welcome back. have some headlines for you. the fcc is considering allowing you to talk on your cell phone while in your in a plane. the rule is going to apply only above 10,000 feet, not during takeoff or landing. and if proofed, individual airlines could decide whether or not to allow those cell phone conversations to proceed. senate republicans say their democratic colleagues will ryu the day when they saw the change for the filibuster. they pushed through the rule allowing a simple majority to overcome the filibuster on some presidential appointments. sipcally, it required 60 votes. not anymore. got a update on the shocking
will institute the changes on their own timeline. most importantly, you will not be forced to listen to your seat mate s conversation about a bad date or anything else. cell phone conversations will still be forbidden will in flight. testing has not removed every doubt that cell phone use has at least the potential to interfere with flight controls under some circumstances. the committee found that in some instances of low visibility about 1% of all flights, some landing systems may not be proven to tolerate the interference. reporter: and that may be just as well because phones cannot get reception at altitude, and batteries drain faster as your phone seeks a tower that it can t find. so here s what you can do, though, you can use those e-readers, gaming devices, downloaded movies, but devices must be used in airplane mode or with the cellular connection disabled. you may still use the wi-fi connection if the plane has a wi-fi system and the airline allows its use. ing use wireles
being spied on, that many so cell phone conversations were being listened to? , of course, it s possible. the president is a very busy guy who doesn t normally worry about intelligence collection details. that said, certainly a lot of staff at the national security council i think had to be aware. i think part of the challenge here is we re hearing part of the debate. reality is, there s a great deal of espionage in europe. only a small portion is conducted by the united states. the members of the europeanian union spend a lot more effort spying on each other than nsa does on any of them. who s the client? where it s one dimensional. this is a specific question regarding merkel and other foreign leaders. had who is this intelligence intended for if the commander in chief is kept in the dark about tapping the cell phones of foreign allies? well, certainly all intelligence goes to feed decision making in every country. your top military civilian
it doesn t matter. you think you have your privacy, particularly on a train with 100 people. what are you doing? yeah, you might want to remember the 47% rule the next time you re that annoyi ining guy in train. you would think the former head of the nsa would be more hip, too, on secure cell phone conversations, let alone interviews. yeah, you would think so. that s what s confusing. i guess michael is on the older side and maybe not would you assume someone would be live tweeting your conversation on the train? probably not. maybe you should. maybe you should, yeah. if he doesn t appreciate the internet is not a series of tubes at this point, we all have bigger troubles. jamel, i want to move on to another twitter story, the twitter block. the atlanta journal-constitution tweeted out after a georgia man won $1 million lottery, this. $1 million georgia lottery winner willie lynch can get 40 acres and a whole lot of mules. what the hell, man?
act. what about others spying on us? that s happening as well. they just don t have the edward snowdens there that are publicizing it, right? well, i just think the massiveness of this is what is so appalling. yes, we recognize some of this is going on. but where is the due process? where s the judiciary looking over the shoulder of law enforcement that wants to conduct this spying? this is the system of government we have. this is the constitution. but when you have a three-judge panel that grants authority to the nsa to monitor 113 million verizon users, when you re talking about the fact that the nsa under this broad authority is looking at 125 billion phone call conversations, cell phone