And Commerce Committee are going to determine americas leadership in the world. My goal is to make sure that we are leaving on energy and climate and healthcare and technology 5g, Driverless Cars 14 forcing the digital abide major americas leading and the rest of the world is following our leadership. At the Top Republican on the Consumer Protection committee some of the issues is privacy. Yes. Where is your marker . What do you want to have done . The racket is very Important Congress act and that we set a National Standard for privacy in the United States of america. Right now what is happening is we are starting to see a patchwork of laws across the country and california has led with c cpa that what was going into effect right now and other states are introducing their own laws. Washington state, my home state, has introduced legislation and there is nearly 80 separate bills being introduced at the state level that are addressing privacy because congress isnt acting. We need to pas
You are watching tv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, welcome to covered books. Its my honor to introduce to you jim jenkins who was an editor, editorial writer and columnist on the editorial page 431 years. He will introduce our special guest, help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] in 1973, i saw him first across a loud profane my filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. Right out of school, i was still in school. I looked across and set to someone, whos that . Thats david. Hes going to be the new star here. He had long dark hair over his shoulders, thick jet black mustache. As a long time ago. [laughter] david is a grad of the Journalism School and a member now of the journalist of hall of fame. In raleigh, he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the staff saying each order, submit to the editor every morning and itinerary for his plans for the
Housing data rebounded with Building Permits at their highest levels in 12 years we are set once again for record time close on the nasdaq anything positive, of course, is a record the s p has just dipped negative the dow has been negative for most of the afternoon. Joining us for the full first hour of the show, steve weiss from short Hill Capital Partners steve, very good to see you. How you doing . Good to see you what stands out as to whether or not were going to issee a meaningful move higher or lower . Its all about trade. Home depots announcement aside, which wasnt terrible wasnt terrible or was terrible was not terrible. And the stocks appropriately are saying, theres lots of people buying it into the earnings. And home depot, lets face it, theyve delivered remarkably over the last decade, particularly since new management came in but i dont think its really a referendum this report on the health of the consumer, which is what the market is based upon. And appropriately, were b
Good monday morning, welcome to squawk alley, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. We will start with uber. They lose their license to operate in london. Regulators citing a pattern of failures from uber that place passenger safety and security at risk cnbc contributor kara swisher joins us to talk about this. How are you doing. Not too bad we will see how the appeals process goes, the big question is whether other cities follow suit. Its a troublesome thing. Uber has been struggling for a long time in these cities and actually the first thing that the new ceo who came in after Travis Kalanick did was go to londer to assuage the critics there. It was one of his First International trips and it was very soon into his becoming ceo. So its really problematic if they dont get these cities straight, especially london which i think is its biggest revenue generator after the United States. The thing is it comes after a couple of really big stumbles including daras unfortunat
Thanks are being with us for the first time ever. Guest my pleasure. Host i want to start and ask you, what exactly is the ftcs responsibility when it comes to telecommunications . Guest the federal trade commission has no jurisdiction over common carriers, although it can investigate and challenge conduct that the pilots is the antitrust laws or the Consumer Protection laws if it is a noncommentary activity thats undertaken by common carriers. The Net Neutrality debate took away jurisdiction from the federal trade commission for broadband isps when the isps were categorized under title ii as common carriers, and with the rolling back of the Net Neutrality regulations we do now i can have jurisdiction over broadband isps. Host define a common carrier. Guest im sure theres a very technical definition but it is an entity that falls within title ii of the ftc jurisdiction. Host with that be a landline phone company . Guest yes. Host when it comes to the Net Neutrality provisions or lack t