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Josh Hawley: “In my state we have very robust price gouging laws.”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

You're Exploiting People' Hawley Unloads Over AI Surveillance Pricing, Labels It Price Gouging

Published August 9, 2026 | Video Starts at 00:40

I'm a lawyer, not an economist, so you have to walk me through it slowly. But just help me understand. In my state we have very robust price gouging laws. And I know that because it used to be my job to enforce them. I was the chief prosecutor, the Attorney General of the state of Missouri and we quite robustly enforce those anti price gouging laws. (00:40–00:44)

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Asserts that Missouri has strong laws against price gouging.

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“I was the chief prosecutor, the Attorney General of the state of Missouri and we quite robustly enforce those anti price gouging laws.”
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“We do that because we think it's wrong to exploit someone who's in a position of vulnerability.”
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“The problem with this surveillance pricing is, is that it seems to say, no, there's going to be a different rule for every single person.”
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“The corporations have all the information. We have none of it. The asymmetry is astounding.”
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“Isn't the goal of surveillance pricing always to maximize profit?”
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“Consumers have no protections [against corporations].”
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“The firm has all of the information. The corporation's got all of the power.”
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“I have no power to set the price.”
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“That's why we need to do something about this.”
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“There's now a class of putative JetBlue customers who are suing the company.”
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