At Paramount, the drama is coming from inside the building.

Motley Full Money. I'm Deidra Woolard here with Motley Full Money. I'm Deedra Willard here with Motley Full analyst

Jason Moser. Jason, how's your Monday going so far?

Hey, Deedre, just, uh, it's so far so good, right? We have a nice little

warm stretch here in Northern Virginia. It's going to be

actually hot today, but hey, I'm not complaining about that. How about you?

I'm doing okay, but you know who's not having a great day is the CEO of Paramount.

This was a dramatic weekend and this is a story that's still evolving.

The company reports earnings tonight.

CEO Bob Backish may not be on the call. He may resign before then. You know, it's

interesting because he's been the CEO of Paramount since the end of

2019 been at Biocom I'm since the late 90s and all of this comes down to the fact

that he's not interested in supporting is Sherry Redstone's plan to merge with David Ellison's

guidance. This is all very complicated and very dramatic, isn't it?

It really is. I'm glad you said that up front because it is if for folks who were

looking for an answer here I don't know that we have an answer I mean we could

certainly go through all of the possibilities.

But yeah, it does seem like I mean,

Cherry Redstone kind of has this idea in mind

sort of a way that she wants to take the business

and if you're not on board then you may as well go ahead and just

just take off but I mean ultimately yeah this this is a really complicated

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