this time to jeff bezos's closely guarded personal life. >> it started with this article in the enquirerxposing his relationship with lauren sanchez. it ended bezos's 25 year marriage. >> three days after the 12-page expose president trump mocked him in a tweet writing sorry to hear the news about jeff bozo being taken down. he suspected the national enquirer had come after him for political reasons and bezos wanted to know how they got ahold of his personal texts. >> the amazon boss said he opened his own private investigation. that's when the enquirer and it's parent company threatened to publish more photos unless the investigation was dropped. >> several of them appear to be innocuous but three he apparently took selfies of his own genetiles and those were the ones that the national inquirer thought he'd never want to see the light of day. >> but he was ready to fight back. >> a stunner from the richest man in the world. dropping a bombshell against the national enquirer accusing the parent company of trying to blackmail him with nude photos. >> they're used to people buckling and fo

the saudis in theory would gain leverage if they had jeff bezos is for jeff bezos is the owner of washingtonpost and as such the washington post were responsible in exactly pursuing justice with regards to the murder of jamal khashoggi so i think if you are saudi and you felt that you had some leverage or some ability to blackmail jeff bezos you could potentially influence washington post coverage of the whole affair and take some of the heat away from saudi arabia at the time in theory how easy or difficult is it for a country like saudi arabia or any other to hack an individual's phone i think if you have the expertise actually it's probably not that difficult there are number of ways to hack phones and these constantly change so there's a whole market for exploits of phone technology every time apple or samsung or anyone release a new phone there will be people pursuing an investigating ways of. exploiting that phone and by exploiting i mean ways of inserting spy once that phone they then sell these exploits to companies that buy them for up to a million dollars and then these companies c

well this is where it really does become a bit of a spy thriller because jeff bezos not only owns amazon but he also owns the washington post and who what for the washington post but the sound journalists come out because shocks cheney and you will remember that almost six months ago he was murdered in the sound consulate in turkey and now the washington post covered that story extensively as did dave w a but they made that many reports linking the sound a crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the killing now sanjay arabia has always denied that there was any link a bit american officials have said that mr coo shop she is murder would have needed prints mohammed's support for that to happen and so far there's been no comment from either the saudi authorities or from the national in inquiry gavin de becker says he has handed in all the information that he has gathered in his investigation to u.s. federal officials so we'll see what happens next and something sure you will have in next hour i did have news alex forrest watching with that thriller of a story thank you. you are watching indee

jeff bezos. >> if there was any reporter, drew. of the year of the century if, in fact, bezos had influence -- >> tucker: what do you mean?wi he personally owns the newspaper. he has a propaganda arm in the center of d.c., the most influential news organization in the city, its lobbying in effect for him, and that is cool because marty baron is happy? >> except it's not lobbying for him. they've done exposes about amazon's influence -- >> tucker: oh, yeah, a lot of hard hitting -- [laughs] i guess we are all sucking up to billionaires. >> if he starts exhibiting any influence, you'll call it out, i'm sure you'll be the first one. >> tucker: that paper is disgusting. richard, thank you very much. former "nightline" host ted koppel did something brave recently. said something that was obviously true. during remarks, he said the press has abandoned objectivity. he is now pursuing a political vendetta. >> i'm terribly concerned that when you talk about "the new york times" these days, "the washington post" these days, we are not talking

was the saudi government involved in hiking the phone of the world's richest man jeff bezos that's the allegation that has been made by the amazon owner security advisor gavin de becker he's been investigating how the us tabloid the national enquirer got access to intimate texts and photos from bases phone with more on this i'm joined by the use alex forrest whiting alex this reads like an international thriller can you remind us the background yes well this story really hit the headlines back in january when text messages between jeff bezos and the t.v. lauren son shays ended up in the u.s. national enquirer now that's a top lloyd now it was plain that the two of them were having an affair even though they were both married and just last month face also accused the newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him by threatening to publish intimate photographs of the two of them together and less he said publicly that the story was not politically motivated no he refused to do that and what has security advisor said this week and it's changed things well gavin de becker who's what for the

