to blackmail bezos this week. pecker has one big problem because bezos is accusing him of a crime. but this shows a second problem because as bloomberg and nbc and rachel have been reporting, pecker may have played himself here and blown up his own immunity in the investigation into how michael cohen and donald trump hid bad stories for trump during 2016. translation, if david pecker told the feds about other crimes he committed during those immunity talks, he can now be on the hook for them. so there can be a lot more pressure on this trump ally. unless he publicly backed down, making claims than bezos says are false. they wanted him to say that the tabloid's coverage was not politically motivated. why did they care? we'll get into that. and second, they wanted bezos to end his investigation into how the "enquirer" folks obtained his private messages. they seemed scared of bezos' theory that the whole world can read and discuss. certain powerful people will wrongly conclude

we have a guy on our staff, a national enquirer veteran. they tried to hit him with a $5 million lawsuit while we were reporting our story on them. >> how did you handle that? >> we kept reporting. >> how ofden doten does this wo? >> i don't know how it works in other shops but in our shop it doesn't work. journalism is a tricky trade. the business model is really tough now. i can imagine that for some shops being threatened with millions of dollars in legal fees or millions of dollars in damages that would be a big deal for them. that might dissauade them from story. >> you look at the multiple theories and one is that donald trump is behind this because he acts like he's behind this. i want to read for you what harvard law professor said in describing that. are donald trump and the murderous saudi prince co-conspirators with pecker to blackmail and extort jeff bezos as owner of the washington post. asking for a friend. that's one theory this is all about. >> it's unproven but it has the ring of plausibility to it which is an extraordinary

the alleged blackmailers, parent company of "national enquirer" ami. its links to the president and its role in the political climate are no secret. bezos published the shocking details, he writes i was made an offer i couldn't refuse or at least that's what the top people at the "national enquirer" thought. i'm glad they emboldened them t it all in writing. >> he quotes entire e-mails accepts to his rep-- sent to hi. ami is the same company former trump fixer michael cohen admitted giving money for hush payments to women who claimed they had affairs with mr. trump. oliver darcy has more. >> reporter: it doesn't get much more explosive than this. a blog post published thursday afternoon, amazon founder jeff bezos accused the "national enquirer" of in his words extortion and blackmail. this all goes back to when the enquirer published a story revealing that jeff bezos had been having an affair, in that story were text messages that the "national enquirer" obtained between bezos and his mistress. bezos has since launched an investigation into how those m

the "national enquirer" was hot on their tail.out that bezos had a relationship with sanchez were he had been dating her, seeing her quietly, secretly. "enquirer" was about to publish a story exposing the relationship last month. that's when bezos came out and said i'm getting a divorced. they had been link and photographed together. this was a tabloid story on the front of the "enquirer." but then hind the scenes he said how did they find out? who leaked? how did they get a hold of these photos and text messages? >> so bezos's security chief concludes it was politically motivated that the started to come out in the daily beast last week and "the washington post" this week. and that sent the "national enquirer" folks, it blew them up. they were like you cannot come out and say this, you cannot claim it's politically motivated and that's what led us to this alleged blackmail plot. >> that's such a good explanation here. why did it leak? bezos wanted to know why did it leak and who -- >> who found out. >> and he was told it was poli

bezos is saying that the "enquirer" was trying to force him to say that he didn't think the "enquirering after him for political reasons. so the "enquirer" was trying to get bezos there is in his letter, affirming that they have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that ami's coverage was politically moat vaded or influenced by political sources. they're threatening him with naked selfies because they think it's so important for him to say it wasn't political. >> okay. >> why? i mean, why? that is fascinating. >> this is america. >> and then one other aspect here that bezos points out there are say connection that's particularly relevant when involving "the washington post" and jamal khashoggi who was a columnist of the post, he drew a connection between the saudis and the "national enquirer." he said mr. perk and his company have also been investigated for various actions they've taken on behalf of the saudi government. federal investigators and legitimate media have suspected that mr. pecker has use. the "enquirer" and ami for political reasons. >> that's subjectively true. what he'

look what "the national enquirer" turned up about him. before long there were signs that perhaps this story existed on more than one level at once. a report that bezos himself had launched a private investigation into what was behind this "national enquirer" story, what was behind their publication of his private text messages. yesterday "the washington post" had this headline, "was tabloid expose of bezos affair just juicy gossip or a political hit job?" if it was a political hit job, one potential implication of that kind would be that it was perhaps carried out by a.m. ito help president trump politically once again. by hurting or trying to take out of the equation somebody who trump perceives to be doing him political harm. i will tell you, there is also a saudi arabia component to this with "the national enquirer," which is a related but separate angle. we will get to that in a different part of tonight's show. >>> but now tonight this is how this all came together. mr. bezos tonight published this ten-page post online, and it is tit

