in the cases of haberman. i think that you are talking about the believed white house correspondent for the new york times. and who gets to decide what information is commoditized for later. so, we began that segment by looking at maggie haberman standing in front of photo op signs. celeb are fighting. if that is a word. the launch of the book. the motive for it is obviously. if you package a book. so some of this old news for example. where she is a contributor at cnn. is bill as breaking news on cnn. even though the news is years old. and what i'm saying is, it is not on the level. the collapse of trust and faith and belief in the media in america is a very real thing. the fact that people do not believe. >> steve. when you talk about trust steve. i'm just gonna jump in and ask you steve. when you talk about trust, you worked on multiple campaigns. did you ever do deals with reporters on the side saying i'll give you this. you can't report it yet. >> absolutely. i negotiated all the time. and every conceivab

what does maggie haberman say now? >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... corporate funding is provided by... >> maggie haberman, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you for having me. >> you are out with a bestselling book, "confidence man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america." you have spoken with him countless times throughout his life, three times for this book specifically, and you've spoken to more than 250 sources in reporting on this book. was there anything especially revelatory or surprising to you as you wrote this book? >> so, there were a couple of moments, i would say, that were surprising. for instance, having a biracial girlfriend in the 1990s, who was a model, and she is the daughter of a black woman and a white man, and he told her that she had gotten her beauty from her mother and her brains from her dad, the white side. that stopped me when i heard it. the individual actions surprised me. the broader portrait of who he is, however, i think is

. >> new york times reporter maggie haberman has dominated the beat.ce and donald trump's head. >> fame is the overarching desire for him and has been since he was in his 20s. >> haberman scoops have also frequently put her on the receiving end of donald trump's wrath. >> so, maggie haberman gets a pulitzer prize. e'

because i think haberman wrote the book as well. and it gets out. there are revelations from the white house years. but there's also, i think, the first half of the book really gets the 1980s and trump's rise in new york and puts his whole career at and eventual election in a bigger perspective. which freelance was well equipped to think about on that larger scale? so john williams you say something like this is in the works for months. her book came out, i believe, october 11th. yeah. this published october 9th. i were three months. yeah. there's an asterisk on a book like maggie haberman. steve had the idea to go to sean wilentz. but i should say that in this case, well, nancy got the book pretty late in the game, so he turned it around pretty quickly when there were books like that that are an industry. i'm sure your viewers have heard of embargoes. the publisher to hold on to the book as long as possible to keep any possible revelations it out of the press. and so we work with the publishers. we try to get them as early as we can, but those are

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ready. >> joining us now cnn political analyst, "new york times" political correspondent maggie habermanselling author of the remarkable book "confidence man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america." so how real is this? this is happening? this is real? what are you hearing? >> it sure seems so, anderson. with donald trump, you never want to say it's an absolutely. i have been hearing from multiple people it's likely to be that week of november 14th. they consider it an ideal time, as you said, because it would be right after the midterms. he had been talking about announcing before the midterms. that really worried a lot of republicans who tried to talk him out of it through various methods. telling them he would be blamed if they lost. remember, he loses some things by doing this, anderson. what he thinks he gains is some protection from justice department investigations and he tries to forestall the rest of the field, especially in a week that mike pence's book is coming out. what he loses is the ability to use his outside groups to pay for legal bills. the clock start

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maggie haberman tweets trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about mehmet oz and is blaming everyone who advised him to back oz. including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him. now, weijia, are republicans learning that there just might be a political cost to nominating amoral freaks? >> republicans felt very confident about where they were going in these midterms for quite a while now. that's because they really attacked the one thing that is on everybody's minds regardless of whether you are republican or democrat. and that is the economy and inflation. of course, this administration tried to point out that they are facing global head winds. that this is a historic pandemic that they're trying to recover from and that the president's policies will make things better because, you know, a lot of the measures have yet to kick in. >> i'm sorry, but i maintain that the number one thing voters ask themselves before pulling that lever is, do i trust this person to savagely attack joe biden and his family? >> honestly, i don't have a d

