http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2018/04/19/atts-ceo-took-the-stand-in-the-time-warner-trial-heres-what-he-said/

In the end, it was always going to be Time Warner.

In his most detailed comments to date about how the AT&T-Time Warner merger came to be, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said Thursday that he spent hours in his home office during the summer of 2016 poring over Time Warner's financial statements, analyst reports and other data in the first steps of what would become the biggest corporate acquisition of his career.