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Will eventually be approved with conditions. in the meantime, time warner ceo jeff buick as will remain in charge. he spoke with him briefly. he said this is positive for customers, its about making sure they can receive content, news and entertainment in a variety of new ways. the reality is thats how the media world is changing whether or not this deal happens. you can see it every day in the way you and i interact with media. you may be watching in on a cell phone or texting or e-mailing whil...

The ceo came out and said something akin to -- >> at&t. >> what did i say? >> aol. >> at&t said the future of mobile video and the future of video is mobile. walk us through why this makes sense for at&t, not aol. >> for at&t, its got to grow its customer base. anything it can do to distinguish itself from its competitors will help it do that. if you look at verizon, one of its chief competitors, they are going to buy digital content. at&t can say, hey, not only do we have some digital con tent ...

Well, hes doubled down. he doubled down on his excuse that its just locker room talk. and i got to tell you, after he said that in the last debate, the most amazing thing happened. athletes and coaches started speaking out. theyre coming forward. you know what theyre saying, hey, innocent our locker rooms. thats not what happens. >> hillary clinton in vegas last night. by the way, donald trump has just walked into that roundtable in west palm beach. were listening. of course, if he references an...

Who wha is your takeaway from this hacking controversy? here you have ten years of john podestas gmails being perused and dumped out by wikileaks. >> hacking was an issue running aol, we had a team protecting the system. clearly its coming to another level when you have other countries hacking into our system to influence elections. thats unfortunate. more broadly, whats unfortunate, this is where the country now stands. last week hi a wonderful, optimistic week, spent time on the road, meeting ...

Know at the commission, the campaigns dont know and the candidates dont know, what our fellow citizens here tonight are going to ask. were also going to have questions incorporated into this debate by our moderators that arrive from social media. from places like facebook, who is our valued partner, twitter, aol, msn, so many of the other places where we continue to have conversations as citizens in our new online, new media formats. thatll be an important feature of our format tonight. the impo...

Whole make up 40% of the economy. what matters there matters a lot more than it did 10, 20 years ago. i think if t next global recession if there is one will be made in china. >> thank you. coming up next, you saw this. i spoke with aols ceo tim armstrong this week about not how the companys performing but about why he says we need many, many more women and minorities in the top jobs in tech and frankly what hes doing about it. >> if you look at the next three billion people coming online, it pr...

Its not just the right thing to do. it is smart business. you have been really outspoken, especially in the been really o especially in the last year, tim, the lack of diversity especially at the upper echelons of big tech companies. you said on bloomberg last year if you look across the tech industry, most companies are not representing the consumers they really need to touch. what needs to change in terms of women and minorities? >> i think theres two sets of things that need to change with di...

Responsibility is being in the top seat at aol and measuring this? i mean, i know you guys are using internal metrics it look at this. is there an accountability factor? >> i think there is. almost like any other business idea or strategy, i think it needs a real strategy, it needs commitment, it needs people assigned to and then also i think the followthrough on it is really important. some of the reasons with ib, we put out the 10,000 jobs at aol last year, we increased our focus in the divers...

Turnaround of aol, diversity turnaround and really focus is another area on the top of my list and on my exec -- i have a one-page list i carry around with me. our priorities diversity is on that list. five business things, two internal things around the company i want to get done, diversity is one of those. theres seven things, diversitys one of them. im running it like a business strategy. >> youre saying theres a business case for this, this is about dollars and cents, not just about what sho...

Expanded dramatically on the consumer side. so we had 150 to 200 million consumers on our properties and around our content last year. this year were starting off with 700 million. our goal by 2020 is to get to 12 billion consumers interacting with our content and our services. we see a very big global market developing. >> earlier in 2015, you called any potential aol/yahoo! merger, deal, quote, a dead notion. that was before the recent turmoil at yahoo! what would you do if you were sitting in...