maggie haberman tweets... now, weijia, are republicans learning that there just might be a political cost to nominating amoral freaks? -republicans have felt very confident about where they were going in these midterms for quite a while now, and that's because they've really attacked the one thing that is on everybody's minds, regardless of whether you are a republican or a democrat, and that is the economy and inflation. of course, this administration has really tried to point out that they are facing, you know, global headwinds, that this is a historic pandemic that they're trying to recover from, and that the president's policies will make things better because, you know, a lot of the measures have yet to kick in. -i'm sorry, but i maintain that the number-one thing voters ask themselves before pulling that lever is, "do i trust this person to savagely attack joe biden and his family?" -honestly, i don't have a damn clue what's going on if a total dreamboat sex idol like tim ryan can't pull off a resounding

our first guest is one of the finest reporters in the country today, maggie haberman, her latest bookails the making of president trump and is no doubt said to becoming -- to be becoming one of the defining books of his presidency. >> thank you so much for joining us, thank you to our partners, for joining us, long time no see, maggie. i saw her last night. everyone was hanging on her every word. in washington, everyone is more important. maggie, the book is fabulous and we are glad to have you. >> thank you. >> i thought i would start with today's news. one of the reasons that you should be reading maggie's book is because of donald trump's heyday in new york in the 80's and 90's. one of the recurring themes is the federal investigations of donald trump where he plays and repeatedly wins games with prosecutors -- games of chicken with prosecutors. today they are deciding whether or not to indict them, i am curious how you see that in light of what you learned researching the book. maggie: thank you for having me, thank you for having me and purse -- on a computer rather than a person

he talks and calls maggie haberman who is written harsh briefings. because jonathan is one. calling these people, but they're not getting leaks from him. he is beating them up and saying fake news. i'm wondering what the packet he thinks and what you think the package does as a message to a young person growing up today about the role of media and democracy. >> i think republican candidates president trump and other officials need to do a much better job with younger voters. you see what happen in midterms. democrats did a fantastic job turning out young voters. republicans did terrible. you look at the trend of younger voters by 2024 millennials world surpassed baby boomers for overall voters turning out. that is a concern if we do not get our act together and make a stronger push. a lot of people in response to president trump, republicans conservatives said he -- they wish he would stop talking about the past and talk about the future. any chance? >> look at tuesday speech. >> along speech getting through it. >> a couple minutes longer -- knocked off a couple lecture page

i don't think anybody in the haberman family will worry about college. of course there already another book -- will be another book. steve: two sets of gravitational planets in terms of news air. part of our task today is to look at healthy democracy, healthy media, healthy oversight of government and healthy respect of government for the media should look like. so tell us, are we going to have two ecosystems? jason: i think we're already there. if you look at folks in the center right and center left look at news different. the way the social media activity, you see how it's played out with elon musk of late after he took over twitter and people are freaking out and quitting twitter. steve: are you guys friends? jason: i'd like to be friends. he goes on better vacations. he may not view me as a competitor. i'd like to be a competitor, though. i think we are already there. the separation is there where you have two separate ecosystems and i think we will be at a pivotal point over the next four, five years, do media outlets on both sides, whether it be c

maggie haberman tweets trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about mehmet oz and is blamingsion, according to people close to him. now, weijia, are republicans learning that there just might be a political cost to nominating amoral freaks? >> republicans felt very confident about where they were going in these midterms for quite a while now. that's because they really attacked the one thing that is on everybody's minds regardless of whether you are republican or democrat. and that is the economy and inflation. of course, this administration tried to point out that they are facing global head winds. that this is a historic pandemic that they're trying to recover from and that the president's policies will make

oz over a more establishment candidate, and according to maggie haberman, the ex-prez was furious thisarly about mehmet oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back oz, including his wife, describing it as "not her best decision." okay, but it's also not her worst decision. ( laughter ) ( applause ) to be fair. to be fair. lovely, lovely. pennsylvania also had a race for governor, and the winner was not far-right christian nationalist and lex luthor who really let himself go, doug mastriano. curb-stomped in his race against democratic candidate josh shapiro, and yet, he refuses to concede. that's actually no surprise. mastriano also hasn't yet conceded the civil war. losses in pennsylvania were just one part of a disappointing night for the g.o.p. on average, in midterm elections, the party out of power usually picks up 29 seats in the house. but this year, republican gains could be as low as single digits, which-- ( cheers and applause ) yeah. yes. voters gave them a single digit. ( laughter ) ( applause ) these results are a crisp nut-punch to republican optimism leading up to