amazon founder jeff bezos is learning there's one thing that money cannot buy. privacy. ages between bezos and his girlfriend, lauren sanchez. now "the wall street journal" is reporting that american media, the enquirer's publisher, and a company with ties to donald trump, paid $200,000 to sanchez's brother to get the texts, citing people familiar with the matter. nbc news has not corroborated that report. we have reached out to ami, to amazon, to bezos, to sanchez, to michael sanchez for comment. haven't heard back from any of them. nbc's stephanie gosk knows that well. she's been covering this story and is here to walk us through the latest. steph, it's another twist in a story that has seen plenty of them. >> yeah, it certainly has had a lot of twists. i want to update a little bit of what you just said. we actually have heard back from michael sanchez. he has issued a statement. i'm going to read you just a part of it. here he says, "the wall street journal's" report on old rumors from, quote, anonymous sources is disappointing. i didn't dignify the rumors last month

jeff bezos, elon musk, and jeff branson are making their names known in the space race.typically associated with nasa, this isn't the first time entrepreneurs have taken on the final frontier. here's a brief history of private spaceflight. >> the time has come when the human race will get to the moon with rockets. >> private companies won't want to do this. how will they make money? charging for the rights. >> crazy billionaires continue with each other. >> modern-day rocket men want to send you to mars. >> this looks dangerous. good chance you will die. >> the private industry space race is on. ♪ >> we tend to think that's place exploration and -- that space exploration and spaceflight is about government agencies like nasa. it wasn't always like that. some of the first steps by the early pioneers were funded by the private sector. >> in the u.s., it begins with the university of park reverse of robert hard. -- professor robert goddard. you mentioned rockets can be used to carry payloads to the moon. >> they called him the moon men and last. the writer implied the husba

jeff bezos is no stranger to the nation's capital.ming to northern virginia -- hq2 coming to virginia, that will make amazon will stranger to a larger group of policymakers here. emily: interesting color there. naomi next, thank you so much for the update -- nix, thank you for the update. misinformation and cindy is to spiral around twitter -- misinformation continues to spiral around twitter. and later, the store closing. tesla's rough start to 2019 continues. we will discuss. this is bloomberg. ♪ is is bloomberg. ♪ . . emily: this is "bloomberg technology global link" where we join bloomberg daybreak australia to bring you the news. in world let's get a look at the global tech stories of the day. buyirbnb has agreed to hotel tonight in its biggest acquisition yet. the move comes as airbnb continues to increase hotel listings on the site before its initial public offering. airbnb did not disclose initial terms of the deal, but hotel tonight was valued at $463 million in a venture capital deal kid of years ago. softbank has launched a

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when he wasn't busy helping russia. >> we know how he despises jeff bezos. what is going on here? >> two leading theories see that ami is doing the saudi's dirty work, president trump's dirty work for a combination of the two. >> trump has had a hard-on for bezos. >> it's no surprise that he turned to his good buddy david becker at the inquirer to, you know, to do a hatchet job on him. >> he told us he does not believe that jeff bezos's phone was hacked. he thinks it's possible that a government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages. >> tucker: government entity. it was a lewd krause teary -- his texts were sold by the brother of his girlfriend. what are the consequences for this reporting? does anybody say i'm sorry, i lied to you? no. richard epstein is an attorney who helped advise bill and hillary clinton. i guess the first macro question is why is everyone sucking up and defending jeff bezos? >> he stood up to extortion. not because he leaked things. he leaked what he did. didn't put him in a good light because ami tried to extort him. tapes and emails and raises

jeff bezos' investigators pick it up or who? >> it's been reported that bezos was tipped off. started hearing it was the brother early on. now it's -- >> neil: hell hath no fury like a billionaire. a lot more to develop. forget the head of brazil. president trump just walked away with new reason to worry about who we just might have walked away from. oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ozempic® should not be the first medicine for treating diabetes, or for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. do not share needles or pens. don't reuse needles. do no

