under the arrangement sinclair , payroll, sales, and related services, sinclair has the right to choose up to 25 hours of programming. of the 168 14.88% hour week. fcc rules require ownership attribution in instances where a broadcaster programs more than 15% of another asian hot content -- stations content. >> she works for free press. they talked about me on their website. they talk about the reason why minorities and others cannot get into the broadcast industry is lack of capital. i am very clear that without , wearer's financial support could not do what we do. i do not want to go bankrupt. i do not want to shortchange my employees who are dedicated to making this work in the local market. i consider sinclair as a blessing. anybody was candid, they would say the same. anybody in the broadcast industry would not exist. this is the only vehicle in play. it ensures that others have a shot at becoming a broadcaster in this country. the numbers are dismal. why are they dismal? money. i do not have it. the fact is, they say, i cannot do it anymore. i want to be in this business, but i ca

without sinclair broadcasting i could not afford this. ice destroyed our generator and we were off the air for 16 hours. it was $400,000 to get a generator. you cannot calculate these expenses. i don't care about the wealth i have been blessed with there is no way i could survive this. this is why when my lawyers file with the fcc for the waivers we are confidant. i am involved with my general manager and becky in flint, michigan, we are on the phone daily. in the flint market we asked them to introduce myself to the staff and we asked why we cannot compete and it is because we don't have boots on the ground. producers, camera operators, anchor people, and six staffers that were necessary just to give us an opportunity in the market. that was almost $350,000 for those positions. you don't have that kind of money when you go into the situation with debt but sinclair broadcasting owns 168 stations and they are the largest owner in the country. they are supportive and encourage me and they are not involved. i deal with staff and we are makin

and so i consider sinclair as a blessing. and i would say this to you, and if anybody really were very candid, they would say the same publicly. without joint shared services agreement, without shared services agreement, minorities, anybody else getting in the broadcast industry is not existent. this is the only vehicle that is in place that assures that others have any shot at becoming a broadcaster in this country. there's no other vehicle. and the numbers are dismal. why are they failing? money. capital. they just don't have it. and it bleeds them to death. but fact is they said, you know, i can't take it anymore. i want to do this business, but i can't afford it. with sinclair and agreements that we have, i won't have that problem. >> host: after the decision yesterday free press said, it signals that fcc chairman tom wheeler is willing to break with the past and stop broadcasters from using shell companies the skirt the agency's ownership limits. the fact that lauren wilson said as a black woman i can't let this go unche

today, we know general jeffrey sinclair is going to plead guilty to lesser charges and not sexual assaultwhat kind of message do you think that sends? >> well, it sends the wrong message and it underscores why we have to take it out of the chain of demand. because the argument floor abannan doing the sexual assault charges have to do with undue influence. well, we don't want undue influence on baffle of the victim or on baffle of the assailant. we want an independent, individual within it to make that assessment. both as an attorney or versus. if we do that we'll have cases come forward that should be heard. why is it that only 5,000 cases of the reported, of the 26,000 that aren't record, of the 5,000 reported only 500 go to court-martial and only 250 are convicted. >> well, talking about pbwc, you come back here and this is something very close to your heart. why? >> well, i founded it 25 years ago. so this is a big year for us, the 25th anniversary of the professional business women of california. the conference now boasts more than 25,000 participants as actively involved in pbwc. eve

without sinclair, without their financial support, i could not afford these figures. during an ice storm in south carolina, and ice just destroyed our generator. >> there is no way to surthis without joint services agreements. >> this past monday the f.c.c. ruled that owners could not control more than one station in local markets. find out more monday on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> next, a discussion about this weekend's alexeis in afghanistan. after that, a conversation on the financial brokering practice known as high frequency trading. at 11:00 p.m., "q & a" with arthur matt taibbi, talking about his book, "the divide." >> next a discussion about the future of afghanistan and this weekend's presidential alexei. from "washington journal," this is 45 minutes. at c-span.org. michael e. o'hanlon is a seniors -- senior fellow at the brookings institute. us talk about the voting in afghanistan. it is gone smoothly. guest: it looks good. there is a long way to go. as you are aware, you have to get 50% of the vote in afghanistan to win. there wi

>> guest: i think it kind of interesting comparison would be a company like sinclair which has a lot of local news and a lot of local stations but also syndicates its own news packages. so you have things that are appearing to be local but are also given a particular or coming from a national organization but are given a bit of a local flavor or a local spin and the way in which television and radio as well eats up content so quickly. we are here today demonstrates the content where they can get it in the economies of scale are really important for the profitability of a local station. so that profitability in and of itself gave them a little bit of leeway. you know and this is also a story in terms of interaction of local and national. the intermediaries that made this possible. i also look at the different station management companies that basically sold advertising on these local stations for a national brand and did so in ways that the national brand didn't have distribution in an area and didn't want to buy a national network package on that. but again like shepard these are ind

