Comedian Jon Stewart said Apple asked him not to interview Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on a podcast while he was hosting his Apple TV+ show “The Problem With Jon Stewart.”

His TV show ran for two seasons before ending abruptly in October.

“I gotta tell you, I wanted to have you on a podcast, and Apple asked us not to do it, to have you,” Stewart told Khan during an episode of “The Daily Show” Monday. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.’”

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon, claiming the online retail giant illegally maintains monopoly power.

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states have filed a high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that could force major changes to the popular Amazon Prime service — which would be bad news for its 167 million American members.

Tuesday’s move is hardly surprising.

After all, FTC Chair Lina Khan rose to prominence by calling for antitrust enforcement against Amazon when she was still a Yale University law student and has been a vocal critic of the company ever since.

Finally, it’s showtime. Ever since Joe Biden made the bold decision in 2021 to bring in Lina Khan, a 32-year-old law scholar at the time, to lead the Federal Trade Commission, it was known that Amazon.com Inc. would be in her sights. The antitrust case her agency filed on Tuesday, which targets the company’s top-to-bottom control of e-commerce, is the culmination of a yearslong investigation. Or, as Khan’s many critics would have it: a yearslong vendetta.