so it's a little different from what he described for the department of justice situation the o.j. has the burden in an antitrust suit but he has the burden for the f.c.c. they haven't been sidelined but they can choose to approve or not kind of based on what the o.j. does are based on their own analysis and they're of course reviewing the deal as well as the as he sees the d.o.j. scripts here is what's best for competition what's best for the public good what's the f.c.c. scriptura the f.c.c. the criteria is even stronger and some sense it has a higher burden phrase you have to show that the deal is in the public interest and they've said all along that it is and organizations like mine at free press and others and frankly a lot of companies as well if said it's not in the public interest that it will do all those things that today the department of justice said it would do less in competition and raise prices the crease innovation hurt consumers and kill jobs well. any sense of which way this is going to go well i mean us in the beginning if it is dead now because of the o.j. thin

that they were included in districts with overwhelming majorities of republican voters the department of justice argues that were perry's new redistricting plan by late section five of the voting rights act which forces lawmakers to quote maintain or increase the ability of minority voters to elect their candidate of choice in each district and quote under normal procedure state legislatures have to see prior approval by the d.o.j. for a new redistricting with texas skip that step now hearing is scheduled for wednesday were three judge panel were issue a final ruling republicans in texas are the lone reference all over the nation places like pennsylvania and nebraska to rig next year's election even before any candidates have been selected for more on this effort to subvert democracy i'm joined by. attorney policy analyst and blogger at the center for american progress in great to have you with us if you back thanks tom thanks for joining us first of all just to you know we kind of recap what's going on with rick perry there have been this kind of read you know jury mannering goes back basically

>> more important i don't think the justice department has revised its thinking. i think the acting head of the antitrust division said recently that the department doesn't file lawsuits to settle. so we are not looking for any conditions, and if you take justice at its word, and we certainly do, they are not looking to impose conditions. they are looking to block the transaction. with the antitrust law -- >> can i just make a follow-up? >> if you were to reach a settlement with at&t would something like the condition ensuring that you have access at a regional rate would lessen the blow for you a little bit on this and make less? >> in the antitrust world, what you need to do is try to replace the competition in the transaction to eliminate, and just decreasing the price of that call for sprint and other wireless independent companies would not replace the competition taking the market and creating a duopoly really is the creation of a duopoly to companies with 80% controls of the market it's that kind of duopoly that's going to harm consumers and competition. >> vonya mccann distance rece

as you may have heard, an audit by the department of justice shows the federal government is guilty of wasteful and extravagant spending at a number of law enforcement conferences. between october of 2007 and september of 2008. 10 conferences cost the american taxpayer $4.4 million. couple of examples of craziness. at a training conference in august 2008, $4,200 was spent on 250 muffins. that adds up to 16 bucks per muffin. now, i'm sure they were delicious muffins. i'm sure they were presented in a pleasing way. but the $16 muffin now becomes a symbol of how wasteful the feds are with our tax dollars. two coffee breaks cost $15,600. $52 per person spent on coffee breaks by drug enforcement task

of agencies would you suggest be given that authority? >> i believe the f.t.c. and i think also the department -- in consultation with the department of justice, because the departmentof justice is responsible for prosecuting these cases, i think that the f.t.c. has the expertise in this area and i think consultation with the department of justice would also be good. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. baker, i think the house of representatives would find it very difficult to accept the mandatory minimum and certainly i do not intend to include it in the bill that i will put forward just in passing. i want strong penalty bus the mandatory minimum is something that i worry could be abused. senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to start by thanking the chairman and ranking minority for convening this hearing. we've heard from the chairman from the president from many leaders in the private sector, public sector, that this is one of the most grave threats facing our nation, that the numb and complexity of cybercrimes continues to grow year after year and the cost of the impact on victims lrge and small continues to grow, so i'm glad we're continuing to press on this

