Oliver Darcy from the newsletter status is with us,

as well as the new podcast Powerlines with his partner, John Passantino. Thank you for joining

us. So much to talk about. How are you doing? I'm doing well, Don. I love being here with you on

Fridays. It's becoming a bit of a tradition. We should. We should do like, I would say it would be

media Mondays, but we can do, I don't know, I don't know, maybe it's effed up something Friday.

We'll come up

with something. This is really serious stuff, though, that I've been wanting to talk to you about

because not only, you know, this whole thing that Donald Trump is just, he continues to just sue the

media, sue the media. And it would appear from me and also from the legal folks that I have

spoken to, these cases,

these suits that either would have been tossed out or easily won by the other person.

They are settling for some reason.

And then with this whole paramount thing that you just wrote about in the status newsletter,

where you, I think let's put up the status newsletter where you said, I think you call it the art of the settlement. And a dramatic

power play Paramount's board of directors overrode its three CEOs to secure a $60 million legal

settlement settlement with Donald Trump status has learned that and the deal has been closed

and also in this deal it appears to me that they have agreed to some sort of public service

announcements for Donald Trump like what is going on here they've agreed to a lot Don

really unprecedented I'd say for a corporation, particularly one that obviously runs

in News Division, a Revere News Division, to cave in the way that they have.

I think we've almost lost, we've almost forgotten how much has been given away to Donald

Trump over the course of this process to get this deal done.

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