In u. S. History is on the books. One big winner was dish network and. Here is the controversy. This is a big business with 14 billion in sales. They used loopholes to get a Small Business price break in the auction. They claimed 3 billion in discounts. The fcc director is livid. The results were amazing. They showed once again that Consumers Want and need better wireless connectivity. I think its too early to say what to make of the winning bidders. They have a lot of spectrum. When you look at their use of this loophole to qualify as a Small Business, partnering with some entities, you have seen this coming . I dont think anybody could see it coming to this extent. That is part of whats creating such outrage. Its a front to wireless entrepreneurs for whom these discounts were intended to go. Claiming 3 billion worth of discounts makes a mockery of the program. What was the purpose . What was it intended to do . Congress directed the fcc to set up a program to help small entrepreneurs
Welcome to countdown. Anna coming up this morning another bloomberg exclusive, we will go live to paris and speak to the ceo of j. Crew as they open their first boutique in the country. Mark and cather Qatar Airways chief executive talks about his rival delta. Lets get to one of our top stories, Chinas National Peoples Congress continues today. As was widely expected the premier set out an Economic Growth plan of 7 . Rosalynn joins us from beijing with more. What do you know about this figure . Rosalynn it indicates theyre trying to project a slowdown and are encouraging innovation which includes the quality of growth. Here in china. He has said in the past that he will tolerate a lower level of growth as long as enough jobs were created. If you look at last year, the growth hits 7. 4 and there were 13 million jobs created interurban areas in urban areas. Way more than the target. A 7 figure is manageable because there will still be growth in the job market. This number does reflect th
Happens. I wish i were. But i wont be around when it happens. Do i see any hope . Yes. And i list that. I will just give awe few examples that have give you a few examples that caught the attention of the press. If you live in saudi arabia, you grow up saudi arabia you must have heard of this man kashkari who starts to tweet of his doubts of the prophet. Because of his technology he is able to share not only with saudis but anyone who can read and write and has access to the internet in the islamic word what his doubts are. That is new, revolutionary. The internet is one, the internet is to islam, what the Printing Press was to the christian reformation. Number two, there is an urban elite that has you know, if youre a in tunisia today, and your source of income was because of tourism museums, the beaches, everything, you have a vested interest in immediate and dire to keep up the tourist industry. All across what you see in the middle east is an urban elite that is muslim, may be piou
Bothersome debate. And maybe its a symptom of why so Many Americans are kind of put off by the war. Why do you argue about stuff like that . But lets look at those names in a different way. Each of those names represents a perfectly valid perspective on the war. And each is a potential gateway for americans to engage in this story. This worldchanging story. The problem is and for reasons that seem mysterious to many, people who are not inclined toward history the problem is we continue to throw barriers large and subtle in the way of those intellectual gateways into this history. We view the labels, these names as not able to stand side by side but mutually exclusive. If the war is a war of northern aggression, it cant also be a war for emancipation. But, in fact it was. It was all those things. And thats okay. So like our fellow americans our history always challenges us to be better. We draw strength and inspiration from those who risked and gave all for our communitys protection, ou
They give you less time. I remained silent. I wouldnt address the court. And people said to me, why dont you do that . And maybe i was polly annaish about this but i felt it was a matter of principle. I felt i was in a kangaroo court. I felt my Constitutional Rights had been violated, and i wasnt going to participate. And as a result, i turned down a deal, by the way, i could have had a deal on one count probably would have done 18 months. The doj was going to insist on prison time, but the deal i turned down was 1 count, 18 months. It was a 10,000. My restitution would have been 10,000. I would have been fined 1 million. Instead, i said, no, they indicted me on 43 counts, faced 430 the government asked for 430 years in prison. I ultimately got only 72 months. I had to forfeit 62 million and fined 19 million on top of it. And then, of course, there is a story for another time, how enjoyable it is to be in federal prison 4 1 2 years when the feds are watching you. Because there are spec