Malone tells the CEOs of AT&T and Discovery to go on CNBC and deny his involvement and they do it right away. He’s probably the toughest businessman in America.
Either the merger parties could’nt let if be known Malone wanted Zucker out (tampering?), or Malone wouldn’t proceed if Zucker remained in any capacity.
Entertaining high stakes biz....reminds me of fictional Succession or Billions