"the washington post" shouldn't be in his hands. look what "the national inquirer" turned up about him and signs perhaps this story existed on more than one level at once. report that bezos himself launched a private investigation what was behind this "national inquirer" story and his private text messages. yesterday "the washington post" had this headline, was tabloid expo just juicy gossip or a political hit job? if it many was a political hit job, one implication would be it was perhaps carried out by a.m.i. to help president trump politically, once again by hurting or trying to take out of the equation somebody who trump perceives to be doing him political harm. i will tell you there is also a saudi arabia component to this. we'll get to that in a different part of tonight's show. but now tonight, this is how this all came together. mr. bezos tonight published this ten-page post online. and it is titled, as you can see, no thank you mr. pecker. it's not an insult to somebody, it's the name of the c.e.o. of american media, david

going after amazon and the washington post which the ceo also owns. >> so he uses the "washington post" for power. and he thinks that he's going to get the politicians to do what we wants. >> they chose the wrong person the bully in jeff bezos. he has wealth, courage and self confidence. and he's angry. ♪ >> commanding alexa to turn on our light, bing watching on amazon prime. shopping at whole foods or reading the "washington post." millions of americans whether they know it or not are interacting on a daily basis with amazon founder and ceo jeff bezos. >> jeff bezos has said the way you live, eat and work he wants to make it cheaper and he wants to make it more convenient. and thus far his track record is pretty extraordinary. >> bezos is an affable self described super geek. but behind the trademark booming laugh is a relentless and some would say ruthless drive. >> everyone's impacted by the strength of amazon. they have enormous power over the retail eco system. even consumer products companies are worried about that. >> that ambition has catapulted bezos to staggering heights but

"the washington post" shouldn't be in his hands. look what "the national enquirer" turned up about him. before long there were signs that perhaps this story existed on more than one level at once. a report that bezos himself had launched a private investigation into what was behind this "national enquirer" story, what was behind their publication of his private text messages. yesterday "the washington post" had this headline, "was tabloid expose of bezos affair just juicy gossip or a political hit job?" if it was a political hit job, one potential implication of that kind would be that it was perhaps carried out by a.m. ito help president trump politically once again. by hurting or trying to take out of the equation somebody who trump perceives to be doing him political harm. i will tell you, there is also a saudi arabia component to this with "the national enquirer," which is a related but separate angle. we will get to that in a different part of tonight's show. >>> but now tonight this is how this all came together. mr. bezos ton

washington post.e is striking back. this will be potentially open war. emily: there is a complicated web of relationships at play here between ami and the president and who knows? maybe even the saudi government. what exactly is next when it comes to whether or not criminal activity was committed here? greg: first of all, you got "the national enquirer" as part of payments to stormy daniels that were basically hidden campaign contributions. because of that legal settlement and the nonprosecution agreement that "the national enquirer" parent company entered into, the magazine has been in the penalty box. they have basically the equivalent of a three-year stint in the penalty box. don't do anything wrong. if there is a determination here, and this is the last thing i'm sure they want is to have several prosecutors looking at this. if there is any determination they have gone at the well again and have done something that basically amounts to a campaign hit piece or something that should be construed as

here it's about what's in "the washington post." post" investigation going on, and the enquirer, the letter says you write the following in "the washington post" or the implicit threat is we publish these letters. these photographs, not letters. >> dictating to "the washington post" what they should say. >> which bezos says would have been false anyway, because he feels apparently that there was political motivation for what the enquirer was doing. your question is it blackmail? is it a crime? is it extortion? my answer is i don't know. i think it is worthy of investigation. it's an unusual situation because even though it does have a threat involved, it is part of the news gathering process broadly defined, even though it's deeply sleazy. and i could see prosecutors hesitating to sort of get in the middle of this. it's disgraceful journalism. it's disgraceful behavior. whether it's an actual crime, i am frankly not prepared to say at this point. >> what -- what are the -- what is the difference between what they're doing and what y

he hates a lot of reporting at the "washington post."e not very happy with the "washington post" because, frankly, the saudis killed one of their opinion columnists and they have been incredibly aggressive in investigating and getting to the bottom of what happened in that case. and on a parallel track, ami has reportedly been sucking up to the saudis, perhaps because they have some kind of financial relationship or want one. so, you know, there's a lot of unanswered questions about this and what the motivation here was, but just to go back to the question to renato, i think to a normal layperson, this was extortion. right? this was you do "x" or we're going to expose these pictures. >> and they did it in writing, though. allegedly. >> they did it in writing. you know, a lot of smart lawyers have said this is not necessarily criminal, but it is about the sleaziest thing one can imagine, and kudos to jeff bezos for -- at a great personal sacrifice to his privacy for coming back and making their claim zero because he said, you know, what i

