i think that is when everyone is looking for some movement towrds making our internet networks safer and more immune to the attacks that we are all hearing so much about these days. >> hos we have only got about tw minutes left. health care il the economy are the oxygen out of the room in so many orders here iwashinon dc. weir the you see telecom policy in the next couple of mths? deasy someting happening on the fcc ajd the congressional level? plus, there are three n known new players on the fcc, robert mcdowell and michael copps were pretty well-known commodities and you have clyburn, meredith at well baker and the new chair, julius genachowski. >> guest: i don't see whole lot of concrete action happening at the fcc until later this year and when we see that it is

probably going to be about the national broadband plan a what you are going to see iin the gators. we are not actually going to see if howd kohr decision i don't think. it is just tooew. the place actually, would put my money on seeing action is in congress on the cybersecurity bill. i think we might see some floor action. the senate would be my bet before the end of the year. >> ht: noyes. >> guest: i would like to also place a bet on the reauthorization of the satellite ho viewer aft, portions of which are expiring at the end of th year, so it is essentially a statute that lets, that let people get o o that lets people in one communities c via satellite content from ather, from outside their area, and you is an issue that both chambers

are looking at in bills are mong forwa and they could punts this and just kind of extent the stacie tt we have in the books, but i think both the senate a house commerce committees have indicated that they want to push this forward so reauthorization of e satellite home viewer is where i think a lot of the action is going to be on capitol hill. >>uest: i heard there is quite a bit going on in that back rht now so when such an begins. another thing that i don't necessarily see action on in the near future but it's going to be an interesting battle to watch is on on line privacy and some of, a lot of the consumer groups and privacy groups have jt called on congress this week actually, some of the k players in the house, barton and boucher to take a hard look how internet companies le google and yao! and acebook do coect your data or information

about you as you are surfing the b and how that information is used for the ads did you presably are interted in. i think that is going to an interesting discussion going forward as the internet companies bring out their heavyweights to prove we are dog everything right to preserve prhvacy and in w congress does on the front. >> host: kim ht is with the hill, andrew is with news daily and fawn johnson is wh no jones. thank you all for being on the communicators. >> knousc-span2 read joint booktv with all this holiday programming. >> in your book, "culture o corruption" obama and his team of taxheats, crooks, and cronies fox news analyst michelle malkin asserts the era of hope and change died within six months of president obama taking offe because the people

behind it are correct. she calls the first lady in fis president biden the largest beneciaries of corporate world nepotism and discusses the secrets the administration is hiding. she appeared on c-span's washington journal. this is half an hour. >> host: glad to have you here on c-span this morning. >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: first of all you say obama's team, the best of washingtonnsiders is a dysfunctional endangers conglomerate of business as usual croes. barack omawns this cabet of tax cheats, crooks and cronies. it is his and his alone for a good judge hy the company he keeps. >>uest: yes, that is exactly right. i have to thank david brooks for helping inspire this book. the introduction to "culture of corruption" opens with a column he had written not long after the electionay and just sort of foretelling this clique of

achievatrons he called them and how phenomenally he was oppressed that obama had brought with him the best of the washinon insers. he praised their ivy league pediees and really this was sort of a repeat of this idea that somehow these smartyants were going to come in and change washington and really it didn't take long before the obama administtion disabuse us of that notion in a very bigay. i go through all of the botched minations and then a lot of the barely by the skin of their teeth, obviously tim geithner cos to md. everybod knows about him but there my others that i document. and i think one of the most important and relevant chapters i haven'talked aboutet been if you look at the front pagef "the new york times" you can see how relevant this is, is a chapter i did on the wall street

money men. a lot of treasury officialsied to goldman sachs and city who are now rping enormous benefits from the govnment bailouts that t geithner and henry paulson proceedings hymn helped engineer. >> host: with regard to the media you write, janitors in newsrooms across the country worked overtime after barack obama won the presidency. it wasn't easy cleaning the jewel off the laptops a the floors and the offices of journalists covering the greatest transition in world history and at the "new york times" he say that this "new york times," which resulted the financially troubled fishwrap of record had sold $2 million worth of obama themed merchandise. the times has a vested financial interest in propping up the obama administration. >> gst: i certainly think so,ested financial and ideological interests and that also gave me fuel to write this book. i did it in a very concentrated

time piod and while i was digging up all o these stories in documents in conflicts of interest and cronyism, my colleagues in much of the rest of the mainstream media were slobbering over thgreate transition in world history. but even there, that was quite a myth because the speed athich the obama administration put pele into place was no better than the reagandministration. there is a lot of hypabout um precedented this an unprecedented that and in the enwh i concluded was that what was the unprecedented f the amount of fais and lapses and business as usual that actually came back to office underneath the guise of ho and change. >> host: let's read some of th tweet comments. this is from ewer who says ms. malkin your president had a record low approval in your site loss. get ov it, get a life andet a real job.

