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kennedy: with me, ajit pai, the federal communications commission chairman.ell us about this net neutrality rollback. this is exciting. >> two years ago the obama administration decided to regulate the internet. to treat it like a utility. kennedy: i want to see if this is a comparable scenario. wouldn't treating internet companies like utilities be like treating cars like horses and forcing them to get shots and wear shoes? >> it's treating a dynamic industry like one that is much more slow moving. part of the reason why i proposed to my fellow commissioners at fcc to get rid of those regulations, is we want the internet to be governed by engineers and not bureaucrats. kennedy: let's talk about this. it's split in silicon valley. you have a lot of tech companies, they are in favor of net neutrality. they are opposed to this rollback. why are companies like reddit opposing this? >> i think some are worried will the internet be free and open. before these regulations were i am poasds we had a -- were imposed we had a free and open internet. and we'll continue

brendan carr who is fcc commissioner and ajit pai former fcc chairman and fellow at american enterprisenk that my friend, i think that world of rand paul, but i don't think he is right. i was reading your notes, this stuff the. >> control is iran -- even then it has to -- a threat to national security, china qualifies. i think that some of these senators don't understand how this legislation has been written. >> thank you, senator paul has been good on so many matters of individual liberty this bill, as you noted is different, it only applies if you are controlled by a foreign adversary country, which is defined as russia, china, north korea and an iran, only then, a national security threat in addition to being controlled, it has nothing to do with surveillance or free speech, this is a clear and present danger that tiktok recents it is -- presents it is b beholden to the ccp . tiktok tries to do it, they failed. not because they are necessarily bad people but because they are beholden to the ccp any other reforms we want will only work once you break that link back to the ccp, it goes

let me bring in fcc chair ajit pai back to the show. what is it about net neutrality that creates such a political frenzy. when you were on my show last week, the most of traffic we got had nothing to do with our interview and what you said it was people attacking you directly about softening some of these rules that were only put in place since 2016. >> the internet is increasingly important in our daily lives. the hysteria and misinformation that has been peddled by some is whipping people up. when you say democracy is about to be destroyed and the internet toibs broken and this is the guy doing it. people become alarmed and start doing things like harassing me and my family. kennedy: george soros has a program called color of change. and he's been targeting you essentially for being racist. how is rolling back some of these net neutrality guidelines implicitly racist? >> it's absurd. they are grasping for straws. they think this is one of the pieces of spaghetti that will stick to the wall. i think people of goodwill who are reasonab

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joining us, the chairman of the federal communications commission, ajit pai., ajit, good to have you with us. it's been some time since we knew that both of these companies were turning over information that they gathered in the course of their normal businesses to the people's liberation army, to chinese intelligence. why this decision now? >> well, thanks for having me on, lou. unlike in commune nist china d communist china, we have the rule of law. the fcc proposed to ban the use of fcc funding being used by telecom carriers here in the united states on problematic equipment or services coming from carriers like huawei and zte. we initially proposed to designate them as national security threats, but we wanted everyone to make their case. we heard from the executive branch, we heard from congress, other stakeholders, and we heard from huawei and zte. the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggested that huawei and zte would be national security threats. that's why we moved forward with a firm designation to plant a flag to say that going forward, starting

ajit pai. >> thanks for having me on. trish: you heard what randall stephenson is ready to litigate. do you think he will -- >> i can say i think that the professionals at the department are going to do the right thing according to the law and the facts. we'll see where that takes us. trish: look at, say a company like nbc and comcast, right? so you get the distributor and the content provider, and they have merged. wouldn't this be sort of similar type of thing? >> there are questions like this that often pop up in context of mergers acquisitions, there is good news with the leadership at the antitrust division division and staff level that will review this very carefully. i think they will reach the right result. trish: what do you think of people saying, oh, i have friends at cnn, they actually believe this. that this is just the president's vendetta against us at cnn what do you think of that commentary? >> i know there is a lot of discussion. i try to stick within my lane and review any transaction before the fcc at

we do know that delharin and ajit pai who supports the deal met privately friday to discuss the mergert screaming at each other at the lunch place they were at. so maybe there's some meeting of the minds here. but this is heating up. decision is coming down the pike. can't tell you exactly when, but it's all over the place. could be this week, could be tomorrow, could be next week, we don't know, but it's coming down. by the way, that's you and mr. ledger. liz: yes, in the times square. if you're just tuning in, some of you specifically tune in just to see sharly gasparino, you're probably wondering about the shot -- take charlie, please. >> could we just see -- liz: just a minute. there's a lot of police and firefighter activity. if we can dissolve to our sixth avenue shot, this is, of course, in the wake of a helicopter crash onto the top of the axa building where the pilot of a helicopter -- and we don't know who owns that chopper -- died after hard landing on the roof and a subsequent fire from the fuel leak out of the -- >> apparently, he was the only one in the chopper. liz: righ

