https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/09/att-ceo-randall-stephenson-i-have-never-been-told-that-the-price-of-getting-a-deal-done-was-selling-cnn.html

AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson insisted on Thursday that the company was not told it had to sell CNN in order to get approval for its merger with Time Warner.

"I have never been told that the price of getting the deal done was selling CNN, period. And likewise I have never offered to sell CNN," he said. "There is absolutely no intention that we would ever sell CNN."