Matt Belloni

Those are.

And the process right now is they're getting bids.

And the guy running it, David Zasloff, who runs Warner Brothers Discovery, he is the chair of the committee that's evaluating all of these bids.

And he keeps asking them to sweeten their bid.

And Paramount has said that we believe we are the easiest path to getting this deal approved.

They think they have an in with the Trump people because they just bought Paramount.

They settled the lawsuit between Trump and CBS.

They did a big deal for the UFC.

They're going to be broadcasting the fight on the White House lawn.

Yeah.

They are making a bunch of changes at CBS that Trump likes.

They're going to release Rush Hour 4 because Trump wants them to, because the director, Brett Ratner, is doing a documentary about Melania.

So they've done a lot of things.

Larry Ellison is friends with Trump and has donated in the past.

They believe they have the easiest path to get this deal approved and that Netflix has a ton of problems getting this deal approved by the government because in the world of antitrust law, Netflix is the most powerful streaming service and they would be buying HBO Max, which is, you know, depending on what metric you use, third, fourth biggest streaming service.

So that potentially has some antitrust problems in this country.

That is what Paramount is pushing.

And then today we get this letter that Paramount sent to David Zaslav at Warner saying that they believe the process is essentially rigged and that Zaslav is pushing this company towards Netflix because they are going to treat him better.

They're going to give him a cushy job and that they are

the sort of preferred buyer here.