but we talked about "the washington post" earlier, "the washington post" and others got nixon during the watergate hearings and he's been tainted as president because of it. host: middle river, maryland, is next, walter, republican, go ahead. walter: good morning. mr. brinkley, i want to challenge you on a couple issues. first you said that "the washington post" was a act checker. i have to say they're a fact checker for the democrats. they're not a true fact checker because we've found them wrong many times the last couple years under the trump administration. especially when mr. trump had found out he'd been surveiled and wiretapped and all the things the f.b.i. was doing to him when the announcement was made a couple months ago, "the washington post" came and said no such thing happened it's a four pinocchio so please don't get on the high horse about "the washington post." it's driven by a democratic agenda, you know it, i know it, and anything trump says they say is a lie. so please be a little more fair. talking about lying presidents, my insurance went up under the a.c.a. abou

they wanted him to stop the publication of a story in "the washington post."to weigh? >> we know that the "national enquirer" has acted in ways that are politically motivated, if you look at to jeffrey's point the way in which they engaged in the practice known as catch and kill to buy the rights to karen mcdougal's story. she alleged having an affair with president trump many years ago. that was an effort to prevent her story from being told in the public and more importantly an opportunity for david pecker who is an ally of president trump to protect him. to that point, i think one of the questions with respect to this is, when you are telling jeff bezos that you want him to explicitly say on record that your actions are not mrit beipoy motivated, you are reaffirming they are politically motivated when you take into the president's feud with jeff bezos, which he has made public in many tweets over the last year and a half. >> you work at "the washington pos post". everything i heard from you and your colleagues and others at "the washington post" is bezos is

a "washington post" journalist was assassinated by an and and there's no way we can continue operating by a saudi arabian government that can be run by this guy -- >> and the post can keep. >> still ahead on "morning joe," we will set the stage for today's expected clash between democrats on the house judiciary committee and acting torng matthew whitaker. a mmm of that committee democrat aaron swal will go including the role that michael cohen's secret audio recordings played. we'll talk to emily jane fox about her reporting on that. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. we'll be right back. r bank starts with looking at something old, and saying, "really?" so capital one is building something completely new. capital one cafes. inviting places with people here to help you, not sell you. and savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. because that's how it should be. you can open one from right here or anywhere in 5 minutes. seriously, 5 minutes... this is banking reimagined. what's in your wallet? (clapping) every day, visionaries are creating the future. ( ♪

the "washington post" went forward with what they had. story from a woman who charges that there was this assault. today listen to his answer when asked if his political action committee is right this is coming from northam somehow. >> you believe that the governor's team is spreading misinformation. comment on that. >> he made his statement. >> do you believe it? >> i don't know where this is coming from. we heard different things. here's the thing. does anybody think it's a coincidence on the eve of a high being elevated is when this smear comes out? >> bret: this is something. >> well, he didn't rule out the possibility that governor northam would have leaked to the same website that brought out the black face photo the charge against him. i think that's maybe a little farfetched, but i don't know. it shows you something. what i think is interesting here is the "washington post"'s restraint in their coverage of this allegation. this was a woman whose name they knew. an event that did occur in the sense there was apparently sex between

i did enjoy reading "the washington post" report about how "the washington post" was bad.ecause they got sued. i don't think it matters whether they win this lawsuit. this is a big blow to fake news because right now every newsroom and all the executives -- coming from the top down, they are telling editors and reporters, do not shoot first and ask questions later. it's better to be late and right then first and wrong because right now they are facing ruinous lawsuits. it takes the penalty of financial hit for them to change their behavior because they are not policing themselves. you pointed out fake news is getting worse. so the only thing to do is hold them accountable financially. i like watching the media being held to account because they like to hold other people to account, like us, and they never, ever have to look in words. >> juan: i hate to blow things up for you but you are so deep in the trump bunker. sometimes i think i've got a help jesse out. >> jesse: if i am at a bunker, i'm not letting you in. >> juan: i hope i'm not in it. i don't want to get in that b

