. >> host: let's bring brian fung of the washington post into this issue. >> thanks, peter. two issues that have been controversial and dropped off the radar, one being the bds proceeding and the other set-top box. do you see those coming back in 2017? >> business data service, these are the big pipes that connect office buildings and cell towers, big data pipes, and so the wheeler fcc has wanted to regulate that more. it was actually the clinton era sec that deregulated it under a price cap regime. so i don't see that being a priority. now, let me caveat everything by first of all saying when it comes to the donald trump era, the prediction business has been hard hit, right? nobody's really predicted what's happened this year. so here we are, we can take our best guess. we really don't know for sure. but i sense that what plans chairman wheeler teed up for business data services and also the set-top box item where there wasn't any unanimity or consensus among the democrats for starters is probably also not going to get a off the ground in 2017. >> guest: i hope that's not t

. >> let's bring brian fung of the washington post into this conversation. >> two issues in particular that have been pretty controversial that have dropped off the radar and one, bds and the other fox, do you see those coming back in 2016? >> business data services, we used to call it in the special services, these are the big pipes that connect office buildings and the data pipes and so the wheeler fcc has wanted to regulate that more. there's the clinton era fcc that deregulated it under a price regime so i don't see that being a priority. let me caveat everything by saying when it comes to the donald trump era, the prediction business has been hard hit. nobody has predicted what happened this year so here we are, we can take our best guess. we don't know for sure but i sense that what plans kevin wheeler teed up for business data services and also the fox item where there wasn't any sort of unanimity or consensus amongthe democrats for starters, is probably also not going to get off the ground . >> i hope that's not true. i hope we can deal with it. there is an item being negotiate

brian fung. thank you all. >> thank you. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. timothy, at now is staff writer for the hill newspaper. he is here to talk about the top regulations of the trump administration that could undo. strations could undo. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having us -- me. host: explain what donald trump said about regulation at the campaign trail. he was he was -- guest: strongly against the obama administration's regulation, president obama had a lot of regulations throughout his time that were a failure for congress to act. a lot of them work just priorities he had from his time on the campaign trail. trump had a lot of specific regulations he did not like that he wanted to repeal. for example, regulations in the dodd frank financial rules -- act, environmental regulations, specifically mentioned that they were on the chopping block. and general, he took the same tactic a