i guess bezos believes the enquirer obtained them how? what was the naich or nature of investigation? >> where things get sticky some of the public statements made by jeff bezos' security consultant. he's suggested a possible political motivation and the reason is the national enquirer has had a history of doing things that there help fool president donald trump and theory that potentially those text messages could have been published by the national enquirer as some way of getting back at jeff bezos for his ownership of the "washington post" were floated by his security consultant and also not as floated privately but discussed publicly and that is clearly bothered the national enquirer in their responses to us when with we began doing our reporting, they vehementally denied that and they seem to continue to dethat in their correspondence directly with bezos. >> and the implication that the enquirer wanted to intimidate baize oesz into influencing the reporting in donald trump's favor or they just wanted him to stop looking into his acus

after the bombshell allegation from amazon ceo jeff bezos accusing the publisher of the "national enquirer" of blackmail. he says they threatened him with compromising photos. the company now responding tonight. >>> the high school shooting. an armed man walking into the school shooting the hall monitor. what happened next? that school on lockdown. >>> the plane crash and the search and rescue operation off south florida tonight. >>> the fiery showdown on capitol hill. the acting attorney general matt whitaker is grilled. did he talk to the president about robert mueller's investigation? >>> temperatures set to plunge overnight. single digit windchills across much of the country. rob marciano is here. >>> the major new development tonight. the mother last seen on thanksgiving. her fiance charged and now the nurse linked to him. what she admitted to today. >>> the new intense stand off with venezuela tonight. president nicolas maduro trying to hold on to power. tonight blocking humanitarian aid, and our team is right there where this is all unfolding tonight. >>> a chilling confession, the

it was a usual story that -- that "the national enquirer" gets from sources. >> "the national enquirer" believes these photos were newsworthy, yet they are offering not to publish them in return for a thing of value from jeff bezos. letting go of the legal viabilities, saying it wasn't politically motivated. how is that not extortion? >> that is not extortion because all ami wanted was the truth. bezos and miss sanchez knew who the source was. any investigators who was going to investigate this knew who the source was. it was not the white house. it was not saudi arabia and the libel that was going out there, slamming ami was this was all a political hatchet job sponsored by either a foreign nation or somebody politically in this country. that is something that -- and the story was already published. it's a news decision to decide how long you can go with the same story so that each side -- it was part of a legitimate negotiation. each side had something that they wanted. >> a source close to the -- close to those conversations from here with those conversations says this was a crime,

we reached out to the "national enquirer," but they have not responded to our requests for comment. christine, dave. >> oliver darcy there. if you haven't read this medium post, please do. we have a copy here, we'll defetweet it out. >>> the supreme court taking a big step on the hottest of hot-button issues, the justices blocking a restrictive abortion law for taking effect at least for now. the decision split 5-4. the 2014 law would require doctors at an brbortion clinics haved a mitting privileges at nearby hospitals, opponents say it undual -- >> the president made pro-life remarks at the prayer breakfast. >> we must build a culture that cherishes the dignity and sanctity of innocent human life. all children born and unborn are made in the holy image of god. >> the high court is likely to rule eventually on the merits of the louisiana law which has never been enforced. the court found a nearly identical texas law unkouns con taugs al in 2016. ralph northam seemed to suggest a late term abortion could happen after birth. >>> and the political turmoil in virginia now a bipartisan

but bezos is accusing the "enquirer" of extortion. the owner of the tabloid was grants immunity after agreeing to talk about hush money. money. the parent company american media inc denies pursuing this story because of outside sources. he said they said they have more text messages and photos if we didn't stop our investigation. there is a below the belt selfie and sexy shots of lauren sanchez. babezos says he was told the pictures would be run unless he ended the investigation. he said of course i don't want personal photos published. but i won't practice in political blackmail, political phase, political attacks and corruption. the "national enquirer" said it should promptly and thoroughly investigate the claims made by bezos. whether david pecker was doing this to please donald trump, that kind of threatening letter from a newspaper is extremely unusual. next on "mediabuzz." i have new reporting on this whole mess and behind the scenes sniping. the mooch is here on the ongoing warfare between howie: jeff bezos takes on the "nation