>> guest: change the subject, changehe sject. anyonis familiar wit my book, particularly writing about bush and the last several months of the administration they wld know howar probably harder on pushtan obama i was, especially whe it came to being the architects of these failed financial bailouts and i tnk there is ite a irony that ght to be appreciated by this particular tweer, but oma, who promise not to continue the old, tired failed policies of the bush administration and yet has many of the treasury officials who helped initie those policies now in his own administration. >> host: the tweet? >> guest: i certainly do. you confi me at michelle malkin a before i came on i let everybody know that i would be here and i follo at c-span and at c-span wga. >> host: our phone lines are open and the numbe are at the

bottom of the screen. gi us a call resendiz and e-mailed, journalist at c-span.org you mentioned some the individuals who take a. rst of all you called the cia director leon panea "the perfect illustration of the beltway swamp creature andou fer to vice president biden, when it comes to ethical self policing that puts taxpayers' interests above the electoral and special-interest, joe biden doesn't have a series bone in his body and you referred to eric holder as a crime cobbling corporate lawyer. >> guest: i do, and i provi all the evidence for people to judge for themselves. i think the theme thats throughout "culture of corruption" is that there is a massive gap between the obama administrati's rhetoric and the reality. i am not arguing that influence peddlers and powerbrokers should be outlawed some help. everybodis cut to make a living but the point is that team obama came here on, as high

a course ase have ever seen into washington to change the way that they do business and yet they have people like leon panetta, who parlayed in entire career as a gernment servant into a mass of private wealth ago you have guy people the came from the hedge fund industry's who we bunglers. these were all the prototypes that barack obama can dems in michelle oba for that matter, and yet they fully embrace them in their administration and don't ink to a knowledge the hypocrisy there. >> host: you have move to colorado springs. how does that affecthe way you view this town? >> guest: i have always had rt of a mental and ideological detachment. that is obviously justn outgrowth of own political views as a conservative but i think it is much easier to view it from the outside, to have my ear to the ground in the

grassroots in the mouain west. i fe relieved liberated out there and the air is literally and figuratively fresher. >> host: mali is jning us very early from oakland, california, republican line for mielle malkin. call kogod bussey dear for putting up with the incredible abuse. e quick thing. i just bought your book in haven't had a chance to read it but what drives me crazy is the democrats, i want to cite obama saying every day you get t keep your private insurance i read the bill andt is an orwellian tight title of grandfathering health care insurance, it goes into explain how within one year of the writing of the legalizing of is bill private companies will not be able to sell these policies. people will not be able to go and get their own insurance within one year ofhis bill

passing and becoming law. and yet the president gets up there and boldface lights continually about it. you can keep their private insurance. private insurance isn't going to in business if we can't write new buness and another footnote come adjustable fates lie. common people-- and they feel perfectly justified in not having read this bill. i p them there and they are my servants and this wonderful plan, none of them are goingo take this plan. >> host: your responqe? >> guest: yeah, a couple of things. it is calling the contempt in the derision with which members of congress in particular have responded to members of e puic about the auestion of reing the bill, and the story of steny hoyer, the democrat leader essentially laughing when the queion was posed to him

tells y all you need to know out washington's commitment to transparency for that matter. i know that a lot of people call on to the republican line are as upt as i am that this president is essentially admitted thate had not read the billither. when he was that's specifically about the provisi first pointed out by business daily-- that individual market would basically be destroyed, he admitted that he hadn't even heard of that provision. and, i think that this mirrors the out rage, and resods during the stimulus debate, of these massive programs getting rammed through, and then the american people only discovering after they are passed ansigned into law, but they are not getting what they were promised and that in fact every single one of these it turned out to be a slush fund for special interests

and i think that is another reason why it was important to read the book, because when ese things come and when they are rammed through we do have the power to say stop and to ask and demand to know who benefits. i have such an in my chapter on czars about the health care this is somebody to, if she had and r by your name would have been condemned by team obama as he profit t-rec in the health care industry and in the last couple of years she made upwards of $6 million lobbying in workifg for various health care companies, hospital companies, and there has been very little disclosure of her activities and the white house because she is a czar. she is beyond congressional accountability. she works in e dark. weed no pink talev lanning watch group, crook, here in washington that the white's was meeting with these executives

and only enter fred of lawsuits did thehite house disclosed the executives. they had not however told us which white house administration officials weren those meetings. i guess what? nancy deparle has fincial ties to some of those executives who ran in the meetings. i would like to know, the public ouldnow wancy deparle in those meetings and if she was why didt she recused herself? >> host: dais joining us for michelle malkin, good morning. >>alr: good morning. this ishat makes politics-- i don't even know why c-span has this young lady there. i am wondering where ms. malkin -- naudible]

