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harass and look at this event that was mocked by right wing media. there are new headlines about rupert murdoch snubbing donald trump and theres new headlines about the story about elon musk. joining us to make sense of it all tara pal mary, the senior correspondent at puck, oliver garsy and elizabeth mayo, former online communications director at the rnc. protesters are gathering at the steps of the u.s. capitol to advocate for legislation thats stalled in the senate. you see pictur...

International criminal court said he has requested Arrest Warrants for Prime Minister netanyahu, other israeli officials and hamas officials for alleged war crimes. Joining us from tel aviv is nbcs raf sanchez. What is the very latest . Reporter so, jose, as we speak, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with senior government ministers. Earlier he spoke to his Legal Advisers and theyre formulating israels response to this ruling from the International Court of justice, which is both fin...

Block the merger on antitrust grounds. the trial will begin in d.c. on monday. if this merger is allowed to go through, it means there will be fewer of these big book publishing giants because two will become one. thats a bad deal for authors and maybe readers. the companies disagree and now theyre going to fight it out in court. another big week of media earnings reports coming out for major companies. more and more companies and advertisers are reporting slowdowns in ad spending. more of tho...

The Atlantic A simple law would stop the U.S. government from rubber-stamping corporate consolidation. February 25, 2021 Adam Maida / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron each have assets valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Last year, The Wall Street Journalrecently revealed, the two companies considered what would have been among the largest corporate mergers in history—a deal that would have reunited parts of the Standard Oil empire that federal trus...

Evidence that we have that they represent a public health issue as it relates to depression, particularly among teenagers. >> bret: thats a lot of different areas. here is senators blumenthal and thune. >> we need to be doing much more on the senate side to hold accountable the tech industry. particularly on antitrust grounds right now. they have been given a free pass. the fec, the department of justice, they are also getting involved and just taking a look at these companies and their dominanc...

These accusations and theories that were flying around that when the administration first sued to stop at&t from merging with cnns parent company then called time warner, that it was all about politics. the administration said for months its not about politics, but about antitrust grounds and many in the anti-trust community, even those who wanted further government intervention said that this was a week case and as we saw that case failed in court and on the appeal. now, it wasnt just president...

What does it mean to own the news? i ask because as of this week, at&t owns cnn. its a first of its kind marriage. they own hbo, warner brothers, tbs, its a deal thats been 20 months in the making and a deal opposed by candidate donald trump when it was announced. >> at&t is buying time warner and thus cnn, a deal we will not approve in my administration because its too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. >> now fast forward a year. as you know, trumps justice department sued to...

Differently. we are seeing with the emergence of new companies. silicon valley spending tens and tens of billions on entertainment programming. >> ruppert has managed to assemble a stellar group of assets. we are getting high quality content, global reach. >> murdoch says he insisted that iger stay on. quashing media speculation that murdochs son might be headed to disney. the justice department must approve the deal on antitrust grounds. murdochs son says its about returning to our roots. ruper...

What that was about is this company itt wanted to merge with some other companies. justice department sued them on antitrust grounds and said no, you cant merge with the other companies, you cant buy those other companies. and then nixon quite bluntly arranged for that suit by the justice department to be dropped, to be settled, in exchange for itt giving the republican party a whole bunch of money. the itt scandal was basically an adjunct to the whole watergate scandal. it was a whole tangent i...

Charlie gasparino and gary calpon are here. charlie, where is this going to court? >> i just reported on fox business, every major telecom executive looking to buy something including rupert murdock is looking at this deal. this is a sign that you have to stop everything now and see where the courts come out on it. its going to be hard for us to sell our studios, sky news, some of those tv assets to comcast because of the view theyre taking. most people thought it was a slam dunk. a vertical mer...