so that's something that -- >> wait, michael sanchez does? >> he does, yes.e formally represented carter page and scottie nell hughes and roger stone confirmed to us that the two of them are friends. and in fact, we know from additional documentation in prior reporting that michael sanchez and roger stone were in touch about this story very shortly after it ran in the "national enquirer". >> okay, so, well, that is clarifying. so i guess the question is, how -- i don't have access to my siblings' texts, certainly nothing of the order that is being discussed here. how exactly does michael sanchez get his hands on what is the digital property of his adult sibling? >> that's something we're continuing to do reporting into and that we understand folks in bezos' inner circle continue to look into. the answer right now is we simply don't know and it's something for either bezos' team or the law enforcement authorities that they've now referred their findings to, that, you know, those are people who might potentially be looking into that question. but as of now, our

michael sanchez also declined comment.esz accuses ami of trying to blackmail him. >>> "the miami herald" reports the woman whose abduction was caught on video is safe. the unidentified woman went into a tire shop friday to get away from a man. miami police released the video yesterday. a tire shop employee who didn't want to be identified witnessed the incident. >> takes her from the restroom and -- she's like 20 or 50 times. >> the man forced the woman into a car and then drove away. the worker says the woman was in tears and said she needed to hide because she feared for her life. police say they found the woman last night in good condition. they did not release her name or the name of her abductor. >>> "the denver post" says all city schools will be open today as teachers go on strike for the first time in 25 years. they say the schools will be staffed by administrators and substitutes. classes for preschoolers do not have enough staff to take carem. >>> several consumer goods companies including procter & is ballpark,

. >> was it michael sanchez? >> i can't discuss who the source was. just -- it's confidential within ami so i'm not going to answer who the source was. it was somebody close to both bezos and miss sanchez. >> let me show some of the correspondence that bezos published. he had -- this was a letter from ami's lawyer, the deputy counsel. it lays out two of the conditions he was setting. one, public acknowledgments for the bezos parties that they have no knowledge that it was politically motivated or by political forces and point three, ami is not to publish, or distribute or share un-public texts or photos. that seems like a clear offer. they won't release these photos if they get a statement from bezos. >> the story was already out, and there were -- >> not the photos. >> not those photos. i think there were some photos that were in the original story. i think both bezos and ami had interests in resolving their differences. bezos didn't want another story written about him or those pictures published. ami did not want to have the libel against them that

politically motivated hit job and that the brother of the girlfriend in this case a man that michael sanchez was leading suspect someone who they believe leaked the intimate texts and information about the relationship to the national enquirer whether he did that for the purpose of personal profit or for because of his connections to some of the important people around president trump is unclear the alternative theory here the one that michael sanchez the purported leaker proposes is that this was a way for businesses security man to essentially cover up for the fact that he had failed in his mission to keep the affair between bezos and lauren sanchez secret ok so somebody finds out about this affair leaks it's a national enquirer the national enquirer if we're to believe the story that jeff bezos tells then says to him do as we say oh we would leak these these embarrassing revelations so why would they act in that way. why would the national enquirer act in that way the national choir is in a very precarious position in addition to the fact that they are in a tremendous amount of debt their

michael sanchez's leak to the enquirer and the other is the enquirer's decision to not just publish thebut pursue it with the vehemence and resources. michael speculated in documents seen by the washington post and the daily beast that this was david pecker's attempt to sort of get back into the president's good graces after he reached a cooperation deal with federal prosecutors in december. ami has vehemently denied that, but it's not the craziest theory. >> speaking of crazy theories, what about the fact that ami might lose their cooperation agreement if it can be established, elliott, that there was a crime committed here. because blackmail and extortion, by definition, not necessarily, even though it seems to be obvious to the layperson, such as myself, you have to have a certain requirement. >> sure. extortion is the umbrella over all of it. when you're talking about threats to get someone to do something, extortion involving violence, blackmail involving someone's image. an degree a i'm going to really publish and dark information about you if you don't give me $50,000. >> please