now one member of congress has written to amazon's ceo, jeff bezos, asking him to bring those jobs to his district. joining us now is pennsylvania congressman dan user. thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you. maria: what's the sales pitch to amazon for pennsylvania? >> the sales pitch to the fastest growing company in the world, don't settle on something that's good or even great, come to the best. the ninth congressional district, the corridor is becoming the distribution and fulfillment center hub to all of north america. we're within an 8 hour drive to 60% of north america's population. we've got logistically the best location, we've got low cost of doing business. maria: are you prepared, congressman, to offer the same terms that new york was offering, $3 billion or such in tax breaks and give us a sense of why it's so important to have a new amazon headquarters 2 in a district, aside from the 25,000 jobs, what do you think that

brian sanchez is brother of tv personality lauren sanchez, now jeff bezos girlfriend. he made a deal with the devil. that was a different deal. he anyone. what he is not admitting to is what the "wall street journal" in a story based on unnamed sources reported yesterday, susan that there was a 200,000-dollar contract with michael sanchez to provide these texts. he says he told me wouldn't dignify that with a comment. susan: so does that mean he may have been paid 200,000, may have accepted the deal? >> i can't rule it out because he is not given me a flat denial on that. "wall street journal" is known for very good financial reporting. here is what michael sanchez says the deal was. last fall when he learned "the enquirer" was in pursuit of his sister and the amazon founder he knew the story would come out. he made a deal he says to delay the story a couple months, to give the couple time to firm up the relationship. because he thinks the scandal would have blown it out of the water. in exchange he offered to provide the parent company, american media ink with a photo

just to remind viewers of what happened in this story, jeff bezos announced he was going to get a divorce from his longtime wife and a couple of days later, the "national enquirer" publishes this expose on his affair is a nice way of putting

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saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the phone of jeff bezos the owner of the online shopping giant amazon and the washington post has also hired private investigators after his phone messages were leaked to the national enquirer tabloid newspaper and has detectives have lent the hack to the washington post extensive coverage of the murder of saudi journalist jamal kushal she. is a human rights activist and he tweeted to confirm yes i was a direct source for bezels investigation team over the past six weeks my team. not all working overtime on the story but held off on publishing anything there was still a lot we can't publish but we continue to work on this well with spark to add and back that the area and he told us that the image tacking is all sidling to base office businesses it is directly. linked to what happened was enough i should say as you can imagine jeff bezos is a man who owns the washington post but he's also a man who is a businessman who was doing a lot of business insider a down planning to do even more business and so did rick it's also the angle of the saudis bei

the new questions today over who hacked amazon founder jeff bezos' phone to obtain private text messagesional enquirer"'s expose of the billionaire's affair. in an op-ed the security consultant working with bezos gavin debecker questions the "enquirer's" sourcing and how they got their hands on these private texts and also points out how unusual it was that ami, the parent company of "the enquirer" acted to pubically reveal its sources identity. he writes in part our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the saudis had access to bezos' phone and gained private information. ami ponded saying in part despite the false and unsomebody stan shated claims of mr. debecker, american media has and continues to refute the unsubstantiated claims that the materials for our report were acquired with the help of anyone other than the single source who first brought them to us. cnn has independently reached out to debecker and the saudis, but so far we've not received any comment. democratic congressman denny hecht is on the house intel committee and joins us now. debeck

