was surprised actually by how little the republican side went into the specific debates on antitrust around these companies and you did hear for example james sensenbrenner who is the ranking member of the antitrust subcommittee say that archived recording james sensenbrenneri think the laws goodcecilia kang actually right now the market should work itself outarchived recording james sensenbrennerand we dont need to throw it all in the wastebasketcecilia kangand that things are ok right now the laws do not need to changearchived recording james sensenbrennerlet me ask mr bezos you know say you are required to spin stuff off so you might have no more of a onestop shop how are the consumers helped by thatcecilia kangand said that this test the consumer welfare standard this test that whether prices go up and if there are fewer options for consumers that should remain the big test for even big tech and these tech companiesarchived recording jeff bezossir thank you they would not bearchived recording james sensenbrennerrightarchived recording jeff bezosvery clearmichael barbaroright he said the laws dont need to change archived recording james sensenbrenner of enforcement of those antitrust laws michael barbaro but that enforcement doescecilia kangindeed he said that enforcement is appropriate the laws just simply dont need to change and also we should be careful he said in his words he said being big archived recording james sensenbrennerbeing big is not inherently badcecilia kang doesnt inherently mean that youre badmichael barbarook so lets talk about the most memorable exchanges involving each company when the focus was on the more traditional aspects of antitrust and the evidence that had been dug up in the course of this investigation did they focus these lines of questioning on what you had predicted for example facebook you had said was going to be asked about its tendency to buy up competitors is that what happenedcecilia kangi definitely expected the issue of buying up competitors to come up what i did not expect is the level of specificity that was included in the line of questioningarchived recording david cicillineand thank you john i now recognize the distinguished chair of the full judiciary committee mr nadler from new yorkcecilia kangi was really surprised for example that jerry nadler archived recording jerry nadlermr zuckerberg i want to thank you for providing this information during our investigationcecilia kang brought up and read directly from emails from the top executives at facebook during the time when they wanted to purchase instagramarchived recording jerry nadlerhowever the documents you provided tell a very disturbing storycecilia kangand quoted from these emails the intent to for example neutralize competitors archived recording jerry nadleryou have written that facebook can likely always just buy any competitive startupscecilia kang and the concern articulated in these emails archived recording jerry nadlerwhen facebook contemplated acquiring instagram a competitive startup you told your cfo that the nascent instagram could be very disruptive to us and in the weeks leading up to the deal cecilia kang that instagram