was involved in some way in leaking the information and michael sanchez has communicated after the story came out with people like roger stone and carter page who are in the news for entirely different reasons, but it makes for a very confusing soup of characters, not to mention that the "national enquirer" is controlled and run by david pecker who recently signed a nonprosecution agreement with the southern district because of the way the national enquirer worked to help donald trump during the 2016 campaign so all of those things are dots that we were trying to connect or get to the bottom of. and it's all really -- what we know is laid out in the piece. >> it's interesting because many thought if michael sanchez knows these people who are connected to the enquirer that maybe that was the avenue this took in the piece, it doesn't exactly connect all those dots to suggest a causality. it also says it's possible the national enquirer reporter, howard, saw bezos and lauren sanchez together at a launch event and kind of thought maybe there's something here and we know that they w

the daily beast is reporting that michael sanchez, lauren sancnchez's brother, is also sususpected ashe source of the leak. denver public school teachers begin a strike today after 11th hour negotiations between the teachers' union and the school district failed over the weekend. the denver classroom teachers association is demanding an increase in teachers' base salary rather than putting money in incentives and bonuses. this will be the city's first teacher's strike in 25 years. transcanada said friday the keystone pipeline is likely responsible for an oil spill last week in st. charles county, near the mississippi river. a new study released thursday counted 137 oil spills in the us in 2018. in new york city, protesters took over the guggenheim museum saturday night to call out the museum's relationship with the sackler family, whose company, purdue pharma, produces the prescription painkiller oxycontin. artist nan goldin, who herself became addicted to oxycontin, has been leading calls for art institutions to stop taking money and disassociate themselves from the sacklers. goldin

michael sanchez denied the involvement to post. it comes as pecker's attorney is pushing back on claims jeff bezos made in an extraordinary blogpost late last week. >> it's absolutely not extortion and not blackmail. >> reporter: the amazon founder wrote that representatives for american media, inc. threatened to release intimate texts and photos between him and his alleged mistress lauren sanchez if he didn't publish what he called a false public statement saying he didn't think ami's coverage was politically motivated and end his investigation into how they got previous texts which they published shortly after bezos announced his divorce. nbc news has not independently reviewed the e-mails in bezos' post. bezos posted to ami's connection to the saudi government as well as president trump. pecker's attorney stressing the dealing with bezos were just journalism. >> i think both bezos and ami had interests in resolving their differences. >> reporter: since bezos' post, others have come forward saying they, too, were victims of the s

his name is michael sanchez. reporting since tuesday night, both of them at various times are looking at various possibilities, including the possibility that governments or warrant actors could have been involved in this transfer of information to "the national enquirer". eventually, the two investigators who seem to be cooperating with each other turn on each other. and michael sanchez suggests that gavin debequeer may have something to do with the leak of information to "the national enquirer" and gavin debequeer very publicly suggests that michael sanchez might have something to do with it. and so there we are left with quite a messy senatorio. . >> a-- scenario. >> at least, we don't know how "the national enquirer" got those pictures, those texts relative to bezos? >> yeah, what has been thrown out in the ether are theories. we have not seen a definitive statement of the case. are you an attorney. you know about the law. we haven't seen a statement of everyday about how this happened. we have only seen conj

>> yes, so drumroll, please, it is her brother, michael sanchez. and i that michael sanchez took it upon himself to go to the national enquirer, tip them off that his sister was in a relationship with jeff bazos, he provided text messages and proof to the national enquirer, and that's when the national enquirer then launched their investigation and started trailing them for months across multiple states and got photographs of them. and they broke the story that they were both allegedly cheating on their spouses and in this relationship with each other. >> why would he blow up his sister's spotlight like that? >> that's a really good question. i just don't know. i can only imagine the holidays will be super awkward for them. i do want to tell you michael sanchez, when we went to him for comment, he would not give an on the record comment as to whether he is the leaker. he's said, a, he had no involvement at all or to the new york post he said something a little different. >> in his blog jeff bezos has been suggesting that the saudis or president tru

