Economic opportunity of jobs, of Educational Opportunities for our kids and these counted cuttingedge innovations we hear about cognitive cars to cities and the internet wont work or wont work well without 5g. A lot of things we have to do right and government to secure u. S. Leadership in 5g. One goes to your question which is spectrum. We have to put out a lot of new spectrum bands to enable all of these great new inventions to work on a 5g platform. See ban is one component of that which touches on what we called mid ban spectrum. The secure 5g leadership we need low ban, mid ban and a high ban. This announcement is a good win for the u. S. By pushing more mid ban spectrum out there into the marketplace. Host isnt that mid ban spectrum being used by Satellite Companies . Guest all the spectrum we had is being used by someone right now but the question is how do we make sure we put it to its highest and best use. The idea were putting forward at the fcc is a way to protect and preser
Is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host brendan carr is one of three republican commissioners on the federal communications commission. He is our guest this week on the communicators. David mccabe of the New York Times is our guest reporter. Commissioner carr, this week there was an announcement by the chairman of the fcc ajit pai about the cband and 5g. Could you walk us through in layman terms what the Commission Proposed and what may happen . Guest 5g and securing u. S. Leadership in 5g has been our top priority at the sec and my top focus. Why is that . 5g is going to usher in a new era of economic opportunity, jobs, of Educational Opportunity for our kids. All these cutting Edge Innovations we heard about today from connected cars to smart cities, internet of cities will not work or not work well without 5g. The a lot of things that you do right. One of the ghost to question which a spectrum. We have to put out a
Markets now. Connell it is good to be with you on markets now. We will get to steve forbes in just a minute. We begin with stocks now. The dow is up a little bit. Adam shapiro is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Adam good morning. The s p is still in negative territory. Apple is up over 2 . Just to give you some idea of who is winning and who is losing on the dow, cisco and ibm. Connell thank you very much, adam. The irs is still targeting tea party groups. Steve forbes says forget about it. Lets get rid of the irs altogether. Thank you for coming in. I think there is a growing consensus. I think we can get rid of it all. People realize it is beyond redemption. Given these scandals, why not just start all over. Start with a new culture, new tax code. Connell the flat tax. You have been talking about it for years. A lot of people support you. They think it is a great idea. It is very difficult in the current system, in washington. 30 countries around the world have done it.
Amnesty to millions of Illegal Immigrants. How many . We cant say because when you push on the numbers a little bit it turns out that nobody actually knows how many Illegal Immigrants live in this country. And when when we say it nobody knows, we mean nobody knows to within like 10 million. The estimate you here for almost everyone is 11 million. 11 million illegal aliens living in this country. That number comes from pew. It hasnt changed in a decade and that should be a tipoff because over the last decade illegal arrivals have continued and now states are actively sabotaging deportation efforts. The real figure it turns out is much, much higher. Ice director admitted that much last year. We know 11 million is not correct. So whats the real number . An unpublished paper by gale, three professors their estimates there could be 23 million Illegal Immigrants in the United States. Their lowend estimate is 17 million. Even back in 2005, the real number was probably 20 million or more. At t
We cant say, because when you push on the numbers a little bit it turns out that nobody actually knows how many Illegal Immigrants live in this country. And when we say nobody knows, we mean nobody knows to within like 10 million. The estimate you hear from almost everyone is 11 million. 11 million illegal aliens living in this country. That number comes from pew. It hasnt changed in a decade,in and that should be a tipoff, because over the last decade, illegal arrivals have continued and, now states are activelyan sabotaging deportation efforts. The real figure it turns out is much, much higher. I. C. E. Director thomas homan admitted that much last year. Ur so we know 11 million is not correct. So whats the real number . Ir well, an unpublished paper by yale, three professors there, estimates there could be 23 million Illegal Immigrants in the United States. Their lowend estimate is 17 million. Even back in 2005, analysts at bear stearns guessed the real number was probably 20 millio