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john: thank you, commissioner ajit pai. coming up, why freedom sometimes is not fair.s is al sharpton? >> the top 1% in this country pay very much less than 10%. very much less than 5%. ♪ ♪ @? ♪ ♪ john: if fair means equal, freedom isn't fair. when people are free some who are smarter or luckier get very rich. globalization multiplies the effect. as a result, today america's richest 1% own a third of america's wealth. 1% owns a third. to many that's just wrong. but why? some say it's because the rich get rich at the expense of poor people, but they say that because they don't understand free markets. they see capitalism as a zero sum game. be he get -- if he gets rich, he must have taken something from me. it's as if the economy is this pie that's already on the table. if i or bill gates say, take this big piece, that means you get less. but this is absurd. bill gates did take a huge slice of pie but he didn't take it from us by expanding microsoft. he baked a million new pies he made all of us better off. now, i admit if someone gets rich through i political connectio

lauren: fcc chairman ajit pai said it caused panic across the state was absolutely unacceptable. kirsten nielsen on "fox news sunday." >> we're working with state and locals to ensure not only the messaging is clear for what to do next is clear as well. how we can to support them and work with them if they are in the bass lines and in first responders. unfortunate situation but we are working together to make sure it doesn't happen again. lauren: state lawmakers politically and on friday but not only did the mistake happened, took them 30 minutes to fix it. cheryl: my family in hawaii had in the basement. many people took it seriously, which was good. back here on the mainland, a new dunkin' donuts store come in massachusetts testing a shorter name. lauren: tracee carrasco joins us more without. >> duncan without the donuts. and as far as the name is concerned. i'm usurping tamara and quincy massachusetts come a suburb of boston is dropping donuts for mixing bowl beat the first in the nation to simply go by duncan. part of a broader rebranding to the new next-generation will pile

protesters demonstrated outside the fcc chairman ajit pai's home. ere attacking pai first is that internet regulations. shaking off criticism by poking fun at a few of a few of them being tweaked to scott. some of the comments are really at this. take a listen. >> freedom gain 1776. ajit pai, go back to africa were you came from. do you even english, bro? ajit pai is another fascist who needs to be apprehended and put against the people. you're not going to catch me if i'm back in africa, are you? isd the indian people. he's an embarrassment from nonwhites. his behavior kissing white as. as a conflicted brown man, i was on the fence but when you put it in all-caps, you persuaded me. charles: ajit pai joins us now. i love that you read those out. it's always great to hear how it sounds going from twitter to the spoken word and the hypocrisy of it all. share again with us a little bit more of the hypocrisy and the vitriolic anger aimed at you on such a personal level. >> well, it has been pretty picture all at your dose or some of them are pg-13 tweets

i if ajit pai is mostly promergers around obama administration was anti-mergers, and he has to bow tonon or reince priebus? >> he is administration employee. we'll see how this thing goes. i will say this, the signals coming from inside of trump land is, is that there are still, there are still significant skepticism and i guess opposition to the deal from the likes of steve bannon. this guy, the appointment of ajit pai as head of the fcc would seem to be a positive for the deal but like i said but what is coming from internally, there is still a lot of skepticism up and down the line, donald trump, the president, was first to voice skepticism about the deal, having too much power. at&t controlling 25% of distribution and possibly blocking other content providers in favor of its own cnn. hbo is another factor here. that is where we are right now. his testimony when he gives it will be big for the stock. as we said last week the testimony of steve mnuchin that was big for fannie and freddie and gscs. it was big for the stock. watch at&t and time warner on this guy's testimony. liz: see

he is fcc commissner ajit pai.d to have you with us, commissioner. >> good to be with you, lou lou: i want to compliment you, congratulate you and thank you for bringing this to the public's attention because this is suchn outrageous intrusion on the first, you know, in newsrooms and on the first amendment. imagine, it is just iredible to me that the fcc would even think to under steak - undertake a so-called study the way the news is both developed and covered and the decision-making process therein. >> and that is partf the concern i had when i looked into how this study was being designed. that the notion that the government could figure out for the american public what their critical information needs were, then go to nsrooms across the country and ask basic intrusive questions ho do you gather the news what is your news philosophy and does your station have a bias? those are not questions that belong in any newsroom certainly imsed by a government researcher. lou: the idea of those questions being posed, it is

