carr is interviewed by politico technology reporter john hendal. >> do you have faith in the independence of doj anti-trust authorities and kind of how you see that overall, given it is a pretty big situation to be unfolding right now? >> my general view is the fcc again has a pretty limited role to play in mergers, which is to say when a transaction comes before us, we take a look and say is there a transaction-specific harm? if there is, we try to find a narrowly tailored remedy for the harm. if that addresses the harm we identified, we can move forward with the public interest determination. one thing you saw the fcc do over the last couple years is view mergers as sort of a christmas tree where you could hang whatever regulatory agenda on it. that's not my approach and not the approach i think lawfully under the communications act the fcc should take. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> the senate intelligence committee held a confirmation hearing for president trump's nominee to be the