the stand, what he says tonight about the intruder looking for his wife nearly killed him. tonight on the workers live. so, what is it about the political rhetoric in this country that got us here? in 83 year old man hit in the head with a hammer in his own house, his skull was fractured. allegedly by a man looking for his wife. then house speaker nancy pelosi. now, the defendants own attorney says the attack was motivated by david pups believe, belief, that nancy pelosi was part of a, quote, a plot to manipulate the country, to spread lies, and to steal votes from donald trump. now, he has pleaded not guilty in this matter. the paul pelosi testifying today about the moment he woke up at 2:00 in the morning to find a stranger in his bedroom. quote, it was a tremendous shock to recognize that somebody had broken into the house and, looking at him, and looking at the hammer, and the ties, i recognized that i was in serious danger. so i tried to stay as calm as possible. pelosi
First time you have been on since your show. Glad to be on this couch. I hope it will last. We have our own inauguration with you. It is not better than last year. All righty, we will take our smiley self off as we are getting new details about Donald Trumps choice for secretary of state. The list is getting longer and we are learning stock is rising and whose stock is falling. The decision will come down to one man. He met with the head of exxon. The former head of sports who took a job with that company, governor romney, Rudy Giuliani, general David Petraeus, senator corker, the easy Senate Confirmation and the head of the Foreign Relations committee, talking a very diverse group, dana rohrbacher. Jim griffin is live, good to see you. I spoke to a source close to the president elect. Exxon mobil ceo Rex Fullerton who met with donald trump, his stock is rising, invited back for another meeting in coming days. Run a multimillion dollar business, 50 countries worldwide. He had to negoti
That story as also is included miss lerners failure to willingly testify before this committee. Im going to put all that aside for a second. Miss oconnor, youre white house counsel. Im a lawyer, youre a lawyer. I want to step away from the irs problem and investigation for a minute and just have a comparative discussion because i think in the responses there may be some misunderstanding with respect to the independent the treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and id like to talk to you a minute about their powers. Not with the irs, but just in general. Id like to compare the powers of the treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration with the fbi because one of the things we heard from the commissioner yesterday is, were going to do the Inspector General is going to do an investigation, and that is probably a good thing. There are many who dont believe its enough, but you and i having a discussion on a comparative just of authority and powers perhaps can let other peopl
Reform in Tea Party Nation all agree with us. While radio touts a nonbinding resolution, congressional leaders from both parties are working on real legislation to resolve this issue. Any copyright performed simply must include a radio performance right. To resolve this and other issues, we support several thoughtful bills. This would insist if broadcasters value the content they must value the content of others. This w0u8d remove the loophole. Now i had time for a unified holistic approach to music licensing and time for a music omnibus bill or music bus for short. Where kwoip write review under way, we need our industry in congress to be visionary and created a unified approach for the future of our business and the music bus idea is really simple. Fair market pay for all music creators across all platforms. And a music only hi bus bill need not wait for the entire copyright act to be advised. Congress registers maria polenti noted these issues are ripe for resolution. Mr. Chairman,
Respect to a Music Production industry after the turn of the century, its no longer necessary and unjust few blee aggregates copyright owners rights today. Fortunately, legislation has been introduced to begin to address this and i thank members of the subcommittee for supporting the songwriters equity act. Public performance royalties represent the large income for song writers. Its inherently a free market right. Its not regulated by law. But because the department of justice imposed consent degrees in 1941, incredibly, those decrees are still in effect today. They do not sunset. Under these world war ii era decrees song writers and publishers may not negotiate their value in a free market t a federal judge in the Southern District of new york dictates how much a songwriter is paid. Last week they have announced they are undertaking a review of these decrees and we hope song writers will receive fair market compensation. Using music in movies, television shows, music videos and youtu