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>> we spoke to the fcc chairman, ajit pai. the fcc has been working on 5g for about 10 years.n we had to get new tvs because they switched to digital, that was actually part of the transition to 5g. they took all that tv signal space, sold it to the wireless carriers and that's where our 5g signals will be. this is going to do, as we mentioned, a lot more than speeding up the connection to our phones. we're talking about driverless cars, we're talking about high speed internet to people who may not have had high speed internet for a long time. and a big boost to the rural infrastructure. and this is what's really interesting. because it's so high speed, they're going to be able to say beam high speed data to farming communities that may not have had a business case to get a fiber optic cable and as we've been learning the past week, because of comments one of the gentlemen running for president said about farmers, farmers are actually very high tech. they actually use a lot of technology to keep their farms going and keep america fed. take a listen to what ajit pai told us abo

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i want to show you video of ajit pai, the fcc chairman because he is going to release tomorrow a draft of essentially an order that would reverse the net neutrality order put in place under president obama and fcc in 2015. and essentially take us back to just before 2015 when there was at that wide open internet. we'll get into some changes, after you hear what ajit pai will say on this he is on kennedydy, the program on the fox business network later tonight -- "kennedy." >> the reason we sate there wasn't a market failure. not that the internet was broken in 2015 and we were living in digital dispope yaw. we want startups for the future to invest and innovate on the web. best way to do that, to insure everybody has the freedom to pursue a business plan that will serve consumers well. reporter: senator chuck schumer from new york is criticizing the fcc plan. they will vote on it by december 14th. quote, just as our free highway system helped build jobs in america in the 20th century, net newt truly will help build jobs in the 21st century. to take a step back hurts our economy, our jo

in an exclusive interview with sec -- fcc chairman ajit pai. we'll talk about merger deals and specifically about at&t-time warner. how the future of media may be changing under president trump. a very big lineup for you today. let's get back to the news breaking right now. adam shapiro on capitol hill with the latest. reporter: we are moving trish, towards, house ways and means committee, voting tax reform measure, the tax cuts and jobs act, out of committee, from the senate to house. in about an hour, i will report to you the specific details of the senate plan. already can tell you that one republican senator, hoeven, is actually confirmed something maria bartiromo broke this morning, the top rate at least in the senate plan will actually drop from the proposal in the house, 39.6%, to 38.5%. that is republican senator hoeven confirming that. we'll have much more on the senate plan for you. at end of the day, house plan, senate plan, are very different. they will have to be reconciled and here is what paul ryan had to say about that as we mov

to those state ags saying look at the terms that t-mobile and sprint have agreed to, look at what ajit pai, the various divestitures, including the boost, the prepaid wireless market which is essentially for less affluent people. look at some of the priced stuff they are thinking of doing, price freezes for three years, look at the fact they can probably, you know, a stronger combined company can engage in price competition. you know, we don't know if he's given them the pro argument or saying let's get together and -- liz: can we put intraday of sprint up. this is why. i'm seeing now hitting the reuters wires. nyse, new york stock exchange order in balance for sprint, 375,000 shares on the sell side. >> yeah, that's -- i think that's on our story. i could be wrong. liz: it just hit. >> it could be something else. liz: literally just hit. >> that's kind of what you've got here. listen, i will say this about this stock. i don't go out of my way to move stocks just so you know. it's nice to have impact and influence, but these are very volatile stocks. and if you're the average guy out there

