and the ftc brought that case. we've already brought a case against asis which was a router maker for flaws that it had that could affect the internet of things. so i think there's a little bit of a misunderstanding of the difference between being an agency that issues extensive regulations and an agency that enforces the law. so we are definitely enforcing the ftc act there. we're also bringing to bear our policy resources. so we brought -- we had a workshop on the internet of things and issued a report on it, and we certainly highlighted the need to have good data security and cybersecurity practices in the internet of things area. i also think that the ftc's going to continue to pay very close attention as technology develops. >> yeah. >> host: chairman ohlhausen, when you talk about regulatory humility, what do you mean by that? >> guest: so regulatory humility is my word for understanding the limits that we as regulators or enforcers even have to our knowledge. it's very hard to predict the future, to know whe

then the ftc has no jurisdiction. i know the fcc was looking to sort of push back on that court case, but are you concerned that ont leaves a gap in coverage broadband privacy, and there are a lot of people let's say if the ule,overturns this r the ftc will have its hands tied. ms. ohlhausen: i have been concerned about that, and you should know that the ftc, on a bipartisan basis, has supported congress getting rid of the common carrier exemption, because it does not make sense anymore. it was put in place with networks were pervasively regulated monopolies. it is much different today. ftc hast&t case, the had a lot of amicus briefs filed in support of our position, so i hope that there is a chance the ninth circuit may reconsider the impact, because previously the common carrier exemption, we had interpreted it as just applying to status. we cannot have oversight over an activity, but it did not pence out our authority over the whole entity. but i will say that i hope that to get theapable ninth circuit to reconside

the ftc doesn't have involved -- involvement with that. i am not going to speculate out of my area of expertise. >> if you were to become permanent chairman, do you have any sort of broad agenda items you would like to see taken our during our tenure? maybe something you thought the ftc should address for a long time? >> we need to think harder about what substantial harm. i have econo mist looking at it and i want to to be part of the bigger discussion. we all need to be comfortable with what this means going forward. we have anti-trust oversight. i mentioned my economic liberty task force and the infrsment in antitrust and focus on abuse of anti government processes. i want to use enforcement tools where i can to enforce the barrier. >> can you give the example of mother may i? >> the favorite one is the one that went all the way up to the supreme court court in north carolina. it was a dental board made up of dentist determining they didn't wa want to allow non-dentist teeth whitening to take place and sent out cease and detest letters.

what is the best way to secure the ftc is an >> enforcement authority. we have brought a case several years ago against a company called transnet that had an internet enabled candler -- internet enabled camera that had a security flaw that allowed anyone to post a live feed. announcer: watch "the communicators," monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. a" withr: next, "q and author and writer sheelah kolhatkar. then british prime minister theresa may takes questions from the rich house of commons. after that, talk about supreme court nor many -- supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. ♪ announcer: thiweek on "q&a, "new yorker" writer sheelah kolhatkar discusses her book "black edge, inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street." host: sheelah kolhatkar, author of "black h," who is stephen telling? >> he continues to be a legendary figure

time orbiting the ftc, combine some bureaus and get rid of some bureaus? >> guest: my theory is every new chairman, i think, is not only a policy wonk, they are an administrator and i think they are a ceo and i think they are as much responsible for the morale or the great men and women who work there and the organizational strength of the institution. people forget the ftc is a big play, close to 2,000 people in a pretty serious budget. so, we dent get to see the ftc chairman in his office going over the budget and going over the staff and going over the pay and all that. and this particular one is going to have to move, which is going to be pretty complicated, having been through a move won i was there so i would hope they've would look at it. it's part of their responsibility. making sure it maps with the marketer is always important. used to all say a slightly different way. should map with the market as seen through the eyes and ears of consumers. when i talk to neighbors they're almost perplexed the way we talk about it they don't seen a difference b

