{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-on-paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-five-alarm-antitrust-fire", "Warren on Paramount-Skydance Hostile Bid: \u201cFive-Alarm Antitrust Fire\u201d", "2025-12-08", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", "warren", "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Warren on Paramount-Skydance Hostile Bid: \u201cFive-Alarm Antitrust Fire\u201d\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Today, in response to the news that Paramount-Skydance launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros., U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement:\n\n\u201cA Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger would be a five-alarm antitrust fire and exactly what our anti-monopoly laws are written to prevent. Paramount Skydance\u2019s new hostile bid is backed by a who's who of Trump buddies, from Jared Kushner\u2019s private equity firm to the Ellison family to money flowing from the Middle East \u2014 raising serious questions about influence-peddling, political favoritism, and national security risks. The Department of Justice and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States must review any Warner Bros. deal based on the law and facts, not who sucked up the most to Donald Trump.\u201d\n\nSenator Warren has long sounded the alarm on antitrust concerns and apparent political favoritism in the Trump administration\u2019s handling of media mergers:\n\nOn December 5, Senator Warren responded to news of Netflix\u2019s winning bid for Warner Bros., calling it an \u201canti-monopoly nightmare.\u201d\n\nOn November 21, while on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Senator Warren called out Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison on his own network.\n\nOn November 19, Senator Warren led Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in writing to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, warning that a potential Warner Bros. deal could be tainted by political favoritism and corruption.\n\nOn August 1, Senator Warren released a statement in response to Paramount and Skydance\u2019s responses to her letters to each of the companies, describing the responses as \u201cdodgy\u201d and calling for \u201ca full, independent investigation\u201d into whether the companies or their executives engaged in any criminal behavior connected to the approval of the companies\u2019 multi-billion-dollar merger.\n\nOn July 24, Sen. Warren responded to the Trump administration\u2019s approval of the Paramount Skydance merger, saying, \u201cBribery is illegal no matter who is president.\u201d\n\nOn February 20, Sen. Warren urged the DOJ to closely scrutinize the proposed Disney-Fubo deal and warned of increased costs for TV viewers.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-on-paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-five-alarm-antitrust-fire"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.459835097193718, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}