[applause] commissioner copps? >> thank you. it was a real pleasure to be here when you wield the gavel for the first time as you did with real authority there. i look forward to your chairmanship. this is a wonderful moment. we have the man and the hour. we have a lot to do, a full agenda here. you bring exactly the combination of vision and practicality and experience of having been here and knowing what needs to be done. onlooking for an altogether historic era -- i am looking for an altogether historic era and your leadership. you have gotten off to a great start. i commend your wonderful team. thank you. it is wonderful to watch my friend rob. congratulations to rob, jennifer, and the wonderful mcdowell family. i have commended his friendship, his cordiality, the palpable sense of commitment he brings to his work. i have a good sense of how he worked before i became chairman in january. but he really threw himself in the dtv transition work with a special emphasis, making sure the call centers were up to snuff. he worked in

commissioner copps? >> thank you all for your presentations.an sum up my feelings in a single word -- whew! [laughter] this has been quite a ride. long before i begin actor and chair, i knew we were no we're ready for a transition on january 17. in january, we inherited a problem rather than a quarter of effort to deal with an impending crisis. i want to think congress and the president for the dtv delight act and for making the resources available to the recovery act to use the extra time to try to make a real difference. while it was not possible to compress into four short months all that should of been done the previous four or more years, we tried to do everything we could to make up for lost time. with the tireless efforts of my colleagues and the amazing fcc team, in the private and public sector partners, we were able to make a lot of progress. we cut the number of completely unprepared households by over 65%. this is the call center, in home assistance, and other measures and that meant that we're destruction did occur, and i had warne

commisioner copps? any comments? >> thank you very, very much this is a huge part of -- this is cute. -- this is huge. if we do our job right, it will be very important. i have been shouting from the rooftops for something like this for almost eight years now. i have been calling for a national strategy to bring broadband out to every american, no matter who they are or where they live. now, thanks to the american recovery investment act, we have that commitment. it is the fcc that is directed to develop the plan. that is an opportunity. i am so pleased, mr. chairman, that you are leading the charge already with of the is a vision and deep personal commitment to make this plan reality. larry, you and i have known each other for a long time. it is my view and a view shared recorders throughout the country that you are exactly the right person for this job with the talent and the ability and experience and plain old- fashioned good judgment to coordinate this massive undertaking for the commission. i knew this when you

commisioner copps? any comments? >> thank you very, very much this is a huge part of -- this is cute. -- this is huge. if we do our job right, it will be very important. i have been shouting from the rooftops for something like this for almost eight years now. i have been calling for a national strategy to bring broadband out to every american, no matter who they are or where they live. now, thanks to the american recovery investment act, we have that commitment. it is the fcc that is directed to develop the plan. that is an opportunity. i am so pleased, mr. chairman, that you are leading the charge already with of the is a vision and deep personal commitment to make this plan reality. larry, you and i have known each other for a long time. it is my view and a view shared recorders throughout the country that you are exactly the right person for this job with the talent and the ability and experience and plain old- fashioned good judgment to coordinate this massive undertaking for the commission. i knew this when you

>> in response to our view of the process of the copp, first of all, we use a similar model to the coppspect their approach. we've had discussion about theirs and ours. as the copp report pointed out, small differences in the assumptions that go into a model, especially when you're valuing warrants as long as 10 years can have a major impact on the result of the valuation. and in this case, one of the assumptions has to do with whether there should be a discount to the price because small banks have much smaller warrant positions that we hold. and when they're sold, there's likely to be less demand, less liquidity in the market and, therefore, a lower price. we factor in for small banks a discount for the lack of liquidity of those warrants. so that's one reason why there could be a difference between the model outcome of the copp and ours. i would also ask that you look at the comments of various copp members addended to the copp report where they point out some of these issues. i think we have -- while we're all trying to do our best to try to value these warrants, we have to respect

