. >> jeff bezos has said the way you live, eat and work he wants to make it cheaper and he wants to maket more convenient. and thus far his track record is pretty extraordinary. >> bezos is an affable self described super geek. but behind the trademark booming laugh is a relentless and some would say ruthless drive. >> everyone's impacted by the strength of amazon. they have enormous power over the retail eco system. even consumer products companies are worried about that. >> that ambition has catapulted bezos to staggering heights but has also made him the target of scathing criticism. and bezos' most high profile critic has been donald trump. >> he owns amazon. he wants political influence so that amazon will benefit from it. that's not right. and believe me, if i become president, oh do they have problems. >> two years after trump was elected president, big problems have come. this time to jeff bezos' closely guarded personal life. >> it started with this article in t inquirer exposing his relationship with lauren sanchez complete with private texts and photos. the tabloid claimed it

and jeff bezos said no more. he became the richest man in the world because 24 years ago he had an idea that became amazon. he is now the owner of the washington post and tonight jeff bezos did the bravest thing you can possibly do when confronted by people who have stolen digital communication. instead of surrendering to what he now calls their attempts at extortion and blackmail, jeff bezos has published a letter, a statement, in which he details what has been stolen from him, the embarrassing material that's been stolen from him. and in the process, he condemns the "national enquirer" for its gangster-like approach to him and to their coverage in general. jeff bezos published a statement tonight in which he said, rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, i've decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten. attached to his statement were a series of written exchanges between people working from "national enquirer" and a los angeles attorney. dill

it could be that someone has broken into jeff bezos' phone or jeff bezos' partner's phone.t could be civil as somebody sent a text or showed the phone to somebody else and that person send it to "the national enquirer." eva: absolutely. they pass it right along and uf no control of where it goes. emily: what you think of it possible president trump side of the story? bezos name drops trump, the saudi government. where is this going? tim: he is not name dropping without reason. david pecker, publisher of "the national enquirer," is a longtime friend of president trump. we know from the new york attorney's office in the southern district of new york that david pecker, michael cohen, and trump himself conspired to have "the national enquirer" their information about trump's relationships with a porn star and playmate, and that they had a long-standing history of doing that for trump, and that the national enquirer was an advocate for trump during the 2016 campaign. there is a long relationship there. i think it would be logical for bezos to wonder why when he is kind of a batt

last week amazon ceo jeff bezos publicly accused the owner of the tabloid newspaper of "extortion andlackmail." weeks after the paper revealed details about his affair. bezos had recently hired a private investigator to determine how the tabloid newspaper, the national enquirer obtained private text messages , between him and his lover and whether the paper's actions were politically motivated. the national enquirer's parent company, american media, inc., responded to bezos's investigation by threatening to publish revealing photos of bezos if h he did not agree to publicly state that the enquirer's coverage was not politicalllly motivated or influenced by political forces. the dispute became public when bezos wrote a detailed blog post on the site medium and reprinted ami's threatening letters. bezos suggested the leak of his text messasages might be connecd to his ownership of the washington post. bezos wrote, "it's unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience washington post news coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy. president trump is one of those people, obv

it if we're not jeff bezos. m a different jeff entirely and i agree with my fellow guest, it was indiscreet and foolish, but you know what the leaders of universities and the leaders of churches and the leaders of government agencies and all kinds of governments and corporations are human beings and they're subject to human frailty and do stupid things how we judge somebody is how do they respond and of course, what's the magnitude of what he did? he didn't in these other examples, not travis promoting the bro culture in the old days of uber, this is not dove wearing nothing but a sock and not on his foot, by the way, at american apparel this is not les moonves scandal at cbs or the indiscretions of elon musk with his nasty insulting twitters out there with misleading information to investors. this was a private communication. it's hard to imagine that jeff bezos, who is so much the face and image, his name is hyphenated with amazon, he's actually a really private guy. i've been with him many times and partially

perhaps save the marriage of jeff bezos to mckenzie. >> wow. thank you so much for can coming on with us and helping us unfold all of this. thank you. now i want to bring in corporate communications strategist, a former spokesperson for ami, parent company of "the national enquirer. "this is a lot. the idea of "the national enquirer" putting in writing -- emails where they appear to be spelling out if you don't back off of your investigation, here are the detailed photos and describing them that we will publish about you. is that something that went on when you were involved with ami? >> i am usually the one called in to mop up those messes as a pr purseen but it doesn't surprise me because they are bullies. a tabloid by nature is not your home grown paper. it's salacious. they sell copies. they base their whole reputation on and they do pay for tips. no idea how they got the photos or text messages but photos can be submitted and they can buy them. that seemed to be a procedure when hot photos are out there. >> and kwun of the things that bezo

