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You need to sue in court, something more serious than the behavioral remedies. >> one of the questions, and we have seen it in the paper and we wonder about it in this building, is the decision politically motivated, because president trump had a lot to say about cnn, which is owned by turner which is owned by time warner. >> if you look at the antitrust complaint, it stands on its own two feet. price could go up hundreds of millions according to the department of justice, and innovators could p...

Hes obviously a person who can do a lot of different kinds of lawsuits. this is an antitrust case and i trust they will be introducing themselves shortly. >> and i believe we have the at&t general counsel on the left there as well. >> right. >> i think youre right, jeffrey, they are going to be introducing themselves shortly. >> just, jim, just so people know that, you know, were talking about the company that is our parent company, this press conference is taking place about 20 feet from where ...

Of the press. >> how unusual is all of this? tonight the "washington post" reporting this is the biggest antitrust case to hit washington in decades. fraught with political risks for both sides. administration position is radical, inexplicable, but they welcome the case because trumps lawyers have to bear the burden of proving its illegal. cnn fixation. tweeted about it triple then "new york times" and fox news. talks about cnn all the time. >> cnn which is so bad and pathetic and their ratings ...

Are a buffoon behind your back. he also said this to don lemon. you come across on tv as a dull whited arrogant party boy. you lie constantly and no one who knows you thinks you are bright. he sent out several other tweets using profane language. roger stone says he plans on being sued. twitter wants to avoid being regular do you go lated like a utility. no one has been willing to file the antitrust case. i am. people reacting to this story on twitter of all of places. one say liberal bias is ra...

That itt scandal, making that antitrust case go away in exchange for money, that separate distinct scandal got vacuumed up in the investigation and resulted in a guilty plea from a u.s. attorney general. you know what? had gerald ford not pardoned richard nixon, that itt task force my eventually have toad to charges against nixon, too. he was caught on tape explaining how he had taken care of that whole itt prosecution at the justice department. that itt case has always been an interesting loo...

Eventually the watergate investigation that led to nixons resignation also led to do first-ever criminal conviction of a u.s. attorney general. nixons attorney general had lied about the itt scandal during his confirmation hearing. he got nailed for it because of the task force that was set up under the watergate prosecutor to look at that specific thing. what started with a check for $400,000 and a supposedly triumphant homecoming republican convention for an insecure president. that discrete s...

How do you get your arms around the problem when youre a complete outsider. thats the problem joe klein faced in 2002 when then mayor michael bloomberg appointed him the chancellor of the new york city public school system. hes written an interesting book about his ten-year tenure. joe klein, thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you, fareed. >> before we get to the public schools, i have to ask you a question. before you were doing this in another life incarnation, you were one of americas...

Appointed him the chancellor of the new york city public school system. hes written an interesting book about his ten-year tenure. joe klein, thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you, fareed. >> before we get to the public schools, i have to ask you a question. before you were doing this in another life incarnation, you were one of americas great litigators and the justice department, you took bill gates and microsoft to trial and very famous antitrust case, and so you know the law, and wh...

Case, not the state of pennsylvania, so i dont even think the state of pennsylvania has standing, so i dont think this case is going to fly at all in court. i think the ncaa will be able to throw it out-of-court. arthel: part of the lawmakers concern there in pennsylvania is that where is that money going to be spent, the $60,000 fine that the university is going to pay. go ahead, fred. >> well, youre correct and that is part of their objections as to where the money is going to go. the first 12...

A former federal prosecutor. ill start with you fred, does the judge have a legal leg to stand on. >> you hear a lot about the antitrust cases. i understand thats what the case is going to be about. ive been involved in a lot of major antitrust cases over the years. they are very, very, very difficult cases to win. so, i wont get into all the details about it, but its one thing to yell and cream about an antitrust lawsuit, its a far different thing to win one. they made a contract with the unive...