we haven't revised our thinking, and more importantly, i don't think the justice department has revised its thinking. the head of the antitrust division said recently that the department doesn't file lawsuits to settle. so i don't -- we are not looking for any conditions, and if you take jus us the at its -- justice at its word, and we certainly do, they are not looking to impose any conditions, their looking to block the transaction as a violation of the antitrust laws. >> host: can i just make a follow up? if they were to press forward, if they were to reach a settlement with at&t on this, would something like a condition insuring you have access to backhaul at a reasonable rate, would that lessen the blow for you guys a little bit on this? would it make it a little more acceptable? >> guest: in the antitrust world what you need to do is try to replace the competition that the transaction would eliminate, and just decreasing the price of backhaul for sprint and other independent wireless companies would not replace the competition that taking t-mobile out of the market and creating a duopoly. really, it's the

that's how a new report describes conferences held by the department of justice paid for with our taxllars. the report finds the department spent $16 each on 250 muffins. $8.24 per cup of could have i. $32 are person on snacks of popcorn and candy bars. the department of justice office of the inspector general compiled a report which looked at kinks held in 2008 and 2009. the -- the department says changes have occurred to ensure problems don't occur again. you think they have gold frosting >>> today at 3:00 on "7live" jazz musician, branford marsalis. >> nasa releasing new details on the dead satellite heading our way. and how a sketch book helped police catch up with vandals. these stories and more on abc7 news at 4:00 and 5:00. >> worry about the satellites some other day it is the heat today. >> if nothing changes i imagine tomorrow will be a spare the air day also. as soon as we know we will let you know. the heat is the big story around the bay and inland. comfortable at the coast that's where you will find relief from the heat until all of us get some of it this weekend. >> mik

that's how a new report describes conferences held by the department of justice paid for with our taxllars. the report finds the department spent $16 each on 250 muffins. $8.24 per cup of could have i. $32 are person on snacks of popcorn and candy bars. the department of justice office of the inspector general compiled a report which looked at kinks held in 2008 and 2009. the -- the department says changes have occurred to ensure problems don't occur again. you think they have gold frosting on the i've got nothing against these do-it-yourself steam-cleaning enthusiasts. it's good for the cuomzeroq get to know their own carpet. and spending the day moving furniture and lugging around a hot water extraction unit can be a rush! i know. that's why i'm carpet for life. but look, if things get out of hand, and the place starts smelling like wet gym sock, there's no shame in calling a professional. i respect you for trying. ♪call 1-800-steemer. >>> today at 3:00 on "7live" jazz musician, branford marsalis. >> nasa releasing new details on the dead satellite heading our way. and how a sketch

that's where the department of justice got involved. there's a lot of debate over what students need to learn if you teach somebody to say joey leaves here is that the way this child is going to speak forever? they are learning from tv from watching their favorite rock stars from listening to the radio. i don't think the problem with the state had to do with grammar. where the department of justice came in you are using a subjective measure of determining fluency and using the question they are mispronouncing certain words. that became a question of discrimination. >> greta: one last thing. you bring in the issue of rock stars another area that probably -- the crude terms we get into rude and other things. any way, howie, arizona is never dull. nice to hear from you. >> that's why i love covering politics here. >> greta: indeed. >> here's what is coming up on the o'reilly factor. >> bill: k furious with dick cheney. we'll have -- condoleeza rice furious with dick cheney. another illegal alien controversy, megyn kelly has the story. >> gr

under the department of justice, market quantification guidelines, it is off the charts. ust wondering what at&t thought when they went into this, in terms of the ending -- the department of justice. where this would go in terms of other mergers, where you go from four to 3, where the market shares are incredibly consolidated. what do you think at&t saw was the best out coming year, going into something safe and it in a controversial tax credit what at&t wanted in this case was the spectrum on by t-mobile par. [inaudible] how good your wireless province services depends on where the electromagnetic spectrum you have licenses are. t-mobile has very attractive places on the pants. in various cities. at&t want those to be able to expand the market. it is the secret that at&t cell phone services have problems, drop calls, particularly in urban areas, which would allow us to put up more cell towers and improve its service in those places. that is a way to address one of the biggest price isms against the country. host: one person made those arguments when he was before legislat

