Unprecedented capabilities in mobile, video, broadband services. Merger comes after a few months after another Blockbuster Telecom deal, comcast announcing its buying time warner, a deal worth 45 billion. Joining me now on the phone, lee gallagher, assistant managing editor of fortune. If regulators approve the merger, good, bad for consumers . Seems concerning. Its just a continuation of whats happening which is a huge consolidation of video, voice, data, all coming together. And you know, as you mentioned, this is right after the time warner and comcast deal probably one reason why regulators may not have a problem with the deal, because it will present a more robust competitor to comcast time warner but its definitely interesting times. Very interesting times. You do have to wonder, you have these very Large Companies that will controlling all of the broadband in the pipe that all of that information is sent through. Is it changing too fast, are regulators able to keep up and actual
Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. After five years in enemy hands, Sergeant Bowe bergdahl is currently listed in stable condition at a hospital in germany. Hes a free man. This caused a lot of controversy back home. Events moved fast and there was fear until the very last minute that something could go wrong. In recent days, taliban negotiators put the piece together and in the final hours before the swap, they made the unusual move of communicating directly with the taliban, according to a u. S. Official. They flew near the afghan pakistan border. The american troops inside armed to the teeth. They found their 18 taliban waiting for them along with Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. The moment bergdahl had waited five years for had finally arrived. He was able to walk, according to a u. S. Official. The americans quickly confirmed his identity and booked him. The exchange took maybe 30 seconds. Inside the chopper, bergdahl wrote the initials sf. It was too loud to speak. Sf asking if the
Next to air force one, the retired president ial plane. Kpmt this debate to have plenty of fireworks. 15 candidates going out on the sunday talk shows this morning on full attack mode. First up, Donald Trump Center stage and still dominating the polls. Well, im a deal maker. Ill make great deals for this country. Ben cant do that. Bens a doctor and hes not a deal maker. Im gratified to see that so many people are starting to listen to what im saying and evaluating it on its merits as opposed to listening to what people have portrayed me as saying. Its about five months out. Weve got the time to make the grass roots connections and get that message out. I have no doubt i could come down to congress, not cave like other people have done, and get the job done. Just some of what we heard this morning. Over the next two hours, we have all the political angles ahead of the big debate. Our correspondents, contributors including debate moderator jake tapper. Lets go straight to california. Tha
Cook. Im okay. Okay. What about you . Im just navigating. Im tasting. We have a lot to get to this morning. Yesterday we learned that charlie rose, a coanchor of cbc this morning and a contributor on 60 minutes has been suspended from cbs news and pbs announced it will no longer distribute his longrunning interview show. It comes after the Washington Post says eight women accused him of Sexual Harassment. They were either employees of the charlie rose show or aperiod to work there in the late 1990s or 2011. They range age from 21 to 37. A lot of the allegation are situations where they were working in his home or they were traveling with him in hotel suites. The allegation reported by the post include lewd phone calls groping and rose Walking Around naked in front of the women. One of rose accusers in the mid2000s says she told yvette vega, the longtime producer about the lewd calls but vega shrugged it off. In a statement to the post vega says she should have done more to protect the
Story is here. And not so fast. The department of justice moves to block a major merger between time warner and at at but is this about protecting consumers or appeasing one single man. We will not be party to any agreement that would give the perception of compromising the First Amendment protections of the press. And divided america. A lifelong democrat spending a year traveling through red america and look what he found. We begin this morning. You know the story. The allegations of Sexual Misconduct against veteran broadcaster charlie rose. And the nearly instantaneous fallout. I have a fantastic panelist to help me break all of this down. First, i want to tell you exactly what were talking about because this happened quickly. Yesterday afternoon, the Washington Post reported accounts from eight different women accusing rose of making unwanted sexual advances towards them. The stories are horrifying. Allegations he groped or harassed his own staffers. Young women. Several saying he