to borrow a phrase from maggie haberman, it doesn't seem hi heart was in it. maybe of teleprompter, but frank you recently sat down with a focus group of 2020 to trump voters, and almost all of them said today they would vote for ron desantis. does donald trump still have the base he needs to pull off a primary? >> well, two points. number one, donald trump is still the most popular republican within the republican party. it's changed over the last seven days. he's not the same person he was before this election. in his attacking the governor of florida, governor of virginia, other republicans, was received very badly among rank and file. so he's been damaged. second, it's the rise of governor desantis, which is very significant, having won in a true landslide all across the state from all different voter blocs. ron desantis is not the front-runner, trump is still the front-runner, but desantis is absolutely credible, absolutely significant, and i actually thought that trump last night 'looked more presidential than he has at any point in five years, that his

maggie haberman, the new york times reporter who has been entrenched in the trump world here, tweetedort time ago. trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about dr mehmet oz and is blaming everyone who advised him to back as including his wife, describing it as her worst or not her best decision according to people close to him , so we could see what is happening behind the scenes there. if you believe this tweet from maggie haberman, who has been pretty good at getting to the crux of what is happening within the trump household here now why? why is the election? the reelection? in fact of governor romney? centers in florida. now, why is this one significant but compared to the trump backed candidates? yeah well, i think it's striking that , you know, really the one of the main places where republicans did better than expected was florida, where de santis won by a really massive majority, but it's also worth noting. so did senator marco rubio. so it's not necessarily just about de santis. but i do think that the santas and his supporters will be arguing. that you know, he o

the last time trump was this disappointed was when eric was born. [ laughter ] according to maggie habermanf "the new york times," she tweeted, "trump is indeed 4 cancerous this morning, particularly about mehmet oz, is blaming everyone who advised him to back oz, including his wife, describing it as not her best decision." might even be her second worst decision. [ laughter ] trump is so angry at melania, they're no longer sleeping in separate beds. [ laughter ] they had a victory party planned at mar-a-lago and everything. it was uncomfortable. three doors down was like, "we're still getting paid, right?" but the prevailing wisdom among democrats and republicans is that republicans might have done better without trump, and you know this is going to get under his pumpkin spiced skin. >> the biggest loser tonight is donald trump. >> donald trump was the big loser. >> this man is a loser. >> he's the biggest loser in american politics. >> big losers are going to be donald trump. >> trump is not a national winner. >> this is a resounding loss for him. >> not only is donald trump the loser, we

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. >> maggie haberman, and author of the new best-seller, "the making of donald trump and breaking ofin who served under the former president. you wrote in your new book that the former president has been kind of been privately calling desantis a variety of nicknames or names for months. do you think he was speaking off the cuff or thought it out >> i think it may have been a roger stone reference? >> this had been workshoped the last couple of week by trump, and he tested these things, and he had been trying this out on people over the last couple weeks, and roger stone posted using the nickname eight or nine days ago, and you can do the math from there on how it was. trump felt the need to have a shot ahead of tuesday, and if the poll something right, desantis will win handily, and trump wants to keep people in the maga world from gravitating to desantis, and that's why he did it. >> was it completely transactional always? >> for the most part, and she's right that desantis does owe his win to donald trump. the trump boost brought desantis to where he was and he was able to win. i h

"the new york times" maggie haberman was first to report this. what can you tell us about what the doj wants from pence, maggie? >> the doj is interested in talking to him in connection with the january 6th investigation that as we know has been going on for some time. but he's the only person that can answer certain questions about what trump was saying, about trump's mindset. about the final phone call they had the morning of january 6th which pence was not surrounded by aides and he can talk about exactly what trump was saying to him and what he was saying to trump. they have interviewed two witnesses who are close to pence, mark shorter his former chief of staff and his former chief of staff greg jacob. this is preliminary, the conversation just began. but if it happens, if pence were to be interviewed, it would be another extraordinary turn in this investigation. >> it would be. and pence, maggie, has made it clear he will not testify before the january 6th committee. this does seem to be something different, though. >> that's right. look, p