>> the -- the ftc is an enforcement agency. we have brought action in the internet of things is. we brought something against a company called trend net that had a security flaw that allowed anyone with an ip address to post a live feed. we publicized that is the first internet of things case. announcer: watch "the onmunicators" monday night cspan2 at 8:00 p.m. >> next, q&a with authority and new yorker staff writers sheelah kolhatkar. then it is prime minister theresa may takes questions from members of the house of commons. after that, a look at legal decisions by supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," "new yorker" writer sheelah kolhatkar discusses her book "black edge: inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street." ♪

i spoke earlier about the ftc's recent merger retrospective study, but it only covers ftc settlements and it was the first study done since 1999. we have to do better. this is what i propose. a better approach would be to provideparties to information on a yearly basis after a settlement has been reached. then agencies to review past settlements which would informed of future decisions. i believe we can improve antitrust enforcement without unduly burdening the companies that come before us for merger approval. second, we need better information. the ftc or the department of justice should be required to gather information about how investment ownership affects competition. congress needs this information to understand whether there is a problem and when investment fund ownership is anticompetitive or benign. third, we need to up our game. antitrust these that are paid when companies file proposed mergers for review and allow the government to exercise and pursue cases have not kept up with the times. in fact, the fee has not been adjusted since 2001. parties involved in large deals a

the ftc disagrees. i'm just looking at what i see. if it is not a problem, great. but you will see the proposal i have in a little bit to create some kind of check and balance, promises made at mergers. as merger deals have grown, so often have the complexities of the settlements. we often talk about firms being too big to fail. a question from modern antitrust enforcement is whether some mergers are simply too big to fix. so here is the billion-dollar question. and i'm not using that number loosely because so many of these mergers are billion-dollar mergers. what are we going to do about this? one question is obvious. more aggressive antitrust enforcement to prevent concentration and monopolies. the good news, antitrust and are notion polities republican or democratic issues, they are consumer issues. they have tended to be more focused on by the democratic party. i think that is important to note. mike lee and i, he is kind of a tea party background and have worked well on these issues together, painstakingly work on ideas and other things when we work with the a

yodon't wa to be under a lawsuit on the ftc. it is bad for your business, bad for our customers, and it can be bad for the entire industry. that's why i believe regulatory can direct us to use the resources in the way that is the most bang for the buck for consumers. is it different from what

better known as the ftc. and senator casey has already introduced our final witness for the day, diane menio. we're very happy to have her here, too. menio. did i get it right that time? thank you. i want to thank you all for joining us and we'll now start with the video. >> my name is philip hatch. i'm 81 years old and i'm from portland, maine. born and raised. i received a telephone call, answered the phone and the man said he was a representative from the internal revenue service. i said, what can i do to help you? he said, well, we've gone through the records and there's been a mistake here on your returns and you owe us $5,988 and some odd cents. so i said, fine, tell me who i make the check out to and where do i mail it? he says, we can't do that. we have a warrant out for your arrest and the marshals will be in your house within an hour. and i said, well, what would you like me to do to help resolve this? they said you can go to cvs and get those itunes cards and just when you come back, you can read t

now the consumer federation of america along with the funeral consumer's alliance are urging the ftc online disclosure a requirement and law for funeral homes, claiming sci can maintain high prices in part because they don't have to disclose them online. news4, of course, reached out to sci, but they have not responded to our request for a statement. >>> well, you probably drive over them every week, if not every day. but some of our bridges aren't in the best shape. >> i can attest to that. adam tuss shows you what's going on with an especially busy one on i-95. how the fix could affect you. >>> first a drastic move by mcdonald's, all to save the beloved mcflurry. >>> those temperatures are going up. we're also talking about snow, not one or two chances. we're talking about rain. we've got all of this in our ten-day forecast. the roller the roller afoot and light- chearted i take to the open road. the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. for years, fios has been promising fas

