Amy Klobuchar
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Apple News Today
Biden’s controversial clemency choices
I think that this whole process cries out for reform because otherwise you undermine the justice system. And again, I emphasize, this also happened in a big way under President Trump. And you undermine the work of these line FBI agents, these line... Prosecutors who have taken on these cases followed the sentencing guidelines and made a decision. Might you want mercy 10 years later?
Apple News Today
Biden’s controversial clemency choices
Yes, you might. But let's at least look at these on a factual basis and a risk basis instead of just in the middle of the night a month before a president leaves.
Morning Wire
Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Just answer the question if he said that the FBI headquarters where they investigate cyber crime and terrorism should be shut down and open as a deep state, as a museum. Did he say that the headquarters should be shut down?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tulsi vs. the Establishment, Kash on Hot Seat, and RFK's Final Push, with Glenn Greenwald, Calley Means, and More | Ep. 996
He's asking to be head of the FBI, and he said that their headquarters should be shut down.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Tulsi vs. the Establishment, Kash on Hot Seat, and RFK's Final Push, with Glenn Greenwald, Calley Means, and More | Ep. 996
Mr. Chairman, I am quoting his own words from September of 2024. It is his own words. It is not some conspiracy. It is what Mr. Patel actually said himself. Facts matter.
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Because that is sophisticated price fixing. Price fixing illegal. I'm Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota.
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Well, first of all, it's always a good time to talk about algorithms. But the second reason is that when President Trump ran, he talked about bringing prices down on everything from groceries. And from what I see right now, you see chaos up, corruption up, and egg prices up. But from groceries to health care costs, to child care, and of course, to housing.
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What some of these major landlords are doing right now is they're giving all their data to the company that the competitors go to. Then that company goes through their data with algorithms and says, hey, why don't you both charge this rate? You would not ever under the law allow the two apartment owners to go and shake hands and say, let's both set our rents high. You would never let them do that.
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That's against the law. It's against the antitrust laws. But what do we have now? We have high price, sophisticated price fixing. They let these algorithms go unchecked. with all those brologarks that were at the inauguration and all their buddies, if that continues, this is not going to be good for you.
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So what this says is this is illegal, basically. And it's being sued out in court anyway. I think it is illegal, but we want to make it very clearly illegal that landlords cannot collude by putting all their data when they compete against each other in one company. And what the bill says is, yeah, you can use algorithms. We're not Luddites here.
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However, you can't give your data to the same place that has your competitors' data in the same market. It undermines all competition in the rental market. And that is the worst thing for consumers. It's great for landlords. It's horrible for renters.
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I'm laughing because I'm just I want you to picture back to the days of, you know, when the Senate, everyone rode horse and buggy there and or like they came in their trains once a month or something. OK, so that's when they did the antitrust laws. OK. In the late 18th, they didn't have algorithms.
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And one of the frustrations on all of the tech rules in place, despite these incredible companies and what they've done for us, is that a lot of our laws are just not as sophisticated as those marketplaces. So you should make adjustments, right? Ticket prices. Let's get this Ticketmaster bill done. That was bipartisan. And also Senator Lee and I had a major hearing on Ticketmaster.
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And that led, I believe, that evidence that we extracted from that hearing led in part to a major Justice Department case started during the Biden administration, can easily be finished in the Trump administration. And that's, you know, they've hired a pretty good person that they're putting in charge of antitrust. That's not true of a lot of the people they've hired.
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But on this front, this is a good person who understands these laws. I'm glad you brought up your prior work on this issue. You're basically Senator Antitrust out there. I wrote a book on it. I was on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 days.
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It's not just passing bills, Sean. We can do that, but it's also, is the law being enforced? Are they actually bringing actions? Are they getting results that matter? In the cases of this, the case going on with RealPage or Ticketmaster or the tech companies, so much of it is in the details of what they agree to.
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They could actually get them to agree, the tech companies, to a bunch of things they already agreed to in other countries to protect consumers.
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And in the same car as both presidents. I'm the only person that I know of in history that rode with both President Biden and President Trump from the White House to the Capitol.
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Well, at some point during the day, I mean, it was a little hard to avoid not mentioning tech with all those guys there. And, you know, I believe and I'm not going to talk about what I talked about, but I believe that they've got to make sure they hold these companies accountable. It doesn't mean you're going to get rid of these companies. Of course not.