bezos writes, it's unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience "washington post" news coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy. president trump is one of those people. obvioused by his many tweets. also, "the post's" essential and unrelenting coverage of its journalist, jamal khashoggi, is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles. all of this after david pecker made an immunity deal with federal prosecutors in august for providing information about the hush money payments to two women during the 2016 campaign. and let's not forget, there's one very big fan of the enquirer. >> i've always said, why didn't the "national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these things? >> all of this is -- i know, right? there's always a tweet and a sound bite, for every, every thing. all of this is much bigger than the battle between jeff bezos and the "national enquirer." the question tonight, though, is what will it mean for the president? lots more on the bezos bombshell, going to dig into it. you seen him. jeffrey brunei is here, max boot, next. ca

and a bomb shell story david peck against jeff bezos of the "washington post."n thursday, bezos, who also owns amazon, accuses the parent can company of "the national enquirer" of extortion and blackmail. this after the enquirer had a front-page expose including pursesinal text messages and photographs. shortly after publication, he hired a team to find out how the tabloid got hold off those text messages and photographs. onblog post yesterday, bezos writes that tabloids editor threatened to publish additional photos unless bezos called off his investigation and made specific false public statement to the press that there was no basis for claiming that ami had a political agenda. this can be seen as yet another battle between trump ally and his critics. ami says it was merely involved in good faith negotiations. they are using the practice of catch and kill to keep two women from publicizing their claims they had affairs with the president. throughout the campaign ami acted as a pr wing, you might say, of the trump campaign, promoting the candidate and savaging

lawyers for 16-year-old catholic high school student laying out the case against the washington post saying they portrayed nicholas sandman as a racist and worse. we have that from alan dershowitz and matt bennett. is the mueller probe winding down? as we await word, and mccabe getting a pass. kristin fisher and britt hume standing by. with the jussie smollett investigation advancing, we have mike tobin standing by in chicago. >> reporter: jussie smollett went from start to suspect in just a matter of weeks charged with disorderly conduct, filing of a false police support, a felony. is legally measured a statement. like any other citizen jussie smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence particularly when there has been an investigation like this one with information both true and false repeatedly leaked. given the circumstances we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and mount an aggressive defense. the brothers who were considered potential suspects testified for 2 and half hours before a grand jury saying they were paid but the payment does not fit the narrative we know pub

donald trump sees the washington post as an enemy.trump tweets someone, he is usually back on his heels and being defensive. it is interesting that melania trump brought a young boy to the state of the union had been bullied about his name to make a point we should not bully other people, and in this twitter posts the president is making fun of jeff bezos and his name. all of that aside, the other thing going on is president trump does not like the coverage in the washington post, but one thing to remember about the coverage in the washington post and elsewhere is they do not routinely go out and purchase stolen information and publish it, and prior to publication threaten targets with assassinating their reputation if they do not play ball with them. that is what the national inquirer does and that is who the president is aligned with. vonnie: it is a phenomenal story that the publisher of the washington post is getting to expose this -- tim: on social media. vonnie: exactly. tim o'brien, thank you for joining us. i want to reiterate

he uses the "washington post" as his power tool. >> the "washington post," that's basically the lobbyistor amazon. you know, he uses that, bezos, who has bigger problems than anybody right now, but bezos uses that as his lobbyist, okay? as far as i'm concerned. >> and yet, white house principle deputy press secretary says he wasn't sure if the president was even aware of this dispute between bezos and ami or the "national enquirer." likely? >> well, we know that trump is paying attention to the divorce proceedings because on the day bezos announced his divorce, trump said what is going to be a buttesy. trump is always interested in billionaires getting divorced and all of the financial consequences. so i would suspect trump is paying attention to this. bezos is on his informal enemies list. he called him bozo last month. so trump is interested in these subjects for sure. >> and let's talk about the other thing brian mentioned in his piece and that is the immunity deal between david pecker and ami and the southern district of new york. federal prosecutors, why risk it? >> that's where thi

at the washington post. ten people have died in a fire. football club flamengo in brazil the blaze broke out before dawn friday at a training facility at the club officials say some of the victims were teenagers from the flamenco youth team was sleeping in the sand at the time. friends and family of those killed or injured are in shock some of them are to find their relatives alive while others wait anxiously for news outside the training ground of the flamingo soccer club. the blaze broke out just before dawn and this accommodation block firefighters were called in just after five am local time but for at least ten people help came to late. obviously we're all devastated. this is certainly the biggest tragedy this club has seen in the past one hundred twenty three years the beech trees. flamingo is one of brazil's biggest and best known clubs internationally its most prominent former players include. as well as eighteen year old finishes jr who played for flamengo before joining spain's riyadh madrid last year. he tweeted just remembering