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that's mixed in with the ftc reports as well. >> but when it comes to the stress tests, what we want to hear today, what we're expecting today, just a fine-tuning of the methodology of what will be carried out later in the year. again, we'll get those results in november. the past has been macro risks, trading risks, and misconduct risks. and the big one added this year, obviously, brexit. the bre wants to know how banks can show that their consumers won't lose access, and how the continental customers will be protected. that's just one of the things that the boe wants to know. >> and the major uk banks, 15.1% of risk-related assets in 2016, the requirement, 13.5%. that's also something, rightly or wrongly, you know, the focus on capitalizations. i remember when it was 5%, 7%. and now we're talking 15.1% in the case of the uk banks. so they're well capitalized. >> that's improved quite a bit. >> yeah. >>> also i want to take a look at the ftc report. the overall level of 9 risk to the uk financial stability is broadly unchanged since the 23406 meeting. that was wildly expected. to ha

for the first time since the ftc has been monitoring complaints, imposter scams replaced identity nowams is due to an increase in complaints about government imposters, most notably as we've been reporting for years those scammers posing as irs employees. telephone and mobile service comes in at number four on the complaint list. our nbc 4 responds center also keeps track of complaints while the top three are the same as the ftcs. car repair ripoffs come in at number four for us here. >> pat and i talked about your story on facebook live. it's surprising how many people say i got one of those calls. >> absolutely. >> and disturbing how many people still fall for them. >> they're keeping me in business. >>> well amelia, you've been busy today. this is one of the coldest days we've had in a long time. >> so. yeah, not something we're used to this winter. but i do have some snow on storm team 4 radar. i want to thank a viewer for calling in saying it's really coming down up in parts of washington and frederick counties. we're tracking a snow squall moving toward the southeast quickly at

neutrality has been one of the iggest, most sought-after fights for the ftc. unprecedented, it is possible there could be large obilization, we'll keep our eyes on that. and then it will be interesting and e how democrats and how they will sit down with congress committee to sort of negotiate these out and get what they want from it. in fairfax, virginia, democrat. greta and d morning, ali breland. on, to have this segment c-span is sorely lack nothing bringing the viewer's attention matters before they're already passed. should havell, this been on as soon as it was open to public comment. every viewer needs to be aware issues that come up before congress and c-span people aware of them and allow them to comment before passed.ready host: fair point, john. fair point. that point, ali breland, what has been the grassroots knowledge, motivation here, compared to lobbying for companies who benefit from this? uest: certainly there has been an attempt, this is something a lot of people, staffers expressed concern here, lawmakers expressed concern, idn't hit grassro

she says the ftc regulates internet providers.o privacy cops on the beat will create confusion a the regulation is another example of big government overreach that suffotes hard-working taxpayers. >> well, that doesn't match the facts of the law. congress passed an exemption for common carriers or broadband providers, it says the ftc cannot regulate them so the fcc stepped into the gap and created these rules to make simple rules that protect consumers. now that the rules are being repealed by congress we're going to have a gap in rules and it's up to congress to fill that gap now. if they created it, if they repealed the rules they need to replace them with something that gives consumers choice. >> given that this is where we stand, what can the average consumer do? >> the average consumer will have a few options from their internet provider where providers already -- at&t has piloted this -- will offer the option of paying more in order to have your privacy protected. that's unfortunate for consumers. it means their costs could

the ftc points out a couple of red flags here. number one, government agencies rarely ever call demanding a payment. they still use regular mail and will send you a letter. and they don't take prepaid cards or gift cards. anna werner, cbs news, new york. >>> the dow is down about 9 points right now. >>> snapchat celebrated international women's day with a new set of filters but some say it came off as clueless. many questioned why the filters scientists marie curie came with a smoky eye makeup face instead of protective goggles. others wondered were the filters honoring a mexican activist and rosa parks appeared to lighten their skin. this isn't the first time snapchat has been called out for its filters. last year critics called a bob marley filter black face. >>> time for a check now of our weather with roberta. >> nice day out there? >> yes. the best way to describe it is by this. it's our live weather camera. we're looking out towards alcatraz from the marina green area. look at that. makes you want to jump in, doesn't it? may

. >> what have you seen around the country as a result of the supreme court decision of ftc with the north carolina untoward i know we have taken measures but what are they doing as a result. >> is a little early to say it is fairly recent in a position to figure out what they need to do. sa macaulay has been spending a lot of time going to different states to help them understand what the case is about, the implications but in general they're looking to create systems with much more oversight but for decades have been operating without any oversight. this anti-competitive behavior and they have been able to do so because nobody has paid attention so how can recreate systems but it is too early to say. >> the alcohol wholesale business and are there any successful initiatives to break that stranglehold of the wholesalers'? to make catches chapter number one of the book that is part or the name comes from. so the efforts to break open the bottle neck is one of our cases have a direct shipping of wine rica open the market. before that it was illegal in most dates. and other efforts aro

