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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Stakes for Antitrust with Timothy Wu

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’re sharing another episode in our WITHpod 2024: The Stakes series, in which we choose specific areas of policy and talk to an expert about Trump and Biden’s records on the topic. We couldn’t think of a better person than our guest this week to help unpack the two candidates’ stances on antitrust. Timothy Wu is the Julius Silver professor of law, science and technology at Columbia University. He’s known as the "architect" of the Biden administration's competition and antitrust policies. Wu joins WITHpod to discuss Trump and Biden’s different views on corporate power, the current antitrust landscape, major mergers being challenged this year and more.

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You know in some ways President Biden noticed and learned from the fact that Trump had noticed something.

0:14.0

People were mad.

0:15.0

But you know, there's some ways we disagreed with the Trump administration.

0:18.0

We certainly disagree with the corrupt way it was done,

0:21.0

but we also noticed that they had they had their finger on something that the

0:26.2

Democrats were kind of ignoring which was the rise of corporate power was making a lot of Americans

0:31.1

very angry. Hello, welcome to why is this year with Pod 2024, the stakes, in which we take a look at the records of the two

0:57.0

previous presidents well the current president the previous president

1:00.0

Donald Trump and Joe Biden who are running against each other.

1:03.4

It's the first time we've had this set up of two incumbents facing off in anyone's lifetime.

1:08.9

It's a rare thing, usually in presidential elections, you got to speculate about you know what's this

1:13.4

young senator from Illinois going to do as president United States or this

1:16.9

former governor from Massachusetts in this case no speculation required obviously

1:22.1

the future is unwritten and things can change but we do have solid records of both of these individuals as president and what they did.

1:29.0

So we're taking specific policy areas and this week a policy area that is, I think, a little off the radar, although occasionally

1:38.7

pops in the headlines.

1:39.8

For instance, recently a headline in the New York Times and dealbook that reads the following

1:44.8

US clears way for antitrust inquiries into NVIDIA Microsoft and Open AI.

1:50.2

It's news the Justice Department the FTC are teeming up to investigate the AI industry, particularly those three companies in

1:57.3

Vidia, Microsoft, and open AI to see whether they are in violation of antitrust law.

2:02.0

The Federal Trade Commission and the justice department are the two main entities of the federal

2:06.6

government that investigate antitrust and you've seen more and more headlines

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