the you future of 5g, exclusive insights this morning from ajit pai on the ways 5g will save our liveser generations, where they're working and why. "mornings with maria" is live right now. and this morning we're looking at markets trading down. we're expecting a decline at the start of trading with dow futures down 66, nasdaq down 24, s&p down 7 and-a-half. stocks pulling back but still hovering near record highs. yesterday was another record high close for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq. finishing in unchartered territory yesterday. the nasdaq at 9817 now and s&p at 3386. the dow meanwhile snapped a three-day losing streak with a gain on the session of 115 points yesterday at the close. stocks are down across the board, internationally, across the fq100 in london is up 70 points, cac is down 16 and dax index in germany lower by 30 points. checking asian markets overnight, mixed bag there. as you can see, japan and china were up with the shanghai composite up nearly 2% but hong kong and korea fractionally lower overnight in asian markets. some other stories we're watching this morning, ni

ashley: got it. >> ajit pai's second point, he is libertarian. by philosophy he is for less regulation. verizon, come car, at&t, the service providers, they don't have financial incentive to invest or build in you know served areas, be they rural or -- ashley: this would give them money to do it? >> i think his argument if they make money other ways charging netflix or facebook, they will take the money, buildout broadband maybe in areas not as well-served. ashley: bottom line is, it is not the end. world as we know it. we're all going to die at some point but not as a result of the fcc very good. thank you very much. good stuff. >>> u.n. ambassador nikki haley shows missile fragments that are indisputable evidence that iran is violating u.n. resolutions and called out the regime as a threat to the entire world. dr. walid phares is here next. don't go away. i accept i don't conquer the mountain like i used to. i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but whatever

trish: we had ajit pai on the show many times.e expressed his willingness to see -- >> they want the deal. trish: to see a new era in the media and wanted divestiture. >> tribune is saying, sinclair you blew it and cost us money. trish: thank you, charlie. arrests at the border dropping second month in a row, is president trump's tough immigration stand doing its job? i will ask arizona senate candidate martha mcsally that question next. chnology this hel. could make history. what's in your wallet? jardiance asked: when it comes to managing your type 2 diabetes, what matters to you? you got a1c, heart, diet, and exercise. slide 'em up or slide 'em down. so let's see. for most of you, it's lower a1c. but only a few of you are thinking about your heart. fact is, even though it helps to manage a1c, type 2 diabetes still increases your risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease, significantly reducing

and ajit pai. liz: and rob mcdowell. >> sometimes i get ronald mcdonald. liz: come back again. thank you. >> be happy to. liz: the outside counsel for t-mobile. will the sprint/t-mobile marriage create a formidable competitor and if so, why are the competitor shares not shaking in their shoes? investors are actually piling into at & t and verizon. the thinking being the t-mobile/sprint deal could lead to better pricing in the u.s. wireless market which might mean more customers for all. >>> all right. when we come back, the one, the only floor show. we take it to the traders. dow jones industrials down 156 points. much more ahead on "countdown." termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. liz: there are multiple phone and semiconductor stocks in all three major indices but it's really the chip makers that semiconductor chips that are in the brains, that are the brains of these phones, that are getting hit

he is fcc commissioner ajit pai.ood to have you with us, commissioner. >> good to be with you, lou. lou: i want to compliment you, congratulate you and thank you for bringing this to the public's attention because this is such an outrageous intrusion on the first, you know, in newsrooms and on the first amendment. imagine, it is just incredible to me that the fcc would even think to under steak -- undertake a so-called study the way the news is both developed and covered and the decision-making process therein. >> and that is part of the concern i had when i looked into how this study was being designed. that the notion that the government could figure out for the american public what their critical information needs were, then go to newsrooms across the country and ask basic intrusive questions how do you gather the news what is your news philosophy and does your station have a bias? those are not questions that belong in any newsroom certainly imposed by a government researcher. lou: the idea of those questions bei

for years commission chairman ajit pai led that 5-0 vote today and joins us tonight.ongratulations on the vote. a clear-cut statement of putting u.s. national security, national you interest above commercial interest, and congratulations to you and the commission for doing so. >> it's a unanimous vote. when it comes to the national security of our communications network, we don't know party affiliation. it's about the security of the country. >> the attorney general of the united states announcing clearly that both these companies, huawei and zte pose a national security threat. he went further and said it's the conduct of the people's republic of china that goes into his assessment of their national security threat and the risk posed. how far is this going to go, and what are the next steps for the united states? these two companies have been features prominently by the chinese and their efforts to drive a potential potential -- . >> each of them has engaged in conduct intellectual property theft and bribery and corruption. they are required to secretly comply to req

