i think michael copps served as interim chair and showed what an outstanding public servant he is and what an outstanding leader he was. and then we have two new commissioners, both of whom are known to the industry, meredith atwell baker from her service as the administrator of ntia and minion clyburn who we know from her state regulatory positioning. so this is a very eminent fcc, i think, from their comments and their testimony in the case of minion and meredith, really very focused on moving the telecommunications industry forward and on, and on pursuing policies that are really, i think will be impactful and helpful to our companies. >> host: if i could segway to the hill, senator rockefeller and congressman waxman, how do you think they're going to get along with mr. genachowski as things go forward? senator rockefeller has on numerous occasions thought that the fcc needs overall reform although a couple days ago he said maybe that might not be necessary, but he's certainly laser focused on the fcc. >> guest: and i think not only senator rockefeller has been focused on that, but

a critic samples under acting chairman copps during the digital tv transition between january and june. it was very collaborative. we were able to make decisions in real time and information flow was fabulous and that should be a model for how the commissioner works on other issues. >> with their need to be the rule changes how the fcc operates to implement these transparency changes you would like to see? >> in the letter i don't talk about rule changes so much is operational. number one which is should start all of this is a full operational financial and ethics of its of the commission the way you would have if you have one company by being a mother or if you have new top management changes at the top of the company. so what's to a full audit how does it work, how does it not work, what can we do better and then revised the plan as well it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day activities at the commission and forget about the direction we want to go so let's update the strategic plan as well. there has been talk for years of revising the sunshine government-backed independent agencie

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corporal benjamin copp. >> 21-year-old corporal copp was buried at arlington national cemetery last friday the army ranger served two tours in iraq, wounded in a fight with the taliban. 10 in the fight were killed, credited with saving the lives of six in his platoon, awarded the bronze star and purple heart. he was flown home to walter reed but died there july 18th. he made clear his intention to be an organ donor. >> that's something he and i always felt strongly about that we wanted to do. >> his mother jill stevenson was allowed to designate a recipient if she knew someone in need who was on the a waiting list already. she did, a close friend of a cousin had been waiting for three months. against odds judy was a good match and two days after ben's death judy had his heart. >> jill, in her absolute darkest hour, she chose life. i have the heart of a 21-year-old army ranger beating very strongly in me. i go up to people and ask to see their driver's license and if they are not a donor i say it's time to be one, sign here, i'll witness. and no one denies someone who has just had a heart t

thank you very much, commissioner mcdowell, and commissioner copps. i am so glad to be here to join this enormously talented staff here at the fcc. i would like to take a few minutes to say thank you to the people who got me here. first of all, of course, i am grateful to president barack obama for nominating me. i particularly would like to thank senator kay bailey hutchinson for her support. thank you for helping me through the process. they were really great. i would like to think commissioner rick l. -- commissioner mcdowell for his time, an encouragement, and assistance. if it was not for angela, i might still be writing my responses to the questions for the record. i would like to thank the chairman. we are also lucky to serve with not only such a capable man, but such a personable one. thank you very much for your calls and for ensuring that i had everything i needed to make this transition very smooth. thank you for putting together an agenda today which is a first meeting that we can all agree on. i want to thank you for swearing in as well.

when the federal government finally passed a strict pseudo ephedrine block the one copps said it was like a light switch, those labs almost disappeared. i said is the meth problem going down? no, no, no. of course, not that meth always has come from mexico. it is imported this is just a couple of guys cooking up some stuff causing huge problems, a health problems for themselves but not really impacting the supply of the drugs. >> we hear often now that kids take the medicine from their home and go to parties and use whatever it is. is that true? >> i think that is bogus. you're called pharm parties it is a great thing to write about. the theory is all of these kids raid the parent's medicine cabinet, they go to the party and the dump the pills into a big jar and people did been their hands and pop them. for a number of reasons that is crazy. number one, no one in any reporting have found an example of that happening that you will get treatment people saying is a problem or cops saying it is a problem but no reporter has found an actual case of a actually happening which ought to be a