fight to bring amazon to new york, governor cuomo taking message to jeff bezos. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez firing back at the wall street journal this morning, what she's saying after a columnist encourages generation to take pride in ignorance, we will get into it. amazing change, mornings with maria begins right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ maria: big rally, let's take a look at future, dow industrials up 160 points, s&p 500 up 16 and the nasdaq up 60 points, quarter percent. pretty good move this morning, we are expecting a strong opening, first two months that saw the dow's best start to the year since 1987, look at the markets this morning and, of course, so far in 2019 up 3 and a half percent on the dow, up 3% on the s&p and the nasdaq up 3 and a half as well. that's just up for the month of february. joining me right now from tjm investments, scott shellady, good to see ewe this -- you this morning. >> good morning. we are looking at what the fed, the year curve, we are waiting to see if anything gets hotter, i have been saying for a long time, we are not seei

so if more new yorkers are going socialist, don't blame a.o.c., blame jeff bezos.worth $144 billion. do you know how rich that is? even if you started earning $50 million a year, guess how long it would take for you to reach jeff bezos' level? 2,880 years. now, imagine being that rich and still being, like, yeah, i'll come to your city but you've got to give me money. >> trevor: sweet lord, that is super rich. >> i know. to get that money, lebron would have to stay with the lakers till year 4899, and probably still won't make the playoff. ( audience reacts ) the knicks won't either. ( laughter ) by the way, having super rich people in charge doesn't help either. last week, our billionaire president proposed cuts to medicaid, the program that gives health insurance to the poor. this is the guy who can afford the best doctors in the world and he still wants to take healthcare away from poor people. my god, the assholery. it's not enough you're already in the v.i.p. section sipping cristal, you also want to walk around the club slapping bud lights out of other people'

it was back in january that this whole story made headlines off the leaked text messages between jeff bezos and lauren sanchez who's a u.s. t.v. anchor published in the national enquirer now that is a tabloid a u.s. top lloyd and they claim that the two were having an affair even though they were married now back in february of accuse the newspapers owner of trying to blackmail him after threatening to publish more intimate photos and less he said the paper is reporting on him was not politically motivated and he refused to do that ok so what has bezos a security advisor said this weekend where gavin de becker who's worked for the amazon oh no for more than twenty years has written. peace in another on another u.s. website the daily beast and he claims that his own investigation proves that the saudi arabian government had gain access to bases over his phone but he asked that he's unsure to what degree of any the parent company of the national inquirer american media inc was aware of the details but what he does say is that both he and bezos were demobbed were asked to say publicly that the

. >>> amazon chief jeff bezos, who leaked those photos to "the inquirer," you inquirer," and how much were they paid? >>> president trump going after kellyanne conway's husband, who has been a critic of the president. and kellyanne conway is asked, does she share her husband's concerns? >>> the high school basketball player kept off the court, out of school, because he never got vaccinated for chicken pox. is he putting students at risk? >>> the garbage truck scare, in flames and headed straight for a home. >>> the talk show host and what she revealed today about addiction. >>> and there is news tonight on that popular actor who suddenly died. authorities now revealing what was behind it. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. we have a lot to get to, and we begin tonight with those new charges, after a deadly bus crash. a charter bus flipping over on the interstate. that bus driver has now been charged just a short time ago. the horrific images from the scene. two dead, more than 50 injured, many of them children, rushed to the hospital. the bus

i think jeff bezos is arguably the smartestpers person i met a capable tactician. the company is in good hands, even with him dealing with whatever it is he's dealing with i look at the strategies, he has a long time horizon, i look at grocery, he is not trying to win the grocery argument in six months, he is trying to do it in ten years. i'll be surprised if he doesn't radically alter that business by tying in restaurants and other consumers of fresh product but to me, the hollywood thing will pass. amazon will still be there when all of it is done. >> are all of the other ceos and founders dealing with the same stuff, people just don't know about it >> i have no idea. part of my challenge in dealing with silicon valley is the culture changed so much in the last ten years that it is no longer the same culture that i knew and loved in the era when we made products that empowered people, made the world a better place, and now it is this titanic struggle of almost greek gods trying to take over mount olympus. and i don't think that end well. >> saying it is l.a. >> y

