>> this morning in "the times" andrew ross sorkin writes the government's case always felt political. sounds like you kind of agree with that. >> first of all, vertical mergers are not usually challenged in such a way i think that the administration has made it very clear that, like cnn perhaps or some other aspects of time warner but i think the main point is that the justice department lot it from a cable television pointf view and whether going to raise prices in that particular world, which possibly could, but the real issue was, is time warner better off to fight a netflix or tech companies by itself or is it better off with at&t? and the answer is resounding that it's better off with at&t look at the terrible job the did competing with hbo, which was kind of precursor to a netflix if you'd like. they d a v very bad job. that's the real battle is the tech companies, not the cable companies. >> one of the key questions is