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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the

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Speaker 2: stories we're following today.

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Speaker 3: First, the US is on track for a government shut

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Speaker 3: down in just four days October. First, that's despite some

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Speaker 3: progress after talks that carried into the early morning hours.

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg Zamy Morris has the very latest from Washington.

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Speaker 4: Senate leaders introduced their own bill to averta shutdown, and

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Speaker 4: in the House, Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched a debate on

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Speaker 4: a series of full year spending bills. But in the Senate,

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Speaker 4: Republican Rand Paul is threatening to slow it down because

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Speaker 4: it includes aid for Ukraine. It's likely dead on arrival

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Speaker 4: in the House anyway, where conservative hardliners say they'll try

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Speaker 4: to oust Speaker McCarthy if he allows that bill to

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Speaker 4: come to a vote. However, moderate House Republicans are preparing

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Speaker 4: to join Democrats to force a vote on the bipartisan

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Speaker 4: Senate bill even without McCarthy's approval. In Washington, I'm Amy Morris,

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Speaker 4: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: Erniemy, thank you. Another major political story we're following this

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Speaker 2: morning involves more legal trouble for former President Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: and we get the latest with Bloomberg's John Tucker in

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Speaker 2: New York, John good Morning and Karen of Manhattan.

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Speaker 5: Judge ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years running

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Speaker 5: his business venture. It's a major blow to the former

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Speaker 5: president in the biggest civil case against him. Let's schedule

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Speaker 5: to go to trial next week. The judge ordered some

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Speaker 5: of the former president's companies removed from Trump's control and dissolved.

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Speaker 5: He ruled that Trump and his associates massively overvalued his

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Speaker 5: The trial will now only determine just how much punitive

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Speaker 5: damage Trump will have to pay. The New York Attorney

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Speaker 5: General Letitia James, is asking for at least a quarter

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Speaker 5: billion dollars in damages. Trump's attorneys say they will appeal

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Speaker 5: in New York. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Okay, John, thanks now.

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Speaker 3: Former President Trump is not going to be participating in

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Speaker 3: Tonight's second Republican presidential debate. Seven other candidates will be there.

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Speaker 3: It's being held at the Reagan Presidential Library in Semi Valley, California.

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Speaker 2: Well The candidate to get ready to debate, Nathan the

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Speaker 2: United Auto Workers will be back out on picket lines

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Speaker 2: for day thirteen of their strike. President Biden joined them

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Speaker 2: outside a GM plant near Detroit and urged them to

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Speaker 2: stick with it.

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Speaker 6: You guys, uaw, you saved the autobile ministry back of

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Speaker 6: two how four, made a lot of sacrifices, gave them

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Speaker 7: And the companies were in trouble.

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Speaker 2: If now they're doing incredibly well, and guess what you

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Speaker 2: should be doing incredibly well too. The President took up

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Speaker 2: a bullhorn and said the union should be able to

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Speaker 2: bargain for forty percent pay hike. Ex Acting Labor Secretary

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Speaker 2: Julie Sue and Senior Whitehouse Advisor Jeans Spurling are staying

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Speaker 2: in Michigan to aid the negotiating process. Well.

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Karen, another labor dispute is officially over. Hollywood screenwriters

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Speaker 3: are headed back to work. Bloomberg Zed Baxter has that

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Speaker 3: story from California.

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Speaker 8: After almost five months, the governing boards on both coats

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Speaker 8: have approved the deal. They've provided copies to members and

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Speaker 8: they will vote, but the leaders have authorized to get

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Speaker 8: them back on the job. Writers get a five percent

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Speaker 8: increase in the first year. Studios will share viewer data

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Speaker 8: for programs streaming with a potential of bonus payments, a

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Speaker 8: minimum number of writers working a program, among other things.

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Speaker 8: Now it's work on the AFTERSAG deal in California. I'm

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Speaker 8: at Baxter Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, and thanks. We turn to the markets. Now

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Speaker 2: we're watching shares of Amazon. They are up a quarter

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Speaker 2: drop after the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon in a

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Speaker 2: long anticipated anti trust case. FTC chair Lena Khan told

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg the e commerce giant is using a range of

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Speaker 2: tactics to hurt sellers and consumers.

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Speaker 6: Ultimately, Amazon has pursued them to deprive actual and potential

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Speaker 6: competitors of the ability to gain the scale and momentum

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Speaker 6: needed to effectively compete online, and having achieved and protected

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Speaker 6: its monopoly power, our complaint details how Amazon is now

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Speaker 6: exploiting that monopoly power in ways that arm customers.

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Speaker 2: Con stopped short of calling for Amazon to be broken up,

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Speaker 2: but added if the regulator wins the suit, it would

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Speaker 2: seek to restore competition in the market. Amazon says it

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Speaker 2: will defend itself against the claims. For the full conversation

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Speaker 2: with the FDC chair head to the Bloomberg Talks podcast feed.

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Speaker 2: Download it wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 3: Another legal newscaren consulting firm, McKenzie's, agreed to pay two

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Speaker 3: undred and thirty million dollars in its latest settlement of

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Speaker 3: The posed accord with local governments and school districts would

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Speaker 3: resolve allegations that McKenzie helped fuel the country's opioid epidemic

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Speaker 3: highly addictive painkillers, including Purdue Pharma and Johnson and Johnson.

