Sessions will not answer if White House asked about AT&T Time Warner merger
Sessions will not answer if White House asked about AT&T Time Warner merger
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined on Tuesday to answer if any White House officials contacted the Justice Department to discuss the government`s review of AT&T Inc`s proposed $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc .
Sessions would not answer a question at a U.S. House hearing about if the White House had any communications about the deal. President Donald Trump as a candidate had vowed not to approve the merger and has repeatedly criticized Time Warner`s CNN network. Reuters reported the Justice Department demanded last week that AT&T divest DirecTV or the Turner Broadcasting unit in order to win approval.
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