David Folkenflik

Paramount already owns Paramount Pictures, Paramount Plus and CBS.

A wild card President Trump wants to say and how the transaction turns out.

Paramount is financially controlled by two Trump allies, David Ellison and his father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

Trump trashes CNN, but it's been critical of CBS News under the Ellisons, too.

And Netflix executives have been cozying up to the president.

David Folkenflik and PR News.

CBS editor-in-chief Barry Weiss told 60 Minutes the day before that segment was to air that she wanted its journalists to get a White House official to answer questions on tape.

Despite the intervening month, no administration official sat for an interview.

Sunday's resulting report closely tracked a leak of the December version that was mistakenly distributed through a Canadian streaming service.

The new segment reflects more written comment from the administration.

Sunday's episode also includes a segment about confrontations between ICE agents and protesters in Minneapolis over deportations.

It includes interviews with the city's police chief, who is critical of ICE, and with the agency official who oversees deportations.

David Folkenflik, NPR News.

The message is very clear.

Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner's Hollywood Studios, its back catalog and intellectual property, as well as HBO Max.

Paramount's David Ellison, backed by his father, the co-founder of Oracle and one of the wealthiest people on Earth, has offered more.

He also wants cable channels like CNN and TNT and Discovery.

But Ellison says the cable channels have zero equity value.

That's nada, nothing, bupkis.

Paramount has filed suit in a Delaware court to try to force Warner to disclose more detail about that Netflix deal.