[inaudible] >> guest: you can just google my name. you can look at my blood in you will see that i was one of the loudest voices criticizing cronyism and nepotism in the bush administratn. you can find many left-wing blogs saying even michelle malkin is criticing michael braun t fema, a lot of dhs nepotism, which i investited and covered and uncovered myself, and also you can take a look at my files tsee, even most recently all of the work i have then criticizing the porkocrats in alaska,on young and ted stevens. think that, i think that my critics suffer from a moral equivalency wh they can't take a look at the book that i have written and tir immediate

response is, where were you, without informing themselves abt where exactly i was. bush is not in office anymore. bara obama is and that is why i wrote the book. >> host: let me ask you specifically about a couple of the photographs inside the book. the former governor of illinois, the mayor of chicago and president obama. >> guest: i thought it was very important to set the stage for the atmosphere, the culture, the political mhine that barack obama crew out of and there is a section in the book specifically on the episode invoing barack obama, valerie jarek and thesenior white house adviser and the consigliere from chicago and the conneions to e rod blagojevich scandal, and i go into great detail also about the service employees international union which was involved somehow, was roped into blagojevich's play to try and

trade favors for that senate seat. >> host: you also write about michelle obama, beneath the cultured pearls, sleeveless designer dresses, of false eyelashes applied bher full time make a artt michelle robinson obama ia hardall chago politico. the first lady long ago showed a willingness to employ acsations of racial oppression as the defense against criticism. >> guest: apparently thi chapter 2 of the book seems to be raising a lot of hackles among my critics because i am very tough on her and she deserves that. i have been extremely annoyed at the softball, a kid gloves treatment that she has gotten. i think people are cowed. ey don't want to be criticized as racisor female bashing or somehow mean to this glamorous first lady, but she was steeped in the politics of patronage. her father was a patronage

appointee of the daily administration and then she herself floated from the daily administration to a cozy job at the univsity of chicago medical center. i have a very interesting chart that blogger compiled the that put on page 65 of the book that shows the skyrocketing fob lary at this cozy job at the university of chicago between the time she was appointed and the time that barack obama won his senate seat and the salary nearly-- and they say that is the mere coincidence. after barack obama won the white house she lefthat job and they thought it was not important to filip after she lt. i also talked about i think it interesting episodehat happenedhile she was serving at the university of chicago medical center because it has relevance to the health care debate now. she eineered what many consider a patient dumng

scheme that bussed poor and nority patients out of the university of chicago emergency rooms to cmunity health centers that supposedly wld offer them better care. a lot of local activists did not think so andeither did the emergency physicians association, which did condemn it as illegal patient dping. the person that she hired to sell the plan was none other than david axelrod, susa sure who is now her chief of staff in the east wing was also involved as was valerie jarrett, the senior white house adviser who at the time of this incident was on the university of chicago board of directors. >> host: this is an e-mail and know you get a lot of attention because you are a contributor to the cost news. fox news has been critical of this president and the democratic party. generally your sense about the role of fox news plays in the dialogue here in this town? >> guest: there are many different parts of x and i

think people confuse thaand they keep saying it until we are blue in the face some people don't appreciate that yes, in prime-time you have hosts to have very strong opinions. sean hannity, glenn beck, bill o'reilly butven among those three there are very diverse opinions on basic policy matters and on how hard or hulsof to treat barack obama. and then of course there is the new side which i think is unfailingly fair and balance so again, to level an ad minem atck, fox, that discredits the 400 page book? >> host: the gst is michle malkin, the book is "culture of corruption." >> caller: i just found out who writes your paycheck and i want them to know-- i wanted to know if this book, what is your answer to allhese questions,

what is the answer-- you have a book out b you don't have any ideas? >> guest: i think that sunlight is the best disinfectant and they think disclosure will help eed disclosure and i also think there is simply that knowledge is power. i think that the american people have not been fully informed about jus how much an illusion hope and change, the era of hope and change has been so i think the book is part of the solution. >> host: another quo from the book, this with regard to secretary of state hilry clinton and former president of clinton, the cleanse the voice had a kck for attracting the dregs of their society to their donor rules and an even greater talent for avoidg the sustained media scrutiny that would ensue for the republicans. >> guest: i think they are the perfect still left-- illustration of the dble standard of the media and to cut the antithesis of he can

