Host senator mark pryor is joining us for the chair of the commerce subcommittee on Communications Technology and the internet. Senator pryor or full Committee Approved tom wheeler to be sec nominee. Senator cruise your colleague is talked about putting a hold on that nomination. Is there any word on that right now . Guest let me first say thank you for having me on. Its great to be on the show and let me say thank you to cspan for all the publicinterest broadcasting they do. Its great and i know you dont believe this but people people say i saw you on cspan so i want to thank cspan. Let me get back to the tom wheeler nomination. Basically there is a sentiment within the senate that we ought to compare this with the republican nominee. The republicans would like to have a republican to go alongside to the process. The problem is we have not at least officially and i hear rumors but officially we have not received a republican name of who they would like to nominate so i understand mayb
Weekend, but not before his weekend address. Time to finish the job by cutting the deficit 4 billion. You can make bigger cuts to education and job training and Social Security benefits. Senior citizens and working families to bear the burden of deficit reduction, while the wealthiest are asked to do nothing more. That wont work, we cant cut our way to prosperity. Republicans arent holding back, criticizing the president over the upcoming threat of sequestration, if nothing is done to avoid it, massive funding cuts to the federal government will be triggered march 1st. In his state of the union address, these cuts were a really bad idea. What the president failed to mention was that the sequester was his idea proposed by his administration, and the debt limit negotiations in 2011. And now we in the house on behalf of our constituents are calling on the president to join us in replacing the sequester with better, more responsible spending cuts. Meanwhile, a glimpse of the president s pe
Student Jaylen Fryberg shot five students in the back. One girl died. Police say fryberg killed himself. The gun was traced to his father. However at a News Conference a couple of hours ago, police would not confirm that or his relationship to the victims. Please understand that this continues to be an accident homicide investigation. Theres still a lot of work to do. We want to make sure that we do this right. We want to make sure that we have all the right answers. Thats what were going to do by taking our time, doing it thoroughly and providing information only after it is complete. Students say the shooting happened suddenly and seemingly without warning. Tom foremen explains how the quick and deadly events unfolde unfolded. At 10 39 am, as students gathered in the cafeteria from lunch, a young man rose from a table pushlgsed a small pistol from his pocket and began firing. I saw three kids fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead. I jumped under the table as f
Britain along with several other nationalities were all on board. We learned the pilot has more than 6,000 hours of flying time a short time ago. Ben scraw minute Hall Benjamin Hall said the pilots name was benjamin shakur. The last contact with the plane happened about 10 minutes before it disappeared from radar. We are flying at an altitude of 37,000 feet and there are conflicting reports as to whether or not the jet went down over the egyptian airspace. The latest information crossing the Associated Press wire saying it was in egyptian airspace at the time and it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. Lets now go to captain chuck nash who is standing by on the phone with us. Are you there . I am, good morning. Obviously a lot of developments right now as we speak on this story. Most recently questions involving this distress call that could have gone out. Explain to us about this automated stress call versus a distress call coming from the pilot. Whats the difference . The difference i