emily: jeff bezos might be distracted lately so that could be an advantage? ckey: i don't think jeff is so concerned about japan that much. emily: he has doubled down on india. do you think they've not taken full advantage of the opportunities in japan? mickey: japan is a different market. the consumers are so sophisticated. the variety of the product they want is very high. they want to receive very clean package, not necessarily the amazon approach in the u.s. will do well in japan. we have more smaller stores, smaller merchants. we need to make them happy. conceptually, it's very different. we are more partnership driven than amazon. amazon wanted to dominate everything. we would like to help small and medium sized merchants. emily: who's the bigger threat? jeff bezos or masayoshi son? mickey: everytbody is a threat. everybody is a rival. we are well positioned because we are not only one single service provider focusing on one -- we provide our value as a package including banking, telecom, credit card issuance, shopping, travel, content -- as a package. s

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lauren: is it we don't really care about the personal life of jeff bezos so much?tion is what about the personal relationship between lauren and her brother michael? >> i was thinking this is going to provide many uncomfortable thanksgivings to come, no matter how he got that information. lauren: i better be nice to my brothers now. thank you very much. let's once again check the big board. the dow jones industrial average is at session lows. it is negative. it is down just about seven points. >>> activision blizzard literally blowing past the competition on the s&p 500 this hour. the video game maker announcing it will be taking the mobile phone version of its call of duty popular franchise worldwide, including an expansion into the chinese market. through a deal with china's online gaming titan ten cent. shares currently trading up 3.25% at $46.42. >>> coming up, you know her. congresswoman aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez, is touting the green new deal as an economic and environmental savior. but should you be buying what the capitol hill freshman is selling? energ

nbc news has reached out to ami, jeff bezos, lauren sanchez for comment and have not heard back from joins me for more on this story. we have not corroborated the story, but what more do we know about this rather juicy report? >> hey, there, kasie. what i would point out in this article that jumps out is an interesting anecdote where david pecker, who is the ceo of ami, he's good friends with donald trump, he had a lunch an chipriani's with his attorney and found out that michael sanchez has been paid up-front this $200,000 and he was apparently furious about it, which would suggest, at least, that he wasn't onboard with this project. he did eventually go on to approve it. i think at the end of this reporting from the "wall street journal," you are left with one really big question. and that is, how? if michael sanchez was behind all of this, how did he get his hands -- it wasn't just one text and one photo. this was a trove of texts and photos. and on top of it, bezos alleges that ami was then blackmailing him with even more photos and text messages that hadn't been published. so yo

live from the nasdaq market site in times square we are learning more about the battle between jeff bezosall street journal" is reporting that michael sanchez, the brother of bezos' girlfriend lauren sanchez, sold the secrets to the enquirer for $200,000 that includes the racy texts and photos bezos sent to his girlfriend joining us now on the "squawk" news line, one of the reporters on this michael rothfeld >> morning >> what's been reported around the news here is that it was actually $200,000 that was paid to michael sanchez and that's the firm connection that that's where they got all of this information. >> right we've reported that the $200,000 was made in a contract signed on october 26th and that michael sanchez was paid in the middle of november, the $200,000. he received an upfront payment and he provided text messages and pictures you know, we -- he has denied sending, quote, many penis pics, but he did not deny sending photos so we can't say 100% that he provided all of the photos that the enquirer has described receiving. but we do know that he provided some of the pictures a

mickey: who is a bigger threat, jeff bezos -- emily: who is a bigger threat, jeff bezos or masayoshiey: everybody is a rival. we are one single service provider focusing one vertical. we provide our value as a package including inking, insurance,edit card, shopping, travel, content. so if you want to focus on one vertical, it is risky. son is asayoshi competitor in the wireless and now has a vision fund investing in tech companies. what do you think of the vision fund? mickey: he is an excellent investor. he may or may not make it. competition in japan, quality across our service will be better than anyone. for sure. we will be go to 5g, 5g from the beginning, only company in the world. good.k the future looks there will be competition. they will try to do everything to block users moving to rakuten. maybe our growth will not be as fast as we think, but the verytural difference is clear. and i don't think anybody can match our quality and price. emily: one more question about the vision fund. do you think there are any issues with their ties to the saudi government? mickey: it depend

