[craig nigrelli]

THE U-S GOVERNMENT WANTS TO BREAK UP GOOGLE.

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS ASKING A FEDERAL JUDGE TO FORCE THE SALE OF THE GOOGLE CHROME WEB BROWSER TO KEEP THE COMPANY FROM CONTINUING TO SQUASH COMPETITION THROUGH ITS DOMINANT SEARCH ENGINE.

THIS COMES AFTER A LANDMARK RULING earlier THIS YEAR FOUND GOOGLE VIOLATED U-S ANTITRUST LAW TO MAINTAIN AN ABUSIVE MONOPOLY OVER THE PAST DECADE.

IN A 23-PAGE DOCUMENT, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALSO CALLED FOR TIGHTER RESTRICTIONS TO PREVENT ANDROID FROM FAVORING GOOGLE’S SEARCH ENGINE.

BLOOMBERG SAYS IF THE MOVE IS APPROVED BY A JUDGE — CHROME COULD SELL FOR AS MUCH AS 20 **BILLION** DOLLARS.

THIS MORNING – WE BEGIN WITH DEVELOPING NEWS FROM THE WAR IN EUROPE – WHICH JUST PASSED 1,000 DAYS. 

UKRAINE’S AIR FORCE SAYING RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED AN INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE DURING A MORNING ATTACK. 

THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME RUSSIA HAS USED THE POWERFUL LONG-RANGE WEAPON SINCE THE START OF THE WAR. 

RUSSIA’S ACTIONS FOLLOW UKRAINE REPORTEDLY FIRING U.S. AND BRITISH-MADE MISSILES AT TARGETS INSIDE RUSSIA THIS WEEK. 

RUSSIA HAS SAID UKRAINE’S USE OF WESTERN WEAPONS TO STRIKE INSIDE THE COUNTRY WOULD BE SEEN AS AN ESCALATION IN THE WAR. 

URKAINE SAYS TODAY’S ATTACK FROM RUSSIA TARGETED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. UKRAINE’S AIR FORCE SAYS IT SHOT DOWN SIX CRUISE MISSILES DURING THE ATTACK. 

IT IS NOT CLEAR AT THIS TIME WHAT SPECIFICALLY THE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE TARGETED OR WHETHER IT CAUSED ANY DAMAGE IN UKRAINE.

BACK HERE IN THE US — A FLORIDA MAN IS FACING CHARGES.  HE’S BEING ACCUSED OF PLANNING TO BLOW UP THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. 

THE F-B-I SAYS AGENTS ARRESTED THE MAN, IDENTIFIED AS 30-YEAR-OLD HARUN ABDUL-MALIK YENER 

YESTERDAY.  THE INVESTIGATION STARTED IN FEBRUARY AFTER THE F-B-I RECEIVED A TIP THAT YENER WAS KEEPING BOMB-MAKING SUPPLIES IN A STORAGE UNIT. 

INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY FOUND BOMBMAKING SKETCHES, WATCHES WITH TIMERS, ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARDS AND OTHER ELECTRONICS THAT COULD BE USED FOR BUILDING EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IN YENER’S CORAL SPRINGS STORAGE UNIT. 

COURT DOCUMENTS INDICATE YENER ALSO TOLD UNDERCOVER F-B-I AGENTS HE WANTED TO SET OFF THE BOMB THE WEEK BEFORE THANKSGIVING AND THAT QUOTE “TONS OF PEOPLE” WOULD SUPPORT AN ATTACK ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 

AND THAT HIS GOAL WAS TO “RESET” OR “REBOOT” THE U-S GOVERNMENT.

“NO AGREEMENT.” 

THAT’S THE OUTCOME OF WEDNESDAY’S CLOSED-DOOR MEETING OF THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE AFTER THE PANEL DISCUSSED WHETHER TO RELEASE THE REPORT ON ITS INVESTIGATION INTO FORMER CONGRESSMAN MATT GAETZ.  HE’S PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP’S PICK FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. 

