Brendan Carr: is Trump’s FCC chair uniquely powerful or a paper tiger?

Telecom regulator has become one of the most prominent newsmakers in the nation - he seems to relish the spotlight

During a ceremony at the White House late last week honoring the US Naval Academy football team, Donald Trump gave a shoutout to the man he said was perhaps the most powerful man in this room": Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chairman.

You are doing some job," Trump said. He's trying to make the fake news real and respected again, which is not an easy job."