becky and joe, that is lina khan. the ftc chair. lina khan in her exit interview. you in on this? nothing gets by you james. nasdaq-100 innovators. one etf. before investing, carefully read and consider fund investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and more in prospectus at invesco.com >>> we're watching nvidia shares at the consumer electronic show in chicago. they're inveiling the same blackwell chip used in data centers with nvidia's move in the premarket, its market cap has passed apples again, now making it the world's most valuable company. >>> and ulta beauty ceo is retiring, going to be replaced by the company's chief officer kecia steelman. she became the coo in 2023. along with that result, ulta shares this morning up by about 3%. >>> let's take a look at what's been happening with the markets this morning. you'll see that futures in the green. we've bounced back and forth a little bit with the nasdaq. but the dow futures solidly in the green, up 130 plus points. s & p futures are up by 15. remember, this is after two up days in a row for the s & p

jason: lina khan has 72 hours left on the job.er replacement has taken a more balanced approach, more favorable to advancing u.s. innovation. the president is a tech innovator, surrounding himself with innovators coming into office, people serving in crucial roles that understand the vital role the u.s. tech industry plays in economic growth. as far as trade and export around tech, we run a $300 billion surplus in the u.s. on digital trade, exports of u.s. tech around the world. as long as we can place regulators as the president-elect is looking to do who are willing to listen to industry and make sure balance is struck between national security and economic growth, we will be in a better place for the next four years. caroline: thanks for your time. coming up, more on tiktok. the decision on the supreme court. ♪ power e*trade's award-winning trading app makes trading easier. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools and paper trading to help sharpen your skills, you can stay on top of the market from wherever you ar

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please join me in welcoming ftc lina khan a very warm welcome. [applause] were thank you so much, camile forfo the kind intersection. thank you so much for brookings and the government studies program for hosting us this afternoon and thanks so much to you all for being here. brookings has been shaping and sharpening u.s. policy for over a century and i so appreciate inviting me here today about conversation about the federal trade commission. i'mly grateful for joe bear, as former director of the ftc's bureau of competition as well as former assistant attorney general for antitrust at the justice department. bill is truly in a league of his own when it comes to institutional knowledge and it's been a real pleasure to get to benefit from his council in the last few years. it's been extraordinary honor to be chair of ftc, mission deeply tied to principles of fairness, opportunity and freedom. i'mre grateful to my fellow commissioners for the partnership these past years and i know i speak for the whole senior team when i say that the ftc is tremen

we have a fantastic event today featuring lina khan the federal chair. she will first provide some remarks and will sit with the most recent recipient of the d.o.j. top antitrust award, the sherman award my distinguished colleague. it is a tremendous a pleasure to introduce lina khan the chair of the federal trade commission. the federal trade commission enforces the nation's antitrust and consumer protection laws. she got her start in antitrust as a business reporter and a researcher examining consolidation across markets from airlines, to chicken chick. since joining the ftc has focused on exercise and the full fleet of the statutory authorities, regularly engaging with and hearing from the public. and ensuring the agency is updating its tools and skill sets to tackle new market realities and next-generation challenges. priority initiatives have included a proposed rule to ban noncompete clauses, scrutinizing dominant across sectors, protecting people's sensitive data from unchecked surveillance and fighting for americans rights to access h quality aff

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great job with lina khan. join us back here tomorrow. now it's time for "squawk on the street". >>> good tuesday morning, welcome to "squawk on the street." post nine of the new york stock exchange. stocks looked ahead to monday's strength in tech at least as nvidia's presentation is well received. but we do have an eye on the ten year testing 4.64 this morning and rare downgrades of both apple and tesla. we'll begin with nvidia reclaiming the most valuable crown premarket. jensen wong at ces says agents and self-driving cars will be among the next multi-trillion dollar growth opportunity. >>> meta the last to make a shift appointing dana white to its board. it ends its years' old third-party fact-checking policy. it's now in favor of an x-like community driven system to check facts. >>> and apple shares are lower this morning. this ahead of the open. down grades the stock, now a sell. >> a drum beat of bad news. >>> let's begin with nvidia. jensen wong delivering the keynote at ces. a lot to unpack. this is what he said about the blackw

lina khan will join "squawk box" on the first on cnbc interview this morning.an exit inter. one more look at futures before we let you go. still in the green across the board. the dow would open 40 points higher. that does it for "worldwide exchange." "squawk box" starts right now. >>> good morning. tencent shares tumbling in hong kong trading overnight after the u.s. department of defense included in in a list of chinese military companies. >>> dana white, the head of the ufc is joining meta's board. perfect fit. details from the announcement straight ahead. >>> and mcdonald's is the latest company to announce changes in the dei plans. it's tuesday, january 7th, 2025 and "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >>> good morning, welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. we are live from the nasdaq marketplace. welcome back. we are all three together for the first time in a while. for his first time we are together this year. happy new year. to curb your enthusiasm. it is just too late. except for that yesterday was the first week back for everybody. for i think the third is

