comcast owning 30% and i think -- liz: comcast 15, i think. >> i think they're 30. at & t is 10.hought i checked that. anyway, you get the picture. it's three companies that hate each other and they despise each other. liz: hatfields and mccoys. >> there you go. transfer fox's 30 to disney, in a few weeks that will be it. really, there's three people, the hatfields and mccoys and somebody else that hates each other. the real question is what are they going to do. let's give you what we hear. clearly, inside these companies, we know, i know for a fact because of speaking with sources about this, this is an uncomfortable marriage. you know, it's like everybody, all three of these companies are starting their own streaming services, mainly disney which is doing a huge effort now, once it buys fox's entertainment assets and gets a lot of content. comcast, again, huge streaming, developing huge streaming service. at & t is doing it as well. they're not as advanced as the other two, but they are all doing their own streaming service, plus they have this and here's what i hear. there's

the reason we were against comcast-nbc is because comcast had a bad record of being anti-union. we have members who work at nbc. all kinds of technical work at nbc. we were worried that comcast taking over might hurt those members. the at&t time warner merger we were for because we do have a written agreement with a tnt that any company that they buy will be able to organize. and they will not interfere. hey will stay neutral. >> one more question on the t-mobile sprint merger. it's before federal regulators right now they feel department of justice is reviewing and the f.c.c. is reviewing. what do you think the likelihood is that federal egulators will approve this? >> i would have said a year ago probably not very good. for approval. but now i don't know because they're doing all kinds of hings including staying at trump's hotel for lots of nights in a row. to try and boost their chances of getting this thing passed. i would say that it's probably 50-50 now. >> there have been reports that hn legere, c.e.o. of t-mobile, has spent a lot of nights at the thrump hotel in washingt

the reason we were against comcast time warner is that comcast had a bad record of being anti-needed and -- antiunion and we have members wereorked at nbc and we somewhat worried comcast taking over might hurt those members. at&t time warner merger, we were for because we have a written agreement with at&t that any company they buy will be able to organize and they will not interfere. they will stay neutral. howard: one more question on at&t t-mobile, or t-mobile sprint merger, rather. regulators federal right now. department of justice is reviewing, fcc currently reviewing. what do you think the likelihood is the federal regulators are going to approve this? christopher: you know, i would've said a year ago probably not very good for approval. but now, i don't know because they're doing all kinds of things, including staying at trumps hotel -- trump's hotel lots of nights and a row to try to boost their chances of getting this thing passed. i would say it's probably 50-50 now. howard: is it important the ceo of t-mobile and other top executives spend a lot of nights at the trump hot

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my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast. working to make things simple, easy and awesome. lou: the president taking a swipe at form house speaker paul ryan for his complete and utter failure to pass any form of border security. president trump: i'm very disappointed at certain people, a particular one, for not having pushed this faster. >> have you referring speaker ryan. president trump: let's not talk about it. what difference does it make? they should have pushed it faster and they should have passed it harder, and they didn't. lou: that would be speaker paul ryan. joining us, ed rollins. ed, this president was pushed by the rinos in his own party. the timid, bout-out leader -- the bought-out leadership. and the chamber of commerce. they were among the first to protest the president's declaration of a national emergency. your thoughts? ed: i think we need to mention ex-speaker paul ryan. he made a promise to the president he would get this bill through if the president would sign off on the omnibus bill. then he did nothi

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my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast.le, easy and awesome. paul:>> after this funny attack received national attention for weeks, celebrities, news commentators, even presidential candidates, weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor. i only hope that the truth about what happened receives the same amount of attention that the hoax did. paul: the chicago police superintendent johnson following the arrest thursday of the empire actor, jussie smollett. he was charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report after claim he was violently attacked last month by two masked men shouting racial and homophobic slurs as well as pro trump slogans per the empire produces announced friday that jussie smollett has been written out of the final shows. we should point out that jussie smollett says he's innocent, denies the charges. saying still that it happened to him.what do you make of the larger story here? >> appoints a problem with one writer this week called victimhood and chic. when agreemen