change and i understand the political strategy that went on and trying to neutralize hillary clinton by givin her the secretary of state position. but the lack of transparency of both of the clintons to route their political lifetime really should give pause to on its progress itself there who thought that barack obama was going to do differently, and i don't, it is not retread of all of the pat scandal, travelgate, white watergate, this did secret health care-- what it really does is go through the massive amount of conflicts of interest between bill clinton and his charitable foundations, many of their still undisclosed donors. we know about some of them come up for and state governments, very shady businessmen. in some cases convicted

criminals, and the kind of work that hillary clinton does not. the administration tells us and hillary clinton told us after she nt to the nomination that she would recuse herself when there were conflicts of interest. it is difficult to sawhen there wouldn'te, and basically they are recusal policy is just, trust us. >> host: george is joining us from tampa florida. welcome to the program. >> caller: i read your blogs all of t time and i think you are great. i think you are a great writer. i would like to know what happened to the-- whoeems to have left abruptly. i doelieve your book is going to be an ongoing project becau of all these changes in the administtion with all these creeks leading it. >> host: we should point out there is a photograph in the photographs we are looking at all from the book.

what about steven ratne >> guest: steven ratner just did leave overhe last weekend that is pro of my thesis that there is enough sunlight you can have accouability. he was under a cloud from the minute that barack obama appointed him the car czar who because his former company quadrangle has been involved in a longstanding now sec investigation of financial shenanigans. there is also a very strange incints involving the production of a movie cled "chooch," and a potential pay for-- faifa replace scheme in which rattner appareny had some dealings in promises with the director of's relative, involved with the movie. i d dedicate an entire chapter to the czars because i think this is one of the most troubling aspects of the administration. every republican and democrat

administration of recent memory s had sars. we had a drug czar, homeland security czar but it is some precedent the scope and the brett of the czars that barack obama has appointed and by the blogosphere's count there maye up to 44 of them now who have been installed b presidential authority. they don't have any congressional oversight and in ny cases they are completdly superfluous. we have the cretary of housing and urn development. y do we need an urban scire? adolfo consigliere a lot of people don't know we have him. why do we he a health care czar? nancy deparle, who were rectly mentioned in one of the reasons is the obama bettors got io so much trouble during formal nomination process, they just threw up their hands or somebody offered the idea of completely circumventg it. >> host: this e-mail going back to the show fox news, the problem is hannity and o'reilly

bilicheck factand promote lies >> guest: they are as accountable as abody else and they know that the rest of the mainstream media, the fox badgers are going to be on them li white on bryce and a lot of these left-wing organizations that dedicate their lives to thumbing through every sentence said on fox news are going to be, those kind of reports are then regurgitated almost word for word by a lot of the mainstream media, said the idea thathey are not held accountable for what they say on here is ridiculous again. i have a jokon mikelog about fox derangement syndrome, and i think it also serves as a convenient distraction fm what is going on in this administration and really how disappointed a lot of ese obama' supporters are. >> host: onef the photographs in the book is the current white house chief o staff rahm emanuel and this from

tony said would you please comment on obama's cheat the stephan is dual citizenship. i vot for obama. the nature of power attracts those who should not have it. >> guest: dual cizenship of rahm emanuel? it doesn't bother m >> host: the next call is john from sumpter south carolina. good morning. >> caller: good morning, good morning,ood morning. c-span i think you need to do a little better job. everybody opinions and this young ladyeeds to be on booktv, not c-span. let me make my comments. if she is so worried about this and worried about that, why the book? stating that hey, health care and all that other good sff, put it out and let the people vote on it instead going through all of these changes. if you don't like somebody that has been in office all these years and doing all this gre stuff, what the people vote on

term limits. you are sitting there going on and on. put me on, let me voice my opinion. >> host: you are on right no and we appreciate it. did you have a question? >> caller: yes, that was it. >> host: john, thank you. >> guest: call i will say is i'm really glad after all these years, t first time i appeared on c-span was six or seven years ago and i am still referred to as a young lady. i appreciate that. >> host: this is another tweak that says bravo big fan reading your articles in town hall. how did this book come together, how did you approach it and how did yo write it? >> guest: it was actually the inauguration and not long after that i just bore down. there was a lot of leverage between what they do in my syndicated column. i have been writing a twice weekly syndicated column since 1992