. >> the question is, under new ftc, lina khan goes and trump administration comes in. how friendly? it will be friendlier than her know matter what. she was against everything. >> the stock applovin. google could come in against them, but google was so in the cross-hairs of jonathan cantor was more reasonable than lina khan and had done homework. was addicted to rigor. this rigor is good against the dogmatic capture of the ftc. i don't think he was aware of what was happening. >> speaking of. >> i don't think he was aware. that's okay. >> we'll talk about nippon steel in a moment on that because there are some things on there today. just on the broader market, not to be bearish, but there are some things. >> i love a counter point. >> there are some things that are happening which might give equity bulls pause. yields are near the highs we have seen. >> come on. you know what the yields have been. let's go 5.5. >> we're not there. we're 4.5. >> we spent too much time in the '90s with the yields. >> mortgage rates are back up 7%. that's how it impacts people. >> you loo

colleagues will sit down with the first on cnbc interview with the ftc commissioner lina khan as shes to leave the post. >>> chinese competition is a good thing according to samsung electronics vice chairman and ceo who has been speaking exclusively to our very own chery kang. he is optimistic despite risks from the new u.s. administration. >> translator: we compete with china a lot. it's more helpful for us who have a lot of competitors. from a consumer point of view, they can get better products and better serving products so i think we need competition. in terms of what sets us apart from the products, when the internet started, our promise was the future home was a smart home. what goes above that is anything, security related technologies that improved a lot. we are getting security related approvals and appliance security. basis is it's safe to use. also, it's not just samsung products connected. it's through various themes. it is not like i'm browsing wifi and connecting with my password. it automatically connects you once you connect to the smart things. it is technology call

certain areas during run-up to the election where i thought jd vance was more aligned with, like, a lina khan. i don't think -- i don't see a line of sight in being able to play an m&a. maybe the hedge funds that do m&a can come back from the dead and make some returns. but i think in the public markets, maybe you'll see some smaller transactions. i don't think that's going to be -- that's really a clear strategy that you can implement at this point in time. >> yeah. i mean, i know the m&a bankers are ing they're busy. liz ann, brynn, brian, thanks so much for starting things off this year with us. >>> now over to kristina partsinevelos for a look at the biggest names heading into the close. >> shares of synaptics jumping now after announcing a partnership with google. they would be combining google's machine learning core with he hardware as well as their open source software. cybersecurity firm cloudflare up 4% now moving on a goldman sachs upgrade to buy from sell with a nearly doubling of its price target. this is a 12 month price target to $140. the stock is trading at $112 right now. th

it's a tremendous pleasure to introduce lina khan. she got her start in antitrust as a business reporter and researcher examining consolidation across markets from airlines to chicken farming. she has focused on exercising the full swing other statutory authorities regularly engaging with and hearing from the public and ensuring the agency is updating its tools and skill sets to tackle new market realities and next-generation challenges. priority initiatives have included a proposed rule to ban noncompete clauses, scrutinizing dominant middlemen across sectors, protecting sensitive data from unchecked surveillance and fighting for americans rights to access affordable high-quality health care. she served as counsel to the judiciary committee subcommittee on antitrust commercial and administrative law. she was an associate proffer at columbia law school. she is a graduate of williams college and yale law school. join me it giving her a very warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you so much for the kind introduction. thanks to brookings and

lina khan and the federal trade commission gone now.o whatever you didn't like that was going on in terms of consolidation. we're going to see more of in the next few years. but you and i will keep talking about it. we appreciate it. tom hartmann is the host of the syndicated radio show the thom hartmann program, author of multiple books that are very important to read right now, including the history hidden history of american oligarchy reclaiming our democracy from the ruling class. all right, straight ahead. the ranking member of the homeland security committee, bennie thompson, joins me to discuss the consequences of president trump's ongoing political retribution tour for america's national security. another hour of velshi starts right now. hi. good morning. it's saturday. i'm sorry. it's sunday, january 26th, when donald trump launched his third presidential bid nearly two years ago, he told his supporters, quote, i am your retribution. and this week, his first week in office, he's followed through on that promise, having taken a