SINCE 20-21, THE COMMITTEE HAD BEEN LOOKING INTO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND ILLICIT DRUG USE AGAINST THE FLORIDA LAWMAKER – PAUSING ITS INVESTIGATION FOR A TIME WHILE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONDUCTED A PROBE. THE DOJ ULTIMATELY NOT FILING ANY CHARGES DUE CREDIBILITY PROBLEMS WITH THE WITNESSES. THE HOUSE  COMMITTEE ENDING ITS INVESTIGATION,  AFTER GAETZ RESIGNED AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOLLOWING TRUMP’S NOMINATION. 

GAETZ HAS DENIED ANY WRONGDOING. 

THE MEETING IN WASHINGTON LASTED A LITTLE OVER TWO HOURS. 

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL GUEST OF MISSISSIPPI, WHO CHAIRS THE COMMITTEE, TOLD REPORTERS BEFORE THE START OF THE MEETING THAT SOME OF THE RESERVATIONS HE HAD ABOUT RELEASING THE REPORT WERE THAT IT WAS NOT COMPLETE AND HAS “NOT GONE THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS.” 

MEANWHILE CONGRESSWOMAN SUSAN WILD OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE RANKING DEMOCRAT, SAID THE DECISION CAME DOWN TO PARTY LINES – WITH THE FIVE REPUBLICANS ON THE PANEL SIDING AGAINST RELEASING THE REPORT AND THE FIVE DEMOCRATS VOTING IN FAVOR OF IT.   

WILD SAID THE COMMITTEE WILL CONVENE AGAIN ON DECEMBER 5TH TO “FURTHER CONSIDER THE MATTER.” 

FOLLOWING THE PANEL’S MEETING – TWO DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN EACH MOVED TO COMPEL A VOTE FROM THE FULL HOUSE ON THE ISSUE. 

THE TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM HAS CALLED THE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST GAETZ “BASELESS”. 

 VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT JD VANCE WAS AT THE CAPITOL WEDNESDAY ACCOMPANYING GAETZ TO MEETINGS WITH REPUBLICAN SENATORS.  VANCE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT , PRIOR TO A CONFIRMATION HEARING NEXT YEAR. GAETZ TELLING REPORTERS WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT SENATORS HAVE BEEN QUOTE “SUPPORTIVE” AND THEY HAVE PROMISED “A FAIR PROCESS.”

PARTS OF THE WEST COAST ARE NOW FACING A NEW THREAT AS A DEADLY “BOMB CYCLONE” WINDS DOWN — IT’S COMBINING WITH AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER. 

THE COMBINATION IS EXPECTED TO CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND LEAD TO LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THIS WEEK. 

AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND MORE THAN 200-THOUSAND HOMES AND BUSINESSES REMAIN WITHOUT POWER IN WASHINGTON STATE AFTER HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS FROM THE BOMB CYCLONE ROARED THROUGH… TRIGGERING MUDSLIDES : BLOCKING ROADS AND DAMAGING HOMES. 

NOW, THE ATMOSPHERIC RIVER IS EXPECTED TO BRING UP TO 16 INCHES OF RAIN AND SNOW TO PARTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON.  IT WILL TURN INTO WET SNOW AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS — CREATING BLIZZARD  CONDITIONS THERE.

THE U-S GOVERNMENT WANTS TO BREAK UP GOOGLE. 

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS ASKING A FEDERAL JUDGE TO FORCE THE SALE OF THE GOOGLE CHROME WEB BROWSER TO KEEP THE COMPANY FROM CONTINUING TO SQUASH COMPETITION THROUGH ITS DOMINANT SEARCH ENGINE. 

THIS COMES AFTER A LANDMARK RULING EARLIER THIS YEAR FOUND GOOGLE VIOLATED U-S ANTITRUST LAW TO MAINTAIN AN ABUSIVE MONOPOLY OVER THE PAST DECADE. 

