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This channel, cnn. the deal was struck more than a year ago. about still but still awaiting approval. there has been a cloud hanging over this deal all year long because of this -- >> time warner owns the presidents long time nemesis cnn. he has been at war with cnn ever since they started reporting the things he says and does. not fair. >> colbert is choking, but the trump factor is serious. donald trump publicly vowed to block the deal shortly before election day. >> at&t is buying time warner...

Reputation and trump has certainly ploetsed his promoted. but they say it could harkocoul consumers. at&t disagrees and so do lots of outside experts. they are baffled by this out of the blue opposition from the government. so there is speculation that this is really about trumps dislike of cnn. let me show you the other reason why suspicions are so high. this is the man now in charges of reviewing the deal at doj, him he speaking when the deal was announced last year saying he didnt see major a...

>> are so heres what i think happened. i think stevenson said in private what will it take. what is the price of getting this deal approved. 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 governments holdup? now, at that conference, i had a chance to ask stevenson about the concerns that maybe its trump exerting influence. >> do you have any reason to believe that there is a trump factor? >> i h...

U.s. households nationwide. thats beyond the reach that the fcc allows. but luckily for sinclair, theyve got a friend in the government, the man hand picked by donald trump to be the fcc chairman. hes the guy bending the rules that will ensure sinclair can reach three-quarters of the country with their pro-trump "bottom line with boris" messaging. trumps narrative may soon be creeping into your regular news diet and its happening really quickly. joining us now is a professor of information studi...

Accountable and trump doesnt want to be held accountable by the media and so much of what he has been doing has circumvented the media and when hes not circumvented the media with rallies and tweets and the sinclair deal, for example, hes been denigrating the media, calling the media dishonest, kind of turning the public against the media. this is what dictators do and i am not suggesting at this particular point in time is or will be a dictator but this is dangerous for a democracy. >> but mich...

Stake in them continuing but they are traditions which were established in an era which in some way the white house needed the press corps to get out their message and the trade was, we need you to communicate with the american people and so you get to ask us questions and hold us accountable. they dont need the press corps to do that so why even have them around? >> i dont think the trump administration wants the press corps. the whole idea -- the word media comes from the idea of intermediate,...

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