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Department weighing whether to appeal a federal judge's ruling approving the at&t and time warner merger. that would be the only way to stop this $85 billion deal that is expected to be a done deal by next wednesday. i should note, time warner is cnn's parent company. let's talk about this. the big picture. brian stelter is re. jeffrey toobin is back with me. brian, the judge here, loved to use exclamation marks throughout his opinion but he made it so clear that this was not even a close case. he knocked down the government's case against this merger at almost every juncture. you had a former...

Will seek to block or approve it on a whim. >> that's why it matters beyond at&t and time warner and because of the president's own words and actions it casts a shadow over lots of deals and lots of industries for lots of reasons. the president is on twitter right now saying cnn is the greatest enemy that the american people have and that's absolutely disgusting. disgusting. you know what's interesting? checks and balances worked in this case. the judiciary looked at this, a neutral party looked at this case and found it was not anti-competitive and if there was interference and if the preside...

About any p influence, but i think we all can ask the question today especially given the fact that this case was rejected so soundly by the judge about whether it was part of the president's anger at cnn that brought this case rather than a legitimate antitrust. >> and you had time warner spokesmen who came after this ruling and saying the case was clearly political in motivation in his words. he has a very interesting column by andrew ross sorkin exploring that and he talks a the president's personal lawye rudy. quote, the president denied the merger and giuliani told me directly he didn't i...

With nbc and now, you know, facebook, amazon, apple, even microsoft, are companies that are getting into the media business and they have more money than anybody, and so that was a big factor and the judge saying it's okay for these two, large companies to combine. >> anderson has a facebook show now. everything is changing. i do think it's interesting, fascinating, jeffrey, how the judge here warned against trying to appeal this. >> and it is rare, but it also goes back to an issue that was not directly addressed in the case, but remains a big issue in this case which is political influence. ...