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Presidential election could be released soon. a judge will hear arguments on whether to make it public. a senate hearing will determine whether ticket master has too much influence on the sales. top begun maverick could be among one of the best oscar nominees. coming up on cnn this morning, three mass shootings in three days in california. what is going on? and next right here, why more people are skipping the grocery store for the dollar store. to gabby. to g grandma. then, gertrude fou...

Photo capturing prince andrew is fake. pakistan now recovering from the nationwide blackout that paralyzed the country for hours monday. nearly 220 million people were left in the dark. no word yet what caused it. america and israel have launched their largest ever joint military live fire exercise. two allies sending a clear signal to iran. egg crisis still skyrocketing. are you getting gouged. top executive at ticket master faces a grilling after the taylor swiwift ticket snafu. advanc...

Problem two is there is no system on the face of the earth that is going to deal with 3.5 billion attempts in the first half hour or 45 minutes. it systems are going to blow up. but when you dont have the ability to shut them down, and create an orderly market, that is a problem. and you have to look at this from the fact she had not toured for a long time. should all of the tickets have been put on sale at the same time, which i dont think they wanted done but i understand that is what they wan...

Ticketmaster does not have the right to control the prices in any particular issue. >> we did hear that. we did hear that in the opening statement, in the opening statement from berktold just now at the senate hearing. another witness at this hearing is seat geek, who said very clearly, the ceo said that ticketmaster and live nation should be broken up and it is anti-competitive. now one of the statements going into this hearing from seat geek on taking on ticketmaster and live nation, let me re...

>> if i told you what i really thought, i dont think i could say it on public television. look, when we started, there was one big company called ticket tron. we lost money for three or four years before we got started to grow. it is a function of is the system better, does it work? is it more efficient in terms of what it provides not clients? and then you have to look at people, consider the source. if they were a better ticketing company, they would be ticket master. if theyre technology was ...

Anyone because we asked them multiple times if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could. other artists, fred, blame ticketmaster for being the only game in town and taking too big of a cut. there is a lot of things that at place. what do you say to these artists? >> well, my view is this. first of all, it is like when you read the stories that ticketmaster canceled the sale the next day. they didnt cancel the sale. they dont have the power. one of the things that get ...

It is the emotion that is attached in this process. and the emotion makes everything crazy. and think of this, why do people sit in the last ten rows aft rina and go to the buffalo game and sit there and freeze when you could watch the game at home and it is snowing. because you cant regulate emotion. and emotion and demand creates price. and ticket master doesnt create that. >> it is great having you on. i appreciate it. one of the least controversial things that i said today and for the rest o...

Administration accused the company of an illegal monopoly over exclusionary agreements over interest searches that case is going to trial in september. so two big antitrust lawsuits against google in like two and a half years. >> pretty interesting. david, thank you. >> you bet. >> bret: congress is taking on ticket master over the uproar to tickets to taylor swift. critics say it has unfair monopoly that hurts consumers. evidenced today by the questions. here is senior correspondent chad pergra...

Tour. >> thats like amy klobuchar going by the teeth. it is bigger than taylor swift and ticket master is a monopoly i tried to get earthworks tickets for vegas but it has been long overdue for someone to have regulatory action and investigation is something americans care about they dont always pay attention to the debt ceiling which is important i wish they did but at the end of the day what drives you crazy? many will say ticketmaster. >> i dont even try to go to the initial marketplace for t...