the "daily beast" reporting michael sanchez believed the "enquirer" pursued the story about buy soezosent trump's knowledge and appreciation. this is according to the "daily beast." how real is this a possibility it leads back to the white house? >> it is a real possibility. it is important to be extremely clear about what it is we think we know and what we truly don't know. what we think we know is michael sanchez, the brother of the woman that bezos appears to be dating, that he's the one who supplied ami with these texts, with these stolen texts and photos. what we don't know, however, is why he did this. who asked him to do it? what he was paid or what he was compensated for doing it. why ami seems so interested in making sure that bezos doesn't suggest that the leaking of the initial information, that he had a mistress, was politically motivated. a lot of people are considering the possibility that this all ties back not just to the trump white house but to saudi arabia, the possibility that ami is working on a business arrangement with saudi arabia, with the crown prince, and tha

michael sanchez is reportedly the support of president trump who did not see eye to eye on a number of issues with basis. he accused the inquiry of trying to blackmail him because of the closeness to president trump. >>> a lawmaker is backing off plans to introduce the impeachment bill against the lieutenant governor. he faces sexual assault allegations from 2004 patrick help was expected to introduce articles of impeachment but after speaking to lawmakers, additional conversations need to take place before anything is out. fairfax has repeatedly denied allegations say that encounter was consensual. >>> amy of minnesota announced her run for the white house over the weekend.>> today, on this snowy day, we say enough is enough. >> she spoke in front of a large crowd in many office. she says she plans to end gridlock in washington and is considered a moderate. resident trump reacted calling the senator's announcement bad timing because she vows to tackle climate change during a snowstorm. he tweeted that the center quote, look like a snowman. this is a long list of candidates running for

new report says the anonymous source of the leaked texts and pictures to the tablet is in fact michael sanchez's girlfriend, lauren sanchez. greg, what stands out to you most? you have to pick a side. you are either team bezos or pro-pecker. >> greg: this is a difficult story for an infantile humorist like myself. every avenue, and opportunity. one guy's name is sanchez and the other guys name is pecker and i have to be serious. i sympathize with bezos because i like anybody who stands up to any kind of extortion or blackmail. i thought that what peter did with gawker was important and what prompted was important. anytime you feel something is happening. he's a billionaire, so he can withstand it. other people like us can't. jesse. >> jesse: i would like to say i think the "national enquirer" is a sterling publication. >> greg: they do have pictures, jesse. i know they do. >> jesse: writing about o.j. and jesse jackson and tiger woods and john edwards. >> greg: they have been around for 40 years. >> jesse: if i'm ever in the magazine, it is all wrong. i will say this. i usually think when ther

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

sanchez's brother michael named as the leaker in multiple reports is speaking out. >> reporter: thisael sanchez, the reported leaker in the jeff bezos /"national enquirer" leakage scandal is speaking out. nchez denies leaking racy, below the belt selfies o bezos to the enquirer. >> michael sanchez says his sister lauren frequently showed the pictures to people including himself and perhaps one of her girliends leaked the picture. >> reporter: it was soon after the en firer reported baezos wa having an affair, detractors poin out michael sanchez is a supporter of president trump who has preetdly attacked bezos and his newspaper, "the washington post." in his intervi with "vanity fair," sanchez would not deny leaking explicit texts between his sister and bezos. i'm not saying i didn't do something, he said. my goal has been to protect jeff and lauren. he says he's been the couple's unofficial adviser in how to handle media leaks about their affair. >> shockingly one of the options ey discussed is that bezos would buy american media, the parent company of the "national enquirer" to unco

