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Democratic countries that value freedom and human dignity. this is an effort that would be ripe for this administration. they should be doing it. >> martha: that has been the clear message of these freedom fighters and activists here in the united states. they don't want that deal to ever to come together again. they see it as the antithesis of what the direction that the relationship needs to go in between the u.s. and iran. general jack keane, thank you. good to speak with you, sir. thank you. so the u.s. as we mentioned is still up 1-0 against iran. also, this story today. elon musk questio...

Things. but, as kimberly said it's not traditional antitrust problem in that they are hurting consumers in terms of prices. products are mostly free. consumers are the products. they collect data on people and they sell that. that's how it works. so there is a big consensus that something should be done but no con sen sus about what that should be. >> bret: 10 seconds. are we going to see legislation outs of congress? >> i think we are going to see a number of proposals that end up getting debated within the context of 2020. i think that kim's point is very good. tech companies are getting it ...

The antitrust division months before he won senate confirmation. he told bnn i don't see this as a major antitrust problem. two months after confirmed, the government filed suit, arguing content was so valuable they might threaten to charge higher subscription fees at&t pointing to political bias. >> i want to address the elephant in the room here. there's been a lot of reporting whether this is all about cnn. frankly, i don't know. but nobody should be surprised if the question keeps coming up. >> fake news, folks, fake news. >> the president's comments one day after the doj's suit. >> person...

Major antitrust problem. >> don't see this as a major antitrust problem. it's now his case. president trump that same month, october of 2016, says this is a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. how do you reconcile those two positions with where we are now? >> well, look, it's very difficult to reconcile it, unless you look at politics. and so, that becomes the issue. that this is not actually about antitrust, it's about the president's adversarial relationship with the media. and if that's the issue, then it underm...

When you look at the man that leads the department of justice antitrust division, he was asked last fall about whether this seems problematic, this merger, and here's how he put it then. >> it shouldn't be. just the shear size of it and the fact that it's media i think will get a lot of attention, however, i don't see this as a major antitrust problem. >> i don't see this as a major antitrust problem. a vertical merger like this has not been challenged by the department of justice in decades. what changed? >> what changed is that he came into this position and he said a lot about behavioral re...