Maggie Eastland

We were all a part of this victory.

Now get those nachos out of the preemie warmer.

I offered more talks, so long as they're in good faith.

We're always open to talks, and we set a deadline, and we meant the deadline, and up until that deadline, I'm open to more talks than I told them so.

we've been negotiating in good faith on the Department of War side for about three months and we're working pretty diligently and we sent over a proposal that we thought made a lot of concessions to the language that Anthropic wanted and then, you know, without any notice,

They published an article where we thought we were getting close, saying that they were breaking off talks well before the deadline, which is generally not good partner-oriented practice, if you will.

We were all a part of this victory.

Now get those nachos out of the preemie warmer.

The speed with which Netflix pulled out came as a surprise.

There'd been a growing suspicion over the last week that this was tilting.

Warner Brothers had selected the Netflix bid in December.

Over the last couple of months, Paramount had waged this campaign to change it.

For most of that time, it still seemed like Netflix was the clear frontrunner.

But over the last week, Paramount made a bid that Warner Brothers thought was better, and

People started to get the feeling that Netflix was having second thoughts.

Look, I think the political pressure that Paramount brought to bear definitely had an influence.

It made a lot of Warner Brothers shareholders believe that the Netflix deal was going to take a long time and be more complicated and maybe be more interested in the Paramount deal.

But I wouldn't read too much into the meeting just yesterday.

I don't think it's like Ted Sarandos walked into the White House, came away saying, oh, we can't do it, and then pulled out.

I think Netflix had been sort of building to this point for a little while.