be the readiest. >>> breaking now, amazon founder jeff bezos accusing the nation l "national enquirerjust published online, went to media.com to post it. that's where bezos decided to post it in this stunning document, writing that the "national enquirer's" parent company has been threatening him with embarrassing pictures. he puts it all out there, and he says that they will, quote, publish the personal photos unless i make the specific false public statement to the press that, quote, and this is in an e-mail from the general counsel of the "national enquirer," that bezos would need to say, quote, he has no knowledge or basis for suggesting that ami's coverage was politically motivated for influenced by political forces. that's in an e-mail. we won't publish the pictures as long as you say this, jeff. bezos says he will not agree to that statement because it is a lie and he references president trump in there who is a long-time personal friend with the founder of ami. oliver darcy is out front. this post is extraordinary, right? it is an extraordinary set of information. he has put i

s live from blackmail politics in the world so richest man it's a heavy brewer's amazon boss jeff bezos accuses american tabloid the national enquirer of blackmail he says the paper threatened to publish your enforcers of him but he did do. so on the program. just disaster strikes one of brazil's first famous for such a. terrific. rio de janeiro's flamengo at least ten times to death. row taking on thailand's military princess. overturns complexion and announcing she will stand for prime minister but the king says the move is unconstitutional. i'm phil girl welcome to the program i'm a zone boss jeff bezos has accused the national enquirer newspaper of blackmail he says the u.s. capitol she threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he did as he was told inquirer says it will investigate the claims but there are also political overtones mr bezos of the washington post which is often criticized president trump the national enquirer zona meanwhile is a fervent trump supporter. to prove a tabloid scandal or a politically motivated attack jeff bezos has accused the publisher link t

i wonder what does he jeff bezos maybe have on the national enenchoirers. he's inviting all of us to sur sue that line of could the other things is you're right. bezos in the eyes of so many terrible people, he's all of a sudden, he's a hero. he's earned his journalism wing. so he has tuld off a master image. son of this is going to have a negative effect on amazon, on the wole star. the anything. >> i don't think anybody watching the show is surprised that the national enquirer is sleepy and that comes through n in -- what's stunning is they were in a agreement with federal prosecutors and still carrying out this intent. >> when that happened, everyone kept talking about what is in pecker's safe. and i think the ongoing pattern of behavior will struck bon. >> a go but a good are the tore call question is who else? who else as the national enquirer blackmailed for benefit of donald trump? any house members? any stat members? any political have had, any editors? we know we tried it with talk show hosts. that didn't work. who else at the national enquirer beca

amazon bus jeff bezos accuses the national enquirer of blackmail. the paper threaten to publish lurid photos of him and his lover if he did not do what he was totold. alalso on t the program. heart break as disaster strikes one of brazil's most famous football clubs. at least 10 youngsters are dead. the yellow vests protesters accuse riot police of brutality, almost 2000 have been injured, some of ththem seriously since a wave of demonstrations began. and the royal taking on thailand. the princes overturned convention and will stand for prime minister in the first election since the military coup. ♪ anchor: welcome to the program. amazon bus jeff bezos has accused the national enquirer, a newspaper, of blackmail. he said the u.s. scandal sheet threaten to publish intimate photos of him as -- unless he did what he was told. there are also political overtones. he owns the washington post which has resident -- criticized president trump. the national inquirer's owner is a fervent trump supporter. >> a tabloid scandal or politically motivated attack que

jon: when the celebrity mag "national enquirer" published photos between the owner of azon jeff bezosit looked like a tabloid sting against of the world's richest man. b a yearabout $1li of amazon's stock. jon: but jeffnc bezos ld his , own counter investigation. this seems to have panicked the "national enquirer, and -- national enquirer and they arema accused of blaing him into 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

