https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16624844/att-time-warner-merger-cnn-turner-broadcasting-network-department-of-justice-divestment-sale

A new report from The Financial Times has pinpointed the precise nature of the holdup in the Department of Justice’s pushback on the AT&T-Time Warner deal: CNN, which sources claim the Justice Department is insisting that AT&T sell before it will allow the deal to take place.

Earlier today, news broke that the US Justice Department was asking AT&T to divest some of its assets before it would allow AT&T and Time Warner’s massive $85 billion merger to go through, according to Reuters, but it wasn’t clear exactly which properties it would be requesting the combined company to divest. But according to a source for The Financial Times, “It’s all about CNN,” and that if AT&T agreed to sell the news network the deal would go through.