emily: should jeff bezos be offering backup day care?t kind of a given at the big companies? patty: i have to tell you a story. , youhen you and i met asked me about on-site day care, supplemental day care. i sent to you with my reptilian h.r. brain intact, that is really hard to do, you don't understand. there is finance issues, liability issues. having kids at work is really problematic and subsidizing daycare is really hard. you looked at me and you said i wish i had talked to you before the book. i read your book on a way to a gig i was doing in austin. i go to this conference and on stage is the head of h.r. at patagonia. he says i just met a young man who we hired as an intern that i met originally when he was six weeks old in our on-site day care. patagonia has done day care for 30 years, right? about was i can think all of the companies in san francisco i go into that have a bartender on payroll. i mean -- you would think if we can address the needs and happiness of everybody having a bartender at work, we could certainly think a

jeff bezos wouldn't like that. those people and the post know that because it's his newspaper. in an age of concern about climate change, some people have become opposed to the very idea of having children. congressman alexander of kaiser cortez is warning that itor coud be immoral to have kids. >> our planet is going to be disaster if we don't turn the ship around so basically like there is scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult and it does lead, i think, young people to have a legitimate question, is it okay to still have children? >> tucker: some people have decided that no, it is not okay to stop children. cofounder of a group of people refusing to have children in order to resist climate change and to try just in it. cs thanks very much for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: the story makes me sad. i'm not here to attack you, i want toou take what you are sayg seriously. but i'm not sure i understand why you're choosing not to have children. i would be gra

dagen: there's jeff bezos and david pecker, right there in the middle, that's the brother of jeff bezosirlfriend, mistress, laura sÁnchez, brother sÁnchez, the wall street journal leaves with this, amazon jeff bezos inquired about how they acquired, they even hinted that it was saudi arabia or the white house that might have been involved, in fact, it was michael sÁnchez the brother of lauren sÁnchez, mr. bezos' lover who sold the billionaire's secret for $200,000 to the inquirer's publisher, according to real news breaking by the wall street journal. michael sÁnchez is a talent agent and managed tv pundits out west for many years and had long relationship with the national inquirer and top editor. mr. sÁnchez started conversations last fall with the national inquirer about his sister's relationship with jeff bezos. inquirer by then had already started investigating whether jeff bezos and sÁnchez were having an affair, they worked together on some projects, affairs, relationship started last year, that's the story. i encourage people to read it because it goes into the back and forth ab

let's talk about the letter sent to jeff bezos.he break, an interview you don't want to miss fireworks will go off. stay tuned ckn mont ba ia me we see access to fresh food being the global norm, not the exception. ba ia me at emerson, when issues become inspiration, creating a better world isn't just a result, it's a responsibility. emerson. consider it solved. >>> several high profile new york city business leaders and government officials sent an open letter to jeff bezos urging the ceo to change his mind and bring amazon's planned h q2 and 25,000 jobs that come with it back to long island city joining us, one of the ceos that signed that letter, general atlantic's bill ford good morning >> good morning, jon, how are you? >> i'm doing well. doing well hope you are, too. how did you get involved in this and do you think it will work? >> well, i'm the co-chair of the partnership for new york and we felt very strongly that the business community needed to send a very positive message to amazon that we want them here, they're welcom

for the second year in a row the name at e top i amazon founder jeff bezos. he and his famil have a fortune worth $131 billion. the second richest man bill gates worth $96.5 billion. and warren buffett rounds out the top three with aned estim fortune of $82.5 billion. isep in mind, jeff bezos and h y fehe e are divorcing after 25 years of marriage. if they split their assets in half, forbes reports she'll become the richest woman in the rld. speaking of wealthykyomen, celebrlie jenner became the youngest self-mad billionaire ever she's 21 and aty estimate her net worth an even 1 billion. and president trump's estimated e remained flat at $3.1 billion. es c in 70th on the list of the world's biggest rners. >>> this is not something you see every day. a florida man tryg to take a grenade launcher through airport security. yep, a grenade launcher. tsa agents obviously stopped him. this was in allentown, pennsylvania. it wasn't t functional and grenade was a replica, so he thought it was okay to take it on board. but taking replicas can cost violators up to $13,0