IN A 23-PAGE DOCUMENT, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALSO CALLED FOR TIGHTER RESTRICTIONS TO PREVENT ANDROID FROM FAVORING GOOGLE’S SEARCH ENGINE. 

BLOOMBERG SAYS IF THE MOVE IS APPROVED BY A JUDGE — CHROME COULD SELL FOR AS MUCH AS 20 BILLION DOLLARS.

FINALLY THIS MORNING — HISTORY WAS MADE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT WEDNESDAY NIGHT – AS THE HUSKIES’ GENO AURIEMMA BECAME THE WINNINGEST COACH IN N-C-DOUBLE-A DIVISION ONE BASKETBALL HISTORY, MEN OR WOMEN’S. 

NUMBER 2 RANKED UCONN DEFEATED FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 85-41 – GIVING AURIEMMA (ARE-EE-EMMA) HIS 1,217TH  CAREER WIN – IN FRONT OF A SOLD OUT HOMETOWN CROWD, 60-PLUS FORMER PLAYERS, AND A LIVE GOAT. 

AURIEMMA SURPASSED LEGENDARY STANFORD COACH TARA VANDERVEER’S RECORD.  SHE HAD  SET THE RECORD LAST SEASON BEFORE RETIRING. VANDERVEER TOOK OVER THE TITLE OF WINS LEADER FROM LONGTIME DUKE COACH MIKE KRZYZEWSKI. 

THE 70-YEAR-OLD AURIEMMA IS IN HIS 40TH SEASON AT UCONN. HE HAS LED THE HUSKIES TO SIX UNDEFEATED SEASONS, 23 FINAL FOURS AND 11 NATIONAL TITLES.

[JACK AYLMER]

A SO-CALLED ‘BOMB CYCLONE,” WHICH METEOROLOGISTS EXPLAIN AS A STORM SYSTEM THAT RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES WITHIN 24 HOURS, WHIPPED THROUGH CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TUESDAY… KILLING TWO PEOPLE AND LEAVING MORE THAN HALF A MILLION HOUSEHOLDS FROM WASHINGTON TO CALIFORNIA WITHOUT POWER.

[LAKE STEVENS]

WE HAD SOME TREES COME DOWN AND A LOT OF THINGS BLEW AROUND, BUT WE DID OK. NOTHING MAJOR.”

[JACK AYLMER]

A TREE COLLAPSED ON A HOME EAST OF SEATTLE… KILLING ONE WOMAN. ANOTHER WOMAN DIED WHEN A TREE LANDED ON A HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT IN LYNNWOOD, WASHINGTON.

FORECASTERS WARN ANOTHER BOMB CYCLONE… WHILE NOT AS INTENSE… IS HEADED FOR THE SAME REGION LATER THIS WEEK.

[ALLISON SANTORELLI]

USUALLY, THEY’RE GOING TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A LOT OF WEATHER. YOU KNOW, HEAVY RAINFALL, HEAVY SNOWFALL, AND CERTAINLY HIGH GUSTY WINDS, POSSIBLY UP TO HURRICANE STRENGTH WINDS. 

[JACK AYLMER]

IN CALIFORNIA, THE WEATHER SERVICE EXTENDED A FLOOD WATCH INTO SATURDAY FOR REGIONS NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO.

THE AGENCY IS WARNING RESIDENTS OF THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING, ROCK AND MUDSLIDES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

FOR MORE ON THIS STORY– DOWNLOAD THE STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS APP OR VISIT SAN DOT COM.

FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS– I’M JACK AYLMER.

[Karah Rucker]

THE LARGEST POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY IS GETTING A NEW HEAD. AND IT’S COMING AS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THE PICK IS IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW.

[Mayor Eric Adams // (D) New York City] 

“Today I am announcing the department the new appointment of the Police Commission of the city of New York, Jessica Tisch.”

[Jessica Tisch // Incoming NYPD Commissioner]

“Mayor Adams has been very clear that the priorities are supporting you as you fight crime and disorder, keeping you safe and bringing the department into the next century.”

