the reason at&t, comcast and verizon -- although verizon is quiter, embrace 706 and i believe there is a meaningful difference and understand title 2 the fcc could keep the network open and prevent blocking and monatizing of their network that i think the big companies want to do. they should be allowed to monatize networks but not by saying we are going to charge you more based on how you use them. meaning netflix cost one thing and amazon another thing. and the problem with putting it on the internet user is these companies are saying everybody on the internet is now a customer of the isp. if i come to cspan.org and visit with my broadbrand connection, c-span is now a customer of my internet service provider and can be charged for the privilege of reaching me and that is the discrimination and priortization that is out of bounds to us. we will not what we are loosing out on once that person is in the driver seat and saying only certain sites will relationship you reach you based on the relationship. >> guest: a lot of the debate we are having can be on any telecom issues. there is al

so in some respects it has been a little bit quiter, but we still get the outbreaks with tank shelling from the coast, shelling is continuing along the eastern border of gaza. air strikes, and as we just heard only a few minutes ago, rockets coming out of gaza towards israel. >> speaking of those outgoing rockets, nicole, we know that prime minister netanyahu has said that this operation is not going to be slowing down until their military objectives have been met. he said this after the security cabinet meeting on wednesday. has there been much of a response from hamas? >> reporter: no, we haven't had a formal sfons from them. they do release statements from time to time, and they're fairly similar. they say for their part they will continue their resistance. they will continue fighting against israel. they also reiterate that they won't accept any ceasefire for as long as israeli soldiers are operating inside the gaza strip while they're continuing on tunnels from a palestinian perspective and the perspective of the other factions here, they say that it's not a real ceasefire for as

history as one of the greatest mistakes ever in american foreign policy in terms of deciding to go into quitersone of which was necessary in afghanistan, and an optional war in iraq, without ever going to the american people and saying that these were such important endeavors that we needed to actually raise taxes to pay for them. what that did is it created enormous deficits. it said the stage for the economic crisis that occurred in 2008 and it is a hole that we will be digging ourselves out of for a decade or more. it is an enormous mistake. on the whole you idea of the sequester in the beginning? >> i think the sequester was a dumb idea. i understand the intention. the intention was to create a prospect of something so horrible, these deep across-the-board cuts, no distinguishing between egg priorities and things that were unimportant. it was supposed to be a sort of hanging over the heads of the budget negotiators to ensure that they would come to a deal. ,hat this would be so draconian you couldn't possibly not come to a deal. well, we didn't get to a deal. it came down on our heads. this