This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. The Department of Justice, much in the news,

with a new Attorney General replacing Merrick Garland, who was in his post for four years,

and during that time, there were a number of prosecutions that are now understood to be political.

One that you don't see right away, however, is the any trust law under the Department of Justice

administered by the office that was attached to a protege of the Democratic Party. Her name is Lena Kahn, very young, and

wrote a thesis, I understand, at Yale University that argued very straightforwardly that antitrust

could be used to benefit the consumer, that bigness was to be watched very carefully. I welcome Thaddeus McCotter writing an

American greatness about Lena Khan's time and what united her opinion of disparate companies.

I mentioned that the early suits that were gained attention at the FTC were the suit against Meta,

that's the former Facebook, and the suit against Amazon, that's Amazon.

There were also suits against Microsoft for its acquisition of an electronic game company,

against tapestry, that's a fashion industry for its attempted acquisition of Capri and Kroger's. That's a grocery store for its attempted

acquisition of Albertsons. That is a very good evening to you. What was the thinking for

Lena Kahn to take on all these very large lawsuits,

some of which she was successful in blocking, but not the big top line names?

Good evening to you.

Good meeting to you, John.

As you recall back in the day during the era of too big to fail, we oppose that.

We oppose the big banks.

We intrinsically understood that it was unfair in a constitutional republic where all citizens are created equal,

that any entity could be considered too big to fail. But we did not oppose that and then put forward

the concept that something should be too big to live. Under antitrust law, which is very important,

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