after after ajit pai, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure.set full of people, but thank you very much, indeed. oh, no, stein comes back at the very end. >> oh. do i get any pancakes? i'm only here for the pancakes. [laughter] stuart: special on veterans day coming up after this. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. ♪ ♪ stuart: oh, yes. veterans day, we are observing veterans day today with some great stories for you. ihop treating veterans and active military people to free red, white and blue pancakes today. by the way, second story, ihop has teamed up with the children of fallen patriots foundation to raise money. and with us today devon rabelles, you are the president of ihop. we also have david kim, ceo and co-founder of the children of fallen patriots foundation. >> that's correct. stuart: and we also have with us haley hartwick, that would be you, and you lost your dad in the military, i believe. >>

ajit pai is in there. need someone from antitrust division. need a attorney general.s has not been confirmed yet. so things are moving slowly. once you get that you get the regulatory framework. that deal has to pass muster between two people, namely pai and whoever is in the, session's guy in the antitrust department. what i'm thinking wall street, free market people. pai favors mergers. doesn't like conditions on mergers. ashley: trump said no in the campaign. >> that is fly in the ointment, what traders are bets on here, this is arbitrage play, i think shares are trading 9dollars a share -- $96 a share. deal was 112. that is the arbitrage play. people think it will get approved free market supporters being in the deal and that cnn, time warner might do something interesting and spin off cnn if it had any sort of issues with that trump hated the fact or at least what he said -- this is what he said, he didn't like the fact that at&t had so much distribution, 25% of all distribution of content. ashley: right. >> they would control through directv and their own cable

i think ajit pai has shown he's not eager to go into the marketplace. sure the fcc would not be the uber regulator of the internet. was this a sloppy filing by sinclair or is this pai in this case at least overstepping? >> it's hard to read and i agree with your perception. the fcc under pai has tried to stay out of business matters but i think justice department's challenge against the time war there, eight -- time warner, at&t merger has influenced pai a little bit and also influenced other commissioners on the fcc. it's really a difficult call to try to read what was in their minds and i agree with you, this seemed like a contradictory posture for the fcc to be adopting. however, the idea of a single entity, sinclair, owning basically the majority of television stations in this country is not a hard situation to try to challenge. maria: i'd say. okay. sinclair down 1.25% this morning. we just got vie consistent earnings out. this is -- viacom earnings out. tell us what you've learned based on earnings. viacom missed their earnings pecearningsexpectati

fcc chair ajit pai today saying that both huawei and zte have close connections to the chinese communistmy.

look, ajit pai wants to get rid of this internet net neutrality. ashley: pay for faster internet. am i right here. liz: so the vote is today. he put out a video. it was fun. it was lighthearted. he is being criticized now for not bringing up what ashley pointed out -- stuart: that is him, ajit pai. liz: paying for faster internet, issue is, the fears that companies will slow down or block content if you don't pay up. that we will have to pay more for to stop companies from doing that on other hand, other issue basically government bureaucrats telling market what to do or market itself, fixing the problem and charging different fees for different city is. stuart: if i want to pay more for speed of delivery i will do it. it is i will pay more, it is my freedom to choose, isn't it. liz: obama said you're wrong. that why sweeping regulations. stuart: get the government out, come on. now this. >>> after closing its doors more than two years ago, fao schwarz is coming back to new york city, setting up shop at rockefeller center. replacing the current nbc experience store. the new fao sc

for years commission chairman ajit pai led that 5-0 vote today and joins us tonight.ongratulations on the vote. a clear-cut statement of putting u.s. national security, national you interest above commercial interest, and congratulations to you and the commission for doing so. >> it's a unanimous vote. when it comes to the national security of our communications network, we don't know party affiliation. it's about the security of the country. >> the attorney general of the united states announcing clearly that both these companies, huawei and zte pose a national security threat. he went further and said it's the conduct of the people's republic of china that goes into his assessment of their national security threat and the risk posed. how far is this going to go, and what are the next steps for the united states? these two companies have been features prominently by the chinese and their efforts to drive a potential potential -- . >> each of them has engaged in conduct intellectual property theft and bribery and corruption. they are required to secretly comply to req