so to get the money to build this thing in '68 we brought bill mcgowan in to do the financing.t i thought that the concept if it was changed, could make sense not individual ones, but a nationwide system hooked together. the ability to be able to provide then-existing technology -- microwave -- as a competitive service to what had been up to then a monopoly at&t, the bell system, in long distance communication services. what you had was a revolution in how telecommunications went about its business of switching and of communicatingbetween points. d the revolution - the computer, the microwave, the satellite -- were really available to everybody. it wasn't like stringing a wire. and that made possible the competition. but if the bell long distance monopoly is dead the idea of a natural monopoly lives on. across the country when cities and states decide to set up the ground rules for local phone service or electric power, they generally decide that under the circumstances a regulated monopoly is their best buy. our economic analyst richard gill can tell us how he and his colleagu

media consultant bill mcgowan explains the strong public reaction. >> i think it triggers something in all of us. i think we've all been in the shoes of that cashier where maybe somebody has iced out socially, kind of said mean things to us. so i think that association is really strong. >> reporter: the video that surfaced of mchenry was editeded and we don't know what else may have been said by the employee. jim, that's part of the reason why some mchenry supporters are now using the hashtag teame no britt. >> axelrod: jericka, thank you.xelr some buffalo roamed a little too r close to home this week in arkansas. after escaping from a farm, six f buffaloes spent thursday evading capture on the streets of hot springs, arkansas.kans four have since been rounded up, but two are still missing, raising the obvious question where exactly does a 2,000-pound buffalo hide? up next, sailing back into history, 235 years back. ck into history 235 years back. >> axelrod: history was made today on the western coast of w france-- actually, it was remade. in 1780, a 32-gun frigate named "hermione" le