and i love cnn. i still watch cnn. but, when we expended and we were about to talk about criminal justice reform, death penalty. this is my favorite one, the flint water crisis in flint. i had been working with roland martin who had been working with a bunch of other people work we decided rather they go to another quote unquote stale debate where we talk about the e-mails we had worked together and we had come up with a lot of questions and, yes, i gave the candidates had up and i also said i used to give republicans heads up when i was on the panel with them and say here are the topics. i've always given people heads up. i didn't take nothing. i shared something. >> you said that it was a mistake to it forever. >> absolutely because if you going to have your e-mails sent and people oh much see the ones you gave to this one and not the other ones, my files had been wiped clean, so i couldn't defend myself so i took the hit. i took on the hit. >> for me it's been difficult and painful, as you know. i love you like you

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time warner, of course, parent company of cnn. as we stand by for a news conference by those two companies, let's bring if our top media and legal analyst. jeffrey toobin, let's go to you first. as you're sorting through what the government's case is going to be here, what do you make of it? is this as time warner and at&t are saying a very unusual objection to this merger? >> it is unusual because this is what's known as a vertical merger. a horizontal merger is companies that compete with each other, and that's what antitrust enforcement is usually focused on. when two companies that are in the same markets compete -- who usually compete against each other decide to merge. this is a vertical merger, which means at&t is a company that does business with time warner. time warner supplies programming to some of the at&t subsidiaries, but they don't compete. and at least in recent years the justice department has not sued to stop vertical merges. so what's striking about this is that it is a departure from both the more liberal anti

cnn doesn't go away? cnn is still for sale. cnn still talks. i mean t doesn't -- >> yeah. i completely agree with you, and another very interesting question about who buys it >> well, if steve bannon buys it and merges it with breitbart and they merge with sinclair, and i think a lot of people including by the way, rupert murdoch is upset about that and a lot of other people would be upset because you're using the instrumentalities of government and the rule of law to create an apparatus and on the other hand, what if you sell it to "the washington post" and amazon. does that solve a problem for trump? so your question is a very good one which is that cnn, as cnn has value, as cnn and that value doesn't necessarily go away depending on the owner >> all right, blair. thank you so much for calling in we appreciate it >> thank you blair levin. we should note time warner shares are down by 6.5%. this is very close to session lows at this point in time. >> it's still five bucks above the deal price the day before the deal is announced. the market is not saying it's dead, but ma

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united states than cnn. but outside of the u.s., cnn international is still a major source of fake news. they represent our nation to the world very importantly. outside world does not see the truth from them. cnn responded, it's not cnn's job to represent the u.s. to the world. that's your job. our job is to report the news. #factsfirst. some said they felt this was trump's way of telling putin, make sure you crack down on cnn international or maybe a complete coincidence. either way, trump's tweet reads like an invitation to undemocratic regimes around the world to harass cnn journalists with the blessing of the u.s. president. is this presidential? no. is it petty? definitely. speaking of petty, let's talk about the president's other tweet this weekend, about time magazine. this is something involving "time's" person of the year choice, that's coming up in about ten days. the magazine has to consider who should be on the cover, it is logical trump would be one of the contenders. he treated he does not wan

"cnn newsroom" live from atlanta, georgi this hour, simulcast on cnn usa i the united states and cnn international worldwide. stay with us. >>> a warm welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." always good to have you with us. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. in zimbabwe, mugabe's own party is meeting to discuss a no confidence vote on his leadership, this according to a senior source. the report gathered comes from a day after thousands of people took to the streets who demand mr. mugabe's resignation. he was put under house arrest and an apparent military coup on wednesday. protesters shouting no to slavery, they marched through the streets of paris on saturday, it came on the heels of a cnn exclusive report showing african migrants sold as slaves in libya. the libyan government says it will investigate and try to rescue the victims. >>> gerry adams will step down next year as president of sinn fein. adams led the irish republican party since 1983. when he leaves, he'll go out wit