. >> what have you seen as a result with the ftc north carolina dental board and taking measures that i certainly support they think would be helpful but what d.c. other states doing as a result of that case quick. >> it is a little early to say the case is fairly recent there in a position to figure out exactly what they need to do so macaulay is spending a lot of time to help the states understand what are the implications but in general to create more oversight with that occupational licensing board and so consequently it is monopoly behavior and they have been able to do so because nobody has paid much attention before. so now the staar how to really t the oversight of these activities? but it is too early to say. >> the alcohol wholesale business in georgia babylon called a -- have a lot call this they're any strangle hold? >> it is chapter number one in our book and fact in part were the name of the book comes from. the word bottleneck draws on uh alcohol bottle is very common and wholesalers are very powerful special interests though the efforts to open that bottleneck is proba

the ftc say the ads looked like official documents from a bank or attorney. neither the company or -- returned our calls for comment. >>> soon walmart will let you shop in store and online at the exact same time. retail giant is putting them in the toy aisles of some stores. if an item is out of stock, a customer can order it on the screen and have it delivered to their home. walmart is notorious for empty shelves and says this gives shoppers an endless aisle. walmart is only testing the system. no word on when it might roll out near you. >> now a reminder that this weekend, i'll be anchoring the live coverage of the st. patrick's day parade. coverage begins saturday at noon on air and on the abc 7 news app and at abc 7 news.com. we always have a great time. >> you do. it's a lot of fun. thanks, michael. >>> tonight, san francisco's loss is oakland's gain to the tune of 1200 jobs. blue shield of california announced this afternoon it will move headquarters from beal street in san francisco to downtown oakland. over the next two years, the nonprofit will take

>> reporter: at&t has not said what caused massive 911 outage to millions around the country , the ftc is now investigating. in delaware county alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> if you are unsure of the non-emergency number for your county head to cbs philly.com for more information. >>> we are following breaking news tonight which will affect thousands of commuters. officialness pennsylvania and new jersey make a big announcement regarding the delaware river connector bridge closed since january 20th. lets get you over to "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos in bristol who has been on this story about the bridge for a while now, greg, what is very latest. >> reporter: that is latest there, ukee, pennsylvania and new jersey turnpike commissions announced they will reopen this connector bridge at 10:30 tonight. this is weeks ahead of schedule. this announcement happening in just the pennsylvania 45 minutes or so, of course, this is a huge relief to some 42,000 drivers who use this each and every day, forced to find a detour when commissions closed the bridge january 20th a

to ask you what you've seen around the country as a result of the supreme court's decision with the ftc and the north carolina board and i know we have taken measures i certainly supported. the state of figuring out what they need to do. so my colleague at the institute of justice has been spending a lot of time going through the different states helping them understand what is the case about and what are the implications and what might you do as a result. but in general, the states are looking to create systems with much more oversight. the occupational licensing boards for decades have been operating without any oversight and so as we describe in the book, the behavior is essentially the monopoly behavior and anti-competitive behavior. they've been able to do so because no one has paid attention to what they have been doing so in general, the states are looking at how can we create systems of more oversight in these activities. >> the alcohol wholesale business, is that common across the country, and are there any successful initiatives to break the stranglehold that they have? >> tha

. >>> ftc has launched an investigation in the at&t outage that prevented customers in several states including pennsylvania from getting through to 911. at&t addressed the incident around 10:30 on social media tweeting the issue has been resolved and affected some calls to 911 from wireless customers. we apologize to those affected it is unclear how long service was interrupted. >>> police in bucks county are investigating a tragic accident a boy struck and killed by a pickup truck. it happened yesterday afternoon at bellaire trailer park on bristol pike in morrisville. after the boy was struck people began attacking the pick up driver, of course, forced driver to leave the scene but did stop to call for help. child was pronounced dead at the hospital. driver of the pick up is said to be cooperating with the investigation. >>> and chopper three over the scene of the deadly shooting in north philadelphia, police say a man was shot four times in the head on the 300 block of west westmoreland street just before 7:00 last night. so far police made no arrests. >>> and chopper three over t