[applause] commissioner copps? >> thank you. it was a real pleasure to be here when you wield the gavel for the first time as you did with real authority there. i look forward to your chairmanship. this is a wonderful moment. we have the man and the hour. we have a lot to do, a full agenda here. you bring exactly the combination of vision and practicality and experience of having been here and knowing what needs to be done. onlooking for an altogether historic era -- i am looking for an altogether historic era and your leadership. you have gotten off to a great start. i commend your wonderful team. thank you. it is wonderful to watch my friend rob. congratulations to rob, @@@@@@@ he got here, but it was his cooperative spirit and cordiality and sense of good humor that made him enjoyable to work with. we do work in a bipartisan fashion. i was a democrat appointed by president bush and he is a republican appointed by president obama. i do miss my friend jonathan for the partnership we enjoyed for seven years. our thoughts went do

icon, the glue around which people -- with only country that didn't have king and the kings in your copps work to considerable degree symbolic figures. they were the figure, the glue which people could rally the nation could be sustained. and john adams after the war said the same thing. he felt there was a decision made early in 1778 in congress to make washington the central stone as he put it in the national arch. and that's where the glorification of washington really begins and this idea of washington being indispensable develops. as datum said the congress protected washington. it held from the american people washington's mistakes. it in polished small triumphs washington had to try to make washington appeared to be better because they realized they had to have some sort of glue of the sort. >> one observation, the business about john adams and one-third, there was an article along time ago i think in the 50's in the william and mary quarterly that discusses that and he was talking about the french revolution, not the american. >> i don't think so. i think adams did say that he tho

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so, when the president wanted republicans for fuddle copps, people like myself were asked to be part of the drafting and solutions -- for photo ops. it was drafted behind closed doors and it is a radical departure from health care but we as we know it today, it is extremely expensive. the congressional budget office said somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 trillion up to $2 trillion over the next 10 years with no real cost cutting or improvements. that is from the congressional budget office. that is not from the republicans. host: let us look at some items. it would expand medicaid to cover people with incomes up to 133% of the fun of poverty level and provide subsidies for people with incomes up to 400% of the federal poverty level. guest: the first item is for single adults, which currently no single adults -- you have to be a single adult below 100 percent of the poverty level to be covered by medicaid today. it is low income health care. their bill expands it to 133%. but it covers everybody and it is 100 percent federal match. again, instead of having a mandate -- create a pool

it started in may with hearings that were organized by the acting fcc chairman, michael copps. they have a group of 31 advisers who were there to try to figure out a way in which they can take media licenses from one group and give them to minorities and women. i think that is fine to have diversity in america but it has to be turned to the free marketplace. i am a free marketplace person and you cannot tell me that taking a license away from one group and giving it to another does not impacts beach. it absolutely does. maybe they can, claim that it does not impact freeze beach. >> host: this is a form of affirmative action. >> guest: forced affirmative-action. >> guest: let me ask you, with the new fairness doctrine in the forms you are talking about apply to national public radio? which is taxpayer funding-- funded. so, npr is exempt from all of this? >> guest: absolutely. >> host: why? >> guest: it is their own bailiwick, their own turf. of course it would apply to them in a legal sense. they could not pass a law or regulation that would impact just conservative talk radio w

there is a statement made by the acting fcc chairman michael copps, stalled with two p's by the "washington post" didn't get that. if he cannot produce what the market was in terms of the diversity of that market, then government has a legitimate role to play in regulation of speech. this, from the federal communications commission. to me that is one of the most arrogant statements about the free marketplace and the public determining for what it wants to hear, reid, and see what, and for major bureaucrats do not understand that the free-market place determines free-speech in america is absolutely incredulous in my opinion. >> host: how do they score that circle, braun and? there are certain limited limitations on free speech for example you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, you can't incite violence and even now there are hate speech lobbies on books but it is a very limited circumscription of free speech, so how are they getting away with in modern times when we have so many of these other outlets for liberal speech, conservative speech and various other forms? >> it's very subtle. i

said there is a kind of it's almost a mystical pattern we plug into this idea of the historian eric copps talks about this in books he wrote several years ago, the myth of the robin hood figure of someone who comes to intervene and opposes the morrill wolpe of the state of the community and brings a higher moral law. now, people believe they are not usually so naive they believe it much more selectively than we sometimes think and dellinger is a good example. i don't think many people as a few years later got writes about pretty boy floyd leaving 1,000-dollar bill for a poor family that sort of thing. you find little evidence people believe that sort of thing. it's not that he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor it's that he robbed from the rich. there was -- [laughter] there was anger and i think that's a big part of the story. >> my book is called "dime novel desperadoes" because my guys ended up being a hero's or antihe rose in other words they became the hero for the first time in 1881. jesse james, billy the kid and then the maxwell brothers and very few out outlaw's made in th