. >> good afternoon, i currently serve as the president of cmac and i'd like to read a letter from our executive director. on behalf of the board of directors on the california music and calture association, it is my [inaudible] to the entertainment commission. over the past year as commissioner earnestly and not out of malice, but from an honest desire to inform, instruct and otherwise prepare our would be committees the responsibilities as club owners. we have seen him out in the field late at night gathering first hands street level information as it unfolds and morphs from season to season, being personally acquainted with good and bad players as they come to the scene. in addition to the obligations he performs reckly throughout the city, he has served on the board of directors and has been he a toendz nearly every meeting and is an active par tus pant [inaudible] as well as a host of local problems. on personal note i believe steven's highest qualifications to the entertainment commission lies in managing the glass cat. that's where i first met him. as managing partner of the hot

is a bear hug deficit to a should cmac i will stay out of that one is the one in the end do you likef these two countries coming together? >> i can't opine on whether it's good or bad or whether i like it, but there is a compelling reason that scale does matter in this day and age and those assets are pretty synergistic. liz: having been through the aol time warner merger, which did not end well and that was more than $160 billion in this is mike 85 billion. tell me what needs to be avoided and what should be done because the talk about cnn and the regulators not getting too upset. what needs to happen to make this-- >> at the end of the day you said it, which is to the cultures mesh and if you ask me what went wrong with aol time warner merger it was on that culture. completely different culture for a lot of different reasons, neither good nor bad, but did not mesh and i think that is probably-- i'm sure before a bid was made someone thought long and hard about that because that is what makes mergers work. smaller workers and big cubbies is pretty easy, mergers of similar size cubbi

>> cmac i don't think they will ever come around if you get the states in the persian gulf.y will never cannot say that, are somewhat accepting that. a lot of time very few friends, certainly not the egyptian government, which would like to see it go away now that there is a new government agent and not that muslim brotherhood, really hamas' only friend left is a ron street and number states professor we should also feel some say before average palestinians who are part of this. the fact is, they are not doing well in this war and is clear that instigated this. i think people think that yahoo's movement into the gaza strip is reasonable considering this disruption. hopefully this is actually the beginning of the end that they are degraded significantly and they will get their token amounts of israeli casualties. unfortunately, so they can claim some sort of face. stuart: that would be an interesting turn of events. thank you for join us. with what is happening yesterday as it was having the president took time for a photo op with a young girl who had written a letter. he ate