This week on the communicators, a discussion of Economic Policy and federal communications commission. Our guest is halsinger, an economist and season fellow the George Washington University Institute of public policy. Dr. Singer in a recent paper you cao authored, the curious absence of Economic Analysis the federal communications commission, an agency in search of a mission is the title. You write that the fcc is often an economics free zone. What do you mean by that . Guest i mean that they are not taking economics into consideration when making policy decisions. They are instead relying on noneconomic evidence, the popular whims and fancies of the die reach decisions that have tremendous economic import. Host has it always been that way . Guest its not always been that we. We chart the ebb and flow of economic influence. This is not the first time that economics has been relegated to something well below the eighth floor. But we havent seen something in recent history quite like th
Circulation saying any leadership candidate who comm committed should withdraw and the fallout has thrown the party into turmoil with the government shut down looming with very real Serious Business that needs to be done. Cnns dana bash and mono join us now. I understand you saw mccarthy right before the meeting where the vote was supposed to take place and he made it seem like he was still in the race. Absolutely. This is after he and the two other candidates for speaker at the time had just given their closing arguments behind closed doors to the republican caucus. He walked by the camera and i asked how he was feeling. Take a look. Mr. Mccarthy, will you give a statement . How did it go . Very well. Very well. Youre going to get the votes at 12 . So the question was are you going to have the votes at 12 00, 12 00 was the meeting where everybody filed in. There was going to be a secret ballot and he thought he was going to get all he needed at the time, which was majority of the repu
Youve dominated, taken over the polls. You know, on television and fox they call it all trump all the time. Can you believe it . All trump all the time. And by the way, their ratings are through the roof. If they werent, they wouldnt put me on. Ill be honest. Its a simple formula in entertainment and television. If you get good ratings, if you get good ratings and these arent good, these are monster then youre going to be in all the time even if you have nothing to say. If you come up with a cure for a major, major, horrendous disease and if you dont get ratings, they dont bother even reporting it. Its very simple business. Its very simple. So weve gone on, weve had a lot of fun and now its time to really start because this is going to happen, im telling you, im not going anymore. Somebody said today. Were not going anywhere. [ cheers ] somebody said today youve done so well, you dont have to go any further. I said are you crazy . You know what . The writer the times told me, its been
Throughout history, the one meal when we come together, break bread, share our day and connect as a family. [ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. Just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh . Hey . I paused it. Bam, family time. So how is everyone . Find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. Good evening. We begin tonight with breaking news on the wildfires in the wine country and all across the state. At one point the fast moving flames were consuming the ekwif equivalent of a football field every three seconds. Cnns ryan young is on the fire. He joins us now. What have you been seeing around you on the ground . Reporter anderson, its just amazing. Whether you watch that video you get sort of an idea of what it was like. When you stand here it blows your mind. This was an entire neighborhood. In fact were standing right in front of a home. This garage is just whats left. We saw a file cabinet back there. Its the only thing we can make of the home. Its wei
joking excuse to get out of hot-water. the source telling jim, he spouted off about the iq test because he was mad, and the whole ike insult, it s one of the president s favorite go-tos. and went to the ivy league school, the warten school of finance. i know are i have an iq better than all of them. i know that. i guarantee you my iq much higher than there s. guvmer perry, he made nasty statements about me and i challenged his iq. let s do ike tests. some of the pundits, you know the guys believe me i m much smarter than them. i want to match my iq with some of those guys, all of them. he s joking, right? so randall, when the president