well, cnn responded with this tweet. it's not cnn's job to represent the u.s. to the world. that's yours. our job is to report the news, #factsfirst. here's some of what cnn's reporters do here at home and around the world. and here's what it looks like. >> less than a kilometer away firing at iraqi special forces. this is a constant day in and day out. >> wait. >> they and we are caught in the open. a lot of our fighters -- >> minutes into our flight now sabena stops breathing. this young woman is going into cardiac arrest. it is aggressive, but i've just delivered a cariac thump, a quick strong hit to the chest. whether it worked for sure i can't say but she came back. >> so for the president of the united states who less than a year ago swore to preserve, protect and defend the constitution including the first amendment which guarantees freedom of the press, for the president to tweet what amounts to an assault on journalists who actually risk their lives to report the facts, it's stunning. you know who the president does seem to trust as a source of credible news? magga

including cnn. what's your reaction to the undercover tactic to sort of bait and trick news organizations? >> well, news organizations have to be on the alert for this. and my expectation is this will get -- this kind of operation, will get -- there'll be more of them, it'll get worse as this presidency goes along. as we've said any number of times, before, don, what you have in president trump, you have a man who's fearful. basically he's afraid. he's afraid of what the mueller investigation may turn up. he's terrorized and he's lashing out in every direction. and he doesn't have to give any orders to some of these reactionary groups who are doing these undercover things trying to trick reporters. the best thing we can do as reporters is to do our job. just try to get the facts, try to analyze the facts to get the truth or as close to the truth as you possibly can and just keep on keeping on. that's our best defense against all of these things. as for fake news, let us note one of it biggest purvey

time warner owns cnn. this week there was a sense the deal was about to be approved until this headline in the would you tell journ-- "wall street journal." has trump had any government in the review of this deal? >> you know better than to go ahead and throw that poison out to your viewers which are heavily democratic and anti-trump because it's a business model you should own. at the same time, the department of justice and the different departments within the department of justice who look at merger deals will do their work. we're not going to interfere with that here. >> president trump has not had any conversations -- >> i understand why your colleagues are worried about another merger but i don't want to spend the white house's time with you brian talking about something that affects you and your employees. the department of justice is a very large place. let them do their job. >> independently, i agree. they should be independent. >> well of course, the department of justice is department. >> when t

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cnn is there with live reporting. in the united states, allegations of sexual misconduct revive the accusations against the u.s. president, but the white house dismisses any comparison. >>> and in libya, investigation launch, the result of cnn's exclusive reporting of migrants being auctioned off as slaves. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right mow. 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. good day to you. in jim bob way, thousands of people are marching in the capital city, people calling for the resignation of president robert mugabe of this after an apparent military coup on wednesday. the military says it backs the anti-mugabe march as long as it's peaceful. on friday, the u.s. secretary said he was mon orring that situation and called it an opportunity for zimbabwe. take a listen. >> i know all of us are following very closely the events in zimbabwe. they're a concern to each of you an

let's ask cnn's anna coren, who's live for us in seoul, south korea. good morning, anna. >> reporter: yeah, hi, dave. certainly, the news has been met very warmly here in south korea as well as japan. they see this as a step towards denuclearization of the korean peninsula. in china, they're not so enthusiastic. foreign ministry spokesperson described this as a highly complex and sensitive situation, calling on all parties to ease tensions and return to the negotiating table. we have to remember that china has only just sent a special envoy to pyongyang at president trump's request to re-engage north korea in talks over its nuclear weapons program, and analysts believe that perhaps whatever progress was made over the weekend may have been now eroded because of president trump's announcement. it has been two months since north korea last launched a ballistic missile test, and we heard from south korea's top spy agency yesterday saying that north korea is, in fact, ready to launch another ballistic missile and a new nuclear test. and the fear, dave, is t

cnn's anna coren live in seoul, south korea, for us. good morning, anna. >> reporter: yeah, hi, christine. it's certainly welcome news here where i am in south korea as well as japan. they say donald trump's decision to place north korea back on that list as a state sponsor of terrorism is a positive move, increasing that diplomatic and economic pressure in the hope of getting north korea back to the negotiating table, and ultimately, denuclearizing the korean peninsula. china, however, christine, not so enthusiastic. we heard from the foreign ministry a short time ago which said, "this was a highly complex and sensitive situation," calling on all parties to ease tensions and come back to the negotiating table. it's important to remember that it comes just days after china sent a special envoy to pyongyang at the insistence of donald trump to restart the conversation about the concerns over north korea's nuclear weapons program. and the concern now is that whatever progress was made over those few days may have been eroded by that annou

