Gates is shameless - that clip of him 'what do you mean by 'concerned'' - it was pure stalling.

I do recall he made a comment that prior to 1990 something, he had never been to DC. Methinks the threat to break up Microsoft triggered his autistic need to control and perhaps that is when he made a deal with the DS and seemingly worked himself up to the upper tier of it. Again, he needs to control everything and his need to make money is sociopathic.