. >> i am delighted to now introduce the board of trustees, jacob weisberg, who has been involved in the internet before we knew what it was since 1996. eer in then a pionw field and what we talked about how to take on the topic whouding experts and people signed net neutrality and their eyes glazed over and we got the perfect person would be jacob weisberg so over to you. >> thank you. want to think of the fordham system for sponsoring this event. we are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. a hallucination of this interesting and lively and very urgent issue. i want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make opening statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. i will start with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for "the nation." that he works for the democracy for and author of a new book called the "big disconnect." agree with the premise. to my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent unsuccessful yet widely successful campaign for lieutenant governor with 39% of the vote

jacob weisberg so over to you. >> thank you. and thank you, karen. and i want to thank the fordham center for sponsoring this event. we are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. we are going to aim for an active elucidation of this lively and very urgent issue. i want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make opening statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. i will start right here with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for "the nation." but more recently he works for the democracy forum author of a new book called the "big disconnect." why the internet has not transformed politics yet. good line, i agree with the premise. to my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent unsuccessful yet wildly successful campaign for lieutenant governor with 39% of the vote. >> 40%. 40.1. >> that is amazing with no background in politics. his background is "slate" writer. they tend to over perform unexpectedly. he is the author of a book called "the master

jacob weisberg so over to you. >> thank you. i want to thank the fordham system for sponsoring this event. we are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze over. we'll have this interesting and lively on a very urgent issue. i want to briefly introduce the panel and then give them a chance to make opening statements and will mix it up and save time for questions. i will start with my old friend micah sifry and i know him going back to when he was a writer for "the nation." that he works for the democracy forum author of a new book called the "big disconnect." i agree with the premise. to my left is tim wu, you may recognize him from his recent unsuccessful yet widely successful campaign for lieutenant governor with 39% of the vote. >> 40%. >> with no background in politics. his background is "slate" writer. he is the author of "the master switch: the rise and fall of information empires." relevant for today, he coined the term net neutrality and no discussion of it is complete without his perspective. and next to him, jef

back with me are jacob weisberg and sam stein and joining us is founding editor of chief science adviserears of living dangerously, joe roam. let's talk about james inhofe and what his chairmanship portends. he was chairman of this same commity from 2003 to 2007 and it feels like the change has shifted and how much damage can one man do? >> you control the senate environment committee. you have all these hearings. you can drag out the usual people who spread disinformation on climate change. so it's a bully pulpit. obviously they'll roll back epa efforts to control carbon pollution. not much is coming out of the senate beforehand so i don't think that a lot of terrible things will come out of it now, but, we're at a time and the report you referred to says we're going to act now if we'll avoid pretty consequential impact. so every year or two we lose is now, you know, really serious. >> sam, in terms of what may happen, this week the keystone pipeline has been mentioned by both sides of the aisle. josh earnest said it would consider a keystone bill as a writer, what is the likelihood tha