This has been a really helpful hearing. I appreciated each of your comments and insights.

It is very important that we maintain fair, free, open, and even fierce competition in this as in every other space.

It is very important that we maintain fair, free, open, and even fierce competition in this as in every other space.

This has been a really helpful hearing. I appreciated each of your comments and insights.

This has been a really helpful hearing... it is very important that we maintain fair, free, open, and even fierce competition.

I would like to get Mr. Groetzinger's response to that and also ask Mr. Groetzinger to just talk about how competition with Ticketmaster has impacted innovation in the ticketing space.

Well, there are other issues, of course. And that may be his view, but he is not--I do not think he is necessarily considering the consumer welfare standard or the Sherman Act or the Clayton Act when making that statement.

Is it accurate to say that at a minimum, that Live Nation at a minimum was a motivated and capable potentially, if not likely, competitor?

I am really looking forward to my ongoing service on the Antitrust Subcommittee, along with Senator Klobuchar as Chair.

Now the consent decree includes a divestiture and also prohibitions on tying--on tying the ticketing services and the concert promotion.

If I purchase a ticket on Ticketmaster, is that my ticket? And if it is my ticket, is that not my property to use or dispose of or transfer as I deem fit?

I think it is a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

But why should artists be able to tell their fans what to do with a ticket purchased from the venue?

Politicians raise funds. And this is what we do.

He's, if you will, the kiss of death for somebody who wants to win a general election. And at some point, we've got to move on.

He’s, if you will, the kiss of death for someone who wants to win a general election.

It has been clear that there's no bottom to the degree to which President Trump will degrade himself and the nation.

I'm asking him right here again tonight right now. Mitt, if you'd like to protect the Republican majority, give us any chance of seizing the Republican majority once again, getting it away from the Democrats who are facilitating this…