We begin with a cable deal. Charter Communications Won antitrust approval for its 55 billion takeover of time warner cable. That combination would create the secondlargest Cable Provider in the country. The head of the federal Communications Commission also reportedly supports the merger but there are conditions attached. All of which aim to increase the number of homes with highspeed internet and mitigate threats to online video competition. Charter would have to build out Broadband Service to 2 million more homes. The combined company would have to move away from data capps and usagebased billing. And it cannot charge a fee to heavy traffic providers like netflix. Shares at both charter and time warper cable rose more than 4 in todays trading. And that is not the only deal in the Media Industry to tell you about. Begin net wants to buy the rival newspaper owner tribune publishing. But when its private offers were rebuffed by trib bun, ginnet went public. That sent shares of tribune u
Life and a new name. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Im meg oliver in for annemarie green. What is turning out to be a critical primary in new york is 11 days away. With each passing day, the democrats are sounding more like the republicans, unleashing angry personal attacks. Meanwhile, republican frontrunner donald trump is rejiggering his campaign, as he works to overcome recent campaign setbacks. A new National Poll indicates that trump has work to do. 7 in 10 people, including close to half of republican voters, have an unfavorable view of trump. Don champion is here in new york with much more. Good morning, meg. The stakes are high for the president ial frontrunners in new york, especially Hillary Clinton. Her rival Bernie Sanders maintains he still has a path to the nomination and he believes it starts with winni trump has a strong lead here and is preparing himself for a fight over delegates. With the contested convention looming, d
Priebus echoing his complaints about media coverage. The truth is we dont have problems in the west wing. You read about the stories i dont get along with bannon. Actually, weve gelled as a team, and we get along great, and were working well together, and the amount of drama and spin that you read about mostly in the Washington Daily Gossip Rags is unbelievable stuff and isnt true. And you read it every day and wonder what Alternative Universe theyre reporting on . Harris we have fox team coverage, Garrett Tenney is following developments and the possible Executive Order on immigration coming at any time. We begin with Kristen Fisher traveling with the president in palm beach, florida. You and i saw each other friday when he got there. The president met with four candidates for National Security job today, but may not be done interviewing, i understand . Reporter thats right, the white house says President Trump could be meeting with
more candidates tomorrow. On top of the four candida
That texas is second. The president s message today, it is worth noting at this hour not one state meets the full ladder. Indiana, maryland, minnesota, you see lines heading up, trending in the wrong direction. What the white house likes to cite is a more grim outlook. With 60,000 dead by august 1st, now to a projected 54,000 lost by the end of august. No matter what, the white house insists everything is fine. The District Of Columbia still doing too little testing to even consider rolling back stayathome orders. The president , though, praising himself on twitter this morning for, quote, a great job. His top health expert, dr. Anthony fauci, is clearly worried about the pace of reopening. If we had the capability of identifyi identifying, isolating and Contact Trace ing in a highly effective and efficient way, then the numbers may stay low. It may be 80,000, whatever, 70,000 like the model says. If we are unsuccessful or prematurely trying to open up, and we have additional outbreaks
Filter. However that is not without its downsides, in particular when it comes to women. You have called women you dont like, fat pig, dog, slobs, and disgusting animals. Your twitter account has only rosie odonnell. No it wasnt. Your twitter account [ audience noise ] for the record it was well beyond rosy odonnell. Yes im sure it was. Comments about womens looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound like a president and how would you answer the charge that you are part of the war on women . I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. [ cheers and applause ] ive been challenged by so many people. And i dont frankly have time for total Political Correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesnt have time either. This country is in big trouble. We dont win anymore. We lose to china. We lose to mexico. Both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody. And frankly,