michael sanchez spoke to me about his strong objections to the strategy. sanchez who knew about the affair praises bezos as a brilliant man who doesn't bow down to bullies. sanchez told me while he was negotiating with the "enquirer" airport american media inc pat becker launched world war iii calling on bezos. everything has only amplified the magnitude of the scandal. he says it's a disgrace that filthy rich and uber powerful men are using the media to take shots at each other. the truth is jeff and lauren fell madly in love and risked everything to be together. becker is traveling overseas and declined to comment. being investigated sometimes deflects attention. sanchez says it's irrelevant that he's an acquaintance of roger stone who has pled guilty to witness tampering and he once did a small business deal with carter page, a former trump campaign advisor. he consulted page about the leak. sanchez is friends with bill howard. he says my friendships have been used as a weapon against me. sanchez urged bezos and his sister to stand down. he says becker r

and started "the daily beast," they were focusing with personal investigation of michael sanchez, thef lauren that started this whole thing out. so he wants to create a different situation. he also goes on to say as soon as i brought up saudi arabia, they were fanatical for that the inquirer and wanted to stop this right away so i hit a nerve and that's why it came forward. he wants to say this is an international story when really it is his personal decision to have an affair and the pictures were out there. the inquirer did, no one can ever back that up but evidently it's happened over and over again. >> juan: dana, you know, you handled public affairs. >> dana: never had to handle a sex scandal. a hole in my resume. >> juan: no, we don't want you to do that. but we want to ask you how you would have thought about this. because what you get gavin, the security officer for jeff bezos making the suggestion that we just heard referred to. >> dana: right. >> juan: what would you do? do you think, in fact, as greg said a man standing up against a black man? >> dana: something interesting

michael sanchez denied his involvement to the "washington post," who is owned by bezos. it comes as pecker's attorney is pushing back on claims jeff bezos mad in an extraordinary blog postulate last week. >> it absolutely is not blackmail. nd not >> reporter: the amazon founder wrote that represent for american media, inc., threatened to release intimate textsnd photos between him and his alleged mtress if he didn't post what he calls a false public statement saying he didn't think ami's coverage was politically motivated and end his investigation into how they got previous texts which they published shortly after bezos announced mis divorce. nbc news has not independently reviewed the e-mails in bezos's posts. bezos had pointed to ami's connection to the saudi government as well as president trump, pecker's aorney stressing the inquirers dealing osth bezos were just journalism. >> i think b and ami have interests in resolving their differences. >> reporter: since bezos' post othee come forward saying they too were victims of the samepractices. actor terry crews a tweeti

told by michael sanchez. they fell madly in love.er for a month because things are so white hot, not to physically get together but i'm told the relationship is very much intact. stuart: howie kurtz, right in the middle of it, on top of it. very good. howard, thanks for joining us. >> yes, sir. stuart: let's get to venezuela. ugly situation, the country's disputed president maduro. you see it there. he blocked the colombia-venezuela border, refusing to let vital supplies into venezuela. lindsay singleton. former state department officer. lindsay, you say this could mean the tipping point, the crunch time, because the vital supplies can't get? >> certainly, thanks for having me. we certainly hope it's a tipping point here. not necessarily because the people of venezuela are not able to get the aid they so desperately need. mostly because the military has to be seeing this, receiving these orders they are not allowed to let in this desperately-needed humanitarian aid. their mission is to protect the venezuelan people. they are proud of

michael sanchez and roger stone quote were in touch about the "national enquirer" story in the days aftert ran. "the daily beast" received documents showing michael sanchez believed "the enquirer" perceived with president trump's knowledge and appreciation. they said saudi arabia could have an interest in harming him, since the newspaper he owns, "the washington post" has been so critical of the saudi arabia dictatorship after the saudi government had washington post columnist jamal khashoggi more murdered and dismembered. the "national enquirer" was concerned enough it may have acted as an agent of saudi arabia that it quote sought advice last year from the u.s. justice department over whether the publisher should register as a foreign agent after publishing a 97-page glossy magazine praising the kingdom and the saudi crown prince. as predicted on this program, when this story broke on thursday night, federal prosecutors are investigating possible crimes committed by the "national enquirer" and people working there who participated in the extortion andbezos. the legal team joining us now

