Rohan Goswami

Ed, always good to be here.

Well, let's be clear.

This was a chaotic day in D.C., so I actually ended up live streaming from D.C., a very effective use of this reporter's time.

But I spoke with a number of folks who were in the room in and around the hearing.

And look, you had a bit of everything.

You had some senators, some Republicans, unsurprisingly talking about woke programming and the issues that they've historically had with Netflix and big tech generally.

But then you also had a lot of fair and detailed analysis and scrutiny over...

Well, as we've talked about, two of the largest streaming platformings being combined, right?

It's not an everyday thing, and there was a lot of fair and, I think, righteous, almost, interrogation of that.

But by all accounts, and this is from staffers, from...

folks who are advising this, Ted Sarandos held himself out very well, right?

That was who Netflix sent their co-CEO.

Warner Brothers didn't think this was worth David Zaslav's time.

Apparently, they sent their M&A guy who, by all accounts, is a great guy.

Paramount, of course, was invited to attend and declined.

They felt that since they didn't have a deal, they shouldn't even show up.

But also, this is...

kind of a sideshow, if we're being honest.

These guys don't really have a lot of power to stop things.

That's the DOJ, and that's the Europeans.