today's the last day to file federal income taxes and national taxpayer advocate dan olson testified about trying to resolve taxpayer problems and improving customer service. then on c-span2 vice president joe biden talks about sexual assaults on college campuses. later russian president vladimir putin's annual televised call-in program. posted this week on the communicators a discussion of the fcc's proposal to open up the set-top box market to competition and what that might mean for consumers and businesses. joining us are two guests on both sides of this issue. george ford is a chief economist and mark cooper is research director for the consumer federation of america. mr. cooper what do you think about what they have proposed? >> guest: competition the set-top market. we want competition, competition, competition. we think consumers would have lower prices and more choices if we got bigger as competition to. >> host: george ford. >> guest: they asked the question whether the set-top docsis competitive. actually the first question this is their market for set top docsis and the a