cnn's defense of this, mr. president, it is not our job here at cnn to represent the u.s. to the world. it is yours. our job is to bring our viewers the facts and we are unfaltering in our mission. even former cia and nsa director michael hayden jumped in to the defense of the free press saying this, quote, if this is who we are or who we are becoming i have wasted 40 years of my life. until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an american president capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment. let me bring in two of my colleagues and two of cnn's most respected international correspondent ben wedeman. our reporter who has been at cnn 23 years, much of that time spent in war zones and clarissa ward who has spent the past decade reporting from the front lines including syria, iraq and afghanistan. both of them have earned multiple global awards for their reporting. so thank you both so much for coming on any ben wedeman, we will throw up the tweet and your picture of your bloodied head from when you were in jerusalem a couple

cnn international worldwide. stay with us. >>> welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." it is good to have you with us. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. the u.s. president donald trump is now in japan, the first stop on a nearly two week long tour of asia. soon after his arrival, mr. trump went to a country club near tokyo, had lunch and played golf with the japanese prime minister. the president next travels to south korea. king solomon created an anti-corruption committee, already cost several top ministers their jobs. cnn also learning multiple princes, ministers and former ministers have been detained. >>> in the meantime, saudi arabia says it has intercepted a missile aimed at the airport in riyadh. the saudi defense ministry blames houthi rebels in yemen for at tack on saturday, which it says did not injure anyone. in response, saudi arabia launched an air strike on sanaa, yemen's capital. >>> lebanon is

and at&t is not selling cnn. >> let me ask you again, why do you want cnn so badly? >> because i need a strong competitor against nbc, andrew, right? okay i went through it already. i personally think that where we are right now in the world of advertising and media, that there are a couple of players who have built incredibly strong positions and impressive positions in advertising and they are technology companies. and i believe that if we are going to compete, if somebody's going to compete with them, the best opportunity with have, if somebody like at&t, i honestly do believe that, if somebody is going to stand up a platform that can actually attract advertisers that could compete against a google or facebook, somebody with the data in our data distribution business, or a sizable input like you have in turner that could complete at that level that's what this is about. you answer my question, why would i sell cnn if that's the business we're trying to build great demographic, great advertisine ing iing inventory,t content. >> are you surprised at the turn this ha

named cnn hero of the year. join anderson and guest host kelly ripa live sunday december 17th. that's it for us tonight. thanks for watching. heats up, president trump travels to asia for his longest overseas trip yet. >>> plus the caliphate crumbles. isis forces losing their last significant strong hold in iraq. >>> and more fall out for kevin spacey amid sexual harassment allegations. >>> 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, we wantz to welcom on you veers and i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. thanks again for joining us. president spending the night in the state of hawaii. he and his wife melania arrived there friday afternoon. >> later they fly to tokyo for the first leg of their trip to the pacific rim, the first for this president and the longest foreign trip yet of his administration. >> on friday they paid their respects to the fallen u.s. troops at the uss arizona memorial in pearl harbor. he later attended a social function ho

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i was a bernie guy on cnn. i can tell you i wasn't the only one how many times i said during the primary that the white house and the dnc were rigged into support hillary clinton, and not to give a fair shake to bernie sanders. everybody ridiculed me and laughed. not just me, but others. now we know -- first we learned from the russian e-mails. remember? when they were hacked. that they were thumb on the scale, as maria said, for bernie, now we hear from donna brazile. i find it a small comfort but little comfort that now the whole world knows that we were right, but i think the big thing is, forget 2016. it happened. >> make it less reflection. do you believe it's going to have an impact now on democrats as they poise themselves for positions leading into 2018? >> i would hope not. i would hope they would keep the focus, again, on 2018 and 2020. i also think -- i want to volunteer this. i think it's time that hillary and some of the other people around here stop blaming bernie for her loss. she lost. she can b

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cnn was sent this footage by a contact. after months of working, we were able to verify the authenticity of what you see here. we decided to travel to libya to try and see for ourselves. we're now in tripoli and we're starting to get a little bit more of a sense of how this all works. our contacts are telling us that there are one to two of these auctions every month and that there is one happening in the next few hours. so we're going to head out of town and see if we can get some sort of access to it. t for the safety of our contacts, we have agreed not to divulge the location of this auction, but the town we're driving to isn't the only -- night falls. we travel through nondeflect script suburban neighborhoods, pre-he tetending to look for a g person. eventually we stop outside a house like any on other. and wait. fine and he will it's time to move. we're uppered into one of two auctions happened. a flood light obscuring much of the scene. one by one men are brought out as the bidding begins. 400. 500. 550. 600. 650. 700

