federal communications chairman, a republican has been on the receiving end of several death threats and tonight a southern california man is under arrest. markman is accused of trying to find his children and kill them. the death threats are the appeal net neutralitiy rules. you may recall the actually vote was interrupted by a bomb threat. president trump puts out a challenge to nfl players, instead of protest give the names of those they feel have been treated unfairly by the justice system to review their cases for pardon? the group of nfl players say the president can do much more than that. the benjaminip wassen joins us next. he holds your house in the palm of his hand he s your home and auto man big jim, he s got you covered great big jim, there ain t no other
do. paul: james. paul, this is a hit to federal communications chairman ajit pai. usually these washington regulatory guys, we don t necessarily think of them as the most courageous people in the country, but he showed amazing courage this year, really standing up against harassment, racial slurs, even threats of violence against him, and he went ahead and restored the freedom that allowed the internet to grow. it was taken away in 2015 by silicon valley companies lobbying for something called netç neutrality. it was a bogus issue, he did a great job. paul: mary. paul, a hit for advances in space flight made in the private sector this year. spacex, their falcon 9 made twice the number of flights this year, and it s a record for a calendar year for the company. they also made progress in reusability. other companies, jeff bezos blue origin, sierra nevada s dream chaser. there were a couple of joint
is no proof of that, just questions. but the hearings are exposing inconsistent, sometimes nonexistent explanations from the obama white house. yesterday, we told you about solyndra, a now-bankrupt clean energy company whose default left taxpayers with a half-billion dollar bill. the obama administration approved that loan despite warnings the company s plan didn t add up. congress now investigating whether political support for the president greased the wheels. tonight s example is a company called lightsquared. it was green lighted to build a new broadband internet network despite objections from several government agencies. the pentagon complained the most, warning this new network could undermine satellite-based weapons targeting and other sensitive systems, not to mention your efforts to get driving directions. based on the test results and analysis to date, the lightsquared network would effectively jam vital gps receivers, and to our knowledge thus far, there are no
inconsistent, sometimes nonexistent, explanations from the obama white house. yesterday we told you about silendra a now bankrupt clean energy company whose default left taxpayers with a half billion dollar bill. the obama administration approved that loan despite warnings the company s plan didn t add up. congress now investigating whether political support for the president greased the wheels. tonight s example is a company called lightsquared. it was green lighted to build a new broadband internet network despite objections from several government agencies. the pentagon complained the most. warning this new network could undermine satellite based weapons targeting and other sensitive systems not to mention your efforts to get driving directions. based on the test results and analysis to date, the lightsquared network would effectively jam vital gps receivers, and to our knowledge thus far, there are no mitigation options that would be effective in limiting interference t
so that s one of the pieces of the puzzle that we don t have answered. we don t have put together yet. is how is it that someone got the word to send out the push alert. because as of now i have no cages th indication that came from the u.s. military. still a lot of confusion. public information officer on hawaii telling us on a difficult line there was some mistake from the button that shouldn t have been pushed. of course something different from the white house. federal communications chairman is looking over this, fcc seeing how the push alert would have been sent out. covering the pentagon, we ll come back to you in a little s bit. thank you for the time. i want to go to kelly o connell where the president is vacationing at the private club. we have an indication that he s been briefed over the last two