on at&t and warnermedia and discovery hopefully someone who knows more about it discovery ceo david zaslavnd catches it like oh, my god, i finally got it, what am i going to do? this is a big job you've got now, and it's a daunting future. and i'm glad it's you, not me, obviously. but media is difficult how are you -- where is media, and what are you going to do with this great new shiny object you have >> well, first, it is a little bit surreal. this is a fantastic collection of assets. i've been at discovery for 16 years, and we've been -- we've gone from a u.s. cable business to a leader internationally. we added sports, and we've always owned our ip. to put that together now at a time of transition with the great assets that john and his team have at hbo really in a leadership position in terms of quality and content, warner brothers television over 400 shows, one of the biggest producers and makers of content in the world, warner brothers motion picture and cnn, you know, the greatest news gathering organization and news the really only powerful global news force in the world. putting

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i can't imagine that david zaslav didn't know, the head of discovery, his new boss. tty tight friend. this was spoken about all the time t was a consensual adult relationship but she did work for him. so that becomes a problem. why did it come up now? obviously it came up in this investigation that came out of the cuomo matter. the cuomo matter, chris cuomo you're talking about, was fired by jeff zucker. they did depart on good terms. chris said he was unfairly fired and he disclosed things about his brother. i thought that would get jeff zucker fired. what zucker said one part he didn't know about whether chris was out there actually talking to other reporters about what they knew about, about andrew cuomo's alleged sexual indiscretions. he knew everything else. he knew his employee was advising his brother, he was a journalist. so it seemed to me at some point they would say whoa, that the boss knew about 90% of this he is still the boss? so i thought that would get him whacked out but it looks like it is this. it looks like, i haven't talked to chris. i'm just surm

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>> i would want to ask david zaslav do you agree with the comical things that john malone said about fox news. that's certainly one thing. i also would want to know several different things. apparently cuomo -- what cuomo's lawyer is alleging is that he was fired for not telling the truth to jeff zucker, which is why zucker said he fired him. is he claiming that zucker did not tell the truth either in the length of time he had been involved with allison or did he give some private advice to andrew cuomo, which came up in your last segment. >> right. >> those are really important questions that may or may not get some ventilation in the coming weeks. >> ken, thank you very much. the bottom line here, everybody, the news continues regardless of who is in charge. there is uncertainty spilling out elsewhere in the media world msnbc's top host on hiatus. >>> and later, the one inning i want everyone to know about cnn and that includes mr. john malone. i am here because they revolutionized immunotherapy. i am here because they saw how cancer adapts to different oxygen levels and starved it

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