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Squawk on the Street

11AM Hour: FCC Chair, Former Treasury Sec. Jack Lew, The Challenges of Data Centers in Space 5/18/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

FCC Chair Brendan Carr on his battle with Disney and his agency’s investigation over what they are calling possible equal employment violations. He also discusses the recent approval of the sale of EchoStar spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T. Then former Treasury Secretary and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, on the current fighting in the Middle East and the President’s trip to China. Plus, with SpaceX’s IPO filing imminent, how does the promise of data centers in space stack up to real world technical challenges? That’s on Squawk on the Street.

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0:00.0

Good Monday morning. Welcome to Squawk in the Street. I'm Carl Kintanee, along with Sarah Eisen, live at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. And yes, we are proud to extend the Squawk on the Street brand to a third hour starting today.

0:19.5

Of course, we will keep bringing you the most important news,

0:22.0

biggest names in business this hour,

0:24.4

including some big names today.

0:25.8

FCC chair.

0:26.5

Brendan Carr joins us exclusively with SpaceX and focus

0:29.9

as we await the potential drop of its IPO perspectives

0:32.6

in the coming days.

0:33.6

This after the FCC just greenlit,

0:37.1

Echo Stars, $40 billion spectrum sale to SpaceX, and

0:41.4

Elon Musk urges of the agency to kill a multi-billion dollar major rural internet subsidy program.

0:46.2

We'll talk about all of that, plus ABC and Disney.

0:49.1

Former Treasury Secretary Jack Luz with us amid renewed mid-Ease concerns for the global

0:53.9

economy. The president

0:54.9

warning the clock is ticking for Iran, fueling fears of an extension to the largest oil disruption

1:00.4

in history. And after three weeks of courtroom drama, high-stakes legal fighting between

1:05.9

AI rivals, Sam Altman and Elon Musk today, the jury gets a say. We're going to dig into

1:10.7

what's

1:10.9

really at stake here. As for markets, a split market at the moment, Dow's up 121. There has been some

1:16.6

sense of the indices getting buffeted by various headlines regarding Iran, counter proposals,

1:23.3

would-be truces, the VIX's about 18 and a half. Oil was lower and now higher once again, Brent back to 110 plus and WTI above a 106. Let's kick off the hour and get the market set up with TD Bank, U.S. Vice Chair, Jeff Solomon, who joins us here at Post-9. Happy Monday, Jay. Good to see you. Hey, good to see you too. Are we still just going to wait in this morass of would-be counterproposals and

1:46.3

would-be negotiations? Yeah. I mean, listen, the number one thing that's driving markets is what's

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