I'm joined by Matt Stoller, Director of Resear at the American Economic Liberties Project, a non-profit that advocates for corporate accountability and enforcement of antitrust regulations. He's also the co-host of the podcast, Organized Money, and the author of the book, Goliath, The Hundred-Year War Between Monopoly, Power, and Democracy. Matt, welcome.Thank you for being with us. I have to say, I read a lot of your stuff, and sometimes I think you got your head in the clouds, and it's pie in the sky, and ...

Between religious insults, a threat to destroy a civilization, memes depicting Trump as Jesus in a fight with the Pope, you might have missed massive news of an historic clash between financial power and the public interest. And you might have missed the important fact that this week, the public interest won. A jury found Live Nation and its subsidiary, Ticketmaster, liable of violating three counts of federal and state antitrust laws, finding that the company operated as an illegal monopoly that locked out ...

Former President Obama and New York City Mayor Mamdani visited preschoolers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the Bronx, where they read to students and led a sing-along of “Wheels on the Bus.” The center is part of the city’s free preschool program for 3- and 4-year-olds. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. » Subscribe to MS NOW: https://www.youtube.com/@msnow » Subscribe to MS NOW’s We the People Newsletter for exclusive content from your favorite MS NOW anchors. Sign up now for fre ...

When we lie, our bodies get very weak. Stick your arm out. >> Yeah.>> And hold it up. Don't let me push it down. Okay.>> Then leave me push down. >> Yeah. >> Okay.Got that. Now, I want you to do that while lying. And the lie I'd like you to say is, "I love to vomit." >> I love to vomit.>> Say it. Holding your arm up. >> Yeah.>> Say it. >> I love to vomit. Why.That's so weird. >> Now, say, "I love fresh air." >> Um, I love fresh I love fresh air. I'm trying my very hard.Say it again. >> I love fresh air. >> ...

It is Sunday, April the 19th I'm Ali Velshi. It seemed unlikely just weeks ago, but the Democrats' odds of flipping the Senate this fall have increased. Democrats can retake control of the Senate with a net gain of four seats and the influential Cook political report just moved exactly four races toward the Democrats.Georgia, where the incumbent John Ossoff is running, is now leaning Democrat. North Carolina, where the former governor Roy Cooper is running, is now leaning Democrat. Ohio, where former three- ...

on March the second, the Kuwaiti American journalist Ahm Shihab al-Din shared a video of an American fighter jet crash near a U .S. base in Kuwait, a reported friendly fire incident in the ongoing U .S. war with Iran.This is the video. Shihab al-Din did not take it himself. All he did was repost it on social media.This video is real. It has been verified. It happened.Shihab Eldin was visiting Kuwait. He was visiting family there, but he's also a journalist in the middle of the biggest story in the world rig ...

When Kevin Warsh joined the Fed back in 2006, he was the youngest ever person to have that job. And now if he comes back to be the Fed chair, he may be the wealthiest person ever to have that job. I not only have a 12 years of experience in government and six at the Fed, I've got some knowledge of fed history.He's very smart, very good, strong, young, pretty young. He submitted a detailed list of his and his wife's financial holdings, ranging from stuff that's worth a couple hundred bucks or less to things ...

Uh, Mr. . Secretary, I want to ask you about the chronology here. So, we had the announcement from the Iranian foreign minister that the strait was open on Friday morning.Then a few hours later, we saw uh a great deal of confusion zone as the president uh indicated that blockade was going to stay in place. And that's kind of where I want to go with you. Is the role of that blockade going forward here, the importance of it as you see it. Uh, is it something that you see as being negotiable here.Do you think ...

We have a guest star. So We do. Playing along with us.And then Lowe's back. I think this is probably, like, the most dread and nervous I felt in my career. It was embarrassing.Know. Joe felt the same way, but it'll be fine. It'll be fine.Lisa, our quiz master will make you look good. Okay. Let me explain it to you, Joe, because you're you're new to this, Ed.Okay. So, basically, we have three different categories. Okay.K. So you have ten, ten, ten, thirty chips in front of you. Okay.Nice. What you do with th ...

A bombshell report in the Atlantic about the FBI Director Cash Patel is making the rounds in Washington this morning. Staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick wrote in an investigative piece that published last night, "Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy. He has good reason to think so, including some having to do with what witnesses described as bouts of excessive drinking." You might remember back i ...