why the owner of "the washington post" believes david pecker is tied toyota saudis. why is the "national enquirer" the best friend in the country the saudi arabia government including its crown prince and murder of khashoggi. a combative hearing today of the man overseeing the russia investigation, attorney general matt whitaker. bottom line, he wouldn't say one good word about robert mueller for fear of what the boss man might say. >>> plus a late-breaking story out of virginia. it gets worse. a second woman has now accused lieutenant governor justin fairfax of sexual assault saying it's worse than just sexual assault, it's rape, saying he raped her while in college at duke 19 years ago. we have a lot to get to tonight. stay with us. aaaaaahhhhhhhh! ballooned your car. call meeeee! (burke) a fly-by ballooning. seen it, covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ billions of problems. morning breath? garlic breath? stinky breath? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath fresh breath oral rins

look, it doesn't hurt "the washington post" because we are all talking about it.on't like the "post" reporting i guess could be reminded of the fact that despite all the allegations of fake news and a lot of the self-inflicted wounds of the news busy talk about on fox every week, there are a lot of journalists who go out and risk their lives in war zones, in disaster areas and stuff like that. it was nice to see those scenes. you know, as opposed to another commercial pushing alexa or pushing other corporate products, maybe it was worth 60 seconds. only jeff bezos can decide whether it was worth ten million bucks. >> howard, i echo gary's point. i always enjoy your show on the weekend. your analysis of the news media writ large. why is it now that given the sacrifices so many journalists make, daniel pearl was not on that list but we know many journalists worldwide lost their lives in pursuit of the truth, why is there so much in america, which has always celebrated a free and diverse fourth estate? >> because you have such a polarized political and media culture

. >> also, this morning, "washington post," with an important revelation, the "washington post," davidory, is reporting the trump organization has fired 18 undocumented workers at several of their locations, golf courses, et cetera. what struck me near the bottom of the piece, the trump organization says they will start using e-verify, start. here's what the president said about e-verify in 2016. >> what are we going to do about illegal higher? republicans joined the democrats a couple years ago and said we will stop illegal hiring. >> e-verify. >> are you for it? >> i'm for it. i use it. i'm using e-verify on just about every job at doral and using it at the post office on pennsylvania avenue i'm building and will soon be a phenomenal hotel. >> not just that it's a bad look for the organization, given what the president said, you also now have senators like senator menendez who just wrote a letter to ihs to investigate the treatment of some workers there. >> that's right. whether they were exploited or told, don't worry, we will get you false papers, take care of it for you. this is a

"washington post" it's treachery. scene of the crime and refusing to say where mr. khashoggi's killers are. the men our cia believes was the king pen, crown prince mohammed bin salman, the man who effectively runs sautdy arabia. what do we as americans face as our mayoral imperative? at minimum to not let the murders walking away as free and respected figures. he needs face the world's judgment. is this what our president wants? all evidence suggests trump wants nothing. the people who planned this did fully suing they could do it knowing the amare president wouldn't so much as raise his voice for fear it would ruin his scheme to lure saudi arabia into an alliance with israel. we would be siting with the victim and going after the killer. instead we're with a president more comfy with dictators than what was done to truth-telling journalists. walter chronkite used to say "and that's the way it is." and that's "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes. >>> tonight on "all in". >> when the president says the mueller

as the minutes ticked down and lowest scoring super bowl in history the washington post unveiled its democracy dies in darkness super bowl ad and for many in the industry of journalism the commercials celebrated the ad did a lot of these commercial and celebrated its added a list some strong emotions just not the ones that washington post in its billionaire owner jeff bezos were hoping for because while the commercial slide shows featuring major moments in u.s. history journalists lost in the line of duty and tom hanks powerful narration did convey the important need for good journalism in a free society it was the price tag of the ad that many in the industry feel betrayed its core message as you know my friends freedom isn't free and neither are super bowl ads especially it seems for the washington post who reportedly shelled out a cool five point two million dollars for it as you can imagine this price tag did not sit too well with many in the industry has been steve as we've seen story after story week after week of budget cuts and layoffs in newsrooms around the cunt. in fact fr

last month i was a boss of the washington post own niche.

