I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

Lawmakers in Congress and in the executive branch have recently launched antitrust

investigations into several of the leading big tech companies including Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon.

What are the legal theories underlying these antitrust investigations and what could

they mean for the future of American competition and American freedom.

Joining us to explore these crucial questions and more are two of America's leading experts on antitrust.

Mark Jameson is visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

where he studies telecommunications, the Federal Communications Commission,

and how technology affects the economy.

He's also the director and Gunter professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University

of Florida's Warrington College of Business.

Dr Jamieson served on the FCC transition team

for President Elect Trump and a special advisor

to the chair of the governor of Florida's Internet

Task Force.

Mark, it is wonderful to have you with us.

Well, thank you. Glad for the opportunity.

And Barry Lynn is executive director of the Open Markets Institute.

He previously worked at the New America Foundation, researching and writing about monopoly power.

He is the author of the, I think I'm allowed to say superb because I learned so much from it. A superb book cornered the new monopoly capitalism and the economics of destruction and

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