there are a lot of celebrities and billionaires aroun the world rooting for jeff bezos. >> and he has the money to take this as far he wants. >> i was going to say, this is what happens when billionaires go after each other, billionaire trump,li baire bezos. >> thank you, chuck. he'll be back on sday morning with the political news, who knows what will happen before 10:30 sunday morning you can 4. h it on nbc >>> speaking of jeff bezos, is amazon considering bowingut of new york? e push back leading to new questions about t he what's better than having fast, reliable wifi with coverage throughout your home? how about having internet that can help you save on wireless phone service? xfinity gives you the fastest speeds from america's best internet provider to stream on all your devices. plus, with xfinity mobile included, you can switch your wireless carrier and save hundreds of dollars a year. now that's simple, easy, awesome. get started for $39.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how you can get xfinity mobile included so all you pay for is data. switch today. >>> wha a difference a

it seems that jeff bezos may have seen this defense coming. bezos says no real journalists ever proposing anything like it is happening here. federal prosecutors are looking to claim from both sides. nbc news. >>> now to a controversyver uranium. now a virginia landowner wants to dig it out of his property. the battle had been going on for a decade and it is in the hands of the u.s. supreme court. here is nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: the family trees are deep in the soils of southwest virginia. >> these cattle have been on the land for 50 years. >> reporter: 1,058 acres owned by six generation of coals, now walter wants to mine what's underneath. walking along this road, bob bardner shows us what the eyes can't see. >> this is what the uranium ore looks like. radiation fears have led to local opposition and fighting gone all the way to the supreme court. >> you are not a praia in town. >> some of the people were for me and against it. i still get along with them. >> reporter: the question is which law will prevail? the state of virginia ba

the wu of life from black politics on the world's richest man it's as if he broke some passage jeff bezos accuses american tabloid the national enquirer of black man he says the paper threat to publish lurid photos of him and his lover if he didn't do as he was told also on the program. fracas disaster strikes one of brazil's most famous football clubs plays tears through a dormant freethinking players rio de janeiro's flamenco at least ten youngsters attacked. france's yellow vests protesters accused riot police of brutality almost two thousand been injured some of them seriously since the wave of demonstrations began. taking on thailand some military chapter of princess. overturns conventional and announces she will stand for prime minister in the country's first election since i'm going to speak. i'm phil gal welcome to the program imus and boss jeff bezos has accused the national enquirer newspaper of blackmail he says the us scandal sheet threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he did as he was told the inquirer says it will investigate these claims but there are also pol

we're not going to get into a conversation about something between jeff bezos and a tabloid magazine. >> president trump has not been shy about sharing his opinion. in january days after the "enquirer" broke its bezos story, the president tweeted so sorry to hear the news about jeff bozo being taken down by a competitor who's reporting i understand is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the amazon "washington post." hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better, more responsible handling. he's comparing "the washington post," which is a pretty good newspaper with the "national enquirer." i can't stop laughing at what trump says. it's insane. who believes this crap? >> it's a long way beyond parity. he's been saying that national enquirer deserves the pulitzer prize and ragging on the "washington post." and has ever since he's been president >> this is a jack kennedy living quietly in poland kind of stuff. look at this stuff. >> it's not the post east coverage, it's the fact that bezos is the richest guy in the world and that is something that rankles do

watch. >> gavin debecker told us that he does not believe that jeff bezos phone was hacked. t's possible that a government entity might have gotten ahold of his text messages. >> earlier gavin debecker the security consultant said publicly he thought the brother of bezos' mistress lauren sanchez played a role in leaking those private photos and texts. tucker. >> tucker: mr. muster with a candle stick. trace, thank you very much. so a lot of confusing parts about this story. one thing that is crystal clear is where the media stands. journalists love jeff bezos. now, some of them literally work for him at his personal p.r. operations/lobbying shop it's called "the washington post." even those who don't take his money directly think jeff bezos is great. why do they think that? because he is rich. he is the richest man in the world in fact. of course journalist also tell you their job is to hold the powerful to account. pretty funny. in real life the aciddously suck up to power. they can't help themselves. the more powerful the more flamboyant their graph ling. louis xivth never

and jeff bezos decided to declare war. howie: and chets is saying the bezos security team didn't stop the affair. isn't it up to the couple to decide how public they want to be? jessica: you would think two consenting adults have decision-making skills of their own. we were talking about how much bezos would be making in the divorce. jeff bezos was saying things like i can't wait to see you and kiss you. we don't know yet how these pictures got there. so the analysis i have read so far who worked in vip security. they are look at lauren sanchez's phone as the one that would have been hacked or the leak would have come from. ronan farrow, terry cruz, the daily beast says am issued the same tactics were used against them by a.m.i. and it's something the media should be discussing. howie: when say there was involvement in the hush money payment. jessica: over the affair with playboy play mates didn't make it. howie: a.m.i. said this was a negotiation about naked pictures, not blackmail. they said the source to his was close to

