luther lowe is the senior vice president of public policy for yep and he joins us now. er, thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me on. >> tucker: always particularly happy to talk to you since you write for a big tech company. really simple question google has a monopoly. nobody debates that monopolies are supposed to be banned by u.s. law. a whole congress with 535 people in it designed to protect us from monopolies but they are not. >> well, i think there are -- there is political capture going on. i think if you have a search engine clearly guilty of self-serving bias and not the type of self-serving bias that president trump tweeted about earlier this week i'm talking about demonstrable, easy to prove bias in the most common area of what we do on google which is local search this should be a slam dunk. we should be able to show consumer harm and, in fact, we have done. so when a mom does a search for a pediatrician in salt lake city, she is basically trusting google to match her with the best information from across the web. >> tucker: yes, of course. >> that has

back 5-10 years ago, they were charged with manipulating the algorithm for commercial purposes, luther loweking about that on the show. what was google's position? it was the same absolute denial. the problem is the european union the federal trade commission, scholars at harvard and elsewhere have looked at this and said that they are lying. why should we believe them now? the evidence isis overwhelming they're engaging in political manipulation as well. >> tucker: and our congress does nothing. peter schweitzer, the movie comes out september 17th. thank you forou that. whatia would happen if the social media companies started to pick winners and losers in elections? it's not a small question, it could i invalidate our democracy instantly, will investigate bat coming up on this special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" ." wors, including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. it helps block six key inflammatory substances. most pills block one. flonase sensimist. (male speaker) we know about that trail that never ends. we know the great outdoors. we love the great outdoors. bass pro s