reprimanded. >>> a new report details how "the national enquirer" obtained nude photos of amazon ceo jeff bezos. the pictures and racy text messages from bezos to his girlfriend lauren sanchez led to the end of his marriage. "the wall street journal" now reports the material was passed on to "the enquirer" by sanchez's brother. he was reportedly paid $200,000. >>> the man accused of gunning down reputed mob boss francesco cali in new york has made his first court appearance. 24-year-old anthony comello raised his hand to show phrases written on his palm including make america great again and united we stand. sources say cali would not let comello date his niece, but the motive for that killing remains under investigation. >>> congressman steve king of iowa is once again causing controversy after sharing a meme about a possible civil war in the future. king asked, i wonder who would win while sharing this image showing red states fighting blue states. the meme bragged that red states have 8 trillion bullets while the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. king has since deleted the post.

there's new allegations that saudi arabia hacked amazon ceo jeff bezos' phone. advise trump to do if this is true? >> we have to put this in context. it's highly disturbing that saudi arabia reportedly hacked jeff bezos' phone but we can't be hypocrites here. this is not the first time a foreign intelligence service or intelligence service targeted a high-profile american in the private sector. it's also not the first time that a foreign intelligence service has targeted a member of the private sector who said something they don't like. the u.s. intelligence services, other intelligence services around the world don't just target public sector officials. we know, though, that saudi arabia has a track record on this. they launched covert operations with fatal consequences against jamal khashoggi which makes this allegation much more credible. what would make this unusual and illegal is whether any americans conspired with the saudi government, whether it was ami or any other official to hack this information and to use it to embarrass jeff bezos. >> samantha vine

explosive new allegations in "daily beast" now "national enquirer" on jeff bezos' affair.private information. it's unclear to what degree, if any, they had. he said the publication had threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless the tabloid's reporting is not politically motivated. bezos' investigator handed over his findings. some americans will be surprised to learn that the saudi government has been intent on harming jeff bezos since last october when "washington post" the paper he owns of jamal khashoggi's murder. nbc news has not confirmed the finding. walk us through what we learned from this piece. you and your colleagues at "the daily beast" have been digging into this. when you look at what is alleged, what is new and how extraordinary is this? >> we broke the news some weeks ago that the person who leaked jeff bezos' text messages was a man named michael sanchez who s is. what gavin debecker came out and said yesterday is that he is confident there were actually two sources involved in this story is that is based on part in his own investigation and in pa

jeff bezos is going head to head with the "national enquirer" over the tabloid's publishing of his textzos is responsible for the leak. this morning we're learning new details about how the national enqui "enquirer" obtained racy text messages and selfies between jeff bezos and his girlfriend lauren sanchez. according to "the wall street journal" who cites people familiar with the matter, the billionaire's messages were actually sold to the tabloid by sanchez's brother michael for $200,000. nbc news has not been able to corroborate that. the journal reporting michael sanchez refused to dignify claims he signed a contract with ami, the parent company of the "enquirer" saying the report was based on old rumors. last month in an interview with "vanity fair" writer gabriel sherman, sanchez denied he was involved in the leaks. >> michael sanchez says his sister lauren frequently showed the pictures to people including himself, and perhaps one of her girlfriends leaked the picture. >> reporter: according to the bomb shell "enquirer" report, in addition to below the belt photos, bezos also sen

