White House will not turn over documents on AT&T-Time Warner merger

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White House will not turn over documents that could show whether Republican President Donald Trump sought to intervene in the regulatory review of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner by davidshepardson

- The White House has told two U.S. House Democrats it will not turn over documents that could show whether Republican President Donald Trump sought to intervene in the regulatory review of AT&T Inc’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc.

In March, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Representative David Cicilline, who chairs a panel overseeing antitrust issues, asked the White House and Justice Department to turn over records after The New Yorker magazine reported Trump directed then-National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn to use the Justice Department to block the deal.

Trump criticized the deal as a candidate in late 2016, saying it would concentrate too much media power in the hands of one owner, and later saying it would raise prices. He has also frequently attacked CNN, a Time Warner property now owned by AT&T, for what he sees as negative coverage of his campaign and administration.

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davidshepardson The policy of this administration is deny and/or obstruct any negative event or evidence of it.

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davidshepardson Nixon tried this method. Look what happened to him

AaronBlake davidshepardson So, yes

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davidshepardson Fits the pattern of non disclosure . We all know why ?

davidshepardson Why not?

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davidshepardson Is this news? Really? I thought news involved something out of the ordinary happening? The WH not allowing congress to perform their oversight as a co-equal branch of government?..not newsworthy when it happens regularly Impeach45

davidshepardson Co-equal branches of government. Oversight responsibility. Democracy anyone?

davidshepardson Wow!! So now what? He just gets away with it again?

davidshepardson The president is not immune to the law. A good president would have had full transparency, giving all data.

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