billion merger with t-mobile. >> we think that that's a bit of a long shot. >> reporter: morningstar's michael hodel points out the justice department has broad authority to reshape and reject mergers it deems anti- competitive. >> betting against att is difficult, but on the merits we felt this deal faced a lot of challenges going in. >> reporter: the justice department argues at&t could do everything it says the merger will do simply by investing in its own business instead of removing a competitor. at&t counters it needs t- mobile's assets to ramp up more advanced mobile phone services. the merger's fate will determine the competitive landscape of the mobile phone industry. >> i think the industry goes back to the status quo. you have four major nationwide competitors, and two of them are very, very strong. two of them are very weak, and the two weaker players are trying to figure out how to better compete against the big two. >> reporter: unless, of course, another competitor is now tempted to buy in. >> google, the cable companies, who knows who it will be, may rethink-- dish which is very active in moving into wireless broadba

. >>> thank you, department of justice. that's one of the many posts on a t-mobile message board today. on the consumerwatch, julie watts explains why many are thrilled the department of justice is trying to stop the at&t-t-mobile merger. >> reporter: the long-awaited merger would be good news for some at&t customers lookly improving their service. the justice department says it will be bad for everyone else. its now filing a lawsuit to block the $39 million deal which would shrink wireless competition to just three major carriers. >> the combination of at&t and t-mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers facing hire prices, fewer choices, and lower quality products to their mobile wireless services. >> reporter: in a recent interview we asked ken mcneeley president of at&t california about the very same concerns. >>> reporter: once t-mobile is no longer and they are now at&t, there's a lot of concern that prices across the board will go up because it will no longer be that cheap option. >> sure. and i disagree. t

i do think it would be very -- for the departments of justice to put out a proper, solid policy that would reassure americans that it is not the department of justice in tension in pursuing these criminal offenses to go after somebody -- it is not the department of in pursuingtention these criminal offenses to go after somebody who is not in compliance with a contract, multiple pages long, and the average person does not even read it. i think you want to be out of that business, and i think the cases that raise that question really throw the department prosecution in this area and activities in this area in a pretty bad light. it has had lots of attention today. it is a tension that i do not think you need, and i think there is a clear difference between going after somebody who goes into the petty cash drawer and takes money out, which everybody knows is wrong, and somebody to send an authorized email or access is a program that they are not supposed to -- and somebody who sends an unauthorized email or accesses a program that they are not supposed to. if it becomes a federal crime t

house oversight committee, california republican darrell issa has been one of holder's most outspoken critics. >> the justice departmentwithhold key information and has inappropriately interfered with this investigation. let me be clear the justice department is not our partner in this effort. they are the subject of this investigation. their continued interference will not be allowed to derail the committee's work. >> sean: house oversight committee report describes in great detail the type of interference incount ared -- encountered: >> it is no surprise that a former clinton official is getting clintonesque about his alibis and his rationalizations how this program got out of control. but but it is a case of parsing definitions and -- >> sean: now the question is whether holder's clinton-like evasion will help him as his former boss did in the 90s. >> there's a teflon counting around so many of the top obama officials. the question is for the american people will you allow that coating to stand after you know what has gone on? after you know the hell that brian terry and his family had to go through? when people dec

under the department of justice, market quantification guidelines, it is off the charts. i am just wondering what at&t thought when they went into this, in terms of the ending -- the department of justice. where this would go in terms of other mergers, where you go from four to 3, where the market shares are incredibly consolidated. what do you think at&t saw was the best out coming year, going into something safe and it in a controversial tax credit what at&t wanted in this case was the spectrum on by t-mobile par. [inaudible] how good your wireless province services depends on where the electromagnetic spectrum you have licenses are. t-mobile has very attractive places on the pants. in various cities. at&t want those to be able to expand the market. it is the secret that at&t cell phone services have problems, drop calls, particularly in urban areas, which would allow us to put up more cell towers and improve its service in those places. that is a way to address one of the biggest price isms against the country. host: one person made those arguments when he was before le

