agreement he struck with the "national enquirer for steamy text messages between his sister, lauren sanchez amazon founder jeff bezos, in interview with fox news "mediabuzz" host, howard kurtz. great exclusive there. michael sanchez says he didn't take the 200,000. he was doing it to protect his sister and jeff bezos. i don't understand that reasoning. i'm sure a lot of our viewers don't. i'm sure you can explain it to us. >> let me untangle it. brian sanchez is brother of tv personality lauren sanchez, now jeff bezos girlfriend. he when he said 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 reporti

january that this whole story made headlines off to lete 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 newspaper's owner of trying to blackmail him after threatening to publish more intimate photos and less he said the paper's reporting on him was not politically motivated or he refused to do that ok and if so what has bezos a security adviser saved this weekend where gavin de becker who's worked for the amazon no no for more than twenty years has written a piece in another on another u.s. website the daily beast and he claims that his own investigation proves that the saudi arabian government had gained access to bases over his phone of but he asked that he's on shore to want to grieve any the parent company of the national enquirer american media inc was aware of the details but what he does say is that both he and bezos demaio hasta say publicly that the original story ha

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fox news media analyst howard kurtz, spoke with michael sanchez, brother of lauren.th the national "enquirer," but to protect bezos and his sister. we bring in legal analysis, remi spencer, counselor at law joins us. i was reading explosive new detailing by howard kurtz. michael sanchez is basically saying he was not paid 200 grand. why would he need it when he was protecting a billionaire who is the richest man on the planet? >> that's right. howard kurtz broke this within the last hour that michael sanchez is now for the very first time acknowledging that he, as he put it, made a deal with the devil by cooperating with "the national enquirer." now he is not admitting that he accepted $200,000 which is what was reported earlier today for the first time. he is saying that his efforts were done to try to protect his sister and jeff bezos, but his story may or may not check out. right now it seems hard to believe that he would be cooperating with "the national enquirer" to try to protect his sister, yet his sister was unaware of that. susan: right. we're looking throug

the white house that might have been involved, in fact, it was michael sÁnchez the brother of lauren sÁnchezezos' 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 about concerns about getting sued by jeff bezos within the national inquirer about their financial position at the time, at the time financial position and the long standing relationship that david pecker has with president trump and concerns how this might look bad, but again michael sÁnchez, brother of lau

by the way, nbc news has reached out to amazon to jeff bezos, lauren sanchez, and michael sanchez for> not mark sanchez. >> no. >>> other head lewilines we're following for you this morning, the central bank is not expected to raise interest rates this time >>> two retail stocks on the move in opposite directions following quarterly results. even though comp store sales were better than expected, that stock is down a whopping 6%. meantime, michaels the arts and crafts seller is on the rise after its quarterly results came in above consensus >>> dominos pizza shares are higher it was upgraded to a buy at jpmorgan that stock's up 2.25%. >>> the fight for legalizing marijuana in new york is intensifying as opponents look at their case. odds seemed to be rising that the matter would be postponed. democratic lawmakers including our guests today are trying to fix what they see as racial inequalities that the plan does not address in its current form. joining us now to discuss that is new york state assembly's leader crystal people stokes thank you for your time today. >> you're welcome. tha

repercussions. >>> new details on the leaked private text messages between jeff bezos and his girlfriend lauren sanchezrding to "wall street journal" the "national enquirer" paid sanchez's brother $200,000 to expose his sister's affair. the conclusion reached by private investigators working for bezos. they found michael sanchez leaked to the "national enquirer." investigators couldn't determine who paid for them. some family. >> wonder how that family dinner goes. >> that thanksgiving is going to be weird. >>> today learning about events at the chase center in san francisco as reveal work continues. >> warriors nuns first ever event at the new arena will be september 6th. a renone for san francisco symphony and metallica. the two acts came together for a live album 20 years ago. both orchestra and band say this is a symbolic home coming. >> it's a beautiful opportunity and we're super proud that after 38 years there's still cool things like this on the horizon for us. we're still able to explore and have some fun with some new friends. >> chase advance ticket access starts today at noon. the general p

