Ben Cesario

Does Live Nation get it, or does somebody else have the opportunity to get that now?

But for the last 16 years, we've been sort of living in the Live Nation regime where they set the rules and they have all the power and prices have gone up, fees have gone up.

Buying a ticket has come with a lot of hassle that really bothers music fans.

I think now there is a chance for that to change.

that if there's more competition in this business, if Live Nation isn't the only power in town and somebody else really can compete against them, there is the possibility that that could change.

Well, I think there still are a lot of questions.

Why did they settle?

How did that happen?

I think the states looked like they carried forward a winning case after the federal government bailed on them.

There's already a lot of questions in Congress.

Six Democratic senators sent a letter to the judge asking for him to scrutinize this.

There is a legal process that happens when there's an antitrust settlement that allows the judge to

to review the settlement to make sure that it's in the public interest.

It goes back to a law passed after Watergate.

And that will be happening in this case.

One of the biggest questions here is what happened that led to that settlement?

The lobbying that we were talking about that happened at the highest levels of the Trump Justice Department and may have even included the White House.

Who was involved?

Who was influenced?

And was the settlement made in the public interest?