the fortune 500 world did not like lina khan. they didn't feel good about gary gensler. they didn't feel like like business america was open for business. however, there was a quote in the ft article from a very brave, anonymous senior banker who said, finally, we get to go back. we can start using the r word and the p word in the office. it's a new dawn, right? well, my message to that very brave and very bold banker who is anonymous. give me a break. right. no, none of that. that is not coming back to any company in america, no company that respects itself. and it's not that there's a dying need that we want to get back to misogyny. that's just stupidity. yes. so the level they're taking this to is simply too far. but yes, the pendulum is set to swing back somewhat. lots of people feel like, you know what, we got too worked up about things. i'm not going to say the word woke because i think that's silly, but, but but there, there is an element of it. but where they are, it makes no sense somewhere else. yes. >> you know, i wonder, tim, when we talk about, like trump ro

and acquisitions that are on the way, especially when you no longer have to fear the wrath of khan lina khan. that is the ftc bottom line. trump wants the bank to succeed. a higher stock market is the badge he craves, even if he's saying bad things about bank of america. but just because there's a lot of bluster, there are only a few tradeable ideas. so i want you to do this before you pull the trigger. filter things and take advantage of the fact that the pin action for the banks is extraordinary. mike in illinois. mike. >> hey. >> jim, it's mike. >> mike i thought it was you. >> great month. great monthly meeting today. >> very informative. >> thank you. very much. struck. >> structure. organized. >> the catalysts were great. >> great. very informative. anyhow. >> i've got a position. >> in costco. i'm wondering if i should buy, sell or. >> hold additional. >> okay, as we said, you know, we talked today on the call and our view was that costco could fall a little more, but it's never going to get cheap. so the answer is yes. you can buy some here because it is down from 100 from 142. i wou

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and we see lina khan being a real leader trying to broaden the scope of harms from under enforced antitrust rules, basically. so saying are also harms to privacy from monopolies to behavior. there are also harms of democracy from unrealistic behavior. and i think this is all very important but i believe we need more direct addressing of harms to democracy. so antitrust may indirect impact on, you know, more innovation or less abuse of bulk collection of data for, you know, if companies were to be broken up. but it's sufficient to hope that antitrust enforcement will enough to challenge the tech. so i write one of the solutions that we should borrow a concept from competition law which is significant market power and make it into the concept of significant power because actually there can be significant societal power from one or the other tech company without them ever becoming in getting in view of monopolists, anti monopolies, measures, rights. there can be companies that have very powerful roles in society without being a monopolist, and therefore they can never really fall under current

i saw lina khan on cnbc who suggested, you know, there is an ftc suit that is going to be considerednext couple months that looks at whether facebook -- sorry meta -- is a monopoly on the social media network, and she said this is plainl mark zuckerberg trying to get a sweetheart deal from the ftc. do you see it that way? >> i think that's part of it. the move to texas not only pleases the conservative side of the aisle, to try to come across as more conservative, it's the quiet firing. if you tell -- rather than a series of bad press releases or uncomfortable all hands meetings, if you just decide you're moving your safety and security team from california to texas, you're naturally going to lose 30 to 50% of the employees, so, you know, this is -- this is, again, nothing about placating the republican party and saving money and adding shareholder value. what is so shocking -- i mean just from a personal standpoint, what's the point of having all this money if you aren't at some point going to show some fidelity as a 40 or 50 something year old man that has the wealth of the gdp of

lina khan tried to break it up.eriously would have thought that karl marx was was marching down, you know, wall street. and you combined that combination that you're talking about with the fact that billionaires are getting richer and richer by the second, while screaming socialism. and what what does that what does that say about where american capitalism is going over the next five, ten years? >> i think it comes down to a basic question what is america? and i would my kind of economic role model is peter drucker. i think an economy in america exists to create a robust middle class. >> coming up here, donald trump says he will be inheriting a bad economy when he takes office later this month. but steve rattner is standing by with his charts to debunk that claim. morning joe weekend. we'll be right back with that. >> my experience with empire was amazing. >> the price that i got along with the service, the special attention, the one on one. you can't beat that. >> 800 588. >> two 300. empire. today. >> did you know