a disaster and so when the federal government finally passed a strict pseudo veteran wall the one copps said it was like a light switch, the labs almost disappeared and i said so the meth problem is going down? he was like no, no, our meth has always come from mexico or at least since he had been doing it it was an important thing. this was just a couple of guys cooking up some stuff causing huge problems, you know, health problems for themselves but not really impacting the supply of the drugs. >> we hear often now that kids take the medicine from their home and go to parties and use whatever it is. is that true? >> i think that this will be bogus. you're talking about what they call pharm parties with a "p-h" and it's great to write about if you are a journalist. the theory is that all these kids need their garrisons that is in cabinet and go to the party and they dump their pill into a big jar and people dip their hands in and pop them. i think for a number of reasons that is crazy. one is that no one in any of the reporting has actually found an example of that happening. you will g

it started in may with hearings 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 could 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 earned through the free marketplace. i am a free marketplace person and you cannot tell me taking a license away from one group and giving it to another doesn't impact speech. it absolutely does. if they cannot, maybe they can, claim it does not impact free speech in america. >> host: this is a force of affirmative action. >> guest: forced affirmative action. >> host: let me ask you what with the new fairness doctrine in the form you are talking about apply to national public radio which pays tax payer funded and quite liberal as we know. so npr is xm from all of this. >> guest: absolutely. >> host: why? >> guest: it is their own turf. it will not apply to them. of course it would apply to than in the legal sense they couldn't pass a law or regulation t

there will be copps but i see it being 1 million members and the next site of the generation.as the phone becomes everything i think that we are going to see interface with facebook that are going to get more smooth and quick and you will see facebook be something you have as part of your life of the time. you are going to wear your facebook page one day. it will be part of who you are. it's your business card, your conversation piece, how you talk to people. it is communication. it is more akin to e-mail than it is friendster. the idea of writing a letter is gone but the idea of writing an e-mail is going. >> host: why can't i imagine that this won't have another -- you go to a party and instead of sinking whittemore from -- see who your friends are. it cuts of like the first 15 minutes of conversation. >> guest: it puts out all conversation hopefully. [laughter] >> host: did you read the new york magazine article about facebook? it talked a lot about privacy and how this was, you know, we will basically giving away our intellectual property. >> guest: yes i think when you go

i sent michael copps a very similar letter and sort of gave him advance copies so we could all work it out, but all in the spirit of transparency, wanted it posted on the web site in our exchange of letters and ideas. and these ideas aren't mine, and i don't care who gets the credit for them. i think many of them are excellent ideas, but the overall picture without going into all the details -- it's a very long letter -- is to make the fcc more open, transparent and collaborative both from the outside looking in, but also when you're on the inside like a commissioner being able to see the various cogs in the machinery work. we should be able to as commissioners get the same information and analyses that the chairman is getting, for instance, from our wonderful career professionals that we have working throughout the fcc. we have about 1800 or so employees there, economists, engineers, lawyers and other professionals. and many of them have great ideas and great expertise, we need to be able to more fully use them and get them involved with these things. and here the variety, the diversi

>> guest: sean was the founding president of facebook he was at a house party that was busted by copps supposedly there was cocaine and there he he was with an undergraduate and then after that he was no longer with facebook but he still owns a percentage of as you have to read the book to see exactly what happened i am being careful right now. it is an amazing tale. it is part of the sean parker story. he and himself to be a bookie is an amazing story from beginning to end there is ee an incident that facebook needed to deal with it is all very secret this is the reason we do not have the book right now because these stories have never been told before. that is what is amazing that i have been given access. >> host: there is another public official in the book larry summers. >> president of harvard run this went down so when the twins their idea of decided day have their ideas stolen they believe in justice and the hierarchy cuts that serve them very well they were on the olympic team believers in the american system so they decided the president of harvard should make this decision o

there's a statement made by the acting fcc chairman michael copps. it's spelled with two p's by the way. the "huffington post" did not get that right. if the market cannot produce what that market wants 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 free public determining for what it wants to hear, read and see. and for a major bureaucrat to not understand that the free marketplace determines free speech in america is absolutely incredulous in my opinion. >> host: how do they square that circle, brian? think about it, there are certain and very limited limitations on free speech. for example, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. you can't incite violence and there's some hate speech laws on the books. >> guest: that's right. >> host: but it is a very limited part on free speech. how are they getting away with this in modern times when we have so ma

zuckerberg will be a huge gain in the future because i see face but growing and growing and there will be copps but i see it reaching a billion numbers one day and being the sight of the next generation and has the phone becomes everything i think we will see interface with facebook that will get more and more smooth and quick and you will see facebook as something you have in part of your life of the time. you are going to wear your facebook page one day it will be part of who you are. it's your business card and how you talk to people. it's the future of communication. it is more akin to e-mails and say friendster. the younger generation, the idea of writing a letter is gone but now the idea of writing an e-mail is going. >> host: i can't imagine this won't happen to a future. go to a party and instead of saying where are you from you just check and see who your friends are. it cuts out like the first 15 minutes of conversation. >> guest: it cuts out all conversation hopefully. [laughter] that's the future i think. >> host: did you read the new york magazine article? >> guest: i did. >> host:

there was an incident he was at a house party that got busted by copps and supposedly there was cocaine, supposedly he was there with an undergrad who worked for facebook and after that he no longer was with facebook but he's still very good friends with them and still in dolph and still owns a percentage of it so you have to read the book to see exactly what happened. i am being careful right now. it is an amazing tale, and it is part of the john parker story because he had himself could be a book. he's an amazing story from beginning to end and i am a huge fan of what he's done but there was definitely in incident facebook needed to deal with and that is part of the story. by the way this is very secret. this is the reason we don't have a book right now or i don't because these stories have never been told before and that is what is amazing to have gotten access to. >> host: there's another public official in the book, larry summers. >> guest: the president of harvard when this went down so the winklevoss twins when they decided they had been stolen from they were these guys who belie

. -- coppe --whoppe3r. a beautiful day on the water taking a dramatic turn for mike and his friends on board this 21 foot boat on saturday when a bull shark decided to pay them an unannounced visit. >> first it was in the air, then it was in the boat, beating everything in god's creation. it hit patricia, went between my legs in the back, trying to scattered for cover. >> flopping around the boat so violently that it injured itself. everyone on board could not believe what was happening. patricia was in the front. >> little did i know that when i finally got up and looked around, it all happened so quick. >> i did not want to turn around. i heard the noise, when i got around and look, it turned out she was okay. we waited for her to calm down after half an hour. we tried to lift her out with a pole and a net that we used for lobster. it probably weighed 125 pounds. we were able to get the wrote underneath it and we drag it up onto the deck, manhandling it and throwing it in the water. >> all on board realiz

copps said that he was -- it was absolutely not his fault. the other driver is a female driver who ran a red light and hit his suv. they said that drugs and alcohol were not a factor. in the bottom box, tropical trouble. two patches of severe weather on the brink of becoming tropical storms off the coast of africa now heading for the caribbean and possibly the southern united states. rick: also today, calif. fire crews are working overtime and battling a fast-moving wildfire as we speak. this video is coming in from the santa cruz mountains, where flames have forced more than 2000 people from their homes. the wildfire first sparked wednesday night. s -- it has engulfed more than six square miles. right now, it is only 5% contained. that is not a whole lot. what is the latest? >> the latest is that this fire is growing. it has grown to 4,100 acres. that is about five times as big as central park. we understand two buildings have been destroyed. we are here on the western edge of the fire. four hundred people from this area remain out of their

see him locked up by the two great copps.ohn is the control officer interfered with the police investigation and then later coming years later when dannel was on trial literally a character witness and she of course was convicted, he just missed getting the death penalty, guilty as sin and this fbi agent supposed to be controlling ali mohamed, his daughter is the fiancee of the killer and he felt as for the guy as a character witness at the trial. what kind of judgment does this guy have? that's telling you something. and he's supposed to make sure that ali mohamed is on the straight and narrow? that is his daughter, monica. okay. now i didn't give you the whole pay off on a sphinx. what we go back, you will understand the payoff. on this list of all unindicted co-conspirators there is another name at the sphinx trading. so he killed the rabelais, 94, fitzgerald and mccarthy, think of the colin are so important to put him on a list of bin laden. i will get to number three in a minute. now, ali mohamed, 1993 the system works.

copps. -- cobbs.ou are from iowa. >> i am from the sioux city area. >> you are the father of nine- year old boy with autism. your wife, tina is with you, and two children. you were here at our last hearing, a couple of years ago? >> i was. >> and you were involved with a project with a young boy. i am interested in with what has happened. welcome to the committee. >> fate you for having me. good morning. my name is joshua cobbs, a parent of a child with autism. i spent over seven years trying to better the lives of individuals with autism through insurance and regulation reforms. the last time here i spoke about the service is my son received using telehealth technology. these services were provided to my home in iowa st. in national research project. we are one of 15 families that participated in this demonstration across the nation. in the model, after a phase of on-site face-to-face training, crucial to build a 30 relationship, which were linked to professionals by a system that enabled life traini