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did it come from cnn. but i was under the impression with the debates and to expand the members of the base the town hall and the forum also with black lives matter to expand because they love wolf but they don't like me or you. said the pressure that i was under says the cnn commentator was to produce diversity as well as additional questions. so the debates for town halls or forums the key very much. i love cnn very much i still watch a. that we expanded and to talk about criminal justice reform in death penalty the water prices and plant -- crisis in flint michigan we decided rather than going to another failed debate we work together and had come up with a lot of questions and alza said gave republicans had up to say guess what?. >> so you say they would forever regret it. >> because if he lets get the mills for this one but not the other one? guess what? my files were wiped clean. >> for me it has been painful. i stood up for human defended you but at the same time i very much understand the need cnn

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you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. more breaking news out of washington, the top house democrat. nancy pelosi is now calling for embattled congressman conyers to resign. 88-year-old faces multiple sexual allegations. conyers attorney says the congressman will not be appreciate shu pressured to step down. >> it is not up to nancy pelosi. she did not elect the congressman. and sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave. that decision will be completely up to the con man. >> now, nancy pelosi just recently was under fire days ago after defending congressman conyers as an icon. but now she is saying this. >> the allegations against congressman conyers, as we have learned more since sunday, are serious disappointing, and very credible. it's very sad. the brave women who came forward are owed justice. i pray for congressman conyers and his family. and wish them well. however, congressman conyers should resign. >> also, just this afternoon, joining leader pelosi and calling for resignation according to a s

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can you see it on cnn. president trump says he believes it when vladimir putin says they did not meddle in u.s. elections. this is what the fbi director, and three people the president hand picked have publicly said about the russians meddling in the elections. >> i am confident that the mu russians have meddled. >> is there any dissent on whether the russians meddled in the election? >> there is no dissent. >> i have no reason whatsoever to doubt the assessment of the intelligence community. >> i want to bring in "washington post" writer adam entis and josh rogue. adam, i want to start with the obvious here. it goes without saying that the president has now taken a different position than his entire intelligence community. not his, the entire intelligence community. they say that russia meddled in the election. they say it was done to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. and president trump says he believes vladimir putin. >> when intelligence began to leak out in december, he also took a very hard

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>>> you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with stunning developments in the national debate on sexual harassment. the tide that started in hollywood appears to be sweeping through capitol hill. first senator al franken, finally speaking out publicly about the allegations made by two separate women. here is what franken told minnesota radio just today. >> what matters is that i am ashamed of that photo. she didn't have any ability to consent. she had every right to feel violated by that photo. i have apologized to her and i was very grateful that she accepted my apology. >> more of senator franken's interview and what he is planning to do next coming up. a major development concerning another democrat mired in scandal. congressman john conyers stepping down from his role of ranking member of the house judiciary committee. the 88 year old denies the allegations and says he will be vindicated. and then there is the all important alabama senate race. president trump today voicing fresh support for fellow republican roy m

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on cnn. on a much lighter note. visitors in record numbers are flocking to some breathtaking incan ruins in machu picchu in peru. the sheer numbers threat ton overwhelm one of the modern wonders of the world. we're joined by cnn's bill weir who joined it for "the wonder list." what did you find? >> it's on the bucket list, everybody wants to go there, right? hike the inca trail what we found was a glorious treasure, but it's overwhelmed by people who love it to death. i think we have a little taste of my climb. take a look. most archaeologists believe that all of this was built as a spot of ultimate relaxation. and religion. for the vips of the inca world. place to escape the crowded heat of cuzco and relax among the clouds. worship the sun and the stars. [ speaking foreign language ] >> fernando has been in charge of the site for 20 years, he still gets giddy over new discoveries. >> all of this was covered by soil. by dirt. all of this, you can see. down here, it's all of this. was finally uncovered. >> his team r

