howard buskirk of communications daily is our guest reporter. commissioner rosenworcel, the issue we have talked about for years here on the communicators is usf reform. forou see any potential actual reform in the u.s. have? -- usf? >> no matter where you live in this country, you have an opportunity to have first-rate communications. got to the agency, my colleagues embarked on a very significant reform project. they took the universal service system and migrated it from a system focused on telephony to broadband and wireless services. i think that is a terrific thing. they also increased accountability in the program. they put it on a budget. it is all good. i will also say that the program has gotten very competent at and i think that -- confiscated and ted and that -- complica that makes it hard for rural areas. going forward, i hope we can make it more simple so the carriers can get the support they need to provide the communications they want to provide. a vital program? >> absolutely. >> one thing the fcc hasn't looked at his reforming t

the senate moves and i think you'll be up to -- when they confirm the two nominees. >> host: howard buskirkme ask a follow-up question. you mentioned spectrum aggregation and no carrier should be able to buy all the spectrum so to you for see the fcc imposing some kind of restriction in terms of bidding that would keep the two dominant carriers at&t and verizon wireless from the two arduous care -- carriers? >> guest: like i said everyone should have an opportunity participate and there should be opportunities for the incumbents there are several proposals we have before us right now and my office is looking at them. >> guest: another complaint that small carriers have had is they would like to have the spectrum sold in smaller slice sizes rather than economic sizes is that something that you are working on right now is an issue some are saying they won't participate in the auction if the license size is not small enough. >> guest: i think it's something we'll have to take a look at but i understanunderstand the simplicity of these economic areas. >> host: commissioners rosenworcel two big

the table, and joining our conversation is communications daily's executive senior editor, howard buskirk. >> commissioner, you mentioned two big issues that i think there's a lot of fcc watchers believe will dominate the commission over the next year, so the first was the incentive auction, and i'm just wondering from your perspective how far along do you think planning is, what are the pressure points, what are the concerns about the auction going forward? because the goal has been to do one in 2014, but that is starting to look like it could be difficult. >> guest: well, i'll say for starters that i'm confident that i can be ready to do these auctions in 2014. i actually have some confidence in the agency's ability to do so too. that's because when you look at the record that we have when it comes to incentive auctions and auction policy generally, i think it's pretty tremendous. be about two decades the fcc has had authority to hold spectrum auctions, and we've held 80 auctions. we've issued more than 36,000 licenses, and we've raised more than $50 billion for the united states treasu

. >> host: jessica rosenworcel is the new member of the fcc and howard buskirk is the executive senior at medicatiomedicatio ns daily and this has been "the communicators" on c-span. >> mr. president, president obama will make his case to the american people tomorrow finally , explaining why he wants to take military action against syria. his explanation is long overdue. i think i have really good idea of what i expect he will say. first he will explain we have compelling evidence that was assad himself who use long banned chemical weapons to murder his own people. this was not seriously contested neither i or any of my colleagues dispute the sad facts and it's been well-documented by our intelligence sources. as a member of that committee i have had access to those sources and i don't doubt the conclusion of the president and others that assad is responsible for this. the president will also most likely explained such a horrendous violation of international norms deserves a worldwide response of condemnation. who could possibly look at those standards and those rooms full of dead chil