he lives at the department of justice and is growing rich on selling $16 muffins to the department ofustice lane. >> bill: that was at the house of representatives, right? >> yes, yes. >> bill: that was congressman poe by himself? didn't look like a big crowd. >> he may have been by himself in that room. certainly not by himself in the coverage of this story. a.p., "the washington post," "l.a. times," "new york times," houston chronicle. they served it one a little religion is might sydney morning herald. >> bill: we did it and we made a big deal out of it as a metaphor ms. neville to the government's irresponsibility with tax dollars. >> waste, fraud abuse is a big theme that's happening there. >> bill: absolutely. >> can't waste taxpayer's money. now in response to, this i want to say that the obama administration has ordered the agencies to review how each department head is spending money on such meetings. >> bill: ordered a review. have they ordered a review of muffins, gutfeld? i would want a review those $16 muffins to see if the taste quality was up to that extent. >> forget t

. >>> tonight the department of justice is suing to stop the merger between at&t and t- mobile.t customers and the industry says about the intervention. >> your call cannot be completed as dialed. >> reporter: that is what the department of justice says to a merger of the second and fourth companies. >> it would result in tens of millions of consumers facing higher prices, fewer choices and fewer quality products for their mobile wireless services. >> the d oj filed a lawsuit against the memmer because it said it would decrease the competition in the wireless industry. >> at this point it's not irrelevant, so we have some problems, so we're going to file a lawsuit. >> reporter: loyal t-mobile customers are happy for the road block. >> i have t-mobile because i prefer their service to at&t. i'm a little bit worried. >> reporter: while at&t customers were looking forward to the benefits of the deal. >> better cell phone service, better towers, a lot more more for the consumer. >> the merger would leave just three major carriers. the justice department say it it would violate antit

there are several different investigations going on right now, including a department of justice investigation, into that company, and its operations. and what congress will be looking for, and what the department of justice will be looking for, is one person to come forward who they gave immunity to, meaning protection from prosecution to pill all of the beans, to say this is what happened on this date, this is what happened on that date, this is what happened on that date. now, it may turn out that it's all harmless, it may turn out that there was just negligence, that there wasn't criminality, but if one person comes forward and says i'm going to tell you what happened, but at the same time, you need to protect me from any kind of indictment going forward, that may take the whole thing apart. alisyn: so their lawyers are suggesting they plead the fifth, right, to avoid self-incrimination here, because the fbi has now gone in and raided the company's headquarters. you're a lawyer. >> yes. alisyn: is this the type of thing that you always advise your clients? is this standard operating proced

>> i believe the fcc, and i think in consultation with the department of justice, because the department of justice is responsible for prosecuting these cases. i definitely think the ftc. >> incidentally, mr. baker, i think the house of representatives would find it very difficult to accept the mandatory minimum. certainly i do not intend to include it in the bill that i will put forward. just in passing. butnot strong penalties, the mandatory minimum is something that i worry can be abused. >> i want to start by thanking the chairman and the ranking minority for convening this hearing. we have heard from the chairman, from the president, from the new leaders in the private and public sector that this is one of the most grave threats facing our nation, that the number and complexity of crimes continue to grow, and the impact on victims continues to grow. i am glad we are continuing to press on this. i hope we will take the opportunity to move in a bipartisan and responsible way to amend this in ways that deal with lack of clarity, but to also strengthen the tools available to law enforce

we can't get information from the department of justice. we can only give information from whistle-blowers. and we are getting a lot. >> greta: why the justice department cooperating? >> we send communications, including subpoenas. this is one of those situations in which they haven't admitted they let guns walk even though there is no credible way to say they didn't let them walk, but let them run. one group of sales of over 700, just one straw buyer what do you mean you didn't know where these things were going? >> greta: how many people have been murdered as a result of guns going from the united states to mexico? >> l.a. time has a number of 150. -- the "l.a. times" hat a number of 150. >> greta: that is horrible. >> one is horrible. a border patrol agent gunned down in the prime of life is too much. one mexican having to face weapons that should not have gotten to drug lords too much. more importantly, out of 2,000 plus weapons, most are still unaccounted for. they will over time, kill again. >> greta: whose idea was this program? how h

