our friend jonathan edelstein, undertaking the most difficult job, which is the digital television transition. it is the era of the three amigos, led by the chief amigo here. mike copps, i will destroy all the credibility we have for our constituents, we agreed 100% of the time. items 50 votes on major and we voted together unanimously on all 50 of those items. the only divide we cannot bridge was the tar heels and i am a duke blue devil. the transitions are very important. the bush to obama transition, we worked with the obama transition team. we talked about ideas and things like fcc process reform. we worked on those issues as well. what can be more transparent, more public comments, etc. all of these things are very important in terms of policymaking and the nuts and bolts operations of government. you can disagree on the outcome, which should have a fair process in the interim. michael: the city has gotten a lot more partisan over the last few years. but harkening back, i hope we can keep that in mind as we move ahead. obviously, there are always two, three votes, division on big issues.

mike deserves a lot of credit and jonathan edelstein as well, the other democratic mission or at the time because as you can see from our dialogue, we disagree probably a lot area a, we share a personal relationship as with jonathan as well and we all three believe in the process of making it transparent. we're also very focused on the digital tv transition. at the beginning, that was the biggest thing the fcc had ever undertaken to affect tens of millions of consumers across the country in all 50 stat and it was absolutely necessary as we tried to auction off pieces of those airwaves for mobile broadband use. so that was, that collaborative atmosphere was something mike and i, jonathan, we all made a point of making sure that the commission staff who were very instrental in building out across the country to help educate consumers on what they needed to do to adjust the tv transition. that was a great moment for them, i think morale improved as a resultbut we did have the advantage of being focused by the very big project that was hugely bipartisan piece of legislation coming out of