President for external and legislative affairs at at t, the Largest Telecom communication lobbying in washington. He talks about Corporate Tax reform, privacy, and net neutrality. It also discuss merger with time warner. He is interviewed by david shepherdson. Initiated the review at the department of justice last fall shortly after the deal was announced. We kick it off in november. We are going through a process with the department of justice. Wehave told the street that expect the deal to close by the end of the year. We still have some foreign approvals that hang out there. Were not completely done. Some of the big goals depend on the foreign approval side as we have an operation in mexico. That deal has to go through that process there. We have operations in brazil, but they are not the only ones. We are going through a process of the department of justice right now. Our expectation is we should be process, we should be through the operational issues that we have to go through in
That backup is winding up fairly quickly. And the 101 at blossom hill road, thats cleared up also. Mike, we have some great weather today. We really do. I overlaid the fog layer and there really is none out there. There is a broken deck of clouds. What were looking at for our temperature, 57 degrees this morning. Good sleeping weather. Bottom line, thats your coast. 60, 62. 67 at 7 00. Our inland neighborhoods, remember the triple digits just a few days ago . 70 to 76 degrees, back to 68 by 7 00. Enjoy the mild weather. I do have a warming trend coming up in the 7day forecast. I know you woke up late today and youre trying to get to work. You may not want to cheat, though, if you use the carpool lane. Bay area officials now asking for more money to come after you. Tiffany is live on the 101 in menlo park with whats being done. Tiffany . Reporter good morning, matt and jessica. Yes, cheating is a major problem throughout the bay area. The metropolitan Transportation Commission found on
Singlepayer you understand what you are talking about. If you look at the rest of the world, every industrialized democracy has a universal Healthcare System that covers everyone much cheaply much more cheaply, but the british system of the socialized system. You have systems were people get highly regulated by private insurance. There are hybrid systems and supplemental insurance on top of it. When we say we like singlepayer, we have to be clear about what it is were talking about. The more socialized the system you are looking at, the more difficult it is the transition from where we are now to what thats going to be. I think thats going to be something that is an important debate democrats will be having over the next three years. By the time we get to 2020, i would happy surprise surprised if most candidate supports event of singlepayer. There are a lot of different ways we can go when we say singlepayer. We have to understand what it means for we say that. Paul waldman, thank you
Beating the establishment. The outsider defeats the former Prime Minister in frances socialist primary runup. Does this give more ground to the independent candidate, Emmanuel Macron . Toyota the worlds bestselling automaker. How will looming trade barriers affecte the sector . Matt less than half an hour until the european open. Take a look at futures writedown. You at futures right now. Futures are off after equity markets declined. Chinese and various other asian markets are closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, and i would are better advised to focus on other Asset Classes today. At currencies, commodities, treasuries what do you see . Guy lets run through the columns and talk about whats happening right now. What we are seeing most prominently, matt, is the dollar beginning to firm up. Earlier on it was down. Now it is barely budging. More than 1 10 ofha 1 ,. 13 now. Some dollar weakness but not a lot. Theyen is up by around. 3 , swiss franc is having to look out for as well. We
I want to before i introduce tonights speakers, i want to also announce that tonight is the first time that conversations is being taped by cspan. So you may have noticed some cameras, and they promised me i would look at least ten years younger, which is one of the reasons i agreed to let them come, but any way and they tell me that that will be up loaded to their website in about two weeks, three weeks most and you can search under the archives for this date or one of the names of our speakers or the mill valley and youll find it. So if after this program you feel so inspired, please watch it again and also tell your friends and family all about it. Let me introduce tonights speakers. Dave brady ive known for a number of years partially because my husband attended Stanford Business school where he is a professor, and i dont know that dave remembers, but i actually interviewed him a number of times during my own dissertation research. Oh, you remember. All right. Well, i must have don