lastly i would say the ftc is terrific institution for this issue, as it has always been. woven do sweep telecom law is the commitment to universal service and universal service means u -- upick witness and ford kyle remember being hauled into the ted stephens office to be reminded there are alaskans out in the middle of the most rural and desolate parts of the environment who have to be on the network, nor hawaii, and there's not a chairman or commissioner who hasn't nobody that one critical part of the obligation is working that problem. commend the heeler commission to try to shift money toward broadband, toward the problems, toward use of the technologies, funds mortared -- i think all of that is very thoughtful and on the right track and if i were congress i would continue to work with the fcc to nix fix the problem. >> host: given the odd scale do you see further consolidation and maybe some cross-pollination in the stray to get this build-out? >> guest: no. no. i don't. i don't think that consolidation or scale or the explicit purpose of more economically serving pa

i suspect largely our justice department and ftc anything to do with it? >> doj most likely. >> recommendations? >> well, i mean, i think that my understanding is if the democrats are going to continue to submit as their nominee, but i have not -- there's been no official, i guess, movement in terms of the administration submitting nominations to us, so i don't know, we hear names batted around, as you probably do, on who the republican might be, but at this point it's still, i think, largely conjecture. i mean, i hope we get them soon, because we're in the process of, i think, guiding some people, but the sooner we can get the process rolling, the more quickly we're able to get a full fcc commission, which i think is important, and like i said, i hope it happens soon. well, i mean, no. it's mostly just kind of -- it's a lot of speculation and the ecochamber out there and some of your all reporting about who some of those folks are, but, we hear some -- we don't have anything official yet. [ inaudible question ] >> i deally it would be nice, yeah. ideally,

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going to ask you what you've seen around the country as a result of the supreme court decision with ftc and the north carolina dental board and what -- i know we've taken measures here that i certainly supported that i think will be helpful, but what are you seeing in other states as a result of that case? >> so it's a little early to say yet. the case is fairly rent, and so states, i think a lot of states are still in a position where they're trying to figure out exactly what they need to do. so my colleague at the institute for justice has been spending a lot of time going to various states and helping them understand, number one, what is the case about, what are the implications and what might you to as a result. but in general, i think states are looking to create systems that create much more oversight over licensing boards. this is the nub of it, that these occupational licensing boards for decades have been operating without any oversight. and so consequently, as we describe in the book, the behavior is, essentially, monopoly behavior. it's anti-competitive behavior. ask they've

i spoke earlier about the ftc's recent merger retrospective study. it was only done first since 1999. we have do better. provide parties on a yearly basis, after a settlement has been reached. then agencies could easy review the effectiveness of past settlements which would inform their future decisions. i believe we can devisign a requirement without unduly burdening the companies that come before the government for approval. the ftc or department of justice should be required to gather information of how ownership affects competition, congress needs this information to understand whether there's a problem and when investment fund ownership is competitive or benign. we need to understand how prevalent they are and whether current antitrust tools are efficient. antitrust fees paid for merger review and allow the government to exercise and pursue cases have not kept up with the times. in fact the fee has not been adjusted since 2001 and parties involved in large deals are simply not paying their fair share. for example, each party is currently require

they have weak privacy regulations governed by the ftc.regulations gorged by the fcc. some may say why don't we have strong regulations everywhere instead of getting rid of the one place they're wrong, the other reason is the fc has worked very closely with the telecom companies. they have seen it not as the people but the broadband company. it appears as though that may be the problem with the new fcc. >> do you think people realize how invasive the information -- do you think they know how invasive the companies are in getting our information and why should we care about the information that they get? >> that's interesting. i think people have no idea the depth of the information these companies have. they have everything and our whole lives are online. if something feels wrong in our bodies, we type it in to google. the companies have that. the second part of the question, are bad things going to happen if they have it? well, we've had weak privacy regulations for a long time and the sky hasn't fallen. nothing terribly invasive has been

