Yesterday, Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned from her post as U.S.
Ambassador to Greece, and it was because of a Wall Street Journal investigation.
During Guilfoyle's ambassadorship, the Wall Street Journal looked into allegations
that she was using her position for personal gain.
After that investigation was published, the journal received information about a series of text messages.
Can you just give us a sense of how many text messages landed on your desk?
Probably more than 100. That's our colleague, Dana Mattioli.
Also, we received emails.
And by the end of this, my colleagues and I had gone through hundreds,
hundreds, more than a year's worth of text messages between the person
who sent us the text messages and the then ambassador to Greece.
In multiple texts, Gilboil talks about a potential payment of $100,000 to her American Express account.
Honey, please, I need you to get this done for me today with a prayer hand emoji.
What was your initial reaction to getting this tranche of text messages?
You know, the text messages got sent to myself and my three other colleagues, and they were really just eye-opening.
They were very graphic text messages.
And the first thing we said about doing was authenticating them, right?
The texts were between Guilfoyle and a man named Eric Dieters.
Ultimately, Dieters didn't make the payment, telling Guilfoyle that it would cost him his marriage.
Later, Dieters provided the messages to Dana, and Dana got to work verifying that the texts were real.