. >> according to maggie haberman's new best-seller "confidence man", i'll release it when it's over is something trump came up on a flight in march of 2016. quoting in the book, "you know taxes under audit. i'll release them when i'm no longer under audit because i'll never not be under audit." he didn't tell voters that part. but when democrats in congress demanded the returns, he didn't try the audit excuse on them, he just said no. here is his acting chief of staff at the time. >> to be clear, you believe democrats will never see the president's tax returns? >> oh, no, never. nor should they. that's an issue that was already litigated during the election. voters knew the president could have given his tax returns. they knew that he didn't, and they elected him any way. >> so if your head isn't always spinning, that's mick mulvaney saying the former president had the voters' seal of approval for promising them something he had no intention of delivering and then breaking that same promise. in any event, as the legal battle to keep his returns private dragged on, reporting, especia

cnn national politics reporter eva mckend, national affairs correspondent jeff sell any and maggie habermanuthor of confidence man, the making of donald trump and the breaking of america. maggie, i'm curious what you make of pence's reaction here because on one hand he says he thinks that trump should apologize, but he also says that he doesn't believe he is anti-semite. >> that's right. he writes this in his booking pence, he notes, you know, he insists that trump is not a bigot, that he wouldn't have served on the ticket with him. i think that pence is trying to make two things reconcile and one is trying grapple with things donald trump said and done over a long period of time while condemning him right now. pence is condemning him more forcefully than a lot of republicans have. only he and chris christie have spoken out this way. you are correct. often three condemnations come with tempering or whataboutism about what happened on the political left. it's right or wrong what trump did and people seem so have trouble saying it directly. >> jeff, it's a good point. when you compare this, h

>> i certainly think based on reporting of people like maggie haberman and others that the latter is definitely part of that. there is a huge investigation. several investigations in fulton county, georgia, the justice department, and on and on, and this can be used by him if not for a legal defense or to scare off the likes of attorney general garland, at least a political defense. look. they're going after me because i'm going to defeat joe biden. why do it? i don't think he's a particularly humble man. i don't think he particularly likes being out of the head lines or the limelight. i think there's probably a degree to which he wants to clear the field, scare people out of running, but really i can't explain donald trump in terms of his calculations. the bottom line is he wanted to do it and he did it, and now the republican party has to deal with it. i will see if they actually have figured out by now that i think it's pretty clear he's a liability for their party. >> speaking of, if this hastens other announcements from republicans, you have the town hall tonight with former vic

maggie haberman made the point he wants the title, he wants this perceived legal protection which againm that he wanted to do the work the first time around. why is he running? >> i can't speak to why he's running. i mean, if the idea is that the spotlight is going to create some shield for -- from him -- for him from the department of justice, from these investigations in georgia, i think he's sadly mistaken in that regard. i can't speak as to -- i don't think any of us can get into donald trump's head and speak as to why he's doing what he's doing and the timing just before the georgia runoff election. i just don't get it. >> jim schultz, always good to hear from someone who was so close to him. appreciate it. >>> still ahead, quite a night last night, a liftoff that lit up the sky for miles. nasa one step closer to a permanent post on the moon. what is next for the artemis moon rocket and why this morning's launch almost didn't happen. that's coming up. ♪ ♪ wow, we're crunching tons of polygons here! what's going on? where's regina hi, i'm ladonna. a fund that giveme access to the na

oz lost, so according to maggie haberman, who knows the trump family reportedly well, he's blaming his wife, said it was melania's idea. >> doesn't it go well when you blame mika for all your mistakes? >> never. never. >> isn't that a path to success. >> doesn't work for a decision he made. i want to be careful how i say this but -- let me just put it this way. if i tell mika what she needs to do with "owe your value," it doesn't go well. >> you are your value. >> i learned my value that way. because mika would never be persuaded to completely change something based on what i said. likewise, mika would never come to me telling me how to do my job, except when she comes to me and tells me how to do my job. other than that -- come on, seriously. you can't blame your wife because of dr. oz. you had david mccord there. you would have won most likely, even though fetterman, man, can we have that ad? i'd love to start the top of the hour with the fetterman ad. did you see this fetterman ad about him talking about the stroke and being knocked down and pulled back up? >> a good ad. a really go

historian john meacham's new biography of abraham lincoln and there was light and confidence man maggie haberman. look at president trump. finally, book tv recently spoke th andrew albÉniz of publishers weekly about the penguin, random house and simon and schuster proposal merger, which was denied on antitrust grounds. here's what he had to say. andrew albany's is a senior writer with publishers weekly and he's followed the case from the beginning and he joins us now. so mr. albany's remind us of what this merger was to begin with, this merger was said to be the the coming together of the world's largest english language trade publisher, which is penguin random house, with its third largest big five rival, publisher simon schuster would have created a megamerger. a publisher that would have been roughly. 49% of the market for bestselling books. so who was supporting it and who was against it? well, supporting it, of course, were the merging parties, right, simon and schuster, its parent company, viacomcbs, had decided to get out of the publishing business and penguin random house. obviously, the