here's cnn's ryan brown. >> reporter: u.s. officials tell me that north korea's latest icbm launch traveled higher than any of its previous tests, going some 4500 kilometers in the air, into outer space. now, defense secretary james mattis, speaking alongside president donald trump, acknowledged this represented a new milestone for north korea. >> it went higher, frankly than any previous shot they've taken. it's a research and development effort on their part, they're building ballistic missiles that can threaten everywhere in the world, basically. >> reporter: a u.s. official tells cnn's barbara starr that the latest missile test by north korea represents a significant improvement over previous icbm launches. u.s. officials will be closely analyzing the latest missile test, mostly to determine whether or not the missile's reentry vehicle survived coming back into the earth's atmosphere. that capability pyongyang has yet to demonstrate and is necessary for them to have a working icbm capable of housing a nuclear weapon. ryan

it depends who buys cnn. if sinclair bought them, the owners might decide to change the mission of cnn, because sinclair is a very conservative organization. if cbs buys them or disney buys them to complement their existing broadcasting operations, probably it would be business as usual. emily: jennifer, speaking of business as usual, for so many years, massive consolidation has gone unchallenged. do you see that changing now? jennifer: i think it's not so much the massive consolidation that has gone unchallenged, because we have seen some fairly big deals in the last few years be challenged by the federal trade commission or the department of justice and actually challenged successfully. but what we are talking about here is a vertical consolidation, and that's quite different from a horizontal merger of competitors, which is removing a competitor from the market and concentrating the market. these are companies that don't compete. they are not removing competition. some of the theory of harm is how competit

it appears that cnn, the news division itself of course or cnn itself was reporting a source at the doj telling them that the doj had actually rejected an offer by at&t to divest cnn. and so at&t decided to immediately ra but the that in a public statement to us and others, until now we've never commented on our discussions with the department of justice, but given doj's statement, and it wasn't a statement, but it was that report this afternoon, it's important to set the record straight they went on to say throughout this process, i, and that is randal stevenson never oured to sell cnn and have no intention of doing so. it's important to put this in perspective in terms of how unusual this opposition to the deal would be. were they to take it to court. yes, they always of course are looking at what would be something that substantially lessens competition. vertical integration of this time, well it hasn't been opposed in at least as much as 40 years by the doj. certainly was never expected to be opposed by seth or time warner but that is where we find ourselves now. the possibility cer

just another time when he was in a rage about cnn. suddenly, you know, around the same time, we have questions about this deal. questions that trump has made it clear, trump has made it clear he may want to disrupt this emergencier as a way to pressure cnn and more importantly its parent company. >> i don't know as much about authoritarian regimes but i have been told you don't lurch toward is you slide there one freedom at a time. this seems like a pretty bold move. >> let's unpack this and look at the legal versus political. on the legal side, this deal is what we would call a vertical integration. these two companies aren't competitive. it's seen as a combination of content and distribution. there's been many people who have looked at this and said the ain't trust risk is low. the people who have sid that include the now head of antitrust at the doj. but what's happened is he has said that since he's come on board and looked at this deal, there's a lot of talk that he is scrutinizing it from a different way which is a consumer harm

is the price that we have to sell cnn? i think stevenson is trying to solve this mystery just like media reporters are. what are the reasons for the government's holdup? now, at that conference, i had a chance to ask stevenson about the concerns that maybe it's trump exerting influence. >> do you have any reason to believe that there is a trump factor? >> i have no reason to believe that. i mean, look, my only -- my only interaction with anybody in the federal government on this deal, and i want to think before i say this definitively, has been with the department of justice. you know, i have no way of even answering the question to the positive on or negative. i don't know. i kind -- based on my conversation with the doj, i'm doubtful. so i have no reason to suspect that. >> the next day in l.a., it was asked have you had any discussions about the merger with the white house or attorney general jeff sessions. here's what he said. >> no. i can't get anymore clearer than that. despite what some people may say and like to in

does the president's feud with cnn have anything to do with this? here is julianna goldman. >> you are fact news. >> fake news. you're fact news. >> reporter: president trump has then't shyed away from broadcasting disdain for cnn. as a candidate he promised to stop the $85 billion merger between at & t and cnn parent company time-warner. awe a a deal we will not approve it is too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. >> now cbs news has learned that president trump's justice department told at & t during a meeting monday that for the deal to go through, the company must sell cnn. >> we are not going to interfear with that. >> adviser kellyanne conway insists the white house isn't involved in the antitrust review. a person familiar with the talks pointed to president trump's freak went bashing of cnn and said he and other white house officials have made it clear to at & t on multiple occasions that they're dissatisfied with cnn. en one case, sources say in january, president elect trump raised the matter directly with at & t, during a