bezos's ownership of "the washington post" is one of the things that bugged trump, and "the washingtonas published a bunch of investigative journalism that has shown problems in the administration and also made revelations about the russia investigation. that is what appears to be aggravating the president. that's where the risk comes from and he has embraced having the washington post and doing that journalism. as it has turned out, trump has not been able to do much that hurts bezos. if anything, bezos is benefiting. it looks like they are doing really well in the competition to get a big cloud contract from the pentagon. this is donald trump's pentagon, they decided it makes more sense to have cloud computing from a single source and that gave amazon a huge advantage over other competitors. emily: speaking of "the washington post," they ran a much talked about super bowl ad, narrated by tom hanks, celebrating american journalism. "knowing keeps us free," "democracy dies in darkness," which given the stories you have mentioned from the washington post, it seems to take a shot at the

"the washington post" came out and saying that's a lie. none of that were true.when "the washington post" is calling you out and you're a democrat in this serious hot water, you are in deep trouble. i just don't think he can survive. >> for our viewers not following this story as closely as we have been, a big reason they're not stepping down, the next guy in line would be kirk cox, a republican. >> right. >> so to my ears, virginia democrats are basically saying to voters, that maintaining power is more important as a party than these allegations of racism and sex crimes? >> right. they would rather have a potential racist or rapist than a republican. though i do think that's started to crack when the second allegation hit justin fairfax. part of the problem here is -- again for your viewers who don't know, the governor is white. his scandal for the democrats began with blackface. for people like me, it began when he said letting a child born alive die two days before the blackface scandal is when he really started to hit the news, then blackface hit that friday

legal action against the "washington post". llion lawsuit over its coverage of that confrontation between covington catholic high school students and a native american activist in washington martha maccallum with join us straight ahead next hour. thank you, admiral. so if you need money for your family, call newday usa. go to newdayusa.com or call 1-855-newdayusa need cash? at newday, veteran homeowners can get 54,000 dollars or more to consolidate high rate credit card debt and lower their payments by 600 dollars every month. go to newdayusa.com or call 1-855-newdayusa your insurance rates skyrocket you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> sandra: russian president vladimir putin issuing a stern warning to the u.s.

five million dollars potentially could have the washington post five. hundred thousand dollars. it would support twelve journalists. and seventy thousand dollars which is considerably above. thirty nine. i mean look. one of the biggest things right now in journalism is investigative journalism. the most expensive. things we talked about. department papers. how much do you think five million dollars could have bought the investigative journalist alive you know i mean that's a lot is dying in the darkness because they've decided to spend five million dollars letting the super bowl fans know that while we're literally watching out now remember this whole idea of corporate media as the do gooders which is what i looking at that it's your big corporate capitalism news. which is fine if you have alternatives fine but when there are these are the same people that back the newseum here this news museum here in d.c. they were supposed to showcase journalism in the first amendment which is now closed and. sorry it's just headed to heroin or was it really is like you can see that so the fr

how union well basically what we have so far is an article in the washington post claiming that the us military indeed managed to block internet access to one russian group known as internet research agency on the day off the country's make terms november last year some in america believe that they scored might be involved in the interference in the country's presidential elections back in two thousand and sixteen the paper washington post is citing a number of officials as the paper says familiar with the matter all of whom spoke to washington post on the condition of anonymity and it has also added in the article that that attack in two thousand and eighteen was just the beginning of the first strike in what is supposed to be a massive cyber complaint against russia let's take a listen. operation marked the first muscle flexing by u.s. cyber command with intelligence from the national security agency under new authorities it was granted by president trump and congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities well needless to say obviously many found this news here in russia rather

the amazon founder who, of course, owns "the washington post." one of "the daily beast" editors who has been all over this story has the friday night scoop and is here with me momentarily. the context i want to go through. as you probably know as you're watching the news, there's serious implications in all of this for donald trump. today, bloomberg news reports the allegations against trump ally david pecker could blow up his immunity deal. another source telling nbc the same thing. prosecutors probing where the publish the "national enquirer" violated his own non-prosecution agreement by trying to blackmail bezos this week. pecker has one big problem because bezos is accusing him of a crime. but this shows a second problem because as bloomberg and nbc and rachel have been reporting, pecker may have played himself here and blown up his own immunity in the investigation into how michael cohen and donald trump hid bad stories for trump during 2016. translation, if david pecker told the feds about other crimes he committed during those immunity tal

