Really hasnt, and we think consumers would have lower prices and more choices if we got vigorous competition into that space. Host george ford. Guest well, the fccs nprm asked the question whether the settop box is competitive, the first question x. Actually the first question is, is there a market for settop boxes, and in terms of whats delivered over the Cable Network, no, because the settop box is actually a component of the network. Thats the most efficient way to design and deliver Cable Television service, so its the cheapest way to do it, the most efficient way to do it, is so no market has developed. The companies would prefer a market if it was more efficient to do it that way. Host lets bring in lydia beyoud as well, she is with bloomberg bna where she coffers telecommunications. Thank you. So to follow up on both of your questions, chairman wheeler in introducing this proposed rule said he want withs to open up wants to open up whats been a closed market and make it more lik
Meeting of the longterm budget for not able to all of what theres a lot of pieces we can work on and hopefully we can break it into areas of interest for members on the hill to work on and i would say key is bipartisan. Each piece has to be addressed by the republicans and democrats together. I think the maya is right on target. Our history, we have never had a Budget Commission that has exceeded. That tradeoffs are too broad. Weve had pieces, however. As closer commission is probably everyones best example. Members of Congress Want to be bailed out. They wanted to have someone else make those painful decisions. We dont have that with most budget issues. One of the other examples of the property and plant and equipment for federal agencies, a proposal to the commission if it doesnt already exist to close Certain Agency field offices and properties. Thats an example of for our Something Like that might work but i think we tend to resort to much to this notion of a process fix that a con
But theyre out of patience. And we couldnt contain that. And as you know, they went to the u. N. And i spent three weeks over Christmas Holiday working to keep people that we would like to be working with constructively from doing something negative. And in the end, by a vote where they didnt get the nine votes at the u. N. , so now we never had to exercise a veto. But theres a great deal of frustration build and this is not the moment to go into it in any depths. You know, were very anxious not to get dragged into the election process. Were not going to. Israel has the this important election coming up and they need to do it without us commenting from the sidelines. Im not going to go further on this. I just say to you we wish the palestinians had behaved differently. And thats why theyre not getting aid right now. And therefore maybe some other people we think others are going to step up and try to help bridge the gap in order to get them over the hurdle. But when the israeli electio
Here. None of his topics are facebook or twitter. He says social media stocks are out of control and should be out of your portfolio. Also get a read on the economy ahead of fridays key jobs report and thats with bob nardelli. Hes a little worried and hes here exclusively to tell us why. And United Airlines launching a crackdown on carryon luggage. Well have a special report ahead. And in the markets right now as mentioned, the dow is off 40 points. The s p 500 is now slightly negative 1,872 as we head to the final hour. Joining us in our closing bell exchange, its susanc fulton, nathan bachrach, steve fitzgerald, david kudlow, our own Steve Liesman and Rick Santelli. Steve, ill begin with you. What did the beige book tell us that seemed to confirm what everyone has been talking about, that one word thats dominated for the last two months, weather. I feel like i got hit with another storm. It got down to minus ten. The beige book mentions the word weather 119 times according to the wo
Connell i am connell mcshane. Find out if the Republican Party can find a message that resonates with the american people. Dagen stocks undervalued by 40 . Here to make his case. Connell did you watch oprah interview with Lance Armstrong . Did he make his case or hurt his cause . We will get reaction. Dagen and intimate the state income tax. One governor laid out his case, and wayne rogers likes the idea. Top of the hour, Nicole Petallides is covering it for you o on the floor of the new yk stock exchange. Nicole the market is likely to the downside. The trend has been the major market averages are not too far off the unchanged line. See the dog over the unchanged line 50 times in one day is not unusual to see that, however the trend had been to the upside looking like nine trading weeks we have seen the s p 500 now hovering around the five year highs. Dow jones industrials as well and the nasdaq composite as well. Intel weighing on the major averages, you can see down 6. 25 . If you t