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Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy...

Um, others will be joining us. They had different time commitments, so well just let everyone speak when they arrive. But i want to thank all the senators who have fought on this issue so hard. I want to thank senator boxer for her tremendous work on this issue and for being a tireless partner and leader in this effort on behalf of our brave members of the services. I also want to thank senator collins for standing firmly with us since day one when we introduced the bill as well as senator grass...

Prime minister abe met in jakarta with the indonesian president. They discussed chinas growing activity in the south china sea. Theres a group of island there that other countries say belong to them. Japan and china are at odds over islands in the East China Sea which the japanese control but the chinese and twainese claim. Translator a free and open sea governed not by force but by law is a common good that we must protect by all means with asean nations. We also welcome u. S. Policy that prior...

And you can join the conversation by giving us a call, 202, 585, 3881 for republicans, 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. Facebook or us on send us an email. Journal cspan. Org or twitter. Com cspanwj to send us a tweet. Action prompted at embassies, that is the headline. Based on unspecified information, the warning comes after the state department ordered the closing of 2100 embassies in the Arabian Peninsula. Let me read to a portion of this. The part in the ...

Proactively preparing for potential disasters and readily responding to a situation as it occurs. Across the department, from fema, to mppd to science and technology, we work with a wide array of government, private and nonprofit faithbased organizations to build and foster resilience. Not as a concept, but as an applied reality. Fema is leading implementation of the National Preparedness system. My colleague here today will discuss our Critical Infrastructure, security and resilience programs, ...

If we make it through december, everything will be all right. I would sing that for you, but i dont wish to offend merle haggard. Feels like the coldest time of winter on capitol hill. There has not been any progress. The president and his allies have taken so many things off the table the only thing left is varnish. Charles, are we going off the cliff . Look, it is almost impossible to predict. The republicans are in such disarray that they may take on december 30. If they dont, we are, because...

We all need to safety. We be safe and strong against , anda, china, north korea iran. You think we should give away all of our secrets, i feel sorry for your students read you are absolutely wrong. Host let us give him a chance to respond. Guest i said quite the opposite, there are secrets that need to be protected but we have to strike a balance and find out what information out there is in the Public Interest that doesnt need to get out to the public. I am glad you mentioned that, i did not wa...

Very fortunate that i got in position to collaborate with others in trying to realize some of those things. In is a question from twitter that i was also interested in. The question is, how does the fed evaluate costs and benefits of Equity Capital requirements . How do you get to that number compared to where basel was . We did an awful lot of work on capital ratios, both the levels that seemed prescribed or needed in order to reduce e chances of financial instability but also the cost of the e...

Want it. So why are you blaming us for it . There were some times that things were explained to each side and maybe they felt better and that they a lot of people do run for the senate particularly house members, at some point, harry reid was a house member, so was john mccain way back, because they wanted to be in a chamber that afforded them more pow for the negotiation and wasnt just run on 218 votes. And they, i think, apparently a group of members that are trying o maintain a vision of the ...

The government. So i look forward to this and thank you very much. Were just glad that you could join us, senator johnson and me. Thanks so much for coming for your comments. When along when senator begich was speaking i was reminded of all people senator mick enzi from wyoming, as my colleagues know, i oftentimes cite him, he may be later here today. He has his 80 20 rule that is one of his Guiding Principles in terms of how to get things done and the 80 20 rule is basically, we agree on 80 of ...