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This channel, cnn. the deal was struck more than a year ago. about still but still awaiting approval. there has been a cloud hanging over this deal all year long because of this -- >> time warner owns the president's long time nemesis cnn. he has been at war with cnn ever since they started reporting the things he says and does. not fair. >> colbert is choking, but the trump factor is serious. donald trump publicly vowed to block the deal shortly before election day. >> at&t is buying time warner and thus cnn, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration ...

Reputation and trump has certainly ploetsed his promoted. but they say it could harkocoul consumers. at&t disagrees and so do lots of outside experts. they are baffled by this out of the blue opposition from the government. so there is speculation that this is really about trump's dislike of cnn. let me show you the other reason why suspicions are so high. this is the man now in charges of reviewing the deal at doj, him he speaking when the deal was announced last year saying he didn't see major antitrust problems. >> gist tjust the shear size mu and the fact that it is media i think will get ...

>> are so here's what i think happened. i think stevenson said in private what will it take. what is the price of getting this deal approved. is the price that we have to sell cnn? i think stevenson is trying to solve this mystery just like media reporters are. what are the reasons for the government's holdup? now, at that conference, i had a chance to ask stevenson about the concerns that maybe it's trump exerting influence. >> do you have any reason to believe that there is a trump factor? >> i have no reason to believe that. i mean, look, my only -- my only interaction with anybody in the f...

U.s. households nationwide. that's beyond the reach that the fcc allows. but luckily for sinclair, they've got a friend in the government, the man hand picked by donald trump to be the fcc chairman. he's the guy bending the rules that will ensure sinclair can reach three-quarters of the country with their pro-trump "bottom line with boris" messaging. trump's narrative may soon be creeping into your regular news diet and it's happening really quickly. joining us now is a professor of information studies at ucla and author of the book "global village." so let's talk about the sinclair deal. i th...

Accountable and trump doesn't want to be held accountable by the media and so much of what he has been doing has circumvented the media and when he's not circumvented the media with rallies and tweets and the sinclair deal, for example, he's been denigrating the media, calling the media dishonest, kind of turning the public against the media. this is what dictators do and i am not suggesting at this particular point in time is or will be a dictator but this is dangerous for a democracy. >> but michelle, isn't it also the case that all politicians, particularly -- if you've ever listened to bil...