as we remember, bezos posted a blog about his marriage ending, his relationship with lauren sanchez,put a damper on the magazine's scoop. so mr. sanchez, he told the "wall street journal" that he would not dignify responding to the paper. he called the reporting on the contract, that is to say the $200,000 payment, as being sourced from quote, old rumors and anonymous sources. he declined to comment on whether or not he did provide these graphic, intimate photos of the world's richest man to the "enquirer." i asked among other people a former federal prosecutor what he thinks could happen to mr. sanchez if sanchez actually took the photos without permission. here's what doug burns told me. he said that would violate federal law statutes so not just state law statutes, and could equal zero to five years in prison. he said there could be other statutes attached to that with higher exposure. basically he said it is very serious if done without authorization. as we know, the story has also caused arguments at the debt-laden ami. the company has legitimate business issues according to sou

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

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. the congressman recently lost his committee assignments after questioning when the term white supremac

the question of who leaked explicit photos that billionaire jeff bezos sent to his mistress, lauren sanchez, may have been answered. according to a "wall street journal" investigation, "the national enquirer" paid $200,000 to sanchez's brother, michael, who then sold bezos' secrets, including those intimate texts and photos. according to "the journal," david pecker, the publisher of "the enquirer," was initially uneasy about proceeding with such an explosive story, anxious the powerful bezos would sue. but ultimately, the paper reports, he approved the deal. and shortly thereafter, bezos, who is reportedly worth $137 billion, accused a.m.i., the publisher of "the national enquirer," of blackmail and extortion, claiming a.m.i. threatened to publish the embarrassing photos unless he stopped his investigation into just how the tabloid obtained the text messages. in response, michael sanchez, a hollywood talent agent, says that he will not dignify the claims, adding only that "the journal's" reporting is based on old rumors. david? >> linsey davis tonight. linsey, thank you. >>> we move on now

amazon, lauren sanchez's brother had a contract with the "enquirer." >> it depends on how he got whatshe handed it to him and expected him with his background and reputation as a known source for the "national enquirer" to keep it secret, she betrayed herself and her lover. >> jeff bezos is like a dog on a meat truck over this. he won't give up on higgs pursuits of the "national enquirer." liz: senator elizabeth warren the latest democrat saying get rid of the electoral college. we'll tell you why they are dead wrongs about that. a new poll from cnn say 7 of 10 people say the economy is in good shape. but critics say you wouldn't know it in the flawed and faulty data. we'll break it all down, coming up. i can't tell you who i am or what i witnessed, but i can tell you liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no... only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ you hardly ever play catch with the grandkidsalk? or show them how to give a good handshake anymore. now look at me... i'm all bent out of shape. (vo

nbc news has reached out to ami, amazon, jeff bezos, lauren sanchez and her brother for comment, butny of them. >> thank you. >>> now to an update on a ster story we've been following for months, a teenager seriously hurt when she was shoved off a tall bridge in washington state. gadi schwartz has been follow thg o ing this one. >> after months of prepping for trial, we've seen an about face from the defendant in this case, 19-year-old taylor smith after pushing her friend jordan off that bridge, she's now pleading guilty to reckless endangerment. >> ready? >> it's the violent push watched over a million times online, 19-year-old taylor smith shoving her friend jordan holgerson off a 60 foot bridge. now taylor changing her plea on the day the trial was set to begin pleading guilty to reckless endangerment in exchange for a recommendation from prosecutors for house arrest, community service and a work crew detail. >> if she would have pled guilty in the beginning of all of this it kind of would have showed responsibility. maybe if she would have showed up to the hospital or something

details involving a leaked private text messages between amazon jeff bezos and his girlfriend lauren sanchezg to "the wall street journal," the "national enquirer" paid sanchez brother $200,000 to expose his sister's reached by bezos private investigators as well. they found mike sanchez leaked the texts to the "national enquirer." the investigators couldn't determine exactly who paid for them. >>> new morning report, s.e.c. firing back at elon musk. >> in a court filing regulators call it, quote, stunning that the tesla ceo is tweeting without consulting others at tesla. musk previously agreed to do that as part of a court ordered settlement. musk believes s.e.c. is trying to silence him. >>> taking a live look at the new york stock exchange, we are up about 130 points this morning. >> some walmart customers aren't happy the retailer is getting rid of it's savings catcher program. through an app the program would give you a refundny price differences with competitors. walmart says it's ending because the company already offers the lowest price in most cases. some u.s. cans say the app saved

