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Were only a small portion of their hotel expenditures in washington. they say they stay other places too, but i mean, for everything we've seen, i haven't seen any firm denial here from the company that they may have been doing this at the trump hotel to try to curry favor with the trump administration and the president. what's your reading of this? >> you're right about this. we found john ledger, the ceo of t-mobile, we actually found him in the trump lobby. caught him there. oh, no, i stay here because it's convenient to the justice department where i'm going to lobby for my merger. in you ...

2018, the day after as you said t-mobile announces this giant merger with sprint that will change the future of t-mobile if they get approval from the trump administration. that day the trump hotel was to expect nine of the executives checking in. it's not nine people from the accounting department, nine of the top executives including the ceo. this is a place where we've seen a lot of groups, countries, interest groups with interests before the trump administration that have stayed at the trump hotel. it's rare to find a close correlation in time between somebody needing something from trump'...

From politics. >> they're not totally separate. trump's sons go on television defending the president, talking about politics, talking about the administration. so that's a ridiculous argument for them to make. >> well, also, you have to consider all the different ways that president trump could find out that this guy has been staying at his hotel. he doesn't have to have eric call him and tell him. one of the things john ledger did on the first night at the hotel was to walk around the lobby where it's busy, full of people in his t-mobile shirt and take pictures with all different people that...

Of the union address waiting till after the government is reopened or deliberate as a written address toes congress. we'll have more details on that in a moment. david, let's go back to this t-mobile/sprint trump story. you write in the article, these visits is highlight a stark reality in washington. unprecedented in modern american history. trump, the president, works at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. trump the businessman owns a hotel at 1100 pennsylvania. walk us through, we can tell by the optics the dilemma this poses. but does team trump actually monitor things like this? i mean, it is his s...

>> that's the argument they will make. it costs billions of dollars to buy wireless spectrum through government auctions or acquiring other companies that own this spectrum. you look at the market caps, you can see, they are much smaller. a pretty good argument. really up to regulators to see at today's world or tomorrow's world and in order to determine if this deal makes sense from a consumer standpoint. >> john ledger made the point just there, and we've heard him make it for years that he's always going to be about price cutting. he loves competition. he's the guy who called at&t and veriz...