this seems to have panicked the national enquirer.of trying to blackmail bezos into dropping his investigation. but the amazon owner didn't blink. last night he called their bluff, publishing himself what the threat was. the magazine has deeply personal and embarrassing photos of him and his lover in their possession. mr bezos wrote about the magazine's owners, ami... and this is where it gets murky. jeff bezos is also the owner of the washington post whose political coverage has infuriated donald trump. the owner of the national enquirer is david pecker, a close personalfriend of the president, who has done special ops for him in the past. so was this just a tabloid story, or was it a political hit job on a trump enemy? just before the election, a former playboy model, karen mcdougall, wanted to go public with long—standing allegations that she had had an affair with donald trump. the national enquirer bought the exclusive rights to her story for $150,000, and her silence, but never published it. a policy known as "catch and kill". a

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bezos trying to flip the script on the enquirer.my position i can't stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? savannah >> all righ we'll see where this heads next. >>> history's longest serving member of ress, former michigan representative john dingell died at the age of he served at the house 59 years before retiring five years ago. the democrat played a key r in many key pieces of legislation calling the passage of the affordable care a the highlight of his career. he championed medicare, the endangered species act. he was one of the last world war ii veterans to serve in congress. >>> now to massachusetts and the ruling in a case that drew national attention to cyber bullying. a woman used text messages to pressure her 18-year-old boy to end his life. michelle carter will serve 15 months behindrs detectives and the victim's family are speaking for the first time withte line's andrea cannon. >> what kind ofhe things did say? >> you promised me, when are you going to do it >> you disappointed me. >> it was unbelieva

but the enquirer and its parent company, ami, have other troubles.al investigation into campaign finance violations for the tabloid's involvement in covering up affairs the president had with a porn actress and a playboy model in exchange for not being charged with a crime. if it's determined the enquirer's story on jeff bezos involved blackmail, former prosecutor laura coates says ami could be in real trouble. >> if ami has violated the cooperation agreement, it means that they are now exposed to great legal jeopardy for crimes that the fdny chose not to prosecute initially, because there was a cooperator involved. the fdny would be well within its rights to prosecute ami for whatever conduct they committed that was a part of this cooperation agreement. >> and erin, according to the daily beast, bezos' private security consultant finished this increasing the leaks, turned it all over to private lawyers, who would make a decision whether to involve law enforcement. it is still unclear if that happened or if the parties involved now just want this all

what happened is the "national enquirer" published a big expose showing that mr.elationship with lauren sanchez, a tv anchor, and they published this and in the investigation they obtained text messages. bezos wonders how they got out there so he starts this investigation into how these messages came into the possession of the "national enquirer." what you're seeing here is the lawyers, i guess, for the "national enquirer" or the parent company, ami, reaching out to mr. bezos and saying that if he does not stop his investigation into how these messages came to light, they will make more of the material they have public, risque pictures and things that mr. bezos probably doesn't want out there, they'll make them public. he says in his media post that he's not going to sit back and allow himself to be blackmailed by ami and he, like you said, detailed everything in this shocking media post. >> i want to make a point here. you're talking about the "national enquirer" owned -- the person in charge is david pecker, long-time associate of donald trump. jeff bezos owns "

coming up jeff bezos versus "the national enquirer."s this a distraction from the company's much bigger problems? stocks down third day in a row as traders fret about the u.s.-china deadline. that is the not the only deadline looming. we have brexit, government shutdown, what is the impact of all the deadly deadlines. >>> plus, did a member of the federal reserve admit the centra b

bezos alleging the owners of the "national enquirer" were trying to blackmail him. bezos going public with the emails lawyers for the "national enquirer" sent him describing the photos they had. the parent company now responding to those allegations. linsey davis leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, federal prosecutors are now reviewing those bombshell allegations by jeff bezos who claims the "national enquirer" attempted to extort and blackmail him by threatening to release compromising pictures, including nude photos of the billionaire, if he did not back off on his investigation of the tabloid. the tabloid saying they acted lawfully in what they called negotiations with the amazon founder. but after he says he was threatened with those photos, he decided to go public, posting a lengthy blog which allegedly contained emails between him and representatives of the "national enquirer" leaving in embarrassing details, writing -- "of course i don't want personal photos published, but i also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political

the national enquirer and its parent company trying to.cajole blackmail and otherwise harass syntax for years and i think it's really great that's not standing up to them they try to. process or reporting on you know the national enquirer experimenting and going about other threats are going to work with us and start to work with a lot of people so i hope it really starts to hold the scab also of what's been a really ugly practice for a very long time. two palestinians have been killed by israeli army fire during protests and on the gaza israel border one of the dead was a fourteen year old boy who was reportedly shot in the abdomen ican yunus at least seventeen other palestinians have been injured people in gaza have held weekly protests around the border for almost a year calling on israel to lift the siege and blockade. amnesty international is urging the african union to make sure egypt's upcoming chairmanship doesn't undermine its commitment to human rights the rights organizations as president of the. as shown and disregard for freed

