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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...

>> thank you, chairman. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. i'm going to ask you questions because i am the chairman of the re regulatory subcommittee on judiciary. this is now surfacing more so than it ever has in the past. justice department's role is very critical in antitrust issues to determine whether there is an antitrust violation. i understand that the justice department's position on the at&t merger will require divestment of some assets. behavioral conditions have been used in vertical mergers since they pose a lesser danger to competition than horizontal mergers. is the stru...

Chairman of the regulatory form and antitrust subcommittee on judiciary. and antitrust is an issue that is now surfacing more so than it ever has in the past and justice department's role is very drill in antitrust issues to determine whether there is an antitrust violation. i understand that the justice department's position on the ta at&t merger will require divestment of some assets. behavioral conditions have been used in verdict call mergers in vertical mergers a policy

An antitrust violation. >> right. >> so it does sort of scratch your head, make us scratch our head why the administration, the trump administration so suddenly apparently is picking on cnn and turner broadcasting -- only about four years this vertical integration merger has not been blocked. >> strangely, in the past, the department of justice has banned the merger of office depot and staples, for instance. they felt that was exactly the same company. too much concentration. not sure they were in the right place on that one, but that makes sense. at least you can understand that logically. >>...

These are real people that you're asking to give you the highest office in the land. i think this phony let's get a group of carefully selected people to ask pre-selected questions, that ought to be rejected out of hand. i think the best thing, media should say we won't cover any candidate who is so pretentious as to think they can script their campaign like it's a hollywood sitcom. >> antitrust violation if we got together and decided that. it's not just liberal media narrative about you. they say that you talk about protecting entitlement programs and too much about poverty and you sound lik...