you see this with his appointment of andrew ferguson to chair the federal trade commission and seeingt with president trump's pick of gail slater to lead the ant thy trust division. these big tech crush competition and shutter small businesses and cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree. i will tell you the tip of the sphere has been senator smith from missouri. i am pleased to talk to him today about these issues. and i want to start this off to get your thoughts on ant thy trust and big tech and what you think needs to happen. >> great to be back at c pac. what i great crowd. and this feels a lot different now that we won in november than a couple of years ago. there is a new sheriff in town. i think that for most people, people in this room that are conservative, over the last four years in particular what happens when you have these massive concentrations of power and you see it collide with the fundamental belief that when we're born, we are born with certain rights and those rights come from god. and the first one that is mentioned in our constitution, our bill o

ftc chair, andrew ferguson sat down exclusively with fox business and it's his first interview since e. edward lawrence joining us from the white house. edward, what did ferguson tell you about big tech? reporter: he says he doesn't want to replace big government with big corporations that controller and he'll reign back in his agency from holding back poising while keeping big tech accountable. >> i'm part of this organic conservative movement that started under president trump saying, you know what, big bureaucracy and onerous government is terrible for human fleurishing but not any better replacing big government with giant businesses and antitrust is how we make sure that giant monopolies don't grow and our economy is thrive. >> one of the big monopolies coming to mind is apple. the app store. went before the supreme court and are they still under the microscope with what heir doing? >> so i think so. i think all of big tech sunned the microscope and can speak for the federal trade commission. we've got, you know, cases involving amazon and meta and i care deeply about the cases a

in. >> reporter: yeah, the ftc chairman, andrew ferguson.want to replace big government is with big corporations, however, he's going to rein in the ftc while till holding america's largest corporations including tech accountable. >> e am part of this organic conservative movement that started under president trump that say, you know what a in big bureaucracies, big, onerous government regulations, that's terrible for human flourishing. but it isn't any better if we replace big government with giant no if knop listic businesses. and antitrust is how we make sure that giant monopolies don't grow and our economy can thrive. >> reporter: one of the big monopolies that comes to mind is apple, the app store. before the supreme court. are they till going to be under the microscope with what what they're doing. >> so i think so. i think all of big tech going to remain under the microscope. i can at least speak for the federal trade commission. we've got cases involving amazon and meta. i care deeply about these cases. they're very important. i inte

now, reuters is reporting that fcc chairman andrew ferguson called for an investigation into whether tech companies stifled right wing speech and whether advertisers work together to pull spending from certain sites like x. the agency opened a public comment window that will stay open until may 21st. >> 717. not too much of an issue getting around for the most part right now. >> gasia this commute is good. >> oh, good. >> it is good. i'd like to say that just because this. i think this is the best commute we've had so far in 2025 when i've been working anyway. i mean, you might even stand up and sing when you look at this. look at the bay bridge, it looks nice. and we have not had a backup this morning at all. you can see the traffic is moving along very nicely. 880 though we do have some slow traffic approaching downtown oakland. now there is a crash reported or something reported at high street. actually, it's not a crash. it's a car fire. so the fire department is there, and it looks like the this was just reported a little while ago. the fire department has just is just arriving

ftc chairman andrew ferguson has called for an investigation into whether tech companies stifled rights work together to pull spending from certain sites, such as x. the agency has opened a public comment window that runs until may 21st. >> well, coming up, a scam warning in solano county, the group that's going door to door trying to enter people's homes. >> also, bay area school closures continuing. the district in sonoma county forced to cut some campuses as budget issues remain a big problem. >> and spring like weather across the bay area today. meteorologist roberto gonzalez will have your complete bay area with fatigue and light-headedness, i knew something was wrong. then i saw my doctor and found out i have afib, and that means there's about a 5 times greater risk of stroke. symptoms like irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light-headedness, can come and go. but if you have afib, the risk of stroke is always there. if you have one or more symptoms, get checked out. making that appointment can help you get ahead of stroke risk. this is

and over at the ftc, chair andrew ferguson posted on social media earlier today that the 2023 merger guidelines will serve as the framework for our agency's merger review analysis. now, the trump doj has already signaled a continuing skepticism of big mergers with its suit in late january to block hpe's proposed $14 billion acquisition of juniper networks. that decision, now viewed as something of a bellwether for the trump era approach to m&a. the question is why is that? and the answer is conservative. populists in the trump administration largely agree with the biden consensus that big corporate mergers can kill american jobs, and they're more skeptical of corporate elites than traditional republicans. so if you thought that trump two meant, you know, this huge m&a boom, dial those expectations back significantly. what they're signaling here at both the doj and ftc is that they are going to enforce antitrust on these big mergers, and they're going to look skeptically at any big merger that hurts american jobs. >> scott certainly goes against much of the narrative that was there si

now, reuters is reporting the ftc chairman, andrew ferguson, has called for an investigation into whether whether advertisers work together to pull spending from certain sites like x. the agency opened a public comment window that will be open until may 21st. >> president trump is looking to strike a deal that could keep tiktok operating in the u.s. he confirms plans to speak with china about a potential sale of the popular social media app. last month, trump issued an executive order postponing a ban to allow more time for negotiations. he says he wants to the us to have a 50% stake in any future agreement, but it's still unclear who will end up controlling tiktok once the talks conclude. >> our time now 536 a high tech company based in santa clara unveiled what it's calling a groundbreaking artificial intelligence device. nvidia says this could dramatically improve the lives of tens of millions of people around the world who are deaf and hard of hearing. it's called the signs platform. it uses an avatar and computer cameras to teach common words in american sign language, using common h

you see this with his appointment of andrew ferguson to chair the federal trade commission and seeingwith president trump's pick of gail slater to lead the ant thy trust division. these big tech crush competition and shutter small businesses and cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree. i will tell you the tip of the sphere has been senator smith from missouri. i am pleased to talk to him today about these issues. and i want to start this off to get your thoughts on ant thy trust and big tech and what you think needs to happen. >> great to be back at c pac. what i great crowd. and this feels a lot different now that we won in november than a couple of years ago. there is a new sheriff in town. i think that for most people, people in this room that are conservative, over the last four years in particular what happens when you have these massive concentrations of power and you see it collide with the fundamental belief that when we're born, we are born with certain rights and those rights come from god. and the first one that is mentioned in our constitution, our bill of