. >> this week on "the communicators, " david cohen joins us. thank you for being with us today. i want to start with the fact that there is pretty much a brand new fcc on the horizon. a couple of new members and chairman coming on line shortly. what are your feelings about the new fcc and the old fcc? >> it is easier to talk about the new fcc. i think all of the regulated industries under the jurisdiction of the fcc are full of high hopes for this commission. it is more than what we see in spring training every year where you have high hopes for the team, no matter where they may have finished the year before. i think this commission it is incredibly well qualified. you could say that julius is the most qualified and prepared person ever to be named chairman of the fcc, with his business background, his previous experience, his broad interests in telecommunications policy, we think he is going to be an outstanding chairman. surly from his early comments, focused on critical priority areas that we share, in particular the adoption of broadband in america to help make the united s

. >> host: you are watching "the communicators," david cohen, executive vice president of the comcast corporation, is our guest, anne veigle of communications daily is here to join in the questioning. mr. cohen, before we leave this area you also mentioned one of the potential legislative agenda items for comcast would be telephone competition and, and enhasn'ting it as you -- enhancing it as you say. what does that mean? >> guest: it's interesting. let me go back to 1996 where congress passes the latest massive rewrite of the telecommunications act. the goal was to stimulate competition in the video space and in the telephone space. internet was, believe it or not, even though it was only 1996 it was at most an afterthought. nobody knew what that market was going to look like. the theory on the video space, the theory on video space was that the primary competition would take place between cable and satellite, and there was a lot of work done in that legislation to stimulate that. and the theory in the telephone space was that the competition would take place between the long distanc

david cohen is an executive with comcast.onight, his take on the new s.c. -- the new fcc and the future of broad brand in america. that is tonight on." >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> government plan? >> advertising. >> public money? >> taxes? >> america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. a private business initiative. no government mandate, no government money. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our question for the rest of the hour is when do you expect economic recovery? obama aides say that recovery is going to be slow. they gave upbeat assessments on sunday, predicting an imminent start to the recovery, slow and arduous compared to previous rebounds. american households have lost about $14 trillion, more than the collective earnings in all sources of income last year. never before have american families felt that kind of blow to their wealth. the timing could not have been worse. it is just before the advanced population of baby boomers reach retirement age." larry summers did talk

. >> david cohen is an executive with comcast. tonight, his take on the new fcc in the future of broadband. that is at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> starting on tuesday, the full senate debates the nomination of sonia sotomayor. watch it live on c-span2 and c- span.org. coming this fall, toward the home of the nation's highest court, the supreme court. indeed i have no clue. the date may be some government granted? >> i would say some the nation's. >> public money? >> my taxes? >> america's cable companies created c-span as a private service with no government mandate or money. >> while we wait for president obama's comments on the new g.i. bill schedule right after the top of the hour, a look at headlines and your phone calls from today's show. for now, we have open phones. let's take a look at some of the major papers and headlines. "stimulus cash lists state localities." we have a story about how the stimulus funds are helping states to reverse spending declines. it has pushed state expenditures up by 4.8% in the quarter. it

. >> host: david cohen is executive vice president of the comcast corporation, anne veigle is associate managing editor of communications daily. you can go to c-span.org, click on communicators, and you can watch all of our programs online. thank you for being with us. >> you've been watching "the communicators," c-span's weekly discussion with the people influencing our digital future. if you missed any of this program on net neutrality, broadband and other issues, you can see a reair tonight at 8 eastern here on c-span2. >> an international convention focusing on mars was held over the weekend. we'll show you two sessions with remarks by nasa scientists. here's the first one that runs about an hour, 40 minutes. >> our first speaker today is dr. brent bos, he's a research physicist at the goddard space flight center. back in 1997 he joined, he started working on the path finder team. then in 2003 he started working on the mars phoenix project which he's going to talk about today. he's currently, though, at nasa goddard he's joined the james webb space telescope team and has an impressi

david cohen, a hoarding expert and the author of "buried in treasure."morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> i was just watching you, jennifer, as you were watching that tape looking at your home. when you watch that does it seem really strange to you? >> yes, surreal. yeah, to see it from a different perspective now, yeah, absolutely. >> and what i said in the introduction, i think, may have gotten the attention of a lot of people sitting at home right now. that you, and your husband, both have this disorder. and i guess the question i want to ask right off the bat is, did you get together and were you compatible because you both suffered from this? or did one of you kind of cause the other to become this way? >> i think we definitely played into each other. you know, he has his tendencies and i do, too. he's more the keeper. i'm more the acquirer. >> in other words you bring stuff into the house, and he finds it impossible to part with those things? >> yeah, yeah. absolutely. yeah, we've played into it together and it was a perfect storm of our pe

. -- david cohen is with comcast. that will be tonight on c-span 2.rting tuesday, the full senate debates the nomination of the sonia sotomayor for supreme court justice. coming this fall, tour the supreme court. >> how is cspan funded? >> i have no clue. >> maybe some government grants? >> i would say donations. >> advertising products? >> public money, i am sure. >> my taxes? >> palle cspan funded? america pause cable companies created cspan as a public service. there is no government mandate and no government money. >> let's take a look at space exploration including a human landing on mars. in asset agent talks about the progress. -- a nassau agent talks about the progress. -- a nasa bp;h and talks about e progress. >> let me tell an anecdote about our next guest. i am a lawyer for nasa and people wonder what lawyers do at nasa. one of the more interesting acts best is to give preventive advice in advance on whether our civil servants can accept the award surprises from outside organizations. many years ago, i had been introduced to john and had t

