"We're not here to scrutinize the NFL's business practices. We're here to affirm that if they want to take advantage of an antitrust exemption granted to them by this body, that there are certain public interest obligations that went along with that."
"All of these people running for president are asking for the job that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama had."
The event with Ramaswamy comes weeks after Smerconish hosted a similar event with 2024 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The SiriusXM host has said he wants to host as many potential candidates as possible.
"We're not here to scrutinize the NFL's business practices. We're here to affirm that if they want to take advantage of an antitrust exemption granted to them by this body, that there are certain public interest obligations that went along with that."
"This panel, led by Congressman [Scott] Fitzgerald, who's right there in Wisconsin, has witnesses solely on one side of the issue. There is no effort. We've offered many witnesses, and there's no effort to have a balanced group."