the wall street journal is reporting the national enquirer paid the brother of lauren sanchez $200,000 for those private messages that it published back in january. michael sanchez reportedly provided the intimate communications to the enquirer's publisher. the ceo of the company is david pecker, a long-time ally of president trump. america media has been in the spotlight since it admitted to making a hush payment on behalf of the president. lauren: hollywood hit by another sex scandal. warner brothers chair and ceo stepping down after sexual misconduct allegations. warner media launched an investigation following a report that detailed text messages between him and a british actress. the messages suggested that the relationship was based on promises she would appear in movies. cheryl: the securities and exchange commission rejecting rn musk's claim that they are trying to silence him. they say he should be held in contempt for vi violating an or. there were tweets from musk last year about being able to take the company public when the funding was not actually secured. as tesla is try

wall street journal" reporting that "the national enquirer" paid michael sanchez, the brother of lauren sanchez000 for the private messages that were published in january. the stock weathering the turmoil in today's session. we have courtney dominguez and back with us, david nelson. courtney, just overall, the sort of scandals, they make big headlines. some are more, you know, the boeing obviously involve lives. >> yeah. charles: amazon involves questions about ceo's character and trust. >> uh-huh. charles: how do you think investors should look at something like that? >> a lot of headlines tend to be short-lived. boeing is great example. it is horrible thing that happened, it did cost lives. what happened, first year the 737 came out, the first year there were two deadly crashes. six months after the second crash, boeing traded higher. i think a lot of that is, headlines they don't last that long. people will focus where they are going forward. they don't have a lot of competition. you have to look at this over the long run. i don't think something that they can't be overcoming. >> it does hel

. >> it started with this article in the enquirer exposing his relationship with lauren sanchez.t 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 folding and not battling back. in a surprise move

that source, they say sanchez, who is the brother of lauren sanchez who bezos was having an a235ir with cnn that sanchez was the source for the national enquirer, and it is note worthy that de becker while he writes this column in the daily beast and says the saudis were involved, or at least accessed to the information on bezos' phone. he doesn't present any evidence to back up that assertion. we're still waiting. >> we have asked for evidence many times. and he has not provided any. he's made these aergs ises and so you have to take his word for what it is. there's a lot of competing story lines here. >> the timing is interesting. the fact that he's writing an op ed, he's putting this out there without all the evidence. let's move on to another topic. i want everyone to take a look at this graphic that was on fox and friends this morning. the state department announced the u.s. is cutting off aide to el salvador, honduras and guatemala for not stopping migrants from coming to the u.s. trump cuts u.s. aide to three mexican countries. that's obviously inaccurate. do we know how this hap

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reportedly paid to receive text messages between amazon ceo jeff brazeau's and his mistress, lauren sanchezrnal" is reporting that sanchez 'his own brother, michael, was the recipient of that payment from american media. that $200,000. the report also states that the $200,000 is higher than with that tablet usually pays to get that sort of information. fox news alert, new reaction as a public and congressman devin nunes files a lawsuit against twitter. accusing it of shadow-banning conservatives to influence the midterm. this, as president trump is also accusing the social media giant of political bias. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in our los angeles newsroom with more on this. jonathan? >> harris, congressman nunez feels he is being defamed and smeared on twitter and says twitter allowed that to happen because the company has a political agenda. the congressman's target and the lawsuit includes two. the accounts, "devin nunes' mom," which suspended last year, and "devin nunes' cow," which is still active. it says that it insults him, and they do nothing to stop him despite it

centers on the tabloid's publishing of private text messages between bezos and his girlfriend, lauren sanchezmedia, 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 and i'm not going to dignify them now. he goes on later in that statement to say he never had the, let's call it