michael sanchez is telling fox news that jeff bezos made a big mistake when he decided to go after amibezos long time security chief. sanchez told fox's howard kurtz bezos is a brilliant man and who doesn't bow down to bullying most of the time. the saudi government weighed in again, denying it had anything to do with the bezos story saying it looked like a soap opera. >> julie: like a spanish soap opera. take it up another notch. all right. thank you very much, dan springer. for more on this i'm joined by a legal analyst. i don't even know where to started. the national enquirer isn't going to take this lying down, no pun intended, jeff bezos. they had to slap back. they are saying they are not guilty of extortion. that they did not blackmail jeff bezos. you seem to agree. >> i do agree with that. let's start by saying i don't think the white house cares one iota about jeff bezos junk, for starters. number one. number two, who's the bully here? when you read jeff bezos job that he was going to punch national enquirer in the nose, that's what they do. they want to post it. it probably

you would think the deputy general counsel would have a pretty good idea how jeff bezos operates. think they've underestimated bezos and his reaction. >> i try to figure out why people do what they do. why would picker, own oer of the national enquirer want to get back in the good graces of the president of the united states? he's part of the states witnessing program. he's part of the trouble trump's in. because he told them stuff they wanted in exchange for freedom. he wants to get back in his good graces. so he unleashes his dauogs, photographers and perhaps the brother of bezos' girlfriend and goes to war so he can win the graces of the president back. what other motive is there? >> that's certainly what a lot of foks in jeff bezos' orbit steam suspect. the president doesn't like snitches. he said it should be illegal for people to flip in exchange for prosecution. michael cohen -- he's not michael cohen's biggest fan. so that obviously gets under his skin and if you're david picker, that's potentially beneficial and lucrative person to have on your side and to have distance be

in this case it shows a lot about jeff bezos, the jeff bezos i know, that he is not going to take it.e is not going to take it he is the complexifier >> that's the word of the day. >> twitter is alive with jokes on this, it is enjoyable to read never a better day on twitter. >> kara, we're going to speak of this again >> we shall. >>thanks >> kara swisher. >>> it is the last tank factory in america and morgan brennan is there with a look at what's coming up from lima, ohio. morgan >> reporter: that's right, jon this is lima, ohio, a general dynamics operated factory. some may be wondering why we're spending millions on tank modernization. it is making a big come back we're going to answer that as the hour unfolds carl >> morgan, can't wait for that busy day. >>> when we come back, watching the markets. dow down 260 more on bezos and the white house response as the amazon founder takes that fight to the enquirer we talk to walter isaacson. >>> our next guest says fang is a buy here a buy here "squawk alley" back in a minute. ♪ ♪ let's go from being on-call... ♪ ♪ to being on-line. amer

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," the flagship publication of a.m.i., they published private text messages between jeff bezos and a woman with whom he was intimately involved. mr. bezos and his wife of 25 years upon the publication of that story announced the dissolution of their marriage and their impending divorce, and the president reacted to all of that with glee. the president said publicly, quote, so sorry to hear the news about jeff bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting i understand is far more accurate than the reporting in his newspaper the amazon "washington post." hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better and more responsible hands. so it's the president delighting in mr. bezos' divorce from his wife of 25 years, delighting in the role of "the national enquirer" in bringing that about and saying out loud that he should lose the paper. "the washington post" shouldn't be in his hands. 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 pri

amazon founder jeff bezos accusing the "national enquirer's" publisher of blackmail and extortion. writes the "enquirer's" participant company has been threatening him with embarrassing pictures to get bezos to drop a "washington post" investigation into the "enquirer." ryan lizza, renato mariotti here to discuss. wow. wow. >> this story has it all. >> yeah, this story has it all. good evening. it's like the "saturday night live" skit, this story has it all, it's got foul language, it's got pictures, it's got -- right? money. >> the saudis. >> it's got saudis. renato, bezos says this is blackmail and extortion. is he right? does he have a case? >> well, he's right in our common understanding of those terms. i think it's possible that he could certainly -- he could see the "national enquirer" and ami and get some money out of them. obviously, he has very deep pockets of his own. but i don't think a prosecutor would actually be able to bring this as an extortion case. you know, typical extortion case is where you say, look, i'm going to publish these dick pics and other embarrassing

