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coming up. we do have quite a rally with the dow in particular. the transports continue higher all the major averages are in record territory. we also have big calls on the airline sectors today and the banks as financials get set to report. we re heading into earnings season we ll have you up to date on those. let s start on the floor of the new york stock exchange, mr. robert pisani joining us with a recap of what s going on as we get ready for earnings, right? yeah, a lot at stake here, but six-day winning streak, just six days in a row since december 17th p nasdaq has the best six-day winning streak since the end of january 2016. we re starting earnings on friday, there are very high expectations that s my theme. a short-term risk. the markets. just on earnings, analysts are much more optimistic we hardly got any last quarter here we re expecting bigger beats, not by a penny or two pennies but more than that if you re disappointed you re going to get hit ....
guest: that allows the federal government to search the content not just the metadata, but the content of your e-mails and phone calls. this amendment was offered last summer by zoe lofgren and myself, passed the house. a virtual veto-proof majority and was stripped out. so we came back and said let s offer this amendment again on the freedom act since we know it s probably going to pass and it ll become law let s try and get some real reforms in there. unfortunately last night the rules committee decided to allow no amendments to the freedom act. host: what s a back door? guest: a back door is a loophole. so there are two types of loopholes in our security, our national security surveillance. the first type is where ostensibly they re going after foreign foreigners, okay? so they say since they re not covered by the constitution, we can collect the content of their e-mails and their phone calls. well, guess what? when they collect all that, their accidentally sco ....
gathering. reflecting back on the days of catv and forward to broadband era is to trace an amazing path from community antenna television to the expansion of television and now beyond. to broadband. you deserve congratulations for what you achieved as cable companies, as video companies and as network builders. you also deserve and alfred may comment about this you also deserve straight talk about what it means now that you are first and foremost broadband companies. you have pledged as an industry to assure that the internet remains open and free. and in that goal we are in violent agreement. we do differ however, on what that means. we part company according to your recently filed motion papers over the so-called internet conduct standard, the requirement that internet service providers not engage in conduct that impairs an open and free internet and goes beyond the obvious bright line rules of blocking tlot egg and prioritization. the internet conduct standard if you ....
also directionally correct. it is time to look forward, not backward. this is not the time to dwell on the reasons why the federal communications commission and department of justice reached the conclusion that this proposed transaction would not be in the public s interest. but it is important to understand the tipping point from cable to broadband came while this transaction was under review. we recognized that the skri had changed and we saw concrete evidence of the new competition and business models made possible by high speed internet access. try in other words, we recognized broadband had to be at the center of our analysis. and the video was in essence an application that flows over networks and that could be supplied both by the owners of facilities and by competitors that use broadband pathways to compete against the owners of those broadband pathways. this shift has implications far beyond this transaction for the industry at large. when i appeared before you ....
industry and this gathering. reflecting back on the days of catv, and forward to the broadband era, is to trace an amazing path from community television to the expansion of television, and now beyond to broadband. you deserve congratulations for what you achieved as cable companies, as video companies and as network builders. you also deserve straight talk about what it means now that you are first and foremost broadband companies. you have pledged as an industry to assure that the internet remains open and free. in that goal, we are in violent agreement. we do differ on what that means. we part company, according to your recently filed motion papers, over the so-called internet conduct standard, the requirement that internet service providers not engage in conduct that impairs an open and free internet. and goes beyond the obvious bright line rules of blocking throttling, and paid prioritization. the internet conduct standard is the going forward rule. often people sa ....