as well. he said i m skeptical of huge media mergers because they can lead to higher costs and worse service for consumers. are you a skeptic of the merger as well? i share those concerns and questions. we have to get to the bottom of them. generally pro competition and less concentration i think is generally helpful. especially in the media. but this is just has been announced. i haven t had a chance to dig into the details. but those are the kinds of questions that we need to be asking. senator tim kaine democrat. thanks for comg . you bet. when we come back, we ll hear from the other side. trump campaign manager kellyanne conway joins us. i ll ask her some of the poll numbers that just came out. as we go to break, a light moment here with snl s take on the election last night. in the first debate, i set the table. in the second debate i fired up the grill. and tonight, i feast. these goofy glasses.
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let s discuss with brian stelter and cristina alesci. and as news happens, we literally were just digging into the news. thank you for being here. what does this mean? this is one of the biggest media mergers in history. certainly the biggest deal for cnn in many years. cnn, hbo, warner brothers, a number of other cable channels now acquired by at&t in a deal worth $85 billion. this will require government review, it will take over a year, but presuming it gets approved, it creates a giant media company. and is that what you re hearing from the experts you ve talked to, that this will pass muster with regulators? yes, because it s similar to the comcast nbc universal. it took a long time to get government approval in d.c., but the obama administration did eventually approve it and experts that i talked to today
welcome back to news room. i m george howell. there are reports that at&t is in talk toes buy time warner. that is the parent company of cnn. there s speculation a deal could come as soon as this weekend. brian stellter has more on what could happen if this deal goes through. this could be one of the biggest media mergers of the decade. we re talking about at&t, one of the biggest wireless providers in the united states, poeshlgly coming together with time warner, the parent company of cnn, hbo and warner brothers. right now, neither sides is commenting on these talks, but according to the wall street journal and bloomberg, these talks are now very serious and a deal could be struck as early as monday. according to the journal, there is a desire to get this done by monday morning because at&t is concerned about other potential bidders for time warner. so let me unpack what s going on here. a couple years ago, rupert