Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in every corner you can imagine, rural areas, small towns. Many of them are providing Competitive Services even against some of the largest providers today. And whats great about these smaller companies, its a terrific story because theyre providing broadband, highspeed broadband in rural areas that desperately need Broadband Service. So these are the members we represent. Theyre smaller, theyre independent which means that theyre not affiliated with larger content companies or larger providers, and w
And tom bradys chance to make his case. The star quarterback appealing his four game suspension in deflate gate and who is deciding his fate. Solar storms are natures light storms. So it now from space. It is all happening now. But we begin with an increasing u. S. Military presence in eastern europe. The pentagon sending weapons and to worried allies working about russia. American tanks and heavy artillery will be deployed to the six european nations including Baltic States bordering russia. It is it part of a training for our allies. It is an effective way of doing things and be clear our presence is persistent and agil. The move will underscore americas commitment to europe at a time when russian president the puttin is aggravating the situation in ukraine. Jennifer has all of the details. The defense secretary message was designed to calm the nerves of the nato baltic members. And send a message to putin. The u. S. Would put an armored brigade worth of weapons in six european natio
Those 21 egyptians but were confirmed to have been murdered. Up to now, we know the reaction when the pilot was killed that the reaction was to get involved in a much bigger way in the Coalition Airstrikes taking place in a syria region against isis. Has egypt been involved and any sign they might expand their participation with the coalition . Egypt has been part of the political or diplomatic coalition. Its not been involved in any operations against isis targets inside syria or iraq. Egypt has been deal inging with their campaign of terrorism where isis has set up shop saying they have a Group Affiliation there. Isis has expanded its footprint beyond iraq and syria. It has different affiliations across the region, but the two most potent are in egypt. So they have been batd ling within their own borders but now it is participating in the coalition strikes, if you will. Not in iraq and syria but bilaterally in libya next door. Thats more of an immediate concern. Security vacuum, a lo
Still going need to involve america. This enemy is extremism, and we do have to fight that through a variety of sources and forces. Im dorian moore in for alex wagner. The Egyptian Military says it carried out dawn bombing raids against isis targets in libya today. The air strikes came after egypts president vowed revenge after the release of a video of execution of egyptian christians. The egyptians have their own ample intelligence on isis camps. Egyptian leaders are drawing up evacuation plans for egyptian nationals in libya. Theyre being advised to leave in 48 hours for their own safety. France and egypt calling for a meeting of the u. N. Security council. Denmark is reeling after a murderous weekend after featuring eeriely familiar targets. We have audio this afternoon. A warning some of our viewers may find this audio disturbing. Why do we still say but when we [ gunshots ] a documentary filmmaker was killed in that attack. And later in the day, a Security Guard was killed the a
Velshi. Im stephanie ruhle. President trump sent very mixed signals this week on whether he would embrace new gun regulations. But Many American companies are taking their own initiatives, feeling an already contentious debate. Meanwhile markets reacted badly to another president ial pronouncement, one that could set off a contentious trade war. President trump told steel executives often thursdn thursd will impose new steel tariffs next week. People have no idea how badly our country has been treated by other countries. Theyve destroyed the Steel Industry. They destroyed the aluminum industry and other industries, frankly. It will be 25 for steel, it will be 10 for aluminum. And it will be for a long period of time. Now, the news of these impending tariffs set off a fire sale in the stock market, not just in steel and aluminum shares, across the board. The Dow Jones Industrials fell almost 600 points during trading on thursday. Its been swinging wildly back and forth since. Ostensibly