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Comcast is an enormous company, the largest in the world by revenue it owns eentertainment, the golf channel, universal pictures, theme parks and digital broadband. Time warner is another enormous company. It owns cable operations in 29 states, local news and sports channels. Internet and Cloud Computing services. Now, the two plan to become one, merging the first and second largest Cable Providers in america to control a big share of the american cable t. V. Market and put the other competitors...

I think theres a lot of good law there that could solve a loot of these problems. I think that should be the starting point for a larger conversation about bringing our laws uptodate for the new realities. Guest it says that the internet should be unfettered by state or federal regulation. Host and thats the last word. Robert mcdowell, former fcc commissioner now with the hudson institute, and craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago a...

Isnt being regulated in common carrier starting in the 70s under democrat and republican controlled fcc. They operated different than phone records. And it was under the chairman in the second clinton term where the pass was made to insulate the internet from common carriage. And so those types of communications were never regulated and didnt grow up from title two. They have always been out of title twos reach. That is what helped grow the internet we have today. And wireless broadband has been...

Fcc chairman tom wheeler commented. Joining us on the communicators this week to discuss this, craig aaron, who is president and ceo of free press, and former fcc commissioner rocket Mcdowell Robert mcdowell. Commissioner mcdowell, can the fcc put the kibosh on comcast Time Warner Cable mergersome. Guest oh, it could, absolutely. And the department of justice could try to do so as well. Sometime in the past when mergers have been proposed not necessarily at the announcement stage weve heard word...

There are two types. One is what do we do with the 11 million illegles and maybe half of them are in the workforce illegal if we required them to leave the country, our economy would fall apart. I think we have making a mistake in the immigration area which i think in many respects could be the easiest thing we could do. That was just of the are remarks. You can watch the entire event at 8 p. M. Eastern. Coming up tonight, the communicat communicators looks at the comcast merger. And then Alan G...

300 megahertz. The president s five megahertz that he called for a couple years ago, and we certainly applaud him for that effort. And we want to continue to push and get the spectrum as quickly as possible. Because Companies Like the two gentlemen represent on either side of me are using the spectrum for new and varied uses, and the people who stand to gain the most are our consumers that are now over 310 million in this country. And so we want to see that continue. Okay, thank you, steve. Crai...

That would be unthinkable. That has not happened yet. They have not let the kibosh on it yet. I do not think the paperwork has been filed. But they could deny the merger if they want to. I do you think the fcc should stop this merger . Will it . I do not think it well. I am at a think tank right now. I have no dog in this fight. I tried to look at this objectively, not as a commissioner. You do not have to keep calling me mission or by the way. Commissioner, by the way. It can be viewed as an op...

Will allow solar to play a role at a large scale. From solar, we go nuclear. The nrc is reviewing the waste policy. Utilities still say they want to keep nuclear on the table as an option. Will the doe consider Loan Guarantee and do this as a kickstart for small modular reactors . As i said earlier, we still have a very significant amount of Loan Authority for advanced vehicles and another program for all of the above. As we go forward, we are developing plans for all of the above. This can incl...

Offer. All of us have a place in the american story. As long as i am president i will keep working to make sure every single one of us has a chance to succeed. We say you can. Thank you, everybody, and god bless. [applause] president obama leaves sunday night for a fiveday trip to europe and the middle east. Andonday, the netherlands the hague. He will be there for a discussion on keeping Nuclear Material out of the hands of terrorists sent he will attend a Nuclear Security summit on tuesday. Th...

Bengahzi could have been prevented. Security officials ignored warnings about threats to american personnel. The ambassador to libya was one of those killed in the attack. And the United States is renewing the image to help syrians affected by the war. The United Nations said 2. 4 billion has been raised so far. Those are the headlines. Im tony harris. Those are the headlines for this news hour. Inside story is next for al jazeera america. Riding on that information super highway. It turns out t...