>> den dean sinclair from alexandria virginia. earlier on in your talk today you talked about the fact that journalists are very much liberal in their political leanings may be 80% or more. is there something in the system that just draws liberal people to that kind of profession? is there something in the hiring mechanism? was going on there that makes is so overwhelmingly liberal? >> that's a really good question and i think it goes back in part to the education system that we talked about. most journalists are being trained in the liberal secular academies of this country so that's like we going to be what they produce. we have a lot of the statistics in "prodigal press" but gallup has been doing a survey about church attendance in america and that church attendance while it moves up and down and has trailed off a little bit in recent years has stayed around 40% when gallup asked the question have you attended a religious service in the last seven days which is a specific day for a question. close to 40% of americans answered y

, and i want to say very clearly for the records what happened in the sinclair case. the prosecutor wanted to drop the serious charges. the prosecutor wanted to say, i'm done. the special victims counsel, a captain who was working with that victim as a result of you standing up the unit so quickly, wrote a letter to the command saying this case should not be dropped. that special victims counsel was doing exactly what the senate and the house and the president signed into law. advocating for that victim in that environment. couldn't have been more correct in what she did, that victim's counsel. and somehow, that judge twisted that into undo command influence. well, that's a problem we're going to have to deal with, but i wanted the record to be very clear, and i want to get reassurances from you that the message will be sent to victims' counsel that she did what she should have done, not in any way do anything that's inappropriate within the ucmj, and i don't know how the judge got to that interpretation, i don't know how the command is influenced by a captain who is

sinclair, tribune broadcasting. they exist primarily on the retrans fees they get right now.you can watch your local news and weather on aereo, you will not buy cable, and cable will not pay these guys. >> porter, thank you very much. we'll rely on you to explain it for us. >> all right. it will be an interesting challenge. it's really -- the cause of all of this is the flawed copyright law that is congress has passed the last 40 years. they have to be readjusted refocused for new technology. >> themes, thank you, porter. sue, down to you. >>> we have a big market day on our hands. a triple-digit rally. the s&p is up almost 12, and the nasdaq composite on track for the sixth straight day of gains. keep in mind the last 14 tuesdays in a row have been very positive for the market. in addition to that, the transportation average is sharply higher. and we're in earnings season, how are earnings contributing to the move. thanks, gentlemen, for joining me today. i appreciate it very much. dave, i'm going to start with you. we are in earnings season. so far so good, though we should

because as the great upton sinclair once said, it is difficult to get a man to understand something whenis salary depends on his not understanding it. joining me now former environmental protection agency administrator christine todd whitman. what accounts for this reversal we've seen in the last six years from republicans even on this basic thing is manmade climate change happening, is it real, and then we can ask a question about what to do about it. >> i think it's all part of an overall trend that we're seeing of every issue is looked at through this partisan prism. if we make this another third rail, we can use it. and it's hard for people to understand. you saw the latest pew poll that came out today that fewer people are willing to admit that global warming is due to human activity. we hate this regulatory body that's coming in trying to take away our rights and they're playing to a base that has gotten them the votes they needed to control the house and they're hoping to control the senate. and so that's the problem we have here. both sides are starting to do this more and more.

we have the military situation with brigadier general sinclair, which really amplifies a point that oursses are in need of refinement. if we, in fact, are going to get to some solution to these problems. so we've got a lot of work that we could be doing. accountability is important. good and strong and fair investigative processes, and then trials and hearings are important. and all of these are lessons that we thought we had begun to learn in 1991, but as the film shows us, we haven't completed learning. >> indeed, and thank you for keeping to teach and keeping the message very, very current. thank you, professor anita hill. very good to see you again. >> well, thank you. and everyone else really for raising the public awareness of this issue, because the media does play an important role in making sure that we keep dilige diligent. >> thank you. >>> and we are continuing to light up for blue for world autism awareness day. the founders of autism speaks, bob and suzanne wright joining me next. your heart ♪ ♪ you have to let me know [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come togethe

the head of sinclair oil did testify to congress. he ended up going to prison in the scandal. the head of one of the other oil companies that was implicated in the same scandal, his son ended up dead less than a year later in a mysterious murder/suicide that's still never totally been explained. warren g. harding's interior secretary, albert fall, the guy who took the bribes to get the cheap oil leases, he got convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. would have been millions in bribes in today's money. one of the lasting historical impacts of the scandal is that albert fall, interior secretary, became the first former u.s. cabinet official to get sentenced to prison for something he did while he was in office. even before fall went to prison, less than a year and a half after the "wall street journal" break the story, president harding himself dropped dead on a trip to california that people thought he had taken to distract from the ongoing scandal in washington. so warren g. harding never even served a full term as president. but he is considered to be

