certain that we address what i view is having been an opportunity gap communities that do not have brdband. then they're not able to go in and expand educational opportunity for their students. they're not able to utilize telemedicine and health care information. they're not able to recruit new factories that can bring jobs to those the underserved areas. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> coming up next, q&a with investigative journalist edward j. epstein. then we take your phone calls and look at toyed's headlines on "washington journal." -- today's headlines on "washington journal." he knew without a doubt that snowden was lying when he claimed that the u.s. government had trapped him in moscow. he knew that snowden was lying when he said he had no contact with russian intelligence. he knew that snowden was lying when he said he had only taken whistleblowing documents. given those facts, there is him to giveason for him a pardon, and he did not give him a pardon. >> your book, called "how america lost its secrets: edward snowden, the man and the theft," w