, and so up with the national enquirer, and so the national enquirer, mr bezos alleges was threateninghe pair and messy stock that investigation, so quite extraordinary claim from mr bezos. as you can imagine, it has gone incredibly viral. there is also a kind of political needle here because jeff bezos, kind of political needle here becausejeff bezos, not only the founder of amazon, the owner of the washington post, the national enquirer very much aligned with mr trump? yes, well, when it comes to the national enquirer, the magazine recently admitted that it co—ordinated with a trump campaign to pay for what is known as the catch and kill, that is buying up the likes of salacious story, in this case about mr trump before he was elected, and rather than run that story, keep it secret instead and remove the ability of the person involved in the story to talk about what happened more widely. mr bezos, he is saying that since it has become the owner of the washington post newspaper, which has been incredibly critical of the president, he says he has become a political target and because o

this seems to have panicked the "national enquirer, and -- national enquirer and they arema accused of dropping his investigation. "if your client agrees to desist, we will rugage in destctive conversations regarding the texts and photos we have our possession. " the amazon owner didn't blink. he called their bluff, publishingimself what the threat was. the magazine has deeply personal and embarrassing photos of him and his lover in their posssion. mr. bezos wrote about the magazin's owners, ami. "any personal embarrassment ami couldause me takes a backseat because there is a more rtimt matter involved here. if i can't stand up to this extortion, how many people can?" and this is where it gets murky. jeff bezos is also the owner of the washington post, whose nfpolitical coverageiated donald trump. the owner of the national inquirer is frvid becker, a nd of donald trump who has done specialavors for him in e past. was this a tabloid story, or was it a political hit job on a trump enemy? just before the election, karen mcdougal, a former playboy model wanted to go public with , alletions

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 month about his alleged affair bazos and sanchez announced they were divorcing. >>> sam zon executives are clring alternatives after a backlash from new york politicians and some residents of long island city where hq2 was supposed to be built. to serve as the second headquarters and amazon officials are frus fated by the cold reception but no decision has been made to back out. >>> republican congressman walter jones of north carolina has died. confirming his death yesterday saying after faithfully representing the people of east carolina and congress in the state legislator for over 34 years, jones passed way. his office says he

up to amazon a boss jeff bass oss the world's richest man accuses american tabloid the national enquirer of blackmail he says and threaten to publish intimate photos of him and his lover if he did not do as the paper demanded and the royal it's taking on thailand's military junta prince says it will rock up and its convention and announce that she will stand for prime minister and the country's first election since a military coup. thank you so much for your company everyone in brazil at least ten people have died in a fire that rio at rio soccer club flamengo the blaze broke out before dawn on friday at a training facility at the club officials say some of the victims were teenagers from the flamingo youth team who were sleeping in the center at the time. friends and family of those killed or injured are in shock some of them are glad to find their relatives alive. while others wait anxiously for news outside the training ground of the flamingo soccer club. the blaze broke out just before dawn and this accommodation block firefighters were called in just after five am local time but for

this might be a death blow to the national enquirer. there will a lwa ys the national enquirer.market tabloid gossip, so this is not going away. usually you don't see this as blatant a set where someone says, i'm going to publish these pictures. they did this to the world's richest man. if you can't fight back, then someone man. if you can't fight back, then someone without his means would have no chance. what's the reaction to the fact that he has fought back and he is calling them out and alleging that they are blackmailing him? they have not responded, the national enquirer folks. have not responded, the national enquirerfolks. the media has really celebrated jeff bezos and you don't usually see that when a billionaire is facing a divorce that the media is facing a divorce that the media is taking his side. the fairness was an unfair threat is taking his side. the fairness was an unfairthreat in is taking his side. the fairness was an unfair threat in the corruption of that national enquirer organisation. we don't know if they we re organisation. we don't know if they were ac