. days after the justice department lost the court bid for a merger with time warner, there is more inform about the president's effort to block that deal. new yorker magazine jane meyer writes in the late summer of 2017, a few months before the justice department files suit, trump ordered gary cohen to pressure the justice department to intervene. trump called cohen into the oval office along with john kelly that had just became the chief of staff and said i have been telling cohen to get this lawsuit files and nothing has happened. i mentioned it are 50 times and nothing happened. i want to make sure it is happened, i want that deal