. >> monday night, c-span 2, the communicators with david cohen.st: talking a little more on the "new york times" lead story about ending the jobless. they point out that prolonged aid to unemployed is uning out. 1.5 million people are facing a cutoff. calls are going in to the white house asking for help. this piece says over the coming months as many as 1.5 million jobless americans will exhaust their benefits ending for some what was the last fight against foreclosures and dests9ñ a wave of job seekers is using up even this prolong aid. calls are rising in congress to pass another extension this fall possibly adding another 13 weeks. tens of thousands of workers have already used up their benefits. the numbers are expected to soar in days to come jump above 1.5 million. first call from pennsylvania on the republican line. john. caller: can you hear me? host: yes. what do you think should be done if these benefits are ending? caller: the question is, what happens if you don't? these are people that are in the workforce. they have your mortgages a

. >> buck: and when you look at that group of pitchers who were here, you have david cohen and jack morrisnd key and they were all polished and they kind of coached themselves. >> gary: yes. the 2-0 count. the runner at second base. berken's deliver cry, scutaro, .296 with runners in scoring position on the season. he's got a chance right here. somewhat ironically scutaro has put up his best numbers on the road. a .346 hitter on the road, 100 points, actually 98 points less at home. 3-0 pitch. it is taken for a strike. and it goes to 3-1. hill, the number two hitter waiting on deck. here is the 3-live 3-2. >> k: when you go throug lineup the third time as a starting pitcher, you have to be able to change your patterns. in the minor leagues, these pitchers were able to go fastball, breaking ball, swing ataking balls out of the zeand all ofa sudden, hey, i got six, seven inning up here and i have talked to all of these youngsters about it. boy, guys don't swing at bad breaking balls. in the minor leagues, you make a mistake and you moot get away from it. every mistake up here is hit hard. >

performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> david cohen is an executive with comcast. he will give us his take on the fcc and the future of broadband in america. on tuesday, the full senate debates the nomination of sonia sotomayor for supreme court justice. coming this fall, tour the home to america's highest court, the supreme court. >> i have no clue. >> maybe government grants. >> i would say donations. >> advertising for products. >> public money. >> my taxes. >> america's cable companies created c-span as the public service, a private business initiatives. there is no government mandate, no government money. >> the british prime minister answers a range of questions before the british house of commons liaison committee. the committee is made up of the 30 chairmen of the house of commons select committees. several questions focused on the british economy, the banking crisis, and foreign affairs, specifically afghanistan. this is about two hours. >> order, order. as usual, you have been told the themes. as usual, you have not been told

cohen and his co-author david weir were the first to get patty's story life on the run with 'the harrisesand mixing with people who were simp threat toik the sla which was mainly how we got to story. >> the keys to the sla's survival at los angeles were the scotts, jack and his wife micky. jack scott hoped to write a book about the sla. >> the price that the scotts exact from these sla fugitives is that they would lay down their gun for that period because the scotts don't want to end up in a shootout. >> the scotts rented this pennsylvania farmhouse until the heat in california died down lt. >> idyllic summer in pennsylvania. they hole up there for the months of july and august. the scotts are tired of them and the book idea has fallen through. >> if ever there was a time when patty hearst could have escaped and gone home, the summer of '74 would seem to have been it. by the time police learned that this farmhouse outside scranton, pennsylvania, had been the sla's summer playground, the trio was long gone. >> one of my men had heard rumors that these people were not entirely kosher. they

cohen, thank you so much for coming in. tamron, you can only imagine in the midst of all this delicate negotiations and discussions, what these families are going through. >> what's fascinating, david, you and i touched about it, how people of kurdish decent say they have trekked along the same your any, not like traveling to a caribbean destination. there is an interest and people do find themselves along this treacherous and beautiful terrain. but with the tourists, they've found themselves in a nightmare. >>> is it on the table or not? the dance around whether the middle class will pay more in taxes seems more uncertain. during the presidentment campaign, then candidate barack obama made this very popular promise. >> i can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase, not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. >> that fond pledge may not have been written in stone. some obama administration economic advisors are not being as firm as we saw with the president in the past. take a listen to what treasury secretary tim geithner and the president's chief economic ad

david. that announcement being made at any moment now. if it is, and that person is let go, families of the victims will be enraged. >> pain is there all the time. >> reporter: susan cohen'swhen a bomb in the baggage compartment brought down pan am flight 103. >> that was a plane full of young students, like my daughter. there were little children. there was a family with three, little girls who died on that plane. >> reporter: in total, 270 people died, 11 of them on the ground. the crash left an enormous crater in the town of lockerbie, scotland. megrahi was the only man convicted. in 1991, he insisted he was innocent. al megrahi, imprisoned since 2001, is riddled with prostate cancer. given months to live. reason enough, says a scottish court, to release him on compassionate grounds. a decision that many survivors don't understand. >> i would say it's failure in the west. it coward es. many see that this could be a with british's seeking oil in libya. a claim that the british government has denied. >>> pushgs 300,000 security forces work to keep polling places in afghanistan free from attacks. turnout in some areas is down 40% from the last election. >>> parts of the m