jeff bezos alleges ami, its linings to the president no secret, bezos published the shocking details a blog post writing i was made an offer i couldn't refuse or at least that's what the top"national en. i'm glad they thought that because it emboldened them to put it all in writing. >> such an amazing story. bezos quotes entire e-mails sent to him by ami to his representatives, 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. now, bezos' blog also makes a kricht difference actions ami has taken on behalf of saudi arabia. really, this is a remarkable tabloid story here. 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 inquirer 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

i don't think so i think there's jeff bezos the person and jeff bezos of amazon and jeff bezos of "thehington post. what's interesting is he did link some of it to "the washington post" and to donald trump and to all kinds of things, so he's definitely entering sort of -- putting it out there, so to speak i don't think it has a reputational issue for amazon, there's arguments over the headquarters that continue it brings more attention to him as a personality but at the same time, he is the world's richest man and runs amazon of course he is going to get attention. >> kara, sonnenfeld said this is a warning plan to make a succession plan. do you agree >> i don't know. i suppose. i don't think it is a warning. i don't think he has done anything wrong in this instance, he is just defending himself, he has a family having these photos leaked is problematic. i don't know about that. but they should have a succession plan in place obviously. it is very hard with a lot of the companies, most of them are founders of the companies, whether it is facebook, at google they pulled that off relativ

now we have this issue this week with a jeff bezos.n alleged extortion threat from the national enquirer. the fact that the prosecutors in manhattan are looking at this ami,s a real danger to the publisher of national enquirer. jason: we were speaking with a jessica roth, a former prosecutor at the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district, and she said this is almost textbook what you are not supposed do once you have made this agreement. >> exactly. it is like, go and say no more. and any hint that you are doing it makes it much worse than if this is a first-time offense. if it is interpreted, they are looking into it now, but if prosecutors determine there was criminal activity, particularly in terms of a campaign-finance violation with helping the president, or an attempted extortion, they could go very heavy on them. jason: remind us, this case, the southern district of new york case, this has the potential to get into donald trump, the organization, rather than just donald trump the campaign. >> this aspect of national enqu

ultimately have concerns about the divorce and this scandal and these allegations of extortion for jeff bezosareholder and ceo of the companies? >> the question is whether or not it becomes a distraction for mr. bezos and also for the nine key directors that were mentioned emergency roomier. there's no evidence of that. and it's really more difficult for me to see a hard line into how this affects the fundamentals of the business i will agree that the quarter, there's deceleration in key high margin business lines but as it relates to the news and the indiscretions of jeff bezos the biggest thing perhaps for shareholders is around the divorce and if there's a 50/50 separation of assets, his ex-wife would have 8% of the shares and i think it is a question for investors of what becomes of those shares. i don't think it's within her best interest to dislocate the shares and a more relevant question i don't think it hurts the brand of amazon such to see it affecting the revenue or the growth of the company. if it's headline risk and the stock gets hit in an undo way it could be a buying opportuni

closer look at our top story, amazon's jeff bezos a >>> ccamazon's jeff bezos accusg the "national enquirer's blackmail and extortion. >> nbc's stephanie gosk has inre. good mo this is a wild one. >> this all stems from his block buster divorce from his wife of he25 years and enquirer's story exposing his affair with another woman.be s hired an investigator. that personal probe, bezos says, led to an o her head to refuse. >> has's americaost notorious tabloid met its match. jeff bezos ausing them of extortion and blackmail. >> what you have is extraordinary. you have theounder of amazon, the wealthiest man in the world effectively exposing the "national enquirer" for something that many people have suspected it of doing for a very long time. >> firsteported on by the "national enquirer." >> far from the fst time the tabloid has tuss ld with the ri and famous it's known for sensational headlines. ov i the yearss broken enormous stories about powerful people from j. simpson and tiger woods. it's helped sink the presential aspirations of candidatesan like gary har john edwards. >> it ooh es the

