joining us, kate tummarello, brendan sass sew and brian fung. mr. sasso, let's begin with you, when we asked you what were the issues you wanted to talk about all three of you put net neutrality first. what's going to happen in 2015. >> the big telecom issue -- 2015fcc chairman champ wheeler said he wanted rules on the books by the end of the year. that's not going to happen. so now it's an issue 20615. i'm expecting the fcc will come out with final rules on net neutrality. president obama came out in support of reclassifying broadband service under title 2 of the communications act, which would essentially make it treated like a utility. the broadband industry groups are fiercely opposed to this. so there's a lot of pressure on chairman wheeler to go that route. we raul see what happens there. and then even once the rules are on the books, the fight is not necessarily over. then there's going to be lawsuits almost certainly from the industry groups like verizon and comcast, especially if chairman wheeler does what the president wants and uses title

brian fung? >> guest: one thing we haven't talked about yet is patents and we'll probably see much more renewed efforts to push through a patent bill in the new year. you know,here's a lot of talk about how patent we form advocas are going -- reform advocates are going to talk up the covered business method which is something they wanted to do last year but ultimately had to back down on for fear it would kill the bill. there'a lawsuit right now that deals with the first covered business method petition, and if it turns out poorly for the patent reform advocates, you can expect to see a lot more effort and ierest being poured into expanding cbm. >> host: brendan sasso. >> guest: i think tv issues will be a big one that could happen. th would be retransmission issues, how much the broadcasters pay the cable providers. that's something that could get addressed as part of the communications act. there's a lot of attention there. a lot of people think the broadcasters are charging too much. and then

brian fung, and political. >> it gives an opening for republicans in congress to introduce a bill about neutrality of their own. what will the chairman do in response to that? is that going to force him to move more quickly or is it going to put him in a position where he will have to do some negotiation with congressional republicans? that is not clear yet. that is something we will be watching it early in the year. >> i'm expecting the sec will come out with final rules on that reality. president obama came out in support of reclassifying broadband service under title ii of the medications act, which would treat it like a utility. broadband industry groups are fiercely opposed to this. there is a lot of pressure on chairman wheeler to go that route. we will see what happens there. the fight is not necessarily over. there is going to be lawsuits almost certainly from verizon and comcast. especially if chairman wheeler does what the president wants. >> we are talking about net neutrality against the backdrop of the communications act update which republicans in the house have undertaken

brian fung of "the washington post" has followed the story, and spoke with us earlier. >> looks mainlyough the attackers went to public sources of information and grabbed screen shots and other reports about u.s. military personnel, retired army officers, so on to release online to make it look as though they'd penetrated the pentagon's network. so far, there doesn't appear to be any major indication that's happened. >> ifill: the hackers also uploaded an islamic state recruiting video to centcom's youtube account with images of fighters carrying out operations. fung says the hackers may have recently attacked several news outlets as well. >> like a lot of hacker organizations, we don't know a whole lot about these guys except for the fact that they're apparently behind a couple of attacks on some local news outlets earlier this month, and in those attacks they went after some newspapers and local cbs afull yachts. other than that, however, we don't know a whole lot about the hackers behind this latest attack. >> ifill: centcom's twitter and youtube account were suspended after being c

brian fung with the washington post, brendan sasso with the national journal and kate tummarello withitico. >> i mean, the chairman isn't expected to unveil his proposal until february or march at the earliest which gives an opening for republicans in congress to introduce a bill about net knewalty of their own -- neutrality of their own. is that going to force the chairman to move more quickly or is it going to put him in a position where he'll have to do some horse trading in negotiation with congressional republicans, that's not clear yet. i think that's something we'll be watching early in the year. >> i'm expecting the fcc will come out with final rules on net neutrality. president obama, of course came out in support of reclassifying broadband service under title ii of the communications act which would, essentially, make it treated like a utility. of course, the broadband industry groups are fiercely opposed to this so there's a lot of pressure on chairman wheeler to go that route. so we'll see in the first few months what happens there and even once the rules are on the books,

brian fung of "the washington post" and brendan sasso of the washington journal. mr.sasso, when we asked all three of yu what were the issues you wanted to talk about all three of you put n neutrality first. what's going to happen with net neutrality in 2015? >>uest: right. that's the big issue of, i think, 2014, and i think is going to coinue to be the big issue for 2015. fcc cirman tom wheeler said he wanted rules on the books by the end of this year. that's not going to happen obviously. in the first few month i'm expecting some final rules on net neutrality. president obama, of course, came out in support of reclassifying broadband service under title ii of the communications act which would, essentially, make it treated like a utility. of course the broband industry groups are fiercely opposed to this. there's a lot of pressure on chairman wheeler to go that route. so we'll see in theirst few months what happens there. and then even once the rus are on the books, this fight's not necessarily over. then there's going to be lawsuits almost certainly from the indust