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>> if i told you what i really thought, i don't 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 they're technology was better, they would be ticketmaster and the answer is to me, a lot of people use this as an excuse ...

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 didn't cancel the sale. they don't have the power. one of the things that get losts in all of this because of all of all the noise and i created the company so i'm pretty sure ...

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 can't regulate emotion. and emotion and demand creates price. and ticket master doesn't 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 of the day is that that one was a fiasco. that is for sure. thank you for coming on. we have to t...

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 pergram. >> a spectacular fiasco prevented millions of taylor swift fans from buying tickets for her upcom...

Tour. >> that's 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 don't 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 don't even try to go to the initial marketplace for the ticket automatically are thrown to the secondary market. >> it only to taylor swift and democr...