lynwood wants to punish "the washington post" for allegedly targeting the covington high school teamll because of his politics and what he calls the paper's political bias. trace gallagher is on the case for us from the l.a. newsroom. good evening, trey sperry >> good evening. there is no argument that the kids were vilified by numerous media outlets, including "the washington post" after cell phone video showed salmon steering down native american nathan phillips and there is growing evidence that media outlets drew their conclusion before they looked at the nearly two hours of video that dramatically changes both the context and perspective showing the altercation actually began with a group of black hebrew israelites were called the students a list of obscene and offensive names. investigators fired by covington catholic high school and the kentucky dioceses also say the students were not the instigators. and the lawsuit filed by the sandman family says "the washington post" used its "vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory

jillian: a lot of money at stake from the covington catholic teen who is suing the washington post. >he covington controversy filed against the washington post to the tune of $250 million. a portion of that lawsuit says the post ignored basic journalistic standards because it wanted to advance a well-known and easily documented by his agenda against donald trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the president. the washington post says they are reviewing a lawsuit and plan to announce a vigorous defense, but he has many supporters on social media. this is great negligence and the media should have consequences. good for them, hope they win. this insanity needs to stop her, his life will never be the same. i hope he gets it all. not the last you will hear, this is only the beginning. rob: a 16-year-old kid, it was ridiculous. >> think of college accusations. they know who they is already. rob: a hunting trip with john junior. >> if you are a hunter this may be of interest to you, hunting advocacy group under nation is auctioning off a 5 a hunting trip in utah with d

"the washington post" is just the first of many outlets are packed all my personalities he intends to sue. that's according to his lawyer who is relying on a private investigator's findings that he never did anything wrong. and that his team thinks "the washington post" should have done more digging before bringing a 16-year-old as an aggressor. harris? >> harris: perhaps every buddy should have done more digging. all those people who jumped on with their tweets and whatnot. peter doocy, thank you very much pray let's bring in charlie hurt, founder of a conservative student group turning point usa. charlie, i read something riveting that you wrote last month after this had all unfolded. and i learned something, that you are one of those people who jumped on with one of those tweets and then he took it down. talk to me about how you think we got here and you are in that. >> yeah, i made a mistake. i logged onto twitter and i saw outlets such as "the washington post" and many others that were framing this as if they were these high school students that got in the way of the indigenous p

he filed tonight $250 million suit against "washington post" on behalf of nicholas sandmann. sandmann was the young teen at the center of the media's fake outrage, lies, smears, slander, his completely normal conduct at a protest where he was attacked verbally and otherwise? calmly, as you can see, he stood his ground, he smiled, and when a 54-year-old native american activist walked over, approached him with his drum in his face, speaking loudly. this after a horrible, vicious, racist verbal assault against of these kids by the activists known as black hebrew israelites. watch this. >> this is the religion of america. make america great again, a bunch of child molesters [bleep]. >> that's right. >> [bleep] with that racist garbage. look at these dirty [bleep] crackers. that racist garbage on. >> sean: these kids are 15, 16 years old and despite whatat yu saw, members of the media like "the washington post" and nbc and others, by the way, i know lynwood, one of the greatest attorneys in the country, and he will be here tomorrow night. you guys are in for a fight. vilified an

bezos reporting the washington post coverage of the murder of a person who wrote for them, jamal khashoggi. many remember this. this was in the saudi consulate in turkey. saudi arabia is a huge critic of the post investigation. and now for some reason is david pecker and this, again, to what jeff bezos is asking is a big question. he writes several days ago, an ami leader advised us that pecker is apoplectic about our investigation. for reasons still to be better understood, a saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve. that's a lot. a lot of it looks bad even if it's not all true. now, let that all sink in and look at a brand new report from the daily beast which details the larger patterns. private investigators who have literally directly worked for them and the quote, war of blackmail that goes on and helps explain their business model and perhaps their brazenness they thought they could get away with this against the richest man in the world. joining me now as promised is the editor in chief of daily beast who can give us a lot more details. i'm joined by jonathan alter.

