these accusations and theories that were flying around that when the administration first sued to stop at&t from merging with cnn's parent company then called time warner, that it was all about politics. the administration said for months it's 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 wasn't just president trump who wanted to stop this deal, but we also have to keep in mind that william barr, the current attorney general, once actually sat on twarny's board, a and he himself questioned the merits of the case and the politics that could bring this case forward. the politics were never argued in court. the judge blocked communications between the white house and doj and this case lost on pure