real antitrust problem in silicon valley. it is not a monopoly on products. it is a monopoly on ideas. it is not this classical product cartel that punishes the consumer by charging them a high price. it s an ideological cartel that punishes the defector. right now it s elon musk and that s what we re seeing on display. bill: he fired a bunch of these off yesterday. apple that s threatened to withhold twitter from its app store but won t tell us why. if that s true, that s a big deal. that s a very big deal that goes back to the antitrust cases in the 1990s of microsoft tying up browsers. apple and google play stores. a monopoly on ideas. i think it goes more deeply to our culture. what are our commitments to the free exchange of ideas? what are our cultural
democratic countries that value freedom and human dignity. this is an effort that would be ripe for this administration. they should be doing it. martha: that has been the clear message of these freedom fighters and activists here in the united states. they don t want that deal to ever to come together again. they see it as the antithesis of what the direction that the relationship needs to go in between the u.s. and iran. general jack keane, thank you. good to speak with you, sir. thank you. so the u.s. as we mentioned is still up 1-0 against iran. also, this story today. elon musk questioning whether apple is a hater of free speech after they cut back on their twitter ads. fbn s connell mcshane and tie russ weigh-in on this live from new york after this. both apple and the google play store did the exact same thing. i think that this exposes, bill, the real antitrust problem in
things. but, as kimberly said it s not traditional antitrust problem in that they are hurting consumers in terms of prices. products are mostly free. consumers are the products. they collect data on people and they sell that. that s how it works. so there is a big consensus that something should be done but no con sen sus about what that should be. bret: 10 seconds. are we going to see legislation outs of congress? i think we are going to see a number of proposals that end up getting debated within the context of 2020. i think that kim s point is very good. tech companies are getting it from both sides. this is a pencer action and in that scenario things can actually happen. bret: we will see if mark zuckerberg gets his call returned from speaker pelosi. thank you. when we come back a test. what woo do in this situation? a good deed fully recognized. biopharmaceutical researchers.
the antitrust division months before he won senate confirmation. he told bnn i don t see this as a major antitrust problem. two months after confirmed, the government filed suit, arguing content was so valuable they might threaten to charge higher subscription fees at&t pointing to political bias. i want to address the elephant in the room here. there s been a lot of reporting whether this is all about cnn. frankly, i don t know. but nobody should be surprised if the question keeps coming up. fake news, folks, fake news. the president s comments one day after the doj s suit. personally i always felt that was a deal not good for the country. richard leon ruled they could not force a hanover of
major antitrust problem. don t see this as a major antitrust problem. it s now his case. president trump that same month, october of 2016, says this is a deal we will not approve in my administration because it s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. how do you reconcile those two positions with where we are now? well, look, it s very difficult to reconcile it, unless you look at politics. and so, that becomes the issue. that this is not actually about antitrust, it s about the president s adversarial relationship with the media. and if that s the issue, then it undermines the antitrust claims. if we had president sanders or president warren, this would make sense from a policy perspective. right. but this is a deregulatory administration that suddenly is taking this on. and look at his tweet feeds, and i think that will undercut some of the case. it will be fascinating. we ll be talk being first amendment issues. no doubt. and all kinds of things in th