here is a interview in "the washington post." northam says he'll focus on race and he's not going to resign. his interview with gail king. he says he wants to deal with issues of equity. even though the "relationship mond dispatch" editorial page says he should go. gillian: the tidal wave has already washed everything ashore in response to the media's overwhelming coverage of this issue. what we are watching here is everybody grappling with the question, is there a statute of limitations on bad behavior? because there is no answer in the law, everyone is turning to the media to see what pundits and politicians are saying about it. howie: jeff bezos and the "national enquirer." the state of the union and democratic investigations next. 't to make you everybody else... ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn't. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderful life on earth. ♪ ♪ smile dad. it's the most woi take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they migh

handling of the reporting on amazon founder and "washington post" owner jeff bezos.s accusing the parent company, american media and publisher david pecker of blackmail and extortion, threatening to publish embarrassing private photos of him if he doesn't drop his investigation of how "the enquirer" came to have them. of american media reached a nonprosecution agreement with the southern district in which the company admitted to paying $150,000 to help then candidate donald trump hush up his alleged affair with karen mcdougal. part of that involved ami keeping its legal nose clean. they put out a statement today saying that the company believes fervently that it acted lawfully in the reporting of a story of mr. bezos. joining us is shanlon wu. the southern district is reviewing their actions. based on what you've seen do you think it amounts to extortion or blackmail? >> i do actually. i think it fits the elements for it. oftentimes we associate extortion only with the idea of i'm going to hurt you if you don't pay me cash, but it can be broader than that. here the h

tonight is a journalist with a new memoir about being the first black female reporter at the "washington post dorothy butler gilliam is joining us. she's 82 years old, and i think she can still kick my ass. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: really amazing story! stay tuned for that. also on the show tonight, a fashion trend worse than socks with sandals, roy wood, jr. takes us back in time and why you should feel sorry for billionaires. but first, let's catch up on today's headlines. build the wall, the favorite chant at president trump's rallies, right after lock her up and extra dipping sauce. ( laughter ) but now the democratic governor from new mexico iso showing trump what she thinks of his wall. >> the governor of new mexico really doesn't like walls. watch this. >> i'm michelle lujan grisham. we have to bust through walls to make changes in our schools. i'll create public and private partnerships to rebuild our infrastructure. we need more apprenticeships and skills training. and the billions in the permanent fund to invest in schools and small businesses. and here's what i think of t

there's a great piece in "the washington post".t democrats struggling, summarizing, trying to sprapt these three scandals into different categories. how difficult has it been for them to do that. there's gradations of scandal. >> very difficult for them to separate mark herring from ralph northam because they are treating them as two separate things but in people's mind who think blackface is racist, which it is. it's hard for you to say ralph northam should resign because he bungled his connectimmunication. but mark herring tried to get ahead of his use of blackface somehow he should be able to be absolved of his crimes or sins and be able to stay. i think justin fairfax is in the most trouble right now because his -- the allegations against him could be criminal and these two women i think when the first woman came out there were people who said maybe vanessa tyson, maybe she got things wrong or there's an tlish. but for the second woman to come out and i told people immediately he raped me when i was a student at duke. i wouldn'

" coverage and i own "the washington post" is president trump. >> and the people at ami better be dealings with the southern district u.s. attorney's office because there is a term in there, nonprosecution agreement, that says you may not commit any other crimes. that list of crimes could include extortion if somebody views this as being extortion. it's certainly not a normal business negotiation. or if there were crimes committed in the way in which they obtained the information about bezos, that could lead the southern district to decide to tear up their nonprosecution agreement and charge them with whatever crimes they may have committed. >> stu, let me ask you. when we go back to the timing here you have david pecker cooperating with the southern district of new york last fall. obviously all of this with jeff bezos has come to light since then. is it possible that he's still talking to trump or favorable to trump or trying to take jeff bezos down because "the washington post" is slamming trump? >> not knowing firsthand but i couldn't imagine how they're not still in touch. eve

complex of fire for me he writes it's unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience washington postnews coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy president trump is one of those people obvious by his many tweets also the posts central an unrelenting coverage of the murder of it's called mr malcolm chaudry is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles he concludes bezos refers to the saudi government several times in his post and points out that david pecker was introduced to a figure with ties to the saudi royal family by president trump at a time when the publisher was looking for financing packer is a long time friend of donald trump in march of last year i am i the parent come. body of national enquirer published a glossy magazine promoting saudi arabia and crown prince mohammed bin salman containing the adverts of the time the saudis denied any connection as far as i'm aware and i believe it would be when we have absolutely nothing to do with this we maybe some of our citizens read the national enquirer when they're in the united states citizens watch the soap opera unfold o