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Chris Murphy: “They now are looking to buy an even bigger media company…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 37:06

They're very, very close to Donald Trump. They just bought up Paramount, which owns CBS and immediately installed Barry Weiss, you know, right leaning commentator in charge of the news. They now are looking to buy an even bigger media company that includes CNN. They may have control of TikTok. I mean, this is one family now that could have CBS CNN, TikTok and you saw what happened to Kimmel. (37:06–37:13)

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