various actions taken on behalf of the saudi government, and he later wrote, that the saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve. now, we know that the saudi government has paid ami to publish a big glossy magazine promoting the crown prince and the kingdom. that in and of it/is not illegal, but bezos seems to think there s something more here. the saudi thing is fascinating and an overlay. remember, the washington post has been aggressively investigating the murder of their contributor jamal khashoggi. the washington post has taken on a mission of investigating that. jeff bezos owns the washington post. the saudi government is very much aligned with donald trump and the trump administration. david pecor, apparently has been
enquirer and their parent company of attempted extortion and blackmail. he shared a number of details and several e-mails from the publisher in this tell-all blog post. he s claiming that the tabloid threatened to release explicit photos, and in return, they wanted besources to end his investigation into the enquirer of he chose to expose what he says is blackmail and extortion. if it s true, if ami really did say if you don t do x, y and z, then we ll publish these photos,
motivated, which is interesting to me given the fact that david pecor, a former close friend of the president, now maybe he flipped on the president, running ami. there are lots of magazines. fox news supports of republicans, there is nothing illegal about that, and there certainly was nothing illegal about the national enquirer el toilly supported donald trump as it did. what was different is that pecor spent money, spent, you know what is arguably an illegal campaign contribution, $150,000 to karen mcdual to buy her silence. so there s history here. whether the effort to embarrass jeff bezos, a known adversary of the white house, was politically
motivated. it certainly could be, but i don t know what the underlying facts of that particular story are. so, the idea that the enquirer was insisted that it wasn t political, we ll see what the washington post learned. apparently the washington post learned that it was politically motivated. certainly the way to get at the truth is not through blackmail and extortion, at least in a colloquial, if not legal, sense. shan wu is also with us. do you have a read, shan, on whether you think if all of these allegations against ami that jeff bezos has written, prove to be true if they broke the law? i think so. i think i take a bit more
tried to do business with the saudis. we did just get a statement from ami, our board is going to investigate it. and pecker is on the board. jeffrey tuben, thank you very much. look at the bottom of your screen. also, we re on top of another big story. remember, we re one week away from a potential government shutdown again. lawyers are trading proposals with their goal of delivers legislation to the house early next week, the push for the final agreement by tonight no longer seems likely. meantime, a white house officials does tell cnn, quote,