own wall street farce yes good to see you all those anti trust concerns valid off to roll come cosson n.b.c. were allowed to merge a few years ago you know this last year it came completely out of the blue and especially if you look at it that's a so-called vertical deal meaning two companies trying to merge sure working in different industries one being a cable operator and the other one being a big media company now a judge will decide and that judge sure is going to be on the future of time warner big ben actually was yet to kill about the cost and d.c. deal but eventually approved it so well the last word is not spoken in this battle a multi billion and then a activity in the us has been on the rise in the pasta but could this lawsuit have a chilling effect on this kind of activity. there's certainly that is one of the big questions and if you look at it if the justice department starts blocking vertical deals what happens to companies who drive to a merger within the same industry one of the huge multibillion dollar outstanding possible merger is the acquisition of monsanto by the germ