-- the f c c, michael copps. michael, i will start with you. how would you vote on this and why? >> i would vote without hesitation a loud and clear "no." it is a disaster for consumers and for people who are paying cable bills. it is a disaster for people paying broadband bills. it will send the broadband martin -- market down a monopolist to grow that the country cannot afford and it is consumer in this country because it is a conglomerate of distribution and what people will see or not see. this is too much power, too big for any company to be exercising in the united states of america. cory johnson, described the lobbying efforts in this case. >> i've never seen anything like this. comcast has been working in the halls of washington for a long time, developing a great deal of power there. and indeed, a lot of former and future comcast employees work in the very government organizations that will be deciding this kind of thing. michael, you talk about in terms itbusiness -- just because take it is bad? -- just

cory and i spoke with michael copps. he is at an advocacy organization.ed him how he would vote on this proposed merger. >> i would vote without hesitation a loud and clear "no." it is a disaster for consumers. it is a disaster for people who are paying cable bills. it is a disaster for people who are paying broadband bills. and it'll send us than a monopolistic road we cannot afford. it is bad for every citizen in this country. it is such a conglomerate and so extensive of content distribution and what people will see you not see. we have never seen anything like this area of they been working the halls of congress and developing a lot of power. a lot of employees are working in government organizations. i want to ask this, you talk about in terms of business, just because it is big it is bad? what do you think could happen if this merger went through? >> i think if it goes through you lose competition. it is ludicrous to argue that this is not anti-competitive when you take that enormous footprint that comcast achieved in the nbc universal properties th

copp i would like you to answer about about -- when i open up the paper and i look at beyoncÉ spendingthousands of dollars to get her hair done jc spending another $7000 to have his barber come to get his hair done and then they build the stadium are they putting any money back into our society? we have money. we need to stop acting as if we are begging and so needy. we need hospitals and we need them to get money. they're not making them accountable. my question to you is how can we make people within our own society stop doing the class thing? the church has money and plenty of that. hip hoppers have money. >> i right thank you. going forward for now i didn't say it before but one question per customer. >> we professor hendricks in terms of churches there's not a not -- there's not a lot -- there are some real problems with churches today. churches are so inward looking. there are more about institutional maintenance than what they are supposed to be about and that's trying to change society. we have a problem with too many ministers that did not know what they are talking about. the

copp. >> i commend my good friend representative spierer for her leadership on tackling the problem of sexual assault which plagues our military and while i do not support removing all nonmilitary crimes in the chain of command i'm proud to have worked with her on this amendment and i believe it deserves bipartisan support. this amendment will change the way article cxx cases are handled. this amendment is a fair compromise leaving a vast majority of the ucmj unaltered and only focuses on a particular type of crime. a particular type of crime that seems to be far too prevalent in our military through this amendment by removing the prosecution of article cxx crimes out of the chain of command and placing them in the services office of the chief prosecutor sends a message to the victims of sexual assault. that message is that there are very real concerns regarding reprisal. i urge my colleagues to support this amendment. i yield back. >> ms. sanchez. >> thank you mr. chairman. as you know mr. chairman i began this effort with respect to sexual assault when i was sitting way down there at

. >> i want to thank view professor and professor hendricks professor copp professor marc lamont hill and importantly i want to thank all of you for attending here today. certainly her comments in your attendance and participation was fantastic. thank you very much and we'll we will be having another panel coming up in about 20 minutes. have a great rest of the day. thank you. [applause] very quickly the authors will be doing book signings in the book signing room. we have took signings scheduled in the room. all right? and finally the john oliver reading series is in the auditorium next or in the edison jackson auditorium next door and finally there are tickets left for the fund-raiser tonight. tickets left for the fund-raiser if you want to attend go to the front desk and they will let you know. thank you so much. next on booktv paul kengor. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. thank you ashley and andrew coffin eight gross city college graduate. think andrew was in my first class that i taught at state college. literally i think he was. thank you to pat coyle as well. ron robinson