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call today that we are continuing to make progress on the path towards. >> dustin optimism rise or fall after the stock? >> i think the optimism continues to rise. we are hopeful and understand that the road ahead will not be easy. it is a complex and emotional set of issues that we look forward to working three. yes, sir. >> robert, two questions. first of all what does the administration's decision to remove the 250 billion-dollar placeholder from the budget say about your take on the bank's help? >> i think when we met in this room months ago at the introduction of the budget i th...

[applause] it is pretty astounding the turnout which i am guess saying today i wonder if you could articulate the criteria for your choices and if there is an opportunity for either/or both for you read a piece of the letters? .xd .xdçó so, there was no criteria, so except that they were community builders and someone had an id that and believe it. none of the books were cookie cutter. and the letter could have started out any way that it wanted to start out because we did want to have control over that. we held the same policy with reference to the letters that we received. we did...

will lead to? guest: i am an optimist and think ultimately the people will win out. damages being done to the credibility of the iranian regime even if they can hold on. they are weakened. the impulse for freedom is strengthened. i would hope than that even if they do not win this time -- congress has passed them money in the last few years to help encourage the people. i am optimistic although i fear the price that people will have to pay on the streets of tehran and in other cities before the get their freedom. host: we are going back and forth in domestic issues. this tweet says t...

at a merger acquisition? >> under the statute, the fcc looks at mergers through the public interest standard. and that's really our only hook and again, that's a merge wrer there's a transfer of licenses. if there's no transfer of license, it doesn't come before us. we have a different standard from the department of justice or the federal trade commission might. so the public interest standard is broad, but it's also within our core mission, obviously, that congress set up in 1934. so going forward, i like to look at mergers and any conditions that are placed on them. and i ask the ...

she wouldn't buy the "los angeles times", it wouldn't occur to her. she would go online and do it that way. the collapse of this advertising is an enormous part of the industry. host: newspapers and television, and the internet is dynamic. and your columns probably get comments being posted around the country. do you read the comments? guest: if they are called to my attention, but i would do nothing else if i followed those out there on the internet. host: when you read them, do they cast nuances? guest: sure and i respond to them. host: we have one more caller, reed. caller: good m...