representative bill cassidy will join us at 8:30.ext, representative jim himes from connecticut will join us to talk about that. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> next month, the supreme court will hear oral arguments on the case still in with the constitutionality of the current fcc standards for indecency. it cites a 1978 case, fcc v. pacifica foundation. this saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> the listener pointed out that the words for broadcast at the time in the afternoon when a child could have been tuning the dial and would have come across those words. >> spend radio will bear the historic argument. listen to c-span radio in washington, d.c. 90.1 and online at c-spanradio.org. >> for each of the commissioners, do you believe that employees of the nrc have experienced intimidation, hostile or offensive conduct, by the chairman, anything that would be considered to be intimidating, hostile, or offensive by the chairman? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> ladies and gentlemen, that is the definition of harassment. i hope that we c

then we will talk to bill cassidy he has a medical degree. ilyn geewax.yl >> good morning.s committee will come to order. the oversight committee exist to secure to fundamental principles. americans have the right to know what they get from the money washington takes from them and that is well spent. americans deserve an effective government that works for them. our duty is to protect these rights. our responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers. taxpayers have a right to know what did they get from their government. we will work tirelessly to deliver the facts to the american people and bring genuine reform to the bureaucracy. today we have a distinguished panel. today we will hear from five commissioners and what i believe will be an extraordinary hearing. it is one in which the independent commission that americans rely on to inshore that we have safe -- ensure that we have safe and reliable nuclear power. it has become a concern to this committee that the commission is not operating in way that they can continue. i will not prejudge any one's motive. i

. >> honest answer, bill, i'm in good company with i think i mexicoed this last week to you william goldman the fellow who wrote butch cassidy and sundance kid and a bunch of other movies. he says when it comes it predicting success in the world of entertainment, quote, nobody knows anything. the honest answer is i don't know for sure what i have suggested in the past some people are poplar in the morning they are breakfast serial like corn flakes. katie couric was corn flakes. you don't eat that for dinner. >> bill: got to be a reason why it didn't translate. my assessment is katie couric came in with a deficit because of the rather situation and cbs local lead-ins were weak. they didn't have oprah and in many markets weak. the factor stands on its own. when we come on the audience goes up. we are called appointment viewing. people come in to see us thank god they do. katie couric was simply not strong enough on the desk i will give you three examples, walter cronkite, peter jennings and walter r. murrow. all extremely strong personalities. for some reason middle america, which is mostly what watches the evening news wants