contacted by cnn, michael sanchez declined to provide an on the roar comment.league. he suggested that president trump or the kingdom of saudi arabia played parity in the story. they're now providing the evidence to support the claims. i news continues now. i want to hand it over to chris. >> thank you. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." new tonight, a judge ruled that paul manafort lied about his meeting with a russian operative repeatedly mueller, to the fbi, and a grand jury b matters that are considered close to the heart of the russia investigation. we now know the central question mueller needs answer and we're going to take it up in cuomo's court. then do the democrats have a problem? are the party of the progressives? we have one of each here to take on competing notions of the green new deal. and the gop, they have their

michael sanchez, the brother in this instance says he's not the leaker.rer says -- could he face legal charges? >> it depends on how he got the communications. yes, it's possible. and i think the question is going to be pertinent to what kind of exposure ami also faces. right? because depending on how ami got the text messages and the photographs, they could be subject to a possible criminal investigation on wire fraud, for example. >> into how they got it if it turns out they used illegal or questionable methods to get them? >> correct. >> one of the things you're writing about is how aggressive bezos is being when it comes to exposing this. you say most revealing is it is perhaps the best illustration of the in the your face aggressiveness that's made him the richest man in the world and arguably the most important tech visionary since steve jobs. is he about the only guy who could stand up to the enquirer? >> no. there's a lot of people who could, but it's time. they're pictures of his leathne regions. he had had it. he wanted to expose what was going

. >> as you know michael sanchez is on the record denying he's the source of this.has not independently confirmed your reporting. others reporting as well. >> it's interesting. we gave him after a dozen opportunities to weigh in on the story beforehand. he would not do so on the record. he denied it to other outlets. he brokered a photo shoot for us weekly, another ami publication of lauren sanchez a couple days after the story broke getting out of a helicopter. he admitted that was something he arranged. he admitted he's long time friends with dylan howard, the ceo's number two, the chief content officer for ami. this is a long-standing relationship, and when you saw ami's attorney go on george stephanopoulos's show on sunday, he said that he wouldn't name the leaker but said it's someone well known to both jeff bezos and lauren sanchez and providing information to the enquirer for seven years. we believe that points directly to michael sanchez. >> joyce, as you mentioned this, are you hearing or seeing any red flags as you listen to this conversation? >> one of th

-- michael sanchez is the brother of his girlfriend, right? be the person who gave those personal and intimate texts between bezos and lauren sanchez to ami. will federal prosecutors need to figure all of this out, how they got the pictures, who put them out there? >> well, sure. look, if someone hacked into the phone of lauren sanchez, whoever that may be, or bezos, that could be a crime, period. no doubt about that. it's not a crime if he got access to the photos without hacking it and then gave them or sold them -- again, no evidence to suggest that yet that we know of. but if someone got access to them and sold the pictures, that's not a crime in and of itself. now, bezos could sue over it in civil court and say, you know, they're copyright potential issues with regard to the pictures. there's a potential invasion of privacy tort. but when it comes to the criminal law, there really would have had to be a hack to hold someone responsible for getting the photos. >> it's the board, right, acting on behalf of -- it's not just pecker anymore. th

. >> "the daily beast" reports one possible source is michael sanchez, the brother of bezoss' mistress vocal supporter of president trump. sanchez has denied any role. >>> a stunning report revealed hundreds of cases of alleged abuse in the southern baptist church. nearly 400 church leaders and workers have been accused of sexual misconduct in the last 20 years against children and adults. more than 200 of them, including pastors, have been convicted or taken plea deals. the church is accused of mishandling allegations. the president of the southern baptist convention says he's committed to making sure the church does a better job preventing abuse. teachers in denver are set to go on strike for the first time in 25 years. schools will remain open with substitute teachers. only early childhood classes will be canceled. >>> the big weather story is in the pacific northwest. another sorm is dumping more snow. this could be the snowiest february on record for seattle. hundreds of flights have been canceled. schools are closed there. farther south, this is the scene near lake tahoe, califor