the department of justice agree with them. -- the majority of the growth in texas was because of growth hispanic community, and yet that is not reflected in the maps. host: a tweet this warning about redistricting -- this morning about redistricting -- guest: that is a bit past the point. really focus on the u.s. house congressional districts in for get when you have the reapportionment -- and a quick clarification because people use reapportionment and redistricting interchangeably, but they are different terms. reapportionment means they take the data and feed it into a formula called a method of equal proportions, and it is a mathematical formula that assigns one seat in u.s. house to every state and distributes the rest of the seats, up 435 u.s. house seats get distributed on population and the districts have to be drawn with the people are. in rural areas -- in fact, the census showed a continuing trend that urban and suburban areas are growing at a far faster rate than rural areas, so the rural representation in the u.s. house and in state legislatures is going to go down in the n

i had been in my office at the department of justice. of the gals came in and sidebar bra is on the phone. i was first relieved to hear barbara -- to hear barbara on the telephone. the next words out of her mouth were ted, my plane has been hijacked. >> we are watching all this aircraft trying to determine where they are. >>> the pilot announced the plane had been hijacked. she said shortly after takeoff. by this time the plane had been in the air over an hour. she implied they had been circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the plane. i asked her whether they, the hijackers, knew she was calling? she said no, they don't know. she indicated they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. at some point we got cut off, i immediately call the command center of the department of justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. >> i keep driving, i notice a plane coming in fast and low. it is silver, american airlines jetliner, obviously a passenger pla

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and the timing of the merger just a few months after it was announced, the merger was announced for the justice departmentreally kind of quickly come up with a lawsuit to block the deal really signaled to antitrust experts who are following this merger that the justice department does not want to find some sort of middle ground. that they really are serious about trying to block this deal. >> suarez: is there a lot at stake here for at&t beyond simply not acquiring t-mobile? this if this deal were not to go through? >> there certainly is. there is cash and assets at stake. if at&t does not close this deal by september, 2012, it will have to pay in cash $3 billion to deutsche telecom, that's the parent company of t-mobile and also hand other about $3 billion in assets that includes wireless spectrum radio airwaves and other assets. so there's a lot of money at stake here. there's real obligations. there are things on the table. that said, this is a company that makes about $30 billion every quarter, so $6 billion is a significant amount of money and a significant amount that it would lose but one theory is

ultimately the department of justice is concerned with competition matters. they say, bottom line, this was not a good deal for consumers. >> the department filed this lawsuit because we feel the combination of at&t and t-mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the united states facing higher prices, fewer choices, and lower quality products for their mobile wireless services. >> during the press conference regulators pointed out at&t and t-mobile compete head to head in 97 of the largest 100 cellular markets. at&t was quick to respond saying, quote, we are surprised and disappointed by today's action, particularly since we have met repeatedly with the department of justice, and there was no indication from the doj that this action was being contemplated. i interviewed at&t's ceo randall stevenson back in march when the deal was announced and he argued at that time that this deal was good for consumers and the country. >> what this transaction does is allows us to go a step further. by putting these two companies together it allows us t

is that a false statement from the department of justice? alse statement from the department of justice. they knew about this. i made reference to this in my first letter as they indicated, and the order came directly to an atf agent to make the sale. he had the money to make the sale. he bought the guns. he transferred them to another person of the underworld. that other person actually paid for for thmore for the guns thae taxpayers paid to buy the guns in the first place, and then they went to a storehouse, so the -- so everything else, as i said, which means the justice department is misleading in their answer to me. >> greta: you say misleading. is that just a polite way to say they're lying? let me read on in the letter. i actually have the documents. it goes on in the letter saying this. i also want to assure you, meaning you, sir, that the atf has made no attempt to retaliate against any of its agents regarding the matter. then i have an e-mail from a supervising atf agent which he's talking about you better be having fun and you'll g

