Lucas Shaw

And Zoe Tillman, senior legal reporter.

Courts are not supposed to decide elections.

Courts are not really supposed to play a big role in choosing our elected leaders.

It's for the voters to decide.

Well, that doesn't have legal sign off.

And this falls short of the Blackwell design ships that have been bandied about just a few weeks ago as the president was preparing to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

Always hard to interpret what President Trump's posts on social media actually mean as it pertains to policy.

I mean, there's also different types of consolidation, right?

You've got the

continued potential sale of Warner Brothers Discovery, where you have Comcast, which owns NBC, one of the networks that he talked about, is a suitor.

You have Paramount, which owns CBS, which he exempted, because I think he likes them, as a potential suitor, and then Netflix, which doesn't own a broadcast network.

And then you've got the consolidation in the local television station space, which is what Brendan Carr has been calling for.

But Brendan Carr sees this almost as a check against the networks, because the more power that the station owners have, they can actually potentially win in negotiations with the network.

So I'm not really sure whose side he's on here.

You assume that Brendan Carr is pushing the agenda that he is because Trump supports him, because that has generally been his MO.

But I guess we'll find out more as this sort of plays out in public.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So Netflix, Comcast and Paramount all submit bids on Wednesday.

Excuse me, Thursday.