emily: still with us, eric hippeau at lerer hippeau, who was ceo of the huffington post. ee more media m&a, and if so, where? eric: sure. traditional media companies need a bigger digital footprint. they need to acquire technologies. they are not technology companies. for the native media technology companies to be part of a bigger group, get more resources, more options to distribute their content. it is a win-win for both. emily: do you see a big consolidation happening? eric: i don't know how much with consolidation, but if you look at the deceleration of subscribers on cable, this is motivating a lot of people to say, wait, this uncoupling of the cable world is happening a lot faster than we expected. we better prepare -- as we are cash-rich, we better prepare for the future. emily: eric hippeau, you are sticking with me. coming up, sprint and t-mobile are in continued merger talks. the sides are said to have agreed deutsche telekom would have control in a combination of the two companies. operators are discussing a stock for stock merger. they are still weeks away fro

want to get straight to our bloomberg tech reporter who covers social media, and still with us, eric hippeaur hippeau ventures. what do we know? iforter: he says facebook, they don't have much to hide, how about doing it in the public? although a date has not been set, this is important to the senators. facebook has given more information about the ads related to the russians spending to robert mueller's commission. we are very much looking forward to anything we can here in the public eye. does this mean we could see mark zuckerberg or sheryl sandberg testifying before congress? reporter: that could be a possibility. we could also see perhaps facebook's head of security, anyone who might have more maybe thatformation, they are looking into it on a granular level, but nothing has been confirmed. emily: eric, what is your take? actually issue is bigger than just the russian hack. we are entering a new relationship with our big tech companies. for years, we left them alone, we wanted them to grow and innovate. it has dawned on us as a society and users and the government that they are really n