don't even know if that's a thought that anthropic would land up in the hands of -- we talked to lina khanort of thought she was hint that go maybe we would hear about their investigation inquiry into all of this stuff and/or maybe even a suit. >> that was weird. the idea -- you pointed out, what is it, 12 days now until -- >> as of yesterday she was counting -- it was eight business days. >> so really? i guess we will see. >> we will see. and then the question is would -- you know, does the next administration take up the case? interestingly the original google case brought by the trump administration and, you know, not her department but the doj continued that case. i don't know. i don't know. >> i guess it gets weird in the tech world because there are not clear guidelines as to what each administration thinks. it doesn't fall into the old kind of camps of what you would think a republican versus a democrat would do. there is some crossover on some of these things and you pointed it out with j.d. vance. >> trump was a big -- originally pushed on the tiktok position and now, you know --

and there's a view that over the last four years, in a lina khan world, that if one of these big guys wanted to buy you or open ai or whatever, they couldn't do it, so everyone's done these partnerships. do you imagine over the next four years, given the regulatory climate and what trump is promising that you will ultimately, not just be a partner of, but be part of a company like amazon? >> so our -- you know, our mission is set up in a way that i think now and certainly for any future that i can foresee, it is best achieved by anthropic being independent, right? we have -- as you mentioned, partnerships with these cloud partners. we work with aws, we work with -- >> google as well. >> -- we work with gpc. but every time we make a partnership with these companies, we make sure that the terms of the contract that we sign respect a lot of our safety and security commitments, right? our measurements for national security risk, cybersecurity of the models. and so, we value our independence highly. that's why we're partnering with more than one, ith more than one cloud partner. our view i

i mean, there's been a talk forever that, you know, in a different if lina khan hadn't been running,d to buy anthropic already, for example, or would have microsoft bought openai or would have some of these folks so there wouldn't be as many everybody competing against each other in the same way? i don't know, maybe you think the competition is great. i just don't know how long, long term, how many models there ultimately will be like that. >> i mean, our view is actually. >> that. >> this is potentially going to be one of the greatest markets or the greatest industries ever. you know, right now, let's say there's between 10 and $20 billion of lm based revenue. and if you believe that we're actually on a track towards superintelligence or agi, then it stands to reason that that's going to go to $1 trillion or more of revenue. and so if you're looking at a market that's going to go from, let's say, 10 billion to 1 trillion over who knows how many years, i tend to believe a fewer number of years. i think we're sort of in the 2 to 4 range, 2 to 4, two. >> to get to agi. and what's your

there, they're supporting candidates who are actually fighting people like lina khan who want to breakes. they one of the stories i always told, and mika, unfortunately, would always hear this on, you know, whenever we were at colleges or if we were at. but she always heard the story over and over again. and it was it was i was talking about america and american capitalism. i said, steve jobs is right. that apple ad was right. we're a little crazy. like we're different. we think different. i said, only in america could a group of 6 or 7 hippie burnouts from berkeley go to their dad with a $5,000 loan and say, hey, can we use your garage? sure. and they started microsoft. you can't do that no, in many cases, because microsoft is a monopoly, right? amazon is a monopoly. i mean, i could go down the line. ten tech companies are a monopoly. capitalism is all about competition. you have a crazy idea. i mean, that's by the way, that's what is amazing about an immigrant comes to america. and i hear this all the time. i wish you were here because she would talk about it with in britain. you tal

but for financial audience there is a thought here that with the kind of departure of the likes of lina khanodgates for m & a and acquisitions from the tech space, something that might have donald trump stamp of approval. do you see it that way? greg: absolutely. again laissez-faire climate, i think that it is still not well appreciated on capitol hill, let me make this. i joke frequently that congress is not going to regulate ai because they don't understand it. congress doesn't understand the internet. chuck schumer has a flip flown. they have -- so the lack of sophistication on tech issues on capitol hill is really quite remarkable. >> what about the tiktok band? i think a lot of us are wanted to find out what happens next year. what can a precedent does that send in terms of donald trump as a dealmaker for not only american corporate's but international corporate's operating in the united states. >> it's a really good point because i think trump has promised so much and will get a deal with tiktok, he's made very lavish promises and now have to start delivering but by the end of the day