[Karah Rucker]

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS APPOINTED JESSICA TISCH AS COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT ON WEDNESDAY. TISCH IS CURRENTLY THE CITY’S COMMISSIONER OF SANITATION.

TISCH WILL BE THE SECOND FEMALE COMMISSIONER IN THE DEPARTMENT’S 179-YEAR HISTORY AND THE FOURTH TO SERVE SINCE ADAMS BECAME MAYOR THREE YEARS AGO.

ADAMS WORKED AS AN NYPD OFFICER BEFORE BECOMING MAYOR, BUT IS NOW FACING FEDERAL CHARGES RELATED TO BRIBERY AND VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW AFTER AN INDICTMENT HANDED DOWN IN SEPTEMBER.

FORMER COMMISSIONER EDWARD CABAN RESIGNED IN SEPTEMBER AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS PROBED THE ADAMS ADMINISTRATION FOR CORRUPTION. CURRENT OUTGOING COMMISSIONER THOMAS DONLON ALSO HAD SEVERAL OF HIS HOMES SEARCHED BY THE FBI.

TISCH IS AN HEIR TO THE LOEWS HOTEL FORTUNE AND SPENT OVER A DECADE WORKING FOR THE NYPD, INCLUDING AS ITS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR I.T.

AS SANITATION COMMISSIONER, SHE SUCCESSFULLY LED ADAMS’S SO-CALLED “TRASH REVOLUTION,” GETTING MORE THAN 70% OF CITY TRASH INTO BINS RATHER THAN SITTING OUT ON THE STREET.

PATRICK HENDRY, PRESIDENT OF THE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, THE LARGEST UNION REPRESENTING NYPD OFFICERS, SAID IN A STATEMENT, “We are critically understaffed, massively overworked and completely unsupported by a justice system and an oversight regime that care more about punishing cops than helping us get dangerous criminals off the streets. We hope to partner with Commissioner Tisch to make real progress on these issues as quickly as possible.”

TISCH WILL OFFICIALLY ASSUME THE JOB ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH.

FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS, I’M KARAH RUCKER.

AND BEFORE YOU GO, DOWNLOAD THE STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS APP TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE UP TO DATE ON ALL THE LATEST TOP STORIES.

THE FIELD GOAL POST DUNK.

THE SHARPIE IN THE SOCK.

OR THE FINGER GUNS.

UNDER NFL RULES, PERFORMING ANY OF THESE ACTIONS ON THE FIELD CAN BE PUNISHED WITH A PENALTY.

BUT ONE CELEBRATION ROUTINE THAT WON’T DRAW A FLAG-

THE TRUMP DANCE.

SEVERAL PLAYERS AROUND THE LEAGUE HAVE MIMICKED PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP’S SIGNATURE MOVE-

PROMPTING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE WOULD STEP IN AND PUT A STOP TO IT.

NFL INSIDER JORDAN SCHULTZ APPEARS TO HAVE THE ANSWER.

POSTING ON X THAT HIS SOURCES SAY THE LEAGUE HAS NO PLANS TO INTERVENE.

THIS COMES AFTER SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS DEFENSIVE END NICK BOSA WAS FINED FOR WEARING A PRO-TRUMP HAT DURING A POSTGAME INTERVIEW EARLIER THIS MONTH.

HAVING TO PAY OUT MORE THAN 11 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR WHAT THE NFL CALLED A VIOLATION OF ITS UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT RULES.

MEANWHILE, OTHER MAJOR SPORTS LEAGUES WILL LIKELY SOON HAVE TO ADOPT THEIR OWN STANCES ON WHETHER THE TRUMP DANCE IS AN ALLOWABLE ON-FIELD CELEBRATION.

WITH THE MOVES ALSO POPPING UP IN THE NCAA, UFC, LPGA, AND THE CONCACAF NATIONS’ LEAGUE. 

FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS – I’M JACK AYLMER.

Simone Del Rosario:

We have a very clear idea of what President-elect Donald Trump plans to do with his next four years when it comes to things like trade, immigration and energy.

But one area where the future is more hazy is how he follows up on the Biden administration’s aggressive antitrust stance.

This isn’t an area where we’re likely to see Trump try to undo everything that’s been done during Biden’s term.

So let’s look at what’s happened in recent years.

Biden’s headline maker was the appointment of FTC Chair Lina Khan and while she’s certainly a disruptor, her results have been mixed. She failed to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision-Blizzard and Facebook’s purchase of virtual reality company Within Unlimited.

The FTC is waiting for a ruling on Kroger’s nearly $25 billion merger with Albertson’s, while also getting ready to launch an investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business.

Over at the Department of Justice, they won a landmark case against Google where a judge ruled it monopolized the search space. The government is now asking the judge to force Google to sell off Chrome to make it right.

It also stopped JetBlue from buying Spirit Airlines, and without the merger, Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection.

It’s not all wins at Justice: the DOJ did fail to stop United Healthcare’s $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare.

And now their sights are on Hewlett Packard’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. HP executives met with Justice Department officials last week to try to save the deal, Bloomberg reports.

With a big push of antitrust action before Inauguration Day, there’s still a full docket. The Justice Department filed cases against Apple, Ticketmaster-parent Live Nation, Visa, and Google again, but this time for its lock in the digital ad space.

So, what happens with antitrust when the new administration comes in? Especially when some of these cases can stretch the better part of a decade?

Let’s bring in antitrust expert and former FTC Chair and Commissioner Bill Kovacic.

Simone Del Rosario
Bill, we’re not walking into this with zero idea of how President Trump would deal with antitrust. Obviously, he’s held the office before. But what do you expect his position to be in the next four years?

Bill Kovacic
I expect in some areas that he’s not really going to tamper with the program that President Biden put in place, especially in the field of tech. He has a well-expressed antipathy towards a number of actors in the field. did initiate his justice department initiated the pending case against Google and the search market. His justice department began the investigation into Apple that generated a monopolization case.

His Federal Trade Commission appointees began the case against Facebook, focusing mainly on the acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. So this is not a sector to whom he feels he owes anything. Again, it’s a sector he doesn’t particularly like. So my general intuition is that in that area, he says carry on. Now he has said some curious things lately about a possible remedy in Google. And today,

Today, literally today, the Department of Justice is going to file a document that lays out its intentions for remedies in the Google search case. But he said that he might not be fond of a breakup, that Google’s an important company, don’t want to injure them in some way. I don’t know if that was a well-considered view about remedies. But his nominee to head the Department of Justice, Matt Gaetz, has said, breakup sounds good to me when it comes to this company.

And the vice president-elect, Vance, has said, breaking them up sounds good to me, too. So it seems within the upper echelon of the Trump brain trust that there’s a lot of enthusiasm for going through with the structural remedy. I think at a minimum that means that DOJ will have a pretty broad remit to proceed with wrapping up the case as it sees fit, without the White House jumping in and saying, don’t do that. Go easy on them.

So I think with respect to the big tech cases, those carry on without interference. In other areas, he may back off some. I expect a more permissive approach towards mergers than the Biden enforcement agencies have taken. And that was one of the big irritants that even the Democratic donors expressed concern about is that the deal-making environment has been made so much more difficult.

And what they were really pressing Harris for is a relaxation. I think if Vice President Harris had won the election, I think she would have accommodated them in some ways, in subtle ways, but gradually, she would have backed off of the very tough approach now that the two agencies are taking. I think that is the way she would have given assurance to her major business donors. But without question, think Trump will ease off of the merger enforcement mandate.

Simone Del Rosario
Okay, before we move on to the FTC, then let’s stick in the DOJ umbrella for a little bit. What do you make of what’s going on with Hewlett Packard? Do you think that they’re going to pursue action there with that acquisition, given so little time left in the Biden administration? And you saying you think that the next administration will be more favorable to acquisitions?

