Representative blackburn is here and is our guest on the communicators congresswomen what is your reaction to fcc vote on a Net Neutrality . A positive step in the right direction. I am very pleased they took the action as the chairman of the fcc will do a wonderful job, he is focused on closing the Digital Divide and the expansion of pod bay and to make certain the internet is an open source and will not be under permit control that is a good thing. Host a step in the right direction . What else . To make it will be up to congress to change the legislative action following what the sec does and what chairman pai did was the right step to take. I like seeing that. Host water some of the items you are working on in the committee right now . There are two we authorizations we are working through the fcc that agency has not been reauthorize since 92. So we are making certain with Spectrum Management and media ownership. Were also working on our nations emergency communication template. It
The bill from house floor, and treasury secretary said he thought the Health Care Replacement bill would be approved. This is 50 minutes. [applause] mike thank you so much for being here. You were saying you were born and raised in new york. Sec. Mnuchin i was. Mike in my home country, los angeles. This is your first time in washington. Sec. Mnuchin i am enjoying it. Mike what do you like about d. C. . Sec. Mnuchin it is a very livable city. That is what i think. Mike the art galleries, the restaurants. Not quite as spread out as los angeles and as hectic as new york. Mike how people hear different . Sec. Mnuchin i am hanging out with all the politicians. I do not know if there is anybody other than that here in bc d. C. Secretary, you are just back from london and berlin. What did you learn from your world counterparts . Sec. Mnuchin it was a great experience for me, my first foreign trip as secretary. I felt it was important to start in london and meet with my counterparts there. I s
Resolution 34 which disapproves of the rules of the federal Communications Commission relating to privacy of customer of broadband and other telecommunication services. I applaud senator flakes work on this issue as it was passed by the senate last week. I filed a companion resolution in the house. The f. C. C. Finalized its broadband privacy rules on october 27, 2016. They assured us the rules would provide broadband customers greater choice, Greater Transparency and Stronger Security protections for their personal information collected by Internet Service providers, but the reality is much different. There are three specific problems with which the f. C. C. Has gone about these rules. First, the f. C. C. Unilaterally swiped jurisdictions from the federal trade jurisdiction. The f. T. C. Has served as our nations sole Online Privacy regulator for over 20 years. Second, having two privacy cops on the beat will create confusion with the internet echo system and will end up harming consu
Bye, bye Miss American pie this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley weve known for some time that the russians meddled in the u. S. President ial election, but today, we got a chilling account of one of the tactics used. The ranking democrat on the Senate Intelligence commit said russia paid more than 1,000 hackers to create fake, anticlinton news. The Top Republican and democrat on the senate panel spoke at a News Conference today, and their unity was in sharp contrast to the feuding in the parallel investigation in the house. Heres jeff pegues. This investigation scope will go wherever the intelligence leads it. Reporter republican chairman richard burr said the Senate Committee is reviewing thousands of documents. Both senator bur, and the top democrat on the committee, mark warner, made a public show of unity. An outside foreign adversary effectively sought to hijack our most critical democratic process, the election of a president. And in that process, decided to fav
Tragedy in texas. At least 12 people have been killed today in a crash in the tex texas hill country. A church bus carrying Senior Citizens home from a retreat collided head on with a pickup truck on route 83, thats a twolane highway. Again, 12 confirmed dead. Parts of texas and oklahoma were pounded last night by tornados. 100mileperhour wind and hail. Near oklahoma city, a truck was blown off the road, and the driver was killed. And near lubbock, texas, three Storm Chasers were killed when a vehicle ran a stop sign. There is growing concern tonight that the u. S. Military may be responsible for the deaths of many dozens of civilians in the tough, urban combat in mosul, iraq. Iraqs military, backed by u. S. Airstrikes and special Operations Forces is liberating the city of 1 million from isis. Since last fall, nearly 800 iraqi troops have been killed. 4600 wounded. David martin has been hooking in looking into the civilian deaths. Reporter american officers have now inspected the coll