here's the nexus, bezos' now girlfriend, her brother is michael sanchez.f the bezos' team internal investigation. michael sanchez has connections to a variety of weird trump old figures, among them roger stone. we reached out to roger stone for our piece in reporting it. he denied hacking bezos' phone but what was weird about his denial is we never asked him if he hacked bezos' phone. he came out and said, i didn't hack the phone. that was a particularly bizarre quote. >> this is a story you're running tonight? >> this is a story we already ran. today we're looking into what i think a well-known history of ami of using things like extortion and blackmail to get these types of stories. it is crazy that we finally are getting a clear view of it, thanks to jeff bezos actually posting about it. but he's not the only victim of this. >> was mike flynn targeted for blackmail and jeff bezos not? no more excuses with cologuard. we all make excuses for the things we don't want to do. but when it comes to colon cancer screening... i'm not doin' that. i eat plenty of

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michael sanchez is telling fox news that bezos made a big mistake when he decided to go after ami and security chief and investigating the enquirer on his behalf. he said bezos is a brilliant man who doesn't bow down to bullies most of the time. gavin debecker has a strange puppet master control over jeff. the saudi government denied it had anything to do with the bezos story saying the whole thing looks like a soap opera. that everyone can agree. >> bill: dan springer live in seattle. >> sandra: expectations are high as the trump administration finishes its peace plan for the middle east. details on what the white house is calling the deal of the century. and with just days until the deadline, border talks break down as lawmakers struggle to avoid yet another partial shutdown. an update from the white house and new reaction from the hill with congressman mark walker next. >> we'll take as much money as you can give us and then we'll go off and find the money someplace else legally in order to secure the southern border. it is going to get built with or without congress. like my bike

bezos, "the washington post," the billionaire suspected the brother of his alleged mistress, michael sanchez, a supporter of president trump, could be the source. according to the paper, sanchez who firmly denies any role in the revelation reportedly claims he was told by multiple people at ami that "the national enquirer" set out to do a, quote, takedown to make trump happy. ami denying that any of this was related to president trump. federal prosecutors are now investigating if the tabloid violated an immunity deal made after feds looked into possible campaign finance violations that involved "the enquirer" killing stories potentially damaging to mr. trump just before the election. >> are you worried at all that these revelations have put the cooperation agreement of mr. pecker with the southern district in jeopardy? >> absolutely not. >> and lana zak joins us live. as federal prosecutors, you just heard their review of "the national enquirer" broke its immunity deal and committed a crime, others have since come forward alleging similar tactics? >> reporter: after bezos published his alleg

the intermediary was michael sanchez. he says he has been trying to protect jeff and lauren's relationship. the suspect now includes several girlfriend with whom lauren shared the pictures and texts. to prove they weren't planning a second straight cover on the affair, an a.m.i. executive provided the bezos team with an advance cover of the next issue on clooney's marriage. the gesture led to a steady stream of calls and messages between the two side. i had access to essentially these were settlement talks while the bezos side said it was responding to extortion. during this period my sources say bezos mused about buying american media and shutting counter inquirer but decided it was too risky. both side made legal threats. the bezos team wanted no more of the photos to be published. and. the billionaire becker never agreed to that. after ami sent a letter with x rated pictures of bezos. this was putting what it had on the table. but it read like a threatening letter. allowing bezos to blow up the talks by accusing the co

they all but named michael sanchez yesterday. brother of lauren sanchez, vocal trump supporter.l takedown. >> what he also said yesterday it was a long-time source of "the enquirer." someone that bezos and lauren knew. if sanchez is the friend of roger stone and carter page, i don't know how you can rule out the political angle here. >> "the enquirer" seems so intent on really knoing down this idea that they had political motivation. >> that is what's so unusual. every story. there's a negotiation with a source, particularly if it's a sensitive story they don't want. don't run that picture. what's unusual here is that they're the ones who seem to be the aggressor. they went to bezos and said, if you don't stop talking, your people don't stop talking, we're going to come after you. >> and they laid out all the photos. >> and laid out the photos. usually, they'll say, we have the photos. and the person says, here's what i'll give you. they seem to be desperate to have this political element removed from the story. which is not happening. >> which is why it's not done yet. robin? >

