here to discuss it are two men who cover and watch telecommunications policy here in washington, harold feld is senior vice president of public knowledge, and scott wallsten is president of the technology policy institute. mr. wallsten, let's begin with you. what would this merger mean to at&t? what would happen? >> guest: well, at&t is, wants to buy lots of content, apparently it sees that this is sort of the future of this industry following the comcast/nbc merger. at&t is hoping to vertically integrate with time warner. >> host: and you say vertical. what does that mean? >> guest: so rather than -- in a horizontal merger, you have two companies who compete directly with each other merging. so the attempts at&t/t-mobile merger would have been a horizontal merger, and it was blocked because of concerns related to that. a vertical merger is when you have an upstream and downstream company combining, so they're in separate markets. you're not changing the concentration, the industry concentration in either one by putting those together. and the justice department tends to look at those differ

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monday night on the ,ommunicators -- scott alston and harold feld, senior vice president at public knowledgeabout their of opposing views on the proposed at&t-time warner merger and what that merger would mean or telecommunications. >> one of the things that harold mention is how at&t will treat time warner content. he is right, that is the potential way that this merger could be anticompetitive. if they treat their own content differently from others. i will probably be the biggest issue that the justice department will want to look at. as your provider can see what you get for breakfast out of your smart refrigerator, when you go to work in the morning, when you are walking by a mcdonald's on your way to work and can combine that with its content that it would get from dissecta essentially every element of your life. >> watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> tonight on c-span, q&a with former boston globe worth -- reporter larry tye followed by theresa may taking questions from members of the house of commons. later, hillary clinton and donald trump made c

here to discuss it are two men who cover and watch telecommunications policy here in washington, harold feld is senior vice president of public knowledge, and scott wallsten is

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