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We will continue to update you as more details become available. The senate is out this week so on cspan2 we are going to bring live coverage of a number of events including a house hearing at 10 30 that examines the future of why your Communication Networks and how Technological Advancements could impact consumers and businesses. Host host welcome back. We are joined by congressman joe barton, a republican member of the house energy and commerce committee. Thank you for joining us. Later this w...

We all want competition, but what we want to have really is an environment, and, in fact, the digital revolution is enabling more competition. Thats why we have these, we have cable and wireless and fiber and all of these things are part of the digital revolution. But ultimately in a new act what would like to have, in my view, would be a standard that ties the regulatory activity of the agency closely to an analysis of the competitive marketplace. And then only if theres a market failure or con...

And foreclose shures were mounting. When president came into office our economy was shrinking at an. 3 annual rate. The American People fought their way back from the brink. Cause of our nations resill resilience, we have seen our deficit shrink. Businesses have added more than two million jobs over the last year alone. Manufacturing has expanded while to Housing Market continues improve. At the same time our deficits are half what they were a few years ago. Even though progress has been made, o...

And this week on the communicatorsa look at some of the telecommunications and the tech issues that the congress and the fcc may face in 2014. Joining us are three working reporters on telecommunications, Matthew Schwartz is with communications daily, Kate Tummarello is with the hill, and Paul Barbagallo is the managing editor of bloomberg bna, mr. Barbagallo, lets start with you. What do you think on the fcc and the congressional agenda this year . Guest well, i think to start off spectrum. The...

Are not watching video or emailing, if you are not doing is more it effective and costefficient. We are talking about the old Voice Network. How do we move from the cost benefits of the Service Benefits by thinking about how things have to change . Another thing going on that we have not talked about. We talked about the supply side and how people provide it. In the wayhanges users arent using the network. Not the services but what people want. Place inte is taking europe. They have a set of uni...

Its a pleasure to be here today to talk about the i. P. Transition. But before we do what i want to talk about is another transition thats been occurring and thats directly related, and thats the transition of our networks from copper to fiber. Of course its generally understood today Everybody Knows that fiber to the home is the best Broadband Network possible and one that many are striving to obtain. When verizon started to roll this out ten years ago it wasnt so obvious and we got a lot of qu...

Worth billions of dollars. Beautiful Hard Rock Stadium at Miami Gardens. Its a beautiful morning in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. Within the next 15 minutes the ground hog will supposedly tell us if winter will continue on. This is how they party in punxsutawney. The record for how correct Punxsutawney Phil is . What is it . I cant remember exactly. Its either 39 or 43 . So almost farmers almanacesque. Good morning on sunday, february 2nd. Punxsutawney phil day, ground hog day. The Iowa Caucuses a...

Autonomous zone. As for the seattle mayor who claims its just a block party, the president called her handling of the situation pathetic. Simple, we are not going to let seattle be occupied by anarchists. Have you talked to the mayor . No, but i got to see a performance that ive never seen. You think he was a weak person in minneapolis. The woman i dont know. Has she ever done this before . Its pathetic. We are not going to let this happen in seattle. We have to go in, we are going to go in. Let...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelly this is our western edition. Today fired f. B. I. Director james comey previewed the testimony he will give the Senate Intelligence committee tomorrow in its investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether anyone in the Trump Campaign was involved. The committee released comeys Opening Statement today, in which he says the president pressured him to drop the f. B. I. Investigation of mr. Trumps former National Security adv...

Were hearing from the acting defense secretary on whether he will approve a 3. 6 billion for military Construction Projects to build the president s border wall. That includes figuring out which military projects to defund and whether a border wall is even needed. Heres what Patrick Shanahan said late yesterday. You have not determined that a specifically a wall is required to meet that National Emergency. There have been no determinations by me. We always anticipated that this will create a lot...