Hey, everyone, Desi Leidick here.

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It's lovely to see you.

You run the Federal Trade Commission.

That's right.

The whole shebang.

And you are in charge of it's protecting Americans from monopolistic company practices,

but also dealing with pricing and things like that, protecting consumers.

That's right. I mean, the short of it is we want to make sure that the American public is not

getting bullied or coerced in the marketplace or tricked. And so we enforce the nation's

antitrust and consumer protection laws. And how is, well, please.

Now, I just want to make it very clear, right, right.

You were not bullied or tricked into applauding, no?

I don't want to be accused of monopolistic.

How much pressure do these companies exert on the Federal Trade Commission?

In other words, how much do they fight whatever regulation you're trying to put into place

to keep them from becoming monopolies or from these types of business practices?

Well, look, monopolies are not fans of enforcing the anti-monopoly laws.

And so that type of pushback is baked in.

But we have a fantastic team.

We're a small agency, but we're mighty, and we play to our strengths,

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