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Speaker 2: Well In Asia, Nathan China has placed the billionaire chairman

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Speaker 2: of Evergrand under effective house arrest, and Bloomberg's Brian Curtis

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Speaker 9: Sources say Way kai Yan was taken away by police

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Speaker 9: also doesn't mean that Howay will eventually be charged with

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Speaker 9: the location, meet or communicate with others. Without approval. It's

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Speaker 9: another sign that Evergrand has entered the criminal justice system.

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Speaker 9: Other former executives have reportedly also been detained in On Kong.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Nathan, thanks in time now for a look at

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Speaker 2: some of the other stories making news around the world.

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Speaker 2: For that, we're joined by Bloomberg Tamy Morris Aamy Good morning.

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Speaker 8: Good morning, Karen.

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Speaker 4: Looters have ransacked a series of stores in the Center

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Speaker 4: City section of Philadelphia. This is a lot of looting.

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Speaker 4: Mass looting began shortly after a peaceful protest concluded near

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Speaker 4: City Hall yesterday. First Deputy Commissioner Field Operations, John M.

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Speaker 2: At this point in time, we know somewhere around fifteen

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Speaker 10: At least two firearms have been recovered.

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Speaker 5: This investigation is online.

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Speaker 4: Demonstrators had gathered at City Hall earlier yesterday evening. They

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Speaker 4: Now police say protests were peaceful and had nothing to

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Speaker 4: do with the looting that followed, the Mexican government has

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Speaker 4: They'll start taking into custody those that are expelled at

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Speaker 4: The stakes are expected to be higher for the second

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Speaker 4: Republican presidential debate tonight. University of Miami's George Gonzales says

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Speaker 4: there are seven candidates, including the front runner, former President

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump, who calls the debates stupid times.

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Speaker 10: Do they not need to share the stage with other candidates?

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Speaker 3: But it would potentially be detrimental to him his candidate

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Speaker 4: So Trump won't be be there. But the latest Real

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Speaker 10: Janner's an emotional night in Baltimore. Brooks Robinson was known

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Speaker 10: Saavan in Atlanta, Atlanta won seven to six. Will that

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Speaker 10: cost the Cubs a playoff spot? Arizona beat the White

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Speaker 7: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 3: Amazon is facing its most significant lawsuit in it's more

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Speaker 3: than thirty years in business, and it is a career

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Speaker 3: defining moment for Lena Kahn, the head of the Federal

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Speaker 3: Trade Commission. Stopped by Bloomberg's Washington DC Bureau just hours

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Speaker 3: after the case was filed. Speaking with Bloomberg's Peggy Collins,

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Speaker 3: Lina Cohn said, businesses that want to sell their goods

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Speaker 3: online are forced to pay Amazon's rates, including for advertising

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Speaker 3: and logistics services.

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Speaker 10: So listen in.

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Speaker 3: It's a part of that conversation now.

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Speaker 6: So, if this is a case about a set of

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Speaker 6: unlawful tactics that Amazon has used to maintain its monopolies,

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Speaker 6: we note in the complaint both a set of anti

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Speaker 6: discounting tactics that Amazon uses to punish any seller or

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Speaker 6: retailer that dares to discount, and ultimately these sets of

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Speaker 6: tactics deter sellers and retailers from lowering prices, is off

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Speaker 6: an entire dimension of price competition. The other set of

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Speaker 6: tactics we note is a coercive scheme that Amazon uses

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Speaker 6: to effectively require sellers use its fulfillment service, and this

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Speaker 1: And that's really the.

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Speaker 6: Core theme here. These are a set of tactics, but

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Speaker 6: its monopoly power. Our complaint details how Amazon is now

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Speaker 6: exploiting that monopoly power in ways that harm customers, both

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Speaker 6: the complaint. It details all of this conduct in great detail,

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Speaker 11: So one of the things in the complaint is this

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Speaker 11: which implies a breakup.

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Speaker 2: What would that look like.

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Speaker 6: So at this stage, the complaint is really focused on

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Speaker 6: we believe violates the US antitrust laws. What we note

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Speaker 6: to make sure that any remedy is halting the illegal conduct,

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Speaker 6: to profit and benefit from its illegal behavior. So right

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Speaker 11: Do you think the company should be doing?

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Speaker 2: Differently, so, the.

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Speaker 6: Complaint lays out a set of tactics that we believe

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Speaker 6: relief would require that the company halt those tactics, But

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Speaker 6: as I noted, effective relief also needs to be restoring

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Speaker 11: And when you think about the prospect for winning the case,

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Speaker 11: in fact win.

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Speaker 6: So this case is ultimately about competition and competition that

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Speaker 6: has been foregone because of Amazon's unlawful tactics, as the

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Speaker 6: paying higher prices right Consumers are paying more than they

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Speaker 6: otherwise would, small businesses are having to pay a fifty

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Speaker 6: percent Amazon tax right now. And so ultimately the complaint

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Speaker 6: is seeking to restore the lost promise of competition. Greater

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Speaker 6: competition will mean lower prices, better quality, better selection, and

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Speaker 6: greater innovation. And that's ultimately what this case is about.

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Speaker 11: So Amazon will say that it's providing a platform that

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Speaker 11: it comes to merchants on its platform, it's offering more

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Speaker 11: do you respond to that?

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Speaker 6: So the complaint really goes in some detail about the

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Speaker 6: increasing steadily and the way that that can be evidence

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Speaker 6: of direct evidence of monopoly power. Interestingly, at various points,

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Speaker 6: Amazon did experiment with giving sellers more leeway to use

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Speaker 6: threaten its monopoly power, I twitch that off. Even those

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Speaker 6: So you know, the complaint really goes through all of

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Speaker 6: this in great detail and lays out why we believe

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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