DealBook Briefing: Senate Would Keep Business Waiting for a Tax Cut<br />He also said this: Mr. Cohn told CNBC that he thought that Mr. Trump and Lloyd Blankfein, his former boss, have many similarities.<br />But also emerging is an apparent attempt to depoliticize an increasingly heated dispute with the Justice Department: The A&T chief told Andrew<br />that the Trump administration had never asked him to sell CNN, and that he didn’t believe there was a “Trump factor” in the talks.<br />• President Trump’s public criticisms of CNN could hurt legitimate legal arguments<br />that the Justice Department would bring if it sued to block the Time Warner deal, according to David Shepardson and Jan Wolfe of Reuters.<br />E.O., Randall L. Stephenson, said that selling CNN to push through his company’s<br />acquisition of Time Warner hasn’t been on the table — and never will be.<br />Mr. Blankfein, a Democrat who has publicly criticized the president, later told CNBC, “I don’t mind the comparison.”<br />Thirteen newsmakers joined us at the DealBook conference on Thursday, and many made news.<br />With Andrew Ross Sorkin<br />The latest developments in the tax overhaul are on our minds, especially since<br />the Senate is proposing delaying a cut to the corporate rate until 2019.
