here s how she characterized gary cohn s relationship with president trump. he s been an integral member of the administration and will continue to be a voice to the president and certainly somebody he can talk to and lean on from the outside and gary s been a great team member and somebody the president will continue to have a great relationship with. bill: something we picked on earlier on, gary cohn is going to stay in contact and she says yes and may consider coming back and working for the administration. in the big scheme of the relationship with the white house and republicans on the hill, what does the tariff story do to that relationship? they were successful in lockstep with tax reform but this is another divide. they weren t always in lockstep and he was a proponent of getting out of the paris accord but i think you re seeing a dramatic shift in the administration from the first year where you had a free-market
neutrality. a lot of people, a lot of famous people have very strong opinions about net neutrality. they warn if it is repealed the handful of tech companies will have total control over the internet. wait, doesn t that already describe the status quo? the chairman of the fcc, he s been at the center of a lot of criticism recently and he joins us tonight. great to see you. great to see you, too. tucker: i don t actually think this, but here s the line. if net neutrality is rolled back, a handful of companies will be able to control content and if they don t like what they are seeing they can shut it down. should we be worried about that? no, i think what net neutrality repealed would actually mean is we once i again have a friend open internet. they should not be saying how anybody manages the network. we had that free market approach for years, starting in president clinton s time all the way through 2015. the internet wasn t broken when the obama fcc tried to fix it
neutrality. a lot of people, a lot of famous people, have very strong opinions about net neutrality. they warn if it is repealed the handful of tech companies will have total control over the internet. wait, doesn t that already describe the status quo? ajit pai is the chairman of the fcc, he s been at the center of a lot of criticism recently and he joins us tonight. great to see you. great to see you, too. tucker: i don t actually know what i think this, but here s the line. if net neutrality is rolled back, a handful of companies will be able to control content and if they don t like what they are seeing they can shut it down. should we be worried about that? no, i think what net neutrality repealed would. actually mean is we once again have a free and open internet. they should not be saying how anybody manages the network. we had that free market approach for 20 years, starting in president clinton s time all the way through 2015. the internet wasn t broken when the obama fc
at the fcc do you view them as content that needs to be monitored? so i take a free market approach. these are private companies that tried to innovate on this online platform. the content that goes over their networks i don t think should be regulated by the fcc. others may have a debate about that. at the end of the day, we want to create rules of the road that provide for a competitive marketplace and let companies innovate. as long as they are not violating the law, i don t think the fcc should have a role. how can you not be behaving anti competitive when you re facebook and the algorithms and the googles. that s happening on capitol hill and other agencies. should you practice what you preach. you re urging the fcc for heavy handed on service providers because you believe free expression online. should you behave similarly? should you be transparent with
that the right approach was the clinton free market approach. you re not changing. i m not changing at this point. if there are tweaks people want to talk about, i m open to that. at the end of the day, i think the comments from ben thompson to other providers to the other folks who submitted comments on the road persuaded us we re on the right track. congress has not spoken. this is an old statute, promulgated under the clean air act. it just doesn t work. should a new construct in place for the monitoring of internet service providers and content providers. this is something congress has the prerogative and in some cases the interest of doing. i have long said where the fcc often gets into trouble, not just in court but public opinion, is trying to shoe horn the marketplace into these frameworks from yesterday. in this case putting the internet under rules from 1934