michael sanchez is a trump supporter, he is friendly with both carter page and roger stone, two of theller investigation. of course, pleading not guilty to criminal charges. sanchez maintains -- what i'm told -- he communicated with both of them for advice on security and to the "inquirer" leak. that they were somehow involved in the leak, and even come i've seen responding that suggest sanchez tried to set up a meeting in a secure location, even aboard a plane between carter page, jeff bezos himself, and bezos' top security guy. that never materialized, but it does show you many subplots there are, as no federal prosecutors are going to have to determine who did what to whom. >> martha: not to mention the obvious, text messages shared with several people, when you are in this kind of situation. holly, thank you. >> not in this digital world. >> martha: thank you very much, how we pair that is the story on this tuesday night, thank you for being with us. we will see you tomorrow night at 7:00, tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson ton

contacted by cbs news, a person close to michael sanchez sloppy leaks and crazy conservative conspiracyconducting the investigation, i would start with miss sanchez. >> reporter: cbs news analyst paul viollis thinks someone miss sanchez confided in was the likely leaker. >> the highest probability of risk of where the leak came from would be sanchez. whether it was her brother, a friend, whether it was anybody. >> reporter: in emails released by bezos last week, "enquirer" officials purportedly claimed to have a naked selfie and other lewd images of bezos. they offered not to publish them if the ceo dropped his investigation. i hope common sense can prevail and quickly, one e-mail read. >> it was part of a legitimate negotiation. each side had something that they wanted. covera rter: abramo wii tz said of the fair was politically motivated and denied that it was part of a below plot. booe bezos and the "washington post" are frequent targets of donald trump. the "national enquirer" is published by another trump ally, david pecker. on friday, the white house distanced the president from t

"the daily beast" said that michael sanchez, the brother of lauren sanchez. he denies it.oward kurtz said this all falls on gavin debecker, a security chief for bezos and was doing the investigation of the "national inquirer." he told kurtz "everything gavin has gotten jeff to do has amplified the story." >> shepard: thanks, dan. a fox urgent now. she did the crime, she will start doing the time. the woman convicted of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself is headed to jail. michelle carter in court earlier today. in 2014, she sent texts to her conrad roy urging him to kill himself. he did. last week, massachusetts's highest court upheld her manslaughter conviction. now she has to serve her 15-month terms. defense lawyers said she didn't force her boyfriend to kill himself and was exercising free speech. they say they plan to appeal to the u.s. security. molly line reporting live south of boston. >> mitchell carter has been allowed to remain free. but today she's beginning to serve her sentence, more than four years after the death of conrad roy. this is the case that

michael sanchez a hollywood talent agent declined to respond to cnn on the record.he has previously denied to the "washington post" that he was the leaker. last week bezos alleged a media post at the enquirer tried to blackmail him. the post showing e-mails that the tabloid agreed to sit on the lewd photos and texts if bezos says he doesn't believe the coverage of him was politically motivated. >>> if you own a ford pickup truck, ford tough news. the company recalling more than 1 million of their f-150 trucks due to a transmission issues. some models from 2001 to 2013 could downshift to first gear without warning. that can cause drivers to suddenly lose control of their vehicles. there have been accidents, at least five accidents stemming from the issue have been reported. >>> ahead fireworks at a capitol hill hearing. a brand-new controversial at times democrat gets into a testy exchange with a trump diplomate. it's tough to quit smoking cold turkey. so chantix can help you quit "slow turkey." along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you