, isa cnn, be that directly or indirectly, is a nonstarter. the d0] denies any suggestion that the deal is being blocked because of the president's animosity towards cnn. they say the at&t and time warner would simply have too much media power. the company is clearly determined to challenge that view. easyjet is reporting full year earnings later. expectations are that the airline will report an uptick in numbers the company is looking to expand — having put in offers to buy parts of the now defunct airberlin and alitalia airlines. it's been aided by the collapse of rival monarch earlier in the year, especially on some key routes and of course its main rival ryanair is dealing with the fallout of a disastrous scheduling malfunction that led to the cancellation of around 20,000 flights — and shaved millions from its bottom line. this will be the last time chief executive carolyn mccall reports earnings for the airline. she finishes the job on december first before taking up a new role as ceo of itv television here in london. with me is oliv

knows where the president talks about cnn, but also you have jared kushner suggesting cnn fire 21% of its employees. you have jeff sessions, the attorney general refusing to answer questions about why they're not the administration in the white house, or the white housed tried to interfere or give input into this merger. there's a lot of questions about this i think people deserve the answers to. because we cannot have it where administrations are bullied if they don't have the right political views. >> it's interesting. people should look at the complaint themselves, but they seem to be adding this is mostly added merger despite the two companies being in their own supply chain, which usually would make you immune from this. all right, so that's the law. now we go to the political perspective on this. how do you see it? >> as the guests were saying. there's smoke here but no fire. we had wondered all yearlong within this building is somehow this deal going to go sideways because of cnn's coverage? at one point there were speculation maybe cnn would get spun off. instead what we see i

talks about cnn all the time. >> cnn which is so bad and pathetic and their ratings are going down. they've been fake news for a long time. been covering me in a very dishonest way. cnn and others. nbc is equally as bad. >> you're attacking us, can you give us a question? >> i'm not going to give you a question. you are fake news. >> tonight the doj is stressing this move is all about combatting media consolidation under the law, not tarting any particular media company, president's comments about cnn not a factor. no secret that donald trump talks a lot of trash about the press. tonight's story is not about talk. this is a story of government power and whether as some allege it is being abused right now tonight to retailiate against the free president. matt, begin with you. lot of people interested in these issues. msnbc known as something of competitor to cnn. my brother worked at turner, own by parent company. but is this normal thing that doj is doing about mergers under republican administration or not. >> no it's no the. doj hasn't brought a case against a vertical mergeern li

and cnn international. as you know, the president, he has touted his relationship with chinese president xi. is there any evidence that you've seen that it's actually having a positive impact on the situation? >> i thought so until today. i was very encouraged that a delegation from china was going to north korea. again, china shares the same goal. a denuclearized peninsula. we don't want south korea to have nuclear weapons, japan, or north korea. we share the same goal. i was very encouraged, i thought the engagement with the chinese president and president trump went very well, until today. clearly to me, the north koreans are not listening to the chinese. they don't take the statements of president trump seriously and they're making a huge miscalculation. and we're on a collision course with this regime. president trump is not going to allow you to perfect the technology to hit america with a nuclear weapon and if there's a war, it would be because you want one. >> do you agree with the president that ru

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time warner is able -- if a carrier wants to carry cnn, they will be told they can carry cnn if you take at&t and the other offerings. time warner is able to sell many cable networks by having the crown jewel of cnn. it is not just a stand-alone business. on all why they have cnn these other carriers and it is great source of revenue for time warner. as a result, you have time warner really recognizing the need to keep that as part of their business and at&t wanting to keep it. emily: we are getting headlines out of the justice department. an official saying the lawsuit has nothing to do with president trump, influenced by president trump or anyone else in the white house. cory: that does not mean it will not come up in the trial. ed: of course, they are going to say that. bob: it is absolutely the party line. wedo have to think about -- have to think about how people think about and consume media and content these days. all of that is changing, therefore the rules are changing. i think that is what we have to think about, the potential implications of what is going on. emily: an at&t-ti

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