first and foremost, between jim jordan and lina kahn. she kind of needs a win here.in, the biden administration harassing twitter because it had the audacity to allow republicans on the platform and expose the coercion by businesses. but the underlying problem here is much, much, much bigger than just biden with the federal trade commission. this is an agency that oversees every single american business and the other core requirement is to protect consumers. so while lina kahn, the new chair has been there for a couple years, we've seen consumer fraud increase 300%. costing americans $8.8 billion in fraud just last year. she is completely taking the eye off of protecting consumers and instead weaponize the agency to go after american businesses with loss after loss, not just this loss with twitter, but she lost in court against meta, against microsoft, against luna grail and she is playing with our money and not protecting americans. cheryl: right. exactly. that's why i said she has a win. she hasn't really had one. let's go from twitter to tiktok. a first amendment

. >> you're talking about lina kahn. >> i'm waiting for activision blizzard to come down.ersus ftc i think, jim, probably what i've been hearing tomorrow after the close or thursday. maybe not today. but that's going to be a big one. as for antitrust in this deal, we'll have to wait and see but there was that litigation, why was it so crucial that they get it dropped carl, again, the question will be again, if this, in fact, fails, is there other money available to the pga tour? would endeavor, for instance, try to make a significant investment of some kind? are there other ways they can strengthen to do some of the things that jay monahan talked about they want to do in terms of developing the sport? >> certainly, the appetite for live events is there i don't know if you've seen some of the promotion netflix is doing about the new series on the modern-day quarterback it's endless. >> endless i'll take anything that's sports. >> sports is what holds the bundle together to the extent it's being held together although, did you seecharter now, willing to offer a non-sports bu

federal trade commission chair lina kahn tried to block the mergers saying they'd squash competition and buying video game giant activision blizzard and that would be the larger deal in tech history and still alive after a u.s. district judge denied kahn's request to sighmy the deal and a win for -- stymy the deal and bobby is live in studio waiting for clarity from the president. bobby, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, liz. liz: it's coming just as the news is about to happen out of washington dc. your deal is not entirely done but today there's an extension to complete the deal till october 18th because we're waiting on the united kingdom to make their decision here. but in a word, how would you describe what you and microsoft d had to go there, the gauntlet to go through to make this merger happen? >> one of the important -- when you look at mission statement of ftc, one of the important principles in their mission statement is not creating obstacles that are un-networks inappropriate for businesses to be successful in the united states. what we've been experiencing

clause to take profits away from businesses or to split them up willy-nilly, another brainchild of lina kahntice department has a very large, antitrust division they're trying to work it, and getting slapped down too and the whole thing is insane. charles: i want to point out to the audience this is not just large businesses not just the chevrons of the world. sbe council, small business entrepreneurship council they came out with a press release today, chair kahn's activism ideology are the significant head to the start-up system. undermine competitive markets and healthy u.s. innovation an investment. these are small businesses saying please, her hatred of profits is destroying us from top to bottom. i got to switch. >> look it, it is just leave us alone mentality. charles: sure, sure. >> you know, the thing about these democrats, particularly these left-wing democrats, charles, they like employment. they just don't like the employers that hire the wage earners. charles: right. they don't like profits. >> they have never come to grips with that, they're trying to roll back profits. they wi

people have to come together or wise there's going be too much pressure >> he didn't say the words lina kahn played $2 million for the bombers. and what's going on here and you hear similar dynamic with the broncos and then the commanders, et cetera. look, at the end of today i come back to they're not making any more of them and they are growing they're not just growing on their existing fan base, they're creating new fans, creating new revenue streams. the international markets, you know, from an nfl perspective, there is so much growth to go there. by the way, the nfl is one of the best business models i've ever seen in my life >> and then there's kevin durant, a legend on the court and entrepreneur off the court as i like to say, he runs nba twitter. take a look at this. >> i like engaging for the fans. when i'm working out before the game, i always enjoyed that part and i feel like this is another unique way to engage with fans you get an opportunity to tweet at your favorite players they might respond back to you you get an inside look at who they are, tap into what they're thinking >>