ftc did not see it that way. most bitcoin trades take place in china.t may be a lot of people trying to get money out of china or assets out of china and using bitcoin to do it. caroline: do you think that demand from china is continuing? we find out later where the trading is happening. we are seeing 90% of all bitcoin trading happening in china and that has nothing to do with the twins. driver?: what was the functionhink, again, a for these guys to create more money. the trading of the etf to all markets. but it would have created a regular stock exchange proxy for this currency in the way there proxies for other currencies and gold and so on. caroline: we will see how it pans out. that was a cory johnson shedding light. the largest u.s. jobs figure delivered a surprise beard 250 5000 jobs were added last month in the united states. the unemployment rate fell to 4.7%. games that -- gains come from construction and manufacturing. many are wondering if the momentum will keep up, especially in the tech sector with growing reforms on the h-1b visa. from n

acquire fred's on here because it was part of this agreement, selling stores to get an agreement by the ftc. it is not good news for fred. to get a checkg on the ipo's that we saw in the past week or so. and there's not as much of a household name. that is a cloud software company is the first day of trading today. $221 million in its ipo. to thebring you back story of the day, a quick look at the s&p 500 versus the dax here today and the s&p has outpaced the gains we have seen in the dax here. you can see the dax still up on the year thus far, but not quite as much as the s&p 500. david? david: thank you very much, julie. coming up, president trump and german chancellor angela merkel will hold a press conference after their first face-to-face meet ever. we will take you there live when it starts. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is bloomberg markets, trump's first hundred days with a focus on politics and policy under the new administration. i'm david westin. you are looking at the east room of the white house where president trump and german chancellor angela merkel will be giving a news

we put oushrselves in a situati where the fcc was regulating some some way, the ftc regulating othercy a different way. what happened is everybody's in the same game, regulate everyone the same way. >> and facebook taking a page from go fun me's playbook. the new tool allows users to ask friends to contribute to certain costs including education or medical expenses. new questions being raised about the effectiveness of online ads. jpmorgan sees little change in the visibility of advertisements after dropping the number of websites it's on from 400,000 to 5,000. this just is after the financial giant pulled business from youtube after ads placed next to offensive content. mike? >> yeah. interesting. i mean, there's this ongoing low level crisis in ad measurement and, you know, gauging effectiveness. it's always going to be there, but not a surprise that the 395,000 websites below the top 5,000 maybe are not giving you much that bang for the buck for a brand like jpmorgan chase. maybe it's credit cards response, things like that. >> bigger deal for other companiesment doesn't take much

after the ftc stopped its investigation of free data offerings, all for wire carries have unlimited dataireless carriers in the united states announced unlimited data plans. that is good for consumers. our focus will always be what is in the public interest. if it is, we would be more favorably inclined to approve the deal. >> china is allowing more companies to list 18 months after clamping down on the market. is this a signal from the securities regulator that we have turned the corner? >> yes, they want to see more ipo's happening, and that should support the chinese economy. they are saying for what china calls appropriately larger supplies of ipos after a stronger than expected recovery from the 2015 market route, $5 trillion wiped out there, so it has taken some time to recover from that and enough that regulators think we can release the floodgates of little bit more for ipos. 600 company seeking approval. 280 approved last year of only 248 completed. stability, but a stable capital market is required for it to go through. >> snap has started trading, the first tech ipo of the yea

we don't who the head of the ftc will be. we think it will be positive but we don't know yet. think the character of deals we will see in the future is going to be a little bit different. in the past, you may have seen job cuts, cost synergies. in the future, you will see focus on job creation, infrastructure, investment. jeff: if a company was looking to do a big deal and one of the big reasons they were going to do the deal was for the synergies, which often means job cuts, how do you handle that, what advice would you give them? not discuss it, not do the deal? a balance.ll be any kind of a horizontal deal, probably some job losses. over time if they are investing in infrastructure, new technologies, hopefully there are some new jobs will offset by job losses upfront. petri dish and and lesser regulatory scrutiny should be hopeful for m&a. under this administration, what could be a negative, what areas of m&a might be slowed? kurt: china is an obvious one. jeff: fewer deals? into the u.s., in europe, has not been tested yet. there are the currency controls right now on outb

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