i had been in my office at the department of justice. of the gals came in and sidebar bra is on the phone. i was first relieved to hear barbara -- to hear barbara on the telephone. the next words out of her mouth were ted, my plane has been hijacked. >> we are watching all this aircraft trying to determine where they are. >>> the pilot announced the plane had been hijacked. she said shortly after takeoff. by this time the plane had been in the air over an hour. she implied they had been circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the plane. i asked her whether they, the hijackers, knew she was calling? she said no, they don't know. she indicated they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. at some point we got cut off, i immediately call the command center of the department of justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. >> i keep driving, i notice a plane coming in fast and low. it is silver, american airlines jetliner, obviously a passenger pla

i had been in my office at the department of justice. of the gals came in and sidebar bra is on the phone. i was first relieved to hear barbara -- to hear barbara on the telephone. the next words out of her mouth were ted, my plane has been hijacked. >> we are watching all this aircraft trying to determine where they are. >>> the pilot announced the plane had been hijacked. she said shortly after takeoff. by this time the plane had been in the air over an hour. she implied they had been circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the plane. i asked her whether they, the hijackers, knew she was calling? she said no, they don't know. she indicated they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. at some point we got cut off, i immediately call the command center of the department of justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. >> i keep driving, i notice a plane coming in fast and low. it is silver, american airlines jetliner, obviously a passenger pla

i had been in my office at the department of justice. of the gals came in and sidebar bra is on the phone. i was first relieved to hear barbara -- to hear barbara on the telephone. the next words out of her mouth were ted, my plane has been hijacked. >> we are watching all this aircraft trying to determine where they are. >>> the pilot announced the plane had been hijacked. she said shortly after takeoff. by this time the plane had been in the air over an hour. she implied they had been circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the plane. i asked her whether they, the hijackers, knew she was calling? she said no, they don't know. she indicated they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. at some point we got cut off, i immediately call the command center of the department of justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. >> i keep driving, i notice a plane coming in fast and low. it is silver, american airlines jetliner, obviously a passenger pla

association is under a completely separate organization as a result of an agreement we have with the department of justice and department of education, so that we don't have any antitrust issues. that is an independent group. we at the american bar association are asking law schools to prepare for -- prepare 10 simple questions about what it costs to go to law school, how many of their students are employed upon graduation in real jobs, not artificial jobs, and we think it is going to be helpful. we also have a website that has a lot of information for anyone considering to go to law school, but probably the most important statistic that these potential students don't know is that the median income of lawyers in the united states is $62,000. they need to understand that before they incur $100,000 in debt. is there always room for another good lawyer? we need good lawyers. there always is. you have to ask yourself how much that you can afford -- how much debt you can afford. they have been watching too much "boston legal." you see $100,000 starting salaries. that may be for the top 10 students at the top 1

justice department is afraid. we have the second detainees support. he is the reincarnation. this is to he is. even when he was a young man in the justice department, he was cost ofdy is not the woman from arizona. he is not justice o'connor. justice o'connor was willing to stand-up when she thought something was right. i do not think the justice department is going to be strong and a lot of these cases. that being said, that does not mean, first of all, i have to be frank. i analyze politics. it does not sound good. a lot of these will be states. let's be real. south carolina will not elect a democratic senator. he is in the black majority. the same thing is chairman texas. the same thing as chairman and indiana. kansas somehow got off the tracks. he does become a totally wiped out states. in most of the states, indiana my suspicion as that president obama has written off indiana because there're other promising states. lemme tell about the anger. and did not say this on tv. i prefer reading about things. they want to take the country back. they want to take the country back to 1950, and 1930. they're going in a different direction. they want to take them back i

a department of justice investigation found what is described as wasteful and extravagant spending. and some of the numbers will astound put susan mcginnis is in washington with the costly details. good morning, susan. >> reporter: good morning, betty. this is especially bad time with white house and congress looking for trillions in spending cuts. we now learn that thabout this extravagant spending. in 2008-2009, the u.s. justice spent $120 million on food, beverages and event planning for 1,8 hundred conferences. the details can be found in a new audit from doj's inspector general. at