>> den dean sinclair from alexandria virginia. earlier on in your talk today you talked about the fact that journalists are very much liberal in their political leanings may be 80% or more. is there something in the system that just draws liberal people to that kind of profession? is there something in the hiring mechanism? was going on there that makes is so overwhelmingly liberal? >> that's a really good question and i think it goes back in part to the education system that we talked about. most journalists are being trained in the liberal secular academies of this country so that's like we going to be what they produce. we have a lot of the statistics in "prodigal press" but gallup has been doing a survey about church attendance in america and that church attendance while it moves up and down and has trailed off a little bit in recent years has stayed around 40% when gallup asked the question have you attended a religious service in the last seven days which is a specific day for a question. close to 40% of americans answered y

we stay on the west coast on wednesday for the biography for the activist of upton sinclair in san francisco then on thursday we're in kentucky as investigative journalist and author matt taibi reports on the intersection of financial inequality from the louisville public library. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. for more go to booktv.org and visit "upcoming programs." ♪ ♪ >> clerking each year -- collecting each year $100 billion or more in federal taxes, the internal revenue service probably has continuing contact with more citizens of the united states than any other agency of the federal government. internal revenue's most dramatic operation, perhaps, is the alcohol and tobacco tax division which regulates for tax purposes the liquor and tobacco industries and works earnestly to restrain the manufacture of illicit alcohol products. [gunfire] >> the billions of cigarettes and cigars smoked annually in this country is yet another basis of tax relationship between the citizen and the revenue service. all this variety of effort and acti

electrical transformers and cutting lines because and $50 million in damage and affecting millions of sinclairmplemented new security measures trade at their offices go on family owed at kron 4 news >> : boulders blocking off-road motor as from accessing this private land stopping a major problem for our residents who live here. there was no traffic and here at all know overdrive no motorcycles it was very quiet. after residents reached out property owners stepped up their efforts blocking access to off-road vehicles. thank you kron 4. here in services go happen again vehicles striking someone in the crosswalk this time the victim of the to your boy on a bicycle. they're heading out of golden gate park at making a left turn from 43rd on two holes and gives the children trowels and across like a no. that's when the collision occurred. neighborho'y dangerous intersection. oftentimes not pay attention. in san francisco >> : the big story here. police chief along with other officers handed out these reflective wristbands to students it's all an attempt to bring a more public awareness to the issue

station, back to ww m.d., billy huggins, who is my general manager, we put that back in place without sinclair. i, alone could not afford these figures. there's an ice storm in south carolina about a month ago. i still stored our generator. we were off the air from a 16 hours. to get a generator was $400,000. these are the kind of expenses that you cannot calculate. i don't care what kind of wealth i may have been blessed with, with's no way with my two three television stations can survive this without these joint services and shared services agreement. >> the fcc rule that owners cannot control more than one station in the same local market . using joint sales agreement and shared services agreement. find out more tonight on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> on thursday, a house oversight and government reform subcommittee held a hearing focused on state health insurance exchanges. witnesses included officials from hawaii, massachusetts, maryland, minnesota, california and oregon. hearing came just three days after open enrollment ended. this is 2.5 hours. >> the committe

you know you sad little earlier that sanctions are detrimental to everyone american traitor jim sinclair assessed to us the shooting itself innocent with sanctions because russia could accept payment for gas and oil in other currencies undermining the dollar do you think that's possible and is washington prepared for that. well. i think that i think they should be free to do that they think they should try to take care of their own business i saw one place where what russia was going to have an exchange of service is just sort of old fashioned bartering oil products for food products or whatever products are looking for so i would think in this age of modern technology they will be able to avoid also it is detrimental when this international payment system is interrupted there should be alternatives and there may well be alternatives and who knows somebody might come up with a gold standard or something more honest than the type of system that we have today now you yourself have called sanctions and the act of war and unilateral sanctions are a common tool for the west to pressure other

meredith sinclair is contributor for ttpm. and we've got to keep them entertained.urse. everyone through the bubble wall and down they go. it gets everyone active and running around. right after you've eaten all of that. >> this is great. >> okay. guys. next thing. coloring the eggs, right. some fun ways, creative ways to color eggs that aren't traditional way. the first thing you have, use kool-aid. >> i've already about this. and you don't need vinegar because the citric acid in the kool-aid works. it's fun. you don't have to worry abstaining the hands. it will come off. this is probably my new favorite way to color eggs. you take the shaving cream. foil, make the egg candy, and plop it right into the color. take the egg. right in. drop it in. let it sit for a moment. then when you take it out, it makes these beautiful watercolors. >> oh. kids love playing that. >> that's great. >> okay. over here, we have two other kids. >> instead just everybody's individual baskets filled with candy, the fun way to get them outside is to create an obstacle. >> we've created a s

without sinclair, i alone could not afford these figures. ice just destroyed our generator.we were off the air for almost 16 hours. was $400,000.r these are the kinds of expenses you cannot calculate. i don't care what kind of wealth i may have been blessed with. there is no way with my owning two or three television stations that i survive this without these shared services agreement. >> this past sunday, the fcc will that owners cannot control more than one station in the same local market using joint sales agreement and shared services agreement. find out more tonight on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> and the u.s. house is said to gavel back in about -- in about 20 minutes. but before they do, some of today's white house briefing with jay carney talking about paid his commission and other topics. >> a quick question on the issue of equal pay. the president slated a figure of woman making $.77 on the dollar compared to men. i wonder if you -- a couple of people have looked at white house studies that said the median salaries in the white house, women