internet platforms from becoming monopolies germany's economics minister paid altmire said the initiative will make competition law more effective and prevent the abuse of market power in future companies like google or facebook would no longer be allowed to prevent business partners from working with its competitors the proposed legislation is also designed to stop big players from buying smaller rivals just to shut them down. shortly executives in silicon valley will be watching this development closely especially if a company has risen to become such a market dominating force like google twenty years ago a pair of ph d. students working out of the proverbial garage wanted to make internet searches better google's ambitions were courageous delivering the world's information to anyone with internet access but a lot of changed over the twenty years. google's business model is simple users searching the internet tell google about themselves allowing google to sell targeted advertising to businesses the firm i.p.o. at eighty five dollars a share in two thousand and four and quickly rose in

lauren: brad blakeman, jason altmire, thank you.e: sev is suing musk for fraud and seek to go remove him as tesla ceo. nathan joins me now, good morning, nathan. >> good morning. tracee: sec complaint is against musk and not tesla, shares of tesla falling more than 10% in the premarket right now, more than 11%, how do you punish elon musk without harming tesla's shareholders? >> it would be very difficult because to many people elon musk is tesla and if you take him out of the company, then the future is extremely uncertain. tracee: absolutely, people are buying into elon musk's vision, wouldn't you say? >> yeah, they are, the future has been articulated by him for the last several years, a company that not only wants to build niche electric vehicles but electric vehicles for the masses and to do that, execute his vision you have to have him as ceo and chairman and without him looks like the company could be and they have to contemplate the possibility, poi have to find alternate person, they don't have a coo, they don't have a clea

that let's get the freed lee carter, and manning with the independent frowomen's forum and jason altmirecongressman, let me end with you, because a lot of friction we have senile has been very polar rising. the democrats on one side republicans on the other side. very little overlap here. hearkens back to what you have talked about it is a very poisoned well and coming into retime play here. what do you make of it? >> it's unfortunate. i tweeted out on the anniversary a couple days allegago when sandra day o'connr was confirmed 99-0. the oak automatically came out for the nomination of the supreme court. then have you these protesters that you see very toxic atmosphere. it appears that this new yorker article that was talked about over the last 24 hours might be unraveling it may very welcome down to thursday. i think both witnesses have every right to be heard. we will see what happens. it's just unfortunate that the nomination has been mired in this type of talks toxicity. >> neil: no collaboration of the charges. i'm wondering there i is not much more on the part of dr. ford. neverthe