https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/30/att-ceo-randall-stephenson-on-media-consolidation.html > Randall Stephenson, the CEO of AT&T, said he was not surprised when the federal government sued to stop the company's attempted acquisition of Time Warner. > "We saw it coming," Stephenson said on Wednesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. "You go into a transaction like this, you step into it, you hope you never have to litigate but you step into it with the expectation that you may have to litigate."