annie and i moved to aspen. after he'd spent the whole winter out here, we decided to move, and we pulled in to aspen. it was a great time. i'll never forget. john was on the road, and i pulled in, and i thought, "oh, my gosh, we're really home." >> ♪ see the sunlight ♪ through the pine. ♪ taste the warm ♪ of winter wine. ♪ dream of softly ♪ falling snow, ♪ winter's cold aspen glow. ♪ as the winter days unfold, ♪ hearts grow warmer ♪ with the cold. ♪ peace of mind ♪ is all you know, ♪ winter's cold aspen glow. ♪ aspen is a life to live. ♪ see how much ♪ there is to give. ♪ see how strongly ♪ you believe. ♪ see how much ♪ you may receive. ♪ smiling faces all around, ♪ laughter is the only sound. ♪ memories that can't ♪ grow old, ♪ winter's cold aspen glow. >> john denver: a song's best friend. now, that was wonderful, and that's just act one. wait till you see the rest of this program. i'm mark simone. >> i'm theresa statz-smith watching this wonderful program with you. >> he is wonderful, and what universal appe

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with more than the other books we talked about, and that was a total coincidence that they met in aspen at a celebration, and she got the man uscript. it's dubious. he made a great point of, you know, not entering the war and so on, and he was so strong in his views he finally discredited himself even when the press felt he had gone too far which he had, of course. >> this is a lesson about publishing. it seems two exiles publish the essays of the wife of a famous american antisemitist. >> it is a curious story. i don't know the full background behind it. of course, by then, you know, everyone forgot the fall, and she didn't overly share her innermost thoughts, but indirectly, she helped pay for the publishing companies, so i guess it was a good thing. >> okay. so then to move forward a bit, so it was bought by random house in 1960, and they brought you in to take over? >> well, not quite. i never thought i would work there. my father died when i was very young. the wolf's had never suggested they would want me to come there, and i went to work for mass market paperback house which is w

it will be interesting to see whether blair now that he's over at the aspen institute whether perhaps you persuaded him about the last 10%. let me say two quick things. i mentioned the audience that we want to have questions from them, which, of course, we're going to have, but i want to invite the panelists to react when we go through the initial prosecutions to -- presentations to their fellow panelists if they have reactions, so keep that in mind, and then the other thing i wanted to remind you of is we have a hash tag for twitter for the conferences on the back of your brochure, sfs conference if you decide you want to treat about -- tweet about something going on. with that, jim? >> thank you, randy. really pleased to be invited here today. in fact, i can't tell you how pleased. for five years i wanted to be on a panel entilted what comes after net neutrality. [laughter] actually, i think we can all agree that the net neutrality debate which has consumed the last of two years has been both exhaustive and also exhausting. it's really sucked all the oxygen out of the room, and it's

blair is presently a communications and society fellow at the aspen institute and need i repeat, once more, that blair is -- was the executive director at the commission leading that team of hundreds that developed the national broadband plan. you may have noticed blair is also going to be on the next panel. that means he's getting paid double for doing this today, but i should hasten to add that two times zero is still zero. okay. so with that, we're going to get started, and we'll hear first from jonathan baker. >> thank you, randy, and good morning. i am speaking for myself this morning and not necessarily for the federal communications commission or any commissioner. and i'd like to talk about merger review at the fcc because a merger proceeding can be a vehicle for implementing broadband policy which is what our panel is about. i would like to use the recent comcast-nbc universal transaction as an example to address some of the concerns i've heard raised about the way the fcc approaches mergers. to remind you first about the transaction itself, comcast is the nation's largest cab

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you're right on the slopes, a couple minutes from aspen, a great little town.ut santiago is fan as particular as well because of what it gives you access to. the desert, the patagonian ice fields and the ritz-carlton gives you access to an incredible amount of luxury right in the heart of the city. their wine collection in the restaurant is 365 different chilean wines. if you want a wine education while down there, this is a great way to do it. >> if you buy the tickets, are these tickets for just in the next, say, months in terms of getting a deal? >> depends on which deal it is, it's all the way through spring. i think you can be flexible. as you get into spring break, holidays, the prices go up a little bit. this is a great window before spring break to get traveling. >> thank you so much for the good ideas. up next, now that you have planned the romantic getaway, how about a romantic meal. who better to give us one than giada? she has a delicious easy pasta if you're staying in tonight. first this is "today" on nbc. ad? she has a delicious easy pasta if you

only so prize the brainpower for a lot of these collections, you with a hands on and defeat on the aspen witt and did the doorknocking. you drove people to the polls. because this was a historic change election. and this was the change that we were hoping for, and you did it. so give yourself a much deserved round of applause. iq. -- i do. and i think after all that work is altogether fitting and proper that we throw ourselves a huge party, and so here we are going to party. and so conveniently enough, i'm throwing you a party today at 5:30 p.m. so come one come all, the bar tab is my. come to my party. you're all welcome, all 11,000 of you. so one drink per limit. so, 5:30 today. your all welcome to i want to thank your handle and a person want to thank everyone of you for everything you did and paid off. after this weekend, we need to start focusing on step two of taking the country back. as much as we are patting ourselves on the back this weekend, and we were successful, now it's a step too. step one will be for not if we don't successfully complete step to. are you savvy? are you sa