Bill Kovacic
Well, the current Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Jonathan Cantor, probably if he follows past custom, will submit his resignation early in January. So by the time the full investigation in that transaction is completed, and by the way, the timeline for that would carry well into 2025 before a decision to prosecute is made, he and perhaps some of his colleagues in the front office at the Antitrust Division will be gone. And the individual who will be heading

Antitrust Division. By tradition, is the senior career civil servant. That would be the current head of the criminal unit at the Antitrust Division. So will be a career civil servant who will probably be making the decision to prosecute there. Here again, it’s so much depends on what they find during the course of the inquiry. But with Jonathan Kander’s departure, lots of the people are still staying behind are probably imbued.

with the approach toward the enforcement that he’s brought to the agency, a real skepticism of settlements, concern that merger policy for tech generally had been far too permissive. I don’t see that disappearing here, but there is the opportunity for the department to be somewhat more cautious than he was in deciding what to do. When you’re the interim appointee, you’re in an awkward position. You don’t have the permanent mandate. You’re not really part of the new administration, the new team.

What you’d really like is for them to get on with appointing that person, getting them confirmed in the Senate. So anything that involves a major policy decision, you can turn to them and say, the file’s on your desk, it’s all yours.

Simone Del Rosario
Yeah. Let’s talk about the Lena Con of it all over at the FTC. Is Kahn gone?

Bill Kovacic
My instinct would be that on the day of the inauguration that evening or the next day, President Trump will sign a letter that designates one of the two Republicans on the commission to be the chair, probably as acting chair. That’s the routine when you have a regime change of the kind we’ve had. Chair Kahn’s tenure, her term expired in September, but she is allowed by law to remain on the commission.

until her successor is confirmed and comes to take office. the speed with which she departs the commission will depend on her own personal preferences. Does she want to stay as part of a loyal opposition, maintaining a three vote block that could operate to retard a rollback of her program? On a personal level, it’s not enjoyable to go through that kind of demotion.

From my own experience, it’s nice to get the letter that says that you are elevated to be the chair. It is no fun at all to be displaced. And sometimes your feeling is, I’m going to go, I’ve had enough. I stayed, but not everyone sees it that way. So in that respect, it depends on her preferences, but she could stay as a commissioner into 2025 until the White House nominates a successor.to be a commissioner and gets that person confirmed.

Simone Del Rosario
What’s confusing about her is, as you’ve alluded to, some of the support within Trump’s own team for Lena Con and what she has done at the FTC. She’s been there to make waves. She’s gone after Big Tech. JD Vance has said multiple times how much he likes her. So if she leaves, what about what she represents?

Bill Kovacic
What she leaves behind in part is a renewed debate about what antitrust should be all about. And that’s going to be durable. She brought forward the question of which interests should be protected in the enforcement of the antitrust laws. What’s the correct role of antitrust law in safeguarding the interests of small and medium enterprises? Shouldn’t antitrust be attuned to the effect of transactions or behavior in markets for labor? Shouldn’t antitrust have a greater concern about

social and political values that go beyond traditional efficiency concerns regarding price, quantity and innovation. That change in the debate, I think, is going to endure. And it’s reflected in part by exactly the voices that we hear from the Republican Party that have said competition policy is more than simply a better price, better quality, more innovation. That more egalitarian view

that a number of conservative Republicans hold is a reflection of a broader discussion in our society today about what competition law should do. So I think at a high level, the change in the debate, the change in the intellectual vision that she brought to the job is going to have a long life and that’s going to persist. How it manifests itself in individual cases is hard to tell, but she has carried out the very important task

of changing the way that elected officials and others think about what the FTC should do.

Simone Del Rosario
Former FTC chair and commissioner Bill Kovacic, there’s no one better than you to have on to talk about this. We really appreciate your time today.

Bill Kovacic
I’m most grateful, Simone. Thank you.