. >> are you concerned that google and by extension facebook will turn against josh hawley in the fallecause you're a threat to them in the senate? >> they might. but i'm not afraid. i mean, look, we also have an investigation of facebook along the very same lines. i'm the only attorney general in the country holding these big tech companies accountable. that's what i was elected to do. i'm a tough lawyer, i'm a tough prosecutor. i'm going to be tough and get the answers for the people of missouri. i don't care who threatens me. we're not going to back down. >> do we need a new regulatory body? i asked this of the leader and of the speaker. do we need a new regulatory body to focus on big tech and the economic monopoly they represent? >> well, first, we need our current laws to be enforced. we have antitrust laws in this country, in the state of missouri. we have laws that prohibit the taking of consumer information without consent. let's enforce the laws we have on the books. number two, we need to ask ourselves how our laws affect this new tech world we're living in in this day in ag