I call this hearing of the subcommittee on Competition Policy, antitrust and consumer rights on protecting Innovation And Consumer choice in home technologies to order. Good afternoon. Welcome to our witnesses. This hearing continues, senator and my and our committee members bipartisan review of americas monopoly problem. And i thank Senate Lee and his staff for Senator Lee and his staff for working with our staff to plan this hearing. The Competition Policy subcommittee has been examining the problems that arise when a handful of companies become powerful enough to distort competition in the marketplace. So far weve seen that excessive Market Power benefits the few companies able to wield it at the expense of consumers, businesses and workers. Our current antitrust laws have not been effective. As a result, we see competition problems in industry after industry across our economy. Today well examine an emerging industry that could fall prey to the same dynamic, connected Home Technolo
the latest developments. hello, cb. mike, good afternoon. the legal team is calling for upgraded charges and attorneys for penny say the mounting defense will exonerate their client. this insight shared last night by penny s attorney thomas kenneth during wabc radio show katz and cosby. and the attorneys say, quote, they were led to believe this case was head today a grand jury and caught off guard when d.a. decided to arrest him on manslaughter, a penalty up to 15 years in prison. he was released on a $100,000 bond. some legal crit exsay this process has been political. if they re not going to arrest him on the scene with a political complaint, and wait and there s a gap. they ll go to the grand jury and come back with indictment. they didn t here, which leads me to believe the decision to charge him on a complaint was something driven by politics and not by the best interest of the criminal system. he s saying his firm has retired n.y.p.d. detectives investigating and
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And i think that s a miscarriage of justice. jacqui: there s a lot of political fallout around this case and speaking of the legal fees, you now have florida governor ron desantis fund raising for this marine. i want to bring up the tweet here. he says, we must defeat the soros-funded d.a. s. stop the left s pro criminal agenda and take back the streets for law abiding citizens. we stand with good samaritans like daniel penny and show him we ve got his back. and aoc s tweet as well. she says jordan neely was murdered because he was houseless and crying for food at the time they re stripping service toss militarize itself and many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected with passive headlines and no charges, it s disgusting. your take on just the gulf between these two sides. it s comical. look, this vee clearly is now a