Max Tani

Why so serious?

As well as a lot of prestige television in HBO, in The Sopranos.

All this from a slice of gabagool?

In White Lotus.

these great television properties.

And in the end, I think a lot of people see this as the CEO of Warner Brothers, David Zasloff, preferring the bid from Netflix.

They announced that they were launching a hostile takeover attempt of Warner Brothers and that they were going to essentially appeal directly to the Warner Brothers shareholders, saying that they have a better deal.

They have offered an all-cash bid for the entire company.

So Paramount is saying, hey, we're willing to go directly to shareholders.

They're also hinting that they have a better relationship with the Trump administration and federal regulators.

It was revealed this week that Jared Kushner is one of the individuals who is providing some money backing Paramount's bid for Warner Brothers Discovery.

Trump, crucially, when he was asked about this this week, said, I don't know.

We don't really know if that's true or not.

Trump is being overt about how he wants to be involved in this deal.

He literally said in an interview, I'll be involved in that decision.

And all of the parties who have some sort of a stake in this deal are acting that way as well and appealing to Trump.

Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, has made multiple trips to the White House, one in which he met with Trump and talked about this.

David and Larry Ellison have both appealed to Trump, arguing their side of this situation.

Both sides are staffing up with lobbyists and people who are from Trump's orbit, thinking that they can kind of get the inside track that way.

And Trump is repeatedly kind of weighing in here, saying that he is going to take a look and that he is concerned about some monopoly situations, at least in the case of Netflix.