interew with ""vanity ir"" writer, sanchez denied he was involved in the leaks. >> michael sanchez says his sister lauren to people include himself and perhaps one of gifrl friends leaked the picture. >> in additio to below-the-belt photos, bezos also sent s flirtatious teo sanchez. i love you alive girl. i will show you with my body, my ps and my eyes very soon. the source of the leak ignited a battle between him and the tabloid. bezos revealed he had his own curity team trying to determine the source of the leaked messages. he also claimed the tabloid attempted to extort and blackmail him by threatening to release private photos unless he stopped investigating how they were obtained. bezos writing i part, of course, i don't want personal photos published, but i also won't participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption adding, i prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out. an attorney for american media ceo davidli pecker t abc news last month that the bezos story was based on good journalism. >> it absolutely is not extortion

michael sanchez, the brother of lauren sanchez sold the secrets to the enquirer for $200,000 that includesrlfriend there was a blow up between the publisher david pecker and his general counsel for media that led the lawyer to leave that company immediately. so far, the market has brushed it off as personal drama, despite that bezos says owns what, 16%, more than $130 billion stake in amazon. could be a matter of principle, so far doesn't seem to be a big head wind for the stock. >> near 1770 now >>> meantime, big show coming up this afternoon >> besides fedex, we have mark mobius, the emerging market guru, and president of brazil at the white house. it is the hottest stock market in the world, up almost 20%. find out whether it is a buy where else he sees opportunities. dsw shares getting smoked. worst day for that company in years. we talk to roger rawlins today so far, investors aren't happy >> see you thiteoos afrnn. >>> dow has gains of 117 "squawk alley" starts in a few minutes. (video games have evolved.addle) why hasn't the way you bank? virtual wallet from pnc bank helps make it e

it was revealed that the amazon founder was dating tv personality lauren sanchez as bezos announced heed the photos. the latest signal that the russia probe may be coming to an end. assistant u.s. attorney ahmed stepping down from the special counsel. the prosecutor signed michael flynn's guilty plea for lying to the fed. third person from the team to recently step down. not clear when the mueller probe will wrap up. secretary of state mike pompeo says he will know when it's time to leave the white house. listen to this. >> i'm going to be there until he tweets me out of office. [laughter] which i'm not counting on, at least today. jillian: pompeo referring to his predecessor rex tillerson. president trump fired him in a tweet last year. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you as i play with the jukebox. brian: if you were fonzie all it would take is one hit. steve: get the bump music coming up in a 60. man trapped inside a burning home. dramatic moments caught on camera. coming up. brian: i saw him without an overcoat. joel osteen is in the diner with a let whoer below hi

i'm kris sanchez in for lauren garcia. >> as the rain is making its exit, we're not in the clear just yet. >> pete soratos is joining us, checking in on how the cleanup is going. but first kari hall. >> you start to see that rain coming in. storm ranger giving us a very high-level detail view of what's happening as that rain moves in and out of the bay area. we are seeing some of the showers right where we have storm ranger parked on san bruno mountain. we are also seeing some of the waves of rain moving in to palo alto, approaching sunny vale and fremont as well. we are going to see it kind of off and on. one minute it's raining. then itps and it starts raining again. we may get sunshine in between the showers that are moving through. notice some areas are getting some really heavy downpours. few isolated thunderstorms. no rain in san jose. it's about to move right back in the next few minutes. mixed bag of weather will stay with us even into tonight. i'll be tracking that and a look ahead to the weekend forecast in a few minutes. >> i know we're waiting for that. thank you, kari. >>

michael sanchez's sister lauren is in a romantic relationship with the amazon ceo. >>> the battle betweenenquirer" began after the magazine published an 11 page story in january that included racy text messages. bezos has accused ami the owner of extortion and blackmail. sanchez says he didn't want to dignify its reporting calling it nothing but old rumors. >>> well, you may have been tackling your holiday shopping last december 18th, that is when unbeknownst to nearly all of us a giant space rock exploded 16 miles above the earth with ten times the energy of the atomic bomb. snas calls them fireballs. it was the second most powerful in 30 years. scientists only just noticed it because the shooting star exploded over the strait which is remote. >>> and this is not the kind of bracket bust espn had in mind. the network is apologizing after it accidently aired brackets for the ncaa women's basketball tournament hours before the scheduled release. you can see them on the right side of the screen midday monday. espn says in the midst of our preparation, the bracket was mistakenly posted on es