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 question, what bezos is trying to find out, who was behind this? how did the national enquirer get ahold of this. >> and obviously david pecker and donald trump have a long-standing relationship as well. >> yeah, a very long-standing relationship. and as you said, he was involved in the capture and kill the national enquirer involving karen mcdougal. they've known each other for many, many years. however, recently from what i've been told their relationship has kind of soured since the whole sdny, since david pecker and ami started cooperating in the sdny investigation of those hush payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, and that their relationship has somewhat soured. don't know if that is still the case today, but that relationship between the president and david pecker certainly becomes more interesting given the relationship between the president and jeff bezos and "the washington post" and his attacks on "the washingto

jeff bezos knows he'll be okay. does a 15 or 16-year-old boy or girl who is sitting and struggling with the mental anguish of a mistake they have made, do they know they will be okay? it is no accident that teen depression is escalating and suicide among teen girls has sky rocketed. this needs to be a bigger conversation around the emerging crisis in teen depression and what it means to have our mistakes digitalized. >> i cannot thank you enough for ending our segment on that powerful moment. >> as a mother of a 12-year-old, we have this conversation in my house almost daily. >> 100%. >> thank you so, so much. all of you. it's a really important topic. we are watching the house judiciary committee this morning, acting attorney general matt whitaker is about to testify. we'll take you there when he answers questions. but first we need to take you to a very important moment. a moment to remember. former democratic congressman, he passed away monday. he served a record 59 years in congress before he announced his retir

tim: that is for jeff bezos to the side. i think what he did was smart.g blackmailed by the national enquirer. oddly enough, it had already run a story about his extramarital affair based on photos that apparently were stolen in some fashion from jeff bezos. and then the national enquirer came back, once he launched an investigation into how they got the photos, and said we have even more photos. so if you do not stop the current investigation, we have more stolen photos we will publish. so he said, i will get ahead of this and he wrote a blog post detailing what they had and he said he would keep on with the investigation. he pointed out that he has founded one of them was a valuable companies in the world, that he did a from scratch, and he is incapable businessman -- he is a capable businessman. guy: what are the implications of this? tim: i think that there is clearly implications, i do not think that there are implications long-term for amazon, i do not think that there investors or employees will be readily the cage to have jeff bezos removed. this

according to axios, here's what bob woodward wrote to jeff bezos after bezos' shop became public. ud of you for stepping forward in such a difficult situation. very gutsy and definitely right. this period reminds me of 1972- 1972-1974, perhaps watergate redux. so many assaults on constitutional government, common sense and privacy. hope we all get it right. aggressive but carefully fair. cheers and best, bob woodward." that's the new woodward standard. if you criticize jeff bezos humor like richard nixon during watergate, and assaulter of constitutional government, your un-american, inrn fact. max boot agrees with that. another of bezos employees at "the washington post" and of course florid toady. wrote a column defending bezos' new itself is, the headline was "jeff bezos stands his ground." " stands his ground! like joshua chamberlain at the battle for the round top. may our grandchildren revere his memory and speak his name. but for pure anxiousness, no one went further than "new york times" technology columnist karen swisher. swisher has been sucking up to billionaires since be

let's covered jeff bezos extensively. you see a bombshell from jeff bezos. was this a stunner? >> in a lot of ways it wasn't. he's like this. he's been quiet around the trump attacks and has at any time responded much. this was a real response, i think. >> it was. is that a fight made in heaven? have both met their matches? >> oh i feel sorry for the "national enquirer." that's what i have to say about that. this is an astonishing thing for the world's richest man and a prominent ceo of one of the most valuable companies to do. this is almost a trillion dollars company. it's just an astonishing thing for him to go out on a limb like this and use the internet to communicate something that most ceos wouldn't do. it's quite a bold move on his part. i'm trying not to use metaphors here because it's such a problematic story on so many levels. you're talking about, you know, body parts. >> right, i know, we're trying to keep -- >> i thought i'd never do, i never wanted to take about jeff bezos's nether regions in my life but here i am. >> we didn't either. >> pulitzers, everybody. >>

. >>> plus it is a story all of wall street is talking about amazon ceo jeff bezos including "the national enquirer" of blackmail. we start with stocks staging their longest losing streak of the ear. the dow falling for the third day in a row, managing to eke out gains for the week but take a look at a potential canary in the gold mine. get it gold is surging acti, even as ss climb back worries over global growth have them digging for safety. just how worried should you be >> what are we listening to? >> kanye when they ripping the bell that means yes. i just learned ye is a huge "fast money" fan no, that's 100% true the whole kardashian west family watches it and i will tell you, tim is going to come paback and be hard i'm here to tell you, b.k. will agree, look at the move in gdx since basically, i don't know, early september. it's gone from 17.5 to 23. biggest move we've seen in that index in quite some time, bumping against levels we saw in july i'll give you a little anecdotal story, not that i like to do this but i will. recently you see what's going on with venezuela guess what vene

