we will speak with brendan sasso of the national journal. and later on, the president of hampton university, william harvey. the senate armed services committee heard from ashton carter, president obama's pick to be defense secretary. here is a look at that. [video clip] >> in his testimony in the committee this week on dr. kissinger said, "in the middle east, a multiple of evils are unfolding simultaneously. iran has exploited this turmoil to pursue positions of power within other countries." do you agree with that? >> i do. >> do you believe me to have a strategy to combat isis and the continued successes in many respects that they are achieving? >> absolutely. >> do you believe we have a strategy at this time? >> i believe i understand our strategy at this time, mr. chairman. i also have the intention, again if confirmed, to make it my first priority to go there, to talk to our leaders, military leaders there -- >> what you understand the strategy to be? >> i think the strategy to next, instrument and means, and our -- and with respect to

host: our guest is brendan sasso with the national journal. we are looking at some of these proposed net neutrality rules announced yesterday by tom wheeler, the chairman of the sec -- the fcc. the numbers are on the screen. the "new york times" today reported a -- report the other day if he has some of these rules and right how smoothly the next knit the netflix video "house of cards" plays on a subscriber's screen. there is an element there, a further regulation of those providers that provide these high-speed lanes, correct? guest: right, we were talking a little better about this earlier. it is kind of compensated, but there are two issues here. net neutrality is traditionally applied to how the data is handled once it is on its network. they cannot carve up lanes or block traffic. but comcast or verizon is not the whole internet. that is just the last mile to your home. you have to find a way to get the data to comcast network for them and when you are delivering huge volumes of network, there can be points of congestion on your network a

in about a half-hour, national journal technology correspondent brendan sasso on net neutrality regulations of internet service providers. and the c-span bus tour of historically black colleges and universities is in hampton virginia. we will talk to hansen university president william harvey. host: it's thursday, february 5 2015. this morning, secretary of a john is in key outcome occurring -- kiev, ukraine. we will cover the national prayer breakfast on the c-span networks. and for a third day, we will attempt forward with the homeland security funding bill. at 9:30 a.m. this morning to the senate armed services committee hearing. some of you just saw that

. >>> on the next "washington journal" national journal technology correspondent brendan sasso on proposed net neutrality regulations of internet service providers. and the c-span bus tour of historically black colleges and universities is in hampton, virginia. we'll talk to hampton university president william harvey. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. call in with your questions and comments and send in your thoughts through facebook and twitter. >>> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history on the road to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we have a trip to corpus christi texas. >> we are in the daniel killgore reading room in corpus christi. dr. hector p. garcia papers are the flagship collection we have here at a&m corpus. he made it his life to help local and beyond mexican americans learn to be more civically active and to get the benefits that they had coming to them as veterans which were sometimes very difficult for them to obtain. these three items here represent the case of private felix longoria which wa

. >> on the next "washington journal, whil" brendan sasso on that neutrality regulations. -- all net neutrality regulations. we will talk to william harvey. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. : with your questions and comments. -- call in with your questions and comments. recently, the u.s. and cuban governments reached an agreement to begin going down the path towards normal diplomatic relations and easing the united states trade embargo. house foreign affairs committee held a hearing and heard from state department officials involved in the negotiations. other federal officials testifying about implementing new rules on trade with cuba and travel. to the island nation this is chaired by ed royce. >> this hearing will come to order. we look at the obama administration's sudden shift on cuban policy and sudden it was. members of congress were left in the dark. most of the administration am a including the state department, was left in the dark as well. instead, talks with the cuban regime were conducted by two white house officials. unfortunately, the white house