tell us what really happened in that house in aspen? or what really happened in new york city?> i can't do that here. i have to expose people. regardless what too many foolery they rolled in with, i can't do that. i don't roll people. >> reporter: were you violent? >> no. no, i was not. >> reporter: why did they say you were violent? >> i don't know. it was making stuff up. consider the source. and everybody takes their word over mine? >> reporter: do you have a violent side at all? >> when -- now? today? when it's needed, to protect my family, absolutely. and it's unlike anything you'll ever see. >> reporter: are there any drugs in this house? >> to my best knowledge, no. >> reporter: there are no drugs in the house right now? >> not that i know of. if i find them, i'll throw them away. eww, drugs in my house. >> reporter: how about the people who supply you with drugs? are they out of your life? >> again, i can't speak about things that are, sort of, you know -- i just -- that's really nobody's business. i think you know the answer to that. you know? >> reporter: are you will

blair is presently a communications and society fellow at the aspen institute and need i repeat, once more, that blair is -- was the executive director at the commission leading that team of hundreds that developed the national broadband plan. you may have noticed blair is also going to be on the next panel. that means he's getting paid double for doing this today, but i should hasten to add that two times zero is still zero. okay. so with that, we're going to get started, and we'll hear first from jonathan baker. >> thank you, randy, and good morning. i am speaking for myself this morning and not necessarily for e federal communications commission or any commissioner. and i'd like to talk about merger review at the fcc because a merger proceeding can be a vehicle for implementing broadband policy which is what our panel is about. i would like to use the recent comcast-nbc universal transaction as an example to address some of the concerns i've heard raised about the way the fcc approaches mergers. to remind you first about the transaction itself, comcast is the nation's largest cable

he left the fcc and the spring of 2010 to take a job at the aspen institute. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. and welcome to this special city club forum today where we are honored to have the principal architect of the national broadband plan brought to you in partnership between one community and rutgers university. i majority. i'm honored to be able to make the introduction of our guest speaker for today. and i've been involved with technology and 20 for many years. as the founding president of nortech and just recently i've been asked by fitzgerald to own -- to join his team as the director. so very excited to be here at the city club with all of you. but more excited to individual guest speaker. here in northeast ohio we are fortunate to have several organizations that recognize importance of broadband early on. thanks to the work of one community and its cofounders including northwestern university, nortech, i region has been positioning itself to compete in the 21st century, knowledge economy. many other local leaders have emerged as well, some

levin now serves as communications and society fellow with the aspen institute communications and societyrogram. please join me in welcoming mr. levin. [applause] >> thank you very much. is a great pleasure to view today and i want to thank my cousin adam who is a native. here he is over there. a native of cleveland. is a great pleasure to see him and his family, but i'm actually not here just to see family. i'm here to talk about a sputnik moment. nation is having a sputnik moment. in late november energy secretary chu suggested the gains in the clean area energy should be seen as a sputnik moment. shortly thereafter a reagan official pat had an op-ed in "the wall street journal" saying a recent international test scores showed an education we are in the midst of a sputnik moment. at the same time senator kerry was on "meet the press" saying we are having a sputnik moment and the president went to north carolina and devoted an entire speech describing this generation's sputnik moment. many other started using the phrase. david rocks from "the new york times" summed it up by saying it rep

levin serves as communications society fellow with the aspen institute communications and society programsplease join me in welcoming mr. levin. [applause] >> thank you. it's a great pleasure to be here today and i want to thank my cousin, adam, there he is over there, a native of cleveland. it's a great pleasure to see him and his family. but i'm actually not here just to see family. i'm here to talk about a moment. our nation is having a sputnik moment in late november energy secretary chu suggesting the clean energy areas should be seen as a sputnik moment. shortly thereafter a wave of education officials had an op-ed in "the wall street journal" saying that a recent international to score showed that if education we are in the midst of a sputnik moment. at the same time, senator kerry and north carolina and a lot in entire beach to describe akaka generations but mcclelland and others started using david brooks and "the new york times" summed it up by saying it represents a pervasive sense of the nation this but the moment where it either rises to face the international competition or i

on paper 28th, the aspen institute will announce the launch of its new center for native american youth under the leadership of our friend, senator byron dorgan. this new program is the centerpiece of senator dorgan's legacy to the well being of our native people. it will be a center that is committed to improving the overall health, the safety and well being of native youth and notably, the prevention of youth suicide. so i look forward to working with the senator dorgan on identifying those strategies that have truly made a difference in preventing suicide among our native youth, and formulating new strategies towards this and. [applause] >> president keel also mentioned the significance of energy. and as we watch with growing concern to energy prices rising again, it's important that we once again focus on the relationship between energy costs and economic sustainability of our native communities. indian land contains an estimated 10% of all energy resources in the united states. and yet, energy resources on native lands are vastly undeveloped. i am one who believes that america need