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Animation. his sensibility is to push the boundaries of that as much as possible. >> ive always liked extra jokes, i guess you could say, and cartoon world is a land of extra jokes. classic tex avery joke im sure youve seen was based on how people viewed movies in the theaters. there was always something wrong with the film. hey, you out there, get that hair out of here. >> thats the beauty of animation. thats really what you want animation to be used for, to do and see things that youve never s...

Time warner and at&t they must shed turner broadcasting? >> our work is professional. they do meet with the -- >> is that a false report or true report? >> i would tell you -- im able to accept as accurate a news report that have come out on that. >> the at&t bid for time warner was announced in october 2016 and valued at $85.4 billion. time warners shares dipped a bit and at&t was up slightly about concerns about the trump administrations concern to challenge this merger. >> bill: big deal. tha...

Earlier in the year and then signs of trouble, and it appeared that the justice department was going to insist that time warner shed some of turner broadcastings assets in order to get this deal to go through. there were conflicting reports that the justice department was insisting that at&t sell off korean krn. at&ts ceo saying absolutely, thats what the doj asked. doj said no. well find out shortly what the deal is. >> look forward to that. a big merger. find out whether the government is movi...

Regarding that at&t-time warner accusation? >> first, i would say that i dont accept and cannot accept the accuracy of that news report. we have a professional -- >> your department has not told time warner that at&t that they must shed turner broadcasting? >> our words were professional, they do meet with -- >> is that a false report or a true report? ago i would just tell you, i dont think im able to accept t that have coming out on that. >> let me ask you this question. on october 18th when t...

Much like the comcast-nbc universal merger that doj approved. unlike its treatment of comcast nbc universal, doj has suggested strongly that it will not approve the at&t time warner merger unless time warner sells off cnns parent company, turner broadcasting. it is well-known that your boss, president trump has great disdain for cnn, which he calls fake news. what i want to know is hows the white house or any individual in or on behalf of the trump administration for the trump political team cam...

Will not approve at&ts plan to go through with the deal unless it agrees to sell one of the companys biggest assets, either direct tv or turner broadcasting which of course including cnn and you know the president, he doesnt like cnn. i want to bring in senior media editor for nbc news, claire atkinson. and my panel, kate kelly and noel nikpor. walk us through this, claire. this is the president who loves to deregulate. why is the fcc getting in the middle of this? >> thats a big question mark, ...

Be partial to a -- to somebody who was sort of -- was anti-the things that rand paul stands for and the possibility of jur nullification, where the jury knows that he did something wrong, but maybe they disagree with rand pauls politics. >> wow. >> beyond that, really, politics shouldnt enter into the criminal prosecution. >> this is such an odd story. i cant say it enough. were going to have to wait and find out what else we learn from it. a lot of questions, very few answers. blake mccoy, than...

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. >> threat? meet reality. that was donald trump calling out the proposed at&t purchase of time warner after it was announced last near. while he was a candidate and now his justice department has taken a step to challenge the merger. news out this afternoon details how the department of justice has called on time warner to sell turner broadc...

For more i bring in a partner in heroic ventures and a pioneer on online reputation and indigenous privacy. an experts on a lot of these things. let me talk to you about this. an important philosophical conversation to be had about the concentration of frankly a conversation you could have had the last 200, 300 years in america. very different from the president of the united states possibly injecting politics into a commercial merger? >> he likes to inject politics into everything, including ju...

An antitrust violation. >> right. >> so it does sort of scratch your head, make us scratch our head why the administration, the trump administration so suddenly apparently is picking on cnn and turner broadcasting -- only about four years this vertical integration merger has not been blocked. >> strangely, in the past, the department of justice has banned the merger of office depot and staples, for instance. they felt that was exactly the same company. too much concentration. not sure they were ...