In this edition of 'The Countdown,' we dive deeper into the ticket fiasco that prompted lawmakers to grill the head of Live Nation on Tuesday.
Joe Berchtold, the president and CFO of Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation Entertainment, testified before a Senate committee, two months after the Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco reignited public scrutiny of the industry.
Unable to resolve the problems, Ticketmaster subsequently canceled Swift's concert ticket sales to the general public, citing "extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand." CNN's Mike Valerio joined 'The Countdown' to discuss the issue and what it will all mean in both the short and the long term.Another community is struggling with the aftermath of a mass shooting in California. It marks the third case in three days. First, it was Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed. The second was in Half Moon Bay, where a gunman fatally shot seven people at two separate farms in what police are calling a case of workplace violence.
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