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Trump appoints Gail Slater to head DOJ antitrust division; Errol Morris & Jacob Soboroff on their film ‘Separated’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Gail Slater is Donald Trump’s pick to head the Justice Department's antitrust division. As she gears up to oversee cases against major tech companies like Google and Apple, how will the veteran antitrust lawyer view future mergers in Hollywood? Kim Masters and Matt Belloni dive in. 

Plus, Masters speaks to journalist Jacob Soboroff and documentarian Errol Morris about their film Separated, a sobering look at the Trump Administration’s 2017 child separation policy. They have a lot to say about those who were complicit in tearing thousands of children away from their families. Plus, Soboroff weighs in on Comcast’s refusal to release the film before the election.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:05.7

Four years ago, documentarian Errol Morris and journalist Jacob Soberoff partnered up to tell the heartbreaking story of the Trump administration's 2017 child separation policy.

0:17.8

Given where we are today, Soberoff says their film is more relevant than he and Morris

0:22.8

ever could have imagined. I never could have known how much more important this film is today than it

0:27.9

was when we started making it. We didn't know Trump was going to run, nor that he was going to

0:31.8

become the president-elect when Errol and I started talking about this. It was a look back,

0:35.9

and now it was really a look forward.

0:38.2

NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soberoff and Errol Morris

0:42.9

joined me to talk about their film, separated.

0:46.1

They have a lot to say about those who were complicit

0:48.8

in tearing thousands of children away from their families

0:51.5

and putting those children, even the babies, in cages.

0:56.0

Soberoff also weighs in on Comcast's refusal to release the film before the election and talks

1:01.4

about how he deals with the new administration's threats to prosecute journalists.

1:06.2

But first we banter.

1:07.5

Stick around.

1:08.2

It's the business from KCRW.

1:14.5

I am joined by my partner in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, speaking of the Trump administration, as we will be in this episode,

1:21.6

Donald Trump has named Gail Slater, who is a veteran antitrust lawyer, she was an economic advisor for J.D. Vance.

1:30.8

She will head the Justice Department's antitrust division, and that puts her in charge of a lot of very big cases against very big companies.

1:41.0

Trump said something that actually, I think, may appeal to most people one of the few times. He said something that actually, I think, may appeal to most people, one of the few

1:45.7

times. He said something that just generally people might agree with. He said big tech has run

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