so when her name came up earlier this week in a maggie haberman report that trump was blaming melania, because kbmelania trump was a big dr. oz fan, something that he mentioned during his rallies, she doesn't like being in the news, so that caused some friction. clearly, when donald trump is in a not-so-great mood, what a lot of people do is sort of avoid him. and that's what's happening now. however, tomorrow is tiffany trump's wedding, so it's a family gathering where the patriarch is not exactly in the mood to perhaps host everybody, you know, for this event tomorrow for his daughter. >> no. i mean, honestly, the post in recent days, it's not just talking about himself as a very stable genius, it's claiming credit for the rise and fall of facebook and twitter and screeds on ron desantis and racist name calling of glenn youngkin. it has been even for him a very, very high level. i mean, so jared and ivanka are obviously going to be part of this event this weekend. and they were pivotal in his first term. where do they stand on all of this? >> well, it's interesting that you say that

let's turn no to cnn political analyst maggie haberman, dana bash, kaitlan collins, and alyssa farahommunications and a cnn political commentator. so maggie, is this happening? >> yes. he has filed the paperwork. he is now officially a candidate. so the fec has a 2024 trump campaign document. there has been a staggering number, anderson, of people saying to me over the last two days is he really going to do this, including in the last few hours. is this really going to happen? yes. he is going to be a candidate. he is going to make that clear in the next hour. 2024 is now upon us. >> and not for lack of trying by so many people around him. would you say pretty much everybody? >> literally everybody, and everybody in the outside extended orbit tried to get him to move this. >> yeah. this morning i told that somebody who speaks to him a lot called and said do you think that this is really a good idea? imagine it would be like announcing right after the hindenburg exploded and the response was i'm going to do it. and that was it. >> i think part of why he is going forward with it despit

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share their concerns about the scheme in e-mails reported on by the new york times absent maggie habermanone e-mail it literally describes him as "regular" ticker symbol will be doing us any needs fake electors, he asked fake in quotes, to go cas ballots. in another e-mail there was a discussion about fear from some officials. this should be seen as quote-unquote treasonous. >> what might have happened had pence tried to go through with this idea that he could reject electoral votes and send them back to the states by [no responses] such as arizona, pennsylvania, wisconsin, geo georgia? >>> it would have immediately plunged the country into what i characterize would be tantamoun to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional cr crisis. >> there's just no way that the framers of the constitution divided power and authority, wh separated it out, who had broke away from george iii and declared him to be a tyrant, there was know a that they woul have put in the hands of one person in authority to determin who was going to be the president of the united states. >> but president trump knows

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more reporting from maggie haberman of the new york times.he d the book out recently about donald trump. spent her time during the trump administration covering the white house and donald trump. trump is furious, partularly about men it awes -- mehmet oz and is blaming everyone who advised him to back oz, including his wife. i want to take you back to the latest house races. 62 races yet to be called, including many of the tossup races. 20 still yet to be called. i want to run throughomhouse races that we are waiting for, focusing on the keystone state of pennsylvania for a minute. the democrat at 50.8%o 49.2% against a republican challenger, lisa schle pesylvania 8th district, matt cartwright at 51.2% trying to hold off his challenger in that race. 48.8% for the republican. pennsylvania 17th dtrict, the democrat in the open seat agnst jeremy schaefer, the republican. a couple of othetoup races in oregon. 6th district. another op seat races. the democrat with 50.1% to 47.7% for the republicans. it is still early in oregon's returns. not even

maggie haberman retweeted news pretending to be espn reporter and was fooled by the system last night, lockheed martin. a fake account tweeted that all weapon sales to saudi arabia, israel and the united states are going to be halted until there's further investigation and record of human rights. >> at some point there will be real danger to people, human danger, or danger to the stock market think about what could get published and move the markets. >> especially when sam bankman-fried and others are -- >> totally that's in our world. a call about the economy or ukraine or russia or others with complicated situations complicated is the polite word for it thequestion is whether regulators step in and say enough we're doing it this way. you have to actually abide by something else then, you go to court and you will be in court for years and years. >> the question is whether he will be able to maintain the ftc decree on the company. a bunch of people quit yesterday and the legal team who weren't fired saying we are not involved because you will not live up to the ftc >> you used to see

