Democrats are gearing up to grill Paramount Skydance over its blockbuster $110 billion bid to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery — a merger that would put CNN under the thumb of the same MAGA-friendly executive who has overseen the controversial hollowing out of CBS. We'll be happy to cooperate and really engage with Republicans and Democrats about any issue and aspect," Delrahim said. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has gone further, suggesting Ellison's $16 million settlement payment to Trump — reportedly made to smooth approval of Paramount's earlier Skydance merger — could amount to "bribery in plain sight." "Anyone involved should be prepared to answer under oath for their role in this brazen campaign to bend America's free press to Donald Trump's political, financial and personal will," Raskin said.