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Thank you. of the participants, not of Reuters' News. AT&T has hit a roadblock on its way to Washington to seek approval for its $85 billion merger with Time Warner, and General Electric boss John Flannery is doing some soul-searching.

These are the topics we'll be discussing on this week's edition of the Views room,

a weekly conversation among Breaking View's columnists about the ups and downs of the world of finance.

I'm your host, Jennifer Sabah.

Antony Curry is out this week, but joining me will be Breaking View's editor Rob Cox

and Breaking View's U.S. managing editor John Foley.

AT&T's bid for Time Warner has hit some hurdles. Over the past week, the Department of Justice has

signaled it may try and block the deal, which could have a meaningful impact on the whole notion

of vertical mergers. So what we're going to do is try something a little different here today

and turn the tables. John, you're going to do is try something a little different here today and turn the tables.

John, you're going to be coming to the United States very soon, we hope, to take over as managing

editor of the U.S. So I think this will give you a good baptism of fire into what's happening here,

and this is like one of the biggest deals of the year,

and the implications that, you know, the DOJ is taking a hard look at this.

This deal's been going on for so long. It's more than a year now since this was announced,

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