apoplectic is the word people were searching for after this jeff bezos story came out. >> a very interesting word. >> we'll get to the bezos story in a minute. we start with politics though acting attorney general matt whitaker, he has decided that he will testify before the house judiciary committee. the announcement came after days of contentious wrangling as whitaker threatened not to show up unless the committee promised not to subpoena him. the faceoff a prime example of democrats asserting their new control of the house for oversight of the trump administration. >> democrats vowing to press whitaker on two subjects today, first his decision not to recuse himself from overseeing robert mueller's russia investigation despite his past criticism of the probe and second his conversations with the president about the russia investigation. the president recently told the "daily caller" there have been no such conversations. yesterday the president was asked whether he thought whitaker should testify. >> he is an outstanding person. i would say if he did testify, he'd do very well. he is an ou

does jeffs bezos have a case? he is putting reputation on the line and personal embarassment when he releases pictures and texts. keep in mind "the national enquirer" committed to do a story and released the story two days before formally separated from his wife of 25 years. they will argue this was already baked into the cake. be that as it may, let's get the legal read on it with emily campano, our own charlie gasparino. deirdre helping us as well. deirdre, the line stood out to me, the line quoting "the enquirerer" editor, i will deal with you, emailing to the bezos team. it would give us no pleasure to send this email. i hope common sense can prevail and quickly about saying that unless you exonerate us and say this is not, you know, nothing untoward going on here with the stories we're doing, more hell will come? that sounds like a threat. >> it does sound like a threat. when you said common sense, when we distill this down, do we want to have legal, aggressive tactic threatening the publish, publication of s

donald trump would take shots at the post because jeff bezos owned it. it was some sort of tax credit. none of that accurate. referred to him as jeff bozo. we know donald trump's relationship with jeff bezos at least publicly is maybe a one-sided relationship but not pleasant. >> we are also forgetting to mention one important thing when we talk about intimidating

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and embarrassing photos that the inquirer obtained and threatening to publish in order to hurt jeff bezos. quote with the washington post to publish unsubstantiated report, i wanted to describe to you the photos obtained during our news gathering. ami according to bezos said he quote has no knowledge or basis suggesting. unless bezos says that, they will publish them that they obtained. right? the bottom jeff bezos, the man on the face of the earth with the washington post. he has blown this up. by publishing this extortion this panic button stuff by the "national inquirer" don't you say what they are doing is politically and any reason other than embarrassing you and nuclear. whoa, why? i should tell you a.m.i. declined to comment tonight since and there is questions, why is a.m.i. freaking out? they exposed his affair and already said his gors specifically they appear to be panicked about him turning up any evidence and making any credible allegation they may have acted once again with political intentions. and we know because we follow the news when a.m.i. panics about that, we know th

it's interesting that after jeff bezos would go public with that.al enquirer look pretty damning. it's quite amazing. >> again, jeff bezos is saying the national enquirer side of it is saying that we have ten photos of you, sexual in nature. you have to come out and say that our coverage is not politically motivated or influence. if you don't come out say that, will publish the photos. he showing the e-mails his correspondence with national inquirer. now, david pecker who runs ami has a close relationship with donald trump it's a bombshell. he's basically saying we have been tough on the washington post and covering jamaal khashoggi. >> he's connecting with the saudi's, the allegation is that the national enquirer, for some reason was close to saudi businessmen and came to the united states. look, we don't know. we will have to see. these are very serious charges. it's very sleazy. i count myself fortunate that i live in a pretty boring wall street journal world, where -- >> lou: he's bringing. >> liz: he's bringing up david pecker in the relationsh

they're leading the charge for justice against saudi arabia and that means they have the support of jeff bezoscan get to bezos, and it's a little bit murky here and he says in his letter the saudi angle is not fully explained yet. if you can get to bezos and hush bezos, then you maybe able to hush some of the challenging of saudi arabia. >> there's so many bread crumbs in this long post by jeff bezos that he wants people to ask about. whether or not substantiated or not, he wants people to ask about the saudi connection, he wants people to look into the political connection although it's in writing about ami, say it isn't political else we'll post naked pictures of you, that's remarkable. it's so threatening for them to have this be political that they're threatening the publishing of these naked photos. jeffrey, there are two questions here. number one is this type of threat we're going to publish this embarrassing stuff if you don't do that, is that legal and the second bigger question is that ami is in a legal agreement with the southern district of new york which essentially said they were