joining us now, cnn political analyst and correspondent for the "new york times" maggie haberman.rica." good morning to you. so -- >> liked the music. >> the music was very odd. seen this movie before. i'm going to do this -- likes to build up drama, build up -- seen be this before. does it matter if he makes the announcement today, tomorrow, i feel we're going to see, hey i'm going to do this a long time before some happens. >> incredible how he gets everybody to follow along with him when he does this game of i'm thinking of doing it. to be clear, hard to know whether it's a game, or working it out in his head, testing it out with advisers. yesterday afternoon a fire drill. in the afternoon walked back. then suddenly announcing an announcement, what he did. we all no what we he's talking about and what's calming. more interesting when he actually does something because we will cover it. a former president, front-runner in polls. legitimate reason to cover it, i don't know if this needs to be covered. >> and so far doing this, he says it and we fall for it. we've done that before

according to the new york times, maggie haberman who knows trump very well.t mehmet oz. trump is blaming everyone advised him to back oz including get this, his wife, describing it as not her best decision. that's according to people close to the former president. he's blamed sean hannity. he's blaming his wife. >> i don't know if he's blaming -- >> all class. he's blaming everybody. >> blaming melania. not a smart move. >> i wouldn't do that. >> some republicans are blaming trump for their lackluster election night including one of his allies. long time trump adviser david irpin, republicans have followed donald trump off the side of a cliff. trump should not announce his run for re-election next week as expected. he should wait after the georgia senate runoff in december. she also was clear who should and who should not campaign in georgia over the next few weeks. >> do you see the former president, a need for him to go to georgia? >> i think we've got to make strategic calculations. i think governor desantis should be welcome to the state given what happen

in her book about donald trump, confidence man, new york times political reporter maggie haberman includes material from three sit down interviews with the former president. in america a redemption story, republican senator tim scott of south carolina discusses his formative years and tells the story of americans that he's met who've overcome hardship and contributed to our national life in the myth of american inequality. former texas republican senator phil gramm suggests the problem of economic inequality is overstated and that the policy debate around the issue is biased by poor government data. journalists and husband and wife peter baker and susan glasser look back at former president trump's time in the white house. in their new book titled the divider. former trump campaign chair paul manafort, who was found guilty of bank and tax fraud, later pardoned by then president trump, argues in his book political prisoner that the charges against him were politically motivated. missouri democratic congresswoman cori bush's memoir, the forerunner, looks at her journey from registered nurse

maggie haberman look at president. finally book tv recently with andrew albany'of publishers about the penguin random house and simon and schuster proposed merger which was denied on antitrust grounds. here's what he had to say. andrew albany's is a senior writer with publishers weekly, and he's followed the case from the beginning and he joins us now. so mr. albany's remind of what this merger was. begin with this was said to be the the coming together of the world's largest english language trade publisher is penguin random house with, its third largest big five rival publisher simon schuster would have created a mega-merger publisher that would have been roughly 49% of the market for bestselling books. so who was supporting it and who was against it? well, supporting it, of course. the merging parties. right. simon and schuster, parent company viacomcbs, had decided to get out of the publishing business and penguin random house, obviously the largest and most successful publisher right now, really wanted to pick it

historian john meacham's new biography of abraham lincoln and there was light and confidence man maggie haberman. look at president trump. finally, bookv recently spoke with andrew albÉniz publishers weekly about the penguin random house and simon and schuster proposed merger, which was denied on antitrust grounds. here's what he had to say. andrew albany's is a senior writer with publishers weekly and he's followed the case from the beginning and he joins us now. so mr. albany's remind us of what this merger was to begin with, this merger was said to be the the coming together of the world's largest english language trade publisher, which is penguin random house, with its third largest big five rival, publisher simon schuster would have created a mega-merger merger, a publisher that would have been. roughly 49% of the market for bestselling books. so who supporting it and who was against it? well, supporting it of course, were the merging parties, right, simon schuster, its parent company, viacom. cbs, had decided to get out of the publishing business and penguin random. obviously, the largest