‘Morning Joe’ Rips Trump After DoJ Calls for Sale of CNN Before Approving AT&T-Time-Warner Deal

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SCARBOROUGH: "Ha, ha, ha. I’m sorry. You know, there are so many times, and even Kellyanne Conway’s husband at one point basically said, 'Mr. President, you need to just shut up because you are actually hurting yourself in your legal cases. He did that. His tweets, his words have been used time and time against him rightly in courts by judges to strike down decisions that actually would have gone in his benefit. Harold, I am just a dumb country lawyer and I don't know a whole lot of this stuff, but I am thinking that that clip could be used by any attorney, by AT&T, to say, 'Look, you can see what was in his mind even before he was president of the United States, even before he knew what the merger looked like he said he wouldn’t approve it and he brought up CNN, his obsession with CNN.' That, I can’t think of a single judge in America that wouldn’t say Justice Department can’t reject this because of CNN. You know, again, Donald Trump puts the burden on himself so they will look at this with strict, strict scrutiny, not sort of the legal exact term but you know what I'm saying. They are going to be very skeptical of any attempt to stop this merger now."