comcast business. beyond fast. >>> welcome back. top trade negotiators today. he's also a former assistant under secretary for defense for president trumpresident reagan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> the state of play is exactly where it was. the chinese won't admit to the cyber intrusions. they won't admit to stealing intellectual property. they will buy more soybeans from the united states. do you think we'll get a deal. >> well, as you know, very well. there could be a cosmetic deal. apparently there is an effort to move towards a memorandum of understand. say the same thing. the chinese go a bit farther. they use the word consensus. this could be very bad news. it could mean the chinese will get away with the agreement and principal to be better citizens in the world. no enforcement, no monitoring. no punishment, they can still play for time and keep the tariffs low or off entirely over the coming years and hope for a new president. this is what vice president pence warned about back in october. china doesn't want

my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast. awesome. trish: massive fallout from a bizarre turn of events following the jussie smollett hate crime. joining me, scott bolton. the press jumped to conclusion here and spun the story in a way it shouldn't have been spun? >> i don't think so. it's easy to say that. here is a celebrity. he's african-american, he's gay. it's a despicable story. if you have a complaining witness you have to report it to the police. i'm a form or prosecutor. when i first heard the story i thought it was bizarre because it was 10 degrees below zero. who gets mugged in that kind of weather unless you are a gang member shooting another gang member. i suspected it because of my legal background. trish: as a journalist we have to think tweet about things before we want to go to air with them. it seems there was a carelessness from some members of the media that wouldn't have been there if the situation was turned in another way. i wonder how much the fact -- he said the -- the guys were wearing maga hats, the

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you see similar numbers coming out of comcast.ntinue to dominate box office globally. >> we talk about media companies, everyone is talking about the breakup value. with disney, they seem to believe in the idea that the conglomerate makes sense and it should stay as one. >> disney has been disney in our minds for so long, it is hard to look at it in every pieces. you have the movies and the content along the theme parks. it is hard to say these will be separated. there is total synergy in their real business model. about this.ou think of such disruption? even in areas like alphabet, people are scurrying -- we have earnings from snap. versus third quarter. that beats analysts assessments. >> you know people are pessimistic when you see 7% rise on unchanged users. >> 100 86 million daily active users. that is not a lot. >> not compared to instagram. that has been the key. in, copied, and leapfrogs. >> if you are snap, you are in no man's land. audience have a big compared to facebook and instagram and messenger. are they even a viab

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comcast business. beyond fast.eaker nancy pelosi says democrats will vote tuesday on a plan to block president trump's national emergency. it has two republican co-sponsors including justin amash. president trump in the oval office saying he'll veto the bill 100%. joining me now former reagan white house political analyst, ed rollins. the president mass not yet -- he has been in office two years and he has not yet used a veto. >> it will sail through the house and the one republican supporting it is a libertarian. and he's doing it on principle. after he gets out of the house, they have 18 days for it to couple in the senate. it probably gets a majority. there are a couple of republicans. it takes 2/3 vote of the house and senate and that won't happen to gopher come the president's veto. the supreme court in ruling on the hawaii case on immigration issue already is that's the way it's going to go. david: senator lindsey graham is an interesting guy. he started out as a bitter rival of the president in the president

my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast.working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> a new fight to get president trump's tax returns will start a short time from now. democrats on the ways and means committee holding on presidents disclosing tax returns. they plan to call for future presidential and vice president shl candidates to release ten years of tax returns for an ethics package known as hr1. your committee, sir, is holding that hearing later this afternoon. there is a lot of interest in it as we know and also on the thinking behind this. this could turn into a lengthy legal fight. do you believe you'll be successful? >> i think we'll have a hearing today. we'll go through the process. one thing our chairman pointed out is he wants to go through a process. we are looking forward to the 2020 race for anybody that's running for president or vice president on a future going basis will have to disclose their individual taxes. >> kevin called this political. how do you respond to that? >> well, you know, we are tr

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my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast. working to make things simple, easy and awesome. david: this is "balance of power" on "bloomberg television." now first word news. mark: legal experts say it may not be easy for the president to get funds for the border wall, despite the declaration of a national emergency. opponents are lining up to block the plan. landowners and local governments adjacent to the planned wall could also sue over the seizure of their land. and the attorney general's of new mexico and california have promised to sue if the president uses emergency powers for the wall. trump has his first republican challenger in the 2020 primaries, william weld announced today that he has created a presidential exploratory committee. he said that president trump's priorities are skewed towards promoting himself and causing " -- and is "too unstable for the job." and the irish prime minister told the german chancellor his government will not accept a no deal brexit border. bloomberg has learned angela merkel requested a

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