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Trump: Netflix-Warner Bros. deal ‘could be a problem'

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As he walked the red carpet ahead of the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, President Donald Trump said the merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. “could be a problem.” Trump also said he will be part of the approval process.



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Dec. 7, 2025, 8:34 PM ESTBy Steve KopackPresident Donald Trump said Sunday that the proposed $72 billion merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery “could be a problem” because of the amount of market share the resulting company would have.The value of the deal balloons to more than $82 billion when debt is accounted for.Netflix said Friday it would purchase Warner Bros. Discovery’s film studio, HBO and the streaming service HBO Max. If the deal is approved, Netflix would also get access to decades of films and shows in the Warner Bros. Pictures archive. The deal would not include cable networks owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, such as CNN and TNT.Trump expressed some skepticism Sunday about the prospects of approval.”Well, that’s got to go through a process, and we’ll see what happens,” he told reporters as he walked the Kennedy Center Awards’ red carpet in Washington.”They have a very big market share,” Trump said of Netflix. “When they have Warner Bros., that share goes up a lot.”Netflix, which has more than 300 million subscribers, is the No. 1 streaming service. Warner’s HBO Max is ranked slightly lower.Trump said he would consult “some economists” before the deal get his stamp of approval. “I’ll be involved in that decision, too,” he said. Historically, presidents have not often gotten involved in antitrust approvals when companies seek to merge. Neither Netflix nor Warner Bros. own any broadcast stations, so the deal would not require approval by Federal Communications Commission. However, it may still require approval by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. The deal is also likely to require approval from the European Commission and other governments around the world.during his two terms in office, Trump has dramatically reshaped the ways corporate America deals with the federal government. Earlier Sunday, Bloomberg News reported that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos visited Trump at the White House in mid-November to discuss the potential deal. Sarandos’ visit echoed the strategy of other many other corporate executives, who have often tried to get on Trump’s good side before making major announcements, doing deals or seeking relief from government regulations or tariffs.Sarandos was left with the impression that Netflix would not face immediate opposition from the White House, the Bloomberg report said.On Sunday, Trump confirmed he had met with Sarandos.”I met with Ted. I think he’s fantastic,” he told reporters. “He was in the Oval Office last week,” Trump continued, adding that Sarandos made no promises at the meeting.Trump also compared Netflix’s success to that of the famed MGM film studio, which Amazon now owns. Amazon purchased the studio during the Biden administration, which did not challenge the takeover.The Trump administration in July approved the billion-dollar merger of Paramount Global with film studio Skydance. However, the approval only came after a contentious back-and-forth with the government and Trump himself. Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to Trump’s future presidential library over an interview CBS News conducted with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump alleged the interview featuring Harris, who ran against Trump for the presidency, was edited deceptively. Paramount also agreed with Trump’s FCC to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs and create an ombudsman at CBS News. Many industry analysts expect Netflix to argue that it competes against Google’s YouTube for market share. YouTube is often ranked as the most-used streaming app by U.S. consumers.Netflix’s deal announcement also drew scrutiny Friday from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a member of the Banking subcommittee on consumer protection who established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who called it an “anti-monopoly nightmare.” Steve KopackSteve Kopack is a senior reporter at NBC News covering business and the economy.
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It lists the state of Arizona and Grijalva herself as plaintiffs and the U.S. House, as well as the House clerk and sergeant at arms, as defendants.“Speaker Mike Johnson is actively stripping the people of Arizona of one of their seats in Congress and disenfranchising the voters of Arizona’s seventh Congressional district in the process,” Mayes said in a statement. “By blocking Adelita Grijalva from taking her rightful oath of office, he is subjecting Arizona’s seventh Congressional district to taxation without representation. I will not allow Arizonans to be silenced or treated as second-class citizens in their own democracy.”As he left the Capitol on Tuesday evening, Johnson blasted the Arizona lawsuit as “patently absurd.”Mayes, he said, has “no jurisdiction.”Grijalva and congressional Democrats have been holding news conferences on Capitol Hill, doing TV interviews and staging protests outside Johnson’s office to try to pressure the speaker to relent. But Mayes’ move escalates the standoff and gets the courts involved.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and other Democrats have argued that Johnson is delaying seating Grijalva because she represents the 218th — and final — signature on a discharge petition needed to force a House vote to compel the Justice Department to release all of its files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.Johnson has repeatedly denied that the delay has anything to do with the Epstein files. The speaker has said he is happy to swear in Grijalva as soon as the government, now on the 21st day of the shutdown, reopens.And Johnson accused Mayes, a Democrat who is running for re-election in 2026, of seeking publicity following a public clash he had with Arizona’s two Democratic senators, Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, over the Grijalva issue earlier this month.“So, yet another Democrat politician from Arizona is trying to get national publicity. So now it’s the state AG, who’s going to sue me because … Rep.-elect Grijalva is not yet sworn in,” Johnson told reporters Monday.He said he is following what he called the “Pelosi precedent,” noting that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took 25 days to administer the oath of office to then-Rep.-elect Julia Letlow, R-La. Letlow won a 2021 special election to fill the seat of her husband, who died of Covid complications days before he was set to be sworn into office. The House was out on recess following her election, amid the pandemic, and she was sworn in the week that it returned to session.“So I will administer the oath to [Grijalva], I hope, on the first day we come back to legislative session. I’m willing and anxious to do that,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol.Grijalva handily won her special election on Sept. 23, 28 days ago, and just four days after the House voted to pass its short-term government funding bill and left town.Johnson continued: “In the meantime, instead of doing TikTok videos, she should be serving her constituents. She could be taking their calls. She could be directing them, trying to help them through the crisis that the Democrats have created by shutting down the government.”Grijalva is the daughter of former Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., a progressive power broker and former Natural Resources Committee chairman who died in March after serving more than two decades in the House.”There is so much that cannot be done until I am sworn in,” Grijalva said Tuesday at a news conference with Jeffries. “While we’re getting a lot of attention for not being sworn in, I’d rather get the attention for doing my job.”Once she is sworn in, Grijalva is expected to quickly sign the bipartisan discharge petition — led by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. — which would allow them to bypass Johnson’s leadership team and force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.For months, the Epstein issue has been a nagging headache for both Johnson and President Donald Trump. Many of the president’s MAGA supporters have called for transparency and the release of all of the documents related to the case. On Tuesday, Johnson pointed out that the House Oversight Committee is investigating the matter and has released more than 43,000 pages of documents from DOJ and the Epstein estate. “The bipartisan House Oversight Committee is already accomplishing what the discharge petition, that gambit, sought — and much more,” Johnson, standing alongside Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said Tuesday. In an interview in the Capitol, Khanna said Johnson should just swear Grijalva in and hold the vote on the Epstein files because the issue is not going away.“They gotta swear in Adelita Grijalva. I don’t know why they’re delaying the inevitable. They’re kind of hoping this story dies and they get it out of the front pages, but then it comes roaring back once we get the votes,” Khanna told NBC News. “I wish we could just swear Adelita Grijalva in and have a vote on the release of the Epstein files.”Democrats are expected to win another vacant House seat in the coming weeks. On Nov. 4, voters will choose someone to fill the vacancy left by the unexpected death in March of Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, who represented a heavily Democratic district.If Democrats prevail in that special election, it would trim the GOP majority in the House to 219-215 and mean Johnson could only lose a single GOP defection on any vote.Scott WongScott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News. Kyle StewartKyle Stewart is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the House.Julie Tsirkin and Gabrielle Khoriaty contributed.
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