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The federal judge in the case between at&t and time wa warner, cnn politics media and business reporter hadas gold was in the court. she joins us with more. what questions is the judge asking? >> this is really interesting because in this case it is only up to the judge, there is no jury in this case. anything the judge says, any questions he asks are notable. time warner could leverage their content, networks like cnn, hln or tnt to get better deals with cable distributors. one of those threats the government is alleging is time warner could say we're going to take our programming off your ai...

>> reporter: definitely. the comcast and nbc universal case was a little different because the justice department didn't sue to completely block the merger like they are in the att case. there is a settlement that judge leon, the same judge, presided over. in that case judge leon also imposed conditions because he wasn't a huge fan of the arbitration offer in that case. that's why our ears perked up yesterday when we heard him asked about the arbitration offer because of this past precedent. >> you reported before that the judge would like to speed this up. is that happening? >> it actually ha...

The judge said if the trial goes into may, he won't have time to write this lengthy decision before that merger deadline. >> give us a preview of today. rockefeller we're going to be hearing from a lot of at&t/time warner executives. the attorneys have let us know the next ten witnesses will be from the defense. they'll be hostile direct questioning because they're not on the side of the justice department. we're going to get pretty contentious questioning today. it's going to be a lot of insider, what were you discussions, deliberations, before going into this merge are. the justice departmen...