The White House rejects a demand from House Democrats for information on Trump's purported role in attempts to block AT&T-Time Warner merger
The Democrats, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York and Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, sent a letter last month seeking information in the wake of a New Yorker report saying that Trump directed his then-economic adviser Gary Cohn to block the $85 billion merger.
Time Warner has since been renamed WarnerMedia, which also includes networks such TNT and HBO, in addition to CNN.It is just the latest squabble in the growing list of spats between House Democrats and the Trump administration, which has rejected scores of requests for records that could lead to court battles testing the scope of Congress' oversight of the Executive Branch.
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