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michael sÁnchez, lauren's brother and says on and off manager spoke to me about his strong objectionswhich is by long-time security consultant. sÁnchez knew about the affair praises bezos as brilliant man who doesn't vow down to bullies most of the time. unfortunately very powerful bully, strange puppet master control. sÁnchez told me that while he was negotiating with american media, inc to soften the story, launched world war iii against ami in part by advising bezos, misleading tweet about divorce from his wife. he said it's a disgrace that filthy rich and powerful men are using media to take shots at each other, the simple truth jeff and lauren fell madly in love. sÁnchez has been on receiving end, he's looking into the leaker in and has spoken to sÁnchez as part of that investigation. pecker is traveling over season and he has to take an aggressive posture and sometimes deflect attention by criticizing the investigators. sÁnchez is a registered democrat and trump supporter and denied source of the leak. he told me it's irrelevant, acquaintance of roger stone u and that he had bus

michael sanchez denied his involvement to "the washington post" which is owned by bezos.ack on claims jeff bezos made an extraordinary blog post late last week. >> it absolutely is not extortion and not blackmail. >> reporter: the amazon founder wrote that representatives for american media inc. tletdenhrea to release intimate texts and photos between him and his alleged mistress lauren sanchez if he didn't publish what he called a false public statement saying he didn't think ami's coverage was politically motivated and end his investigation into how they got previous texts, which they published shortly after bezos announced his divorce. nbc news has not independently reviewed the e-mails in bezos's post. bezos had pointed to ami's connection to the saudi government as well as president trump. pecker's attorney stressing. >> i think both bezos and ami had interest in resolving their differences. >> since bezos's post others have come forward saying they too were victims of the same practices. actor terry crews tweeting that ami tried to silence me by fabricating stories.

people like michael sanchez, who is a suspected leaker and people he's associated with. >> i don't knowow high got these so-called texts or pictures or whatever. >> he just happens to be the mistress of jeff bezos. via my reporting, all we know is bezos' people suspect he is the prime suspect and he is very publicly a pro-trump person and has a relationship with the national enquirer. >> it looks like a limited tv series right here and the good guy is the one who released the information because we want to know what people are up to and bezos has made the smart move of putting out at least his account of the truth. your thoughts. >> and we should note at the top we don't know exactly what the motive is. don't know who was behind this. but it is clear he thinks his team thinks that there are two people -- two parties that would want tago after him, would want to besmufrp his reputation and that of the "washington post" and bezos clearly implicates both president trump as well as what he described as people that would be upset of the coverage of the murder of jamal cushogy. to me that rea

michael sanchez is reportedly a supporter of president trump, who does not see to the same with jeff bezos. he accused the tabloid of trying to black males in.'s >>> the dow fell 50 reports, nasdaq was up 9, and the s&p 500 was up 1. traders are looking at a thursday, when high-level trade talks are expected to resume between the united states and china. >>> pg&e is anticipating a major shakeup as they try to rerun trust and credibility with their customers. they say that they expect no more than five current directors will stand for reelection. they say the majority of the board will be new, by their annual meeting in may. they filed for bankruptcy protection last month in the face of billions of dollars in claims and wildfires. half of the members of the current board were also on board at the time of the deadly zambrano pipeline disaster several years ago.seball? tyler murray makes his decision. >>> also jean edited babies. by stanford faculty members are under investigation for their involvement. >>> chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking another wet and windy storm. he is b

is michael sanchez, is he going to be liable in any way.e one that leaked the information, apparently. >> if jeff bezos wants to go after him, he could, i mean on a civil side. there may be some statutes, some of the states have put forth basically revenge porn type of statute that could lead to local prosecutors going after somebody like sanchez who revealed pictures without the permission of the person, who took the pictures. there's no question that these were meant to be private pictures even if he is jeff bezos. gerri: th brother the brothet confirmed this, he's not talking about it. it appeared in the daily caller. this this the headlines, not confirmed. amazon stock is doing very well, despite all of these headlines. guys, thanks for coming on today. great to see both of you. cheryl: speaking of stocks, let's take a look at futures right now. you've got a good green kickoff to your monday. dow up 90 points, s&p is up 10 and a quarter, nasdaq is up 33 and three-quarters despite concerns about another government shutdown potentially la