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The sad thing was the war of 1812 when everything was burned. Then they had to start piecemeal since then and every president who came didnt like what was there in the state have auctions in the square. Then every president could change the decor if they wanted once president grant had the blue room pilot and Chester Arthur had at robins egg blue and finally that was all stopped at the time of Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. This week on the communicators we focus on the future of television. Former...

Chairman Julius Genachowski and former fcc commissioner robert mcdowell. Thats followed by our discussion with congressman greg walden, chairman of the house subcommittee on communications and technology. Guest were in a landscape thats absolutely shifting, and there are areas of the statutory scheme where it would make sense to look at and say are those keeping up with the changes in the marketplace. Fundamentally, having this kind of competition, programming innovation, access by new players t...

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...

Scheme where it makes sense to look at and say, are those keeping up with the changes in the marketplace . Having this kind of competition, programming innovation, access by new players to consumers and access by the traditional players to viewers in new ways. What is happening on tablets is amazing. What is starting to happen in the living room is very exciting. We are in an incredible time when it comes to delivery of video programming. There are issues. We heard it at the commission from dist...

, it is a selfregulatory institutions regarding those. Opics that they have to make a report to the ministry of energy. It will have the participation of the ministry of energy. The usmexico transboundary agreement cleared because of the budget deal. While is at the state department, we thought that would be the first baby step to cooperate with mexico on safety in the gulf of mexico. We have certainly learned a lot about safety at least in the deep water as oil spill prevention, itll still mech...

Stadium hold . Connell 80 . Dagen im going to google it during the commercial break. Connell good one, dagen. We will look that up. Dagen the dow pulling back from the alltime high hit yesterday. Nicole petallides with a look at what is dragging on these markets. Nicole pretty exciting when you see another high, again, yesterday closing high for the dowwjones industrial after five straight weeks of gains. When you see your 401 k rate higher, you like that. A little bit of a pullback. Fed tapir t...

Brown versus board of education was 60 years ago. I was too young to understand the uproar, but i remember the debate clearly. Yelling and screaming at dinner parties. Incredible. Madmen, that was my childhood. Sitting at the top of the stairs. [laughter] let me do a data check for you. There is the story. We will talk to michael. The 10 year yield. We care. Weaker. Nymex crude has done nothing. Ruble, i put up there with a little bit of interest in ukraine. We will see that in our headlines, as...