Kara Swisher

The battle for Warner Brothers is continuing.

And as Paramount continues to fall downstairs on this in doing dealmaking, Paramount filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers and its CEO, David Zaslav, this week, trying to get them to turn over details of their sale process and the Netflix deal.

Warner Brothers is calling the lawsuit meritless.

Paramount also announced plans to nominate its own slate of directors to Warner Brothers board to vote against the next deal.

This is very typical in these fights.

Netflix is making some moves ahead of its own, reportedly amending its offer to an all-cash deal, very savvy, which could speed up the process significantly.

The stock is down, so it makes sense, and it makes it more attractive and gets that problem out of the way, the stock declining.

I'd love you to talk about the board dynamics.

I talked to Bill Cohen last night, and he was like, I don't understand why you would sugar, give the money, give $34 a share, you don't do vinegar here.

after doing so many stupid things in this deal.

And actually, let me note, lengthening the timeframe, because if martial law doesn't happen, Trump loses the House and the Senate, this deal is fucked for the paramount people.

So the timeframe is really bad for them at this point.

They're taking too long to get this.

If they got their hands on this, Trump will be

damaged by the time and unable to help them.

But what do you think of this proxy strategy?

You've been in the middle of these things a million times.

You were on the board of Eddie Bauer?

I forgot.

It just made sense.