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Are trying to figure out if that payment may have made a difference in how the trump administration is treating the at&t time warner merger. >> we've got new information on that, joe. a source tells cnbc, that at&t paid cohen up to $600,000 last year, saying it was for actual work done and not for access. including an understanding of the inner workings of trump. in an email to employees, the company wrote in 2017, we hired several consultants to help us understand how the president and his administration might approach a wide range of policy issues important to the company. including regulato...

So the next best thing is traders and investors saying let's not be so sensitive to what the president is tweeting. there is the reality with the president apparently having this vendetta against amazon, the big worry in the investment community is that president trump could lash out with some sort of regulations, or some sort of antitrust enforcement, or look to change some tax rules. there is true worry from the investment community as they see the president literally change this stock price of amazon on a daily basis. >> i'm sure there are many corporations who are worried about that. give ...

Away. a lot of people looking at amazon after the president had some new things to say about that giant company. >> so it is no shocker that president trump has had it out for amazon and for jeff bezos for a long time. jeff bay stoezos of course also the "washington post." the axios report about trump being obsessed with amazon, that actually you caused shares to fall more than 4% yesterday morn in market value. the axios report also went on to say how president trump wants to go after amazon with either antitrust enforcement and/or changing tax rules. so then let's come back to this morning w...

Are down. if you count the losses from today and yesterday, you're looking at $30 billion market value loss for amazon, based on that axios article and also based on that tweet today. investors are spooked. they're worried that if donald trump goes after amazon, either through antitrust enforcement or some sort of tax rule change this is going to really hit the company hard. i looke ed ed at the recent ann report. amazon did not pay anything in federal taxes, that's nothing new. a lot of companies, they don't pay federal taxes because that's just how our tax structure is. the other irony of th...

Principles that big internet service providers should not block, should not throttle. >> most viewers at home sitting on their phone thinking, you know, my internet service seems fine now. what is all the fuss about? >> it may seem fine. but how many options do you have? how much choice do you have about where you get that internet service provision? the answer is probably not that much at all. we have essentially regionalized mo nop lie monopolies and that lets the big companies get to the point where net neutrality laws are even necessary. there is this school of thought that had antitrust e...