confirmations of the two new fcc commissioners are two very well known be technology reporters, cecilia kang with "the washington post," amy schatz with "the wall street journal." amy schatz, senator rockefeller seemed to hit this really hard, that this was very important and that these nominations were important. what was his goal with that? >> guest: well, jessica has worked for him for the past five years, so i think he had a vested interest in this in a way that most senate commerce committee chairmen don't. they really want to have five people at this commission because it's a hot harder to find consensus when you've only got three bodies there. when you're looking at doing mergers, you'd like to have five people in there. this has been something that's been holding on for a while, and they were excited to get it finished this week. >> host: cecilia kang, what do we know about jessica rosenworcel? >> guest: we've been seeing her sitting behind the senator in many meetings on the hill. she is, as is her colleague-to-be, ajit pai, they've worked at the fcc before, they know tech policy in

islamic cecilia kang, what we know about jessica rosenworcel? >> we know quite a bit in what we have seen her for five years has mentioned, sitting behind a senator in many hearings and many meetings on the hills. she is colleagues to be there veteran. the fcc official. the new the policy inside and out and so they are not -- to your coming with this subject matter and what is interesting about them is they're coming at a time when the fcc is going through the tremendous transformation from a legacy technologies and tsl internet to broadband and wireless, and in many ways represent this generation that sort of lived more so than other members in the past so they are coming not only with expertise but being kind of straddling the generation that's losing the transition to broadband internet. >> eni schatz and ajit pai they both worked in the senate, is that significant cracks skidded one of the things is different about ajit is hughes a brightly broad resonate. the work for german rockefeller for reviews and before that spent years of the fcc in

. >> host: amy schatz, "wall street journal," cecilia kang, thank you both for the coming over, and they should be in office by the time this "communicators" airs. >> coming up next, a discussion about the u.s. role in managing global conflicts in postwar nations. then we're live with remarks by armed services committee ranking member john mccain on american defense and trade interests in asia. and later the senate returns at 2 p.m. eastern for debate on the export/import bank bill that aims to help u.s. exporters sell their products and services overseas. >> later today former u.s. ambassador to nato, nicholas burn, releases his report on relations for insuring the long-term violent of the alliance. -- viability of the alliance. this comes ahead of this weekend's summit in chicago with president obama and other nato leaders. ambassador burns will speak at the atlantic council here in washington. you can watch his remarks live beginning at 4 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> now, assistant secretary of state rick barton lays out several approaches for how the u.s. can maintain stability ar