jeff bezos is not very upset. he doesn't need to be. he knows the way out.a few liberal lifestyle causes. push for gay rights in russia. have his own personal vanity newspaper, the "washington post," run a few more pieces attacking people for the color of their skin, and the left will be placated. republicans in washington, they'll never even notice. frustratingly. democrats don't want you driving cars, flying on planes or having children, all for the sake of the environment, which is an utterly abstract concept to them. they're now coming after your dinner. mayor bill de blasio has announced meatless mondays for the school system. >> thinking about our kids individually, we want them to be as healthy as they can be and we want them to learn as well as they can learn. meatless mondays will help. it will create more balance in their lives. we're talking about the climate, the existential threat of global warming. this is something we do to striking more of the balance in our whole society. >> tucker: dumbest politician in america? that's unfair. she's 29 and

the brother of jeff bezos' mistress is a big fan of president trump. bezos is not a big fan of president trump. >> we know that for sure. he's very clear. stuart: is there a connection here? >> i mean, i don't think so. personally, i don't really care about this story. i don't know how many people out there, i know you're saying it's what everyone's talking about but what does this have to do with anything, really? i don't know that there's really any connection. sounds like they have a little sibling issue they need to work out personally. i know my brother would never do something like this to me, thank god. it's a terrible thing. stuart: i would love to know how they work out that relationship. everybody will be talking about that, i'm sure. >> i'm sure. stuart: next case, beto o'rourke's presidential campaign off to a good start. raised $6 million in the first day after declaring his candidacy. he's already apologizing for what he calls his male privilege. hold on a second. just watch this, everybody. >> but i will be much more thoughtful going forw

very early on after february seventh that's when jeff bezos published that a post on medium in which he exposed the attempt to blackmail them. i immediately noticed and i immediately started putting together a team to start to look into what might be behind this because it's it was such a bizarre story and also a very explosive story. so i posted some initial notes a few days after that and i believe it was february before the mid of the middle of february that bezos as team reached out and we have been coordinating since then we've been you know. exchanging information of course as you can imagine the most explosive part of. the claims right now is the hacking the electronic eavesdropping so to speak yeah but the investigation itself was much wider than this it's wasn't only about how they came to possess the information but why and you know and so when you say why why do you think it is while it is directly as as you mentioned into it in your introduction it is directly. linked to what happened was a mushroom she as you can imagine jeff bezos is a man who owns the washington post b

i will use jeff bezos as an example. he is worth $160 billion right now. the vast majority of that is in amazon stock. if i were to raise the top income tax bracket to 70%, it is actually not going to get us that much money or get that much money from jeff. he is too smart to have a taxable event. he hasn't sold stock. rich people are so good at hiding taxes and ducking them, it is mind-boggling. i know this because some of my friends are tax lawyers and accountants who move the stuff around for them. people. smart we have a system that unfortunately has made it possible for amazon to pay zero in taxes and for jeff bezos to go all the way to the bank. reason why every other economy already has this very added tax is that it is much harder to dodge, much harder to an income tax regime. much so it sounds like a broader tax in that sense, which makes it harder to dodge. andrew: right. let's say you're like, ha, ha, i can avoid this. let's say jeff bezos spends a billion dollars on his space company, which is what he is doing. a lot of these guys get fixated o

saudi arabia is being accused of hacking the phone of amazon boss jeff bezos in accessing his private information ordered private investigator hired private investigators after his personal messages were leaked to the national enquirer newspaper in january the inquiry found riyad targeted bezos who owns the washington post after the death of saudi journalists. those are the headlines talk to al-jazeera is coming up next stay with us. on account of the cost for a look at what's holding in the me from becoming a true trillion dollar economy as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote goes financing politics in india mexico's government is axing social programs for the country's poorest bitterly why counting the cost on our elders here. i. i i i you know that you know the nearly sixty years adversity international has campaigned for a world where everyone enjoys child rights living free from too much of discrimination and persecution where people have freedom of choice of expression in forums and it was founded by british lawyer peter benenson who organized a letter writing campa