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Express an opinion on it. he did on the campaign trail. he was very -- >> very clearly. >> i don't want this deal to happen. and to your point about whether these are in the interests of the public, the at&t folks made an argument that the courts eventually accepted that there was no issue here. it's a vertical merger and not in the same business. there's no competition. but, of course, at&t can exercise market power and that's what the justice department's problem with the deal was, that at&t owns direct tv if they decide to withhold hbo from direct tv's rival dish, then dish suffers the cons...

On one of the points trump made, too much power concentrated in too much place, is that how you look at the marketplace for content distributed content over the immediate marketplace? >> look, the marketplace for content and distribution has never been more competitive. paul: give us some examples. >> for example, at&t direct tv has 25 million customers. netflix 10 million. amazon prime 9 million. both netflix, apple is now pouring $1 billion in original content because original content is a cash cow. paul: google is also getting in -- >> streaming product. paul: you have the cable markets big...

On one of the points trump made, too much power concentrated in too much place, is that how you look at the marketplace for content distributed content over the immediate marketplace? >> look, the marketplace for content and distribution has never been more competitive. paul: give us some examples. >> for example, at&t direct tv has 25 million customers. netflix 10 million. amazon prime 9 million. both netflix, apple is now pouring $1 billion in original content because original content is a cash cow. paul: google is also getting in -- >> streaming product. paul: you have the cable markets big...

Heir own craft 777 the 757 is older than that. if you are worried about your advanced aircraft have you reason to be concerned about old aircraft. boeing going there is nothing to see here folks going on. every network has been penetrated, period. pete: you are talking about the wi-fi or direct tv. rachel: movies. pete: movies we all love. >> you bet. pete: could be connected to the flight systems of the aircraft? >> they are supposed to be separate networks. pete, you know this better than a lot of folks we think of basic warfare and iran and centrifuges and how we attacked those physically s...

Steve: all right. lucas tomlinson, our producer at the pentagon. thank you very much. abby: i will tell you one man you don't want to mess with is defense secretary james mattis. brian: no place secure like it used to be in afghanistan so to speak for a few years after the initial invasion. i think if we decide to go into pakistan and start making life hell for the haqqani network and taliban that trains there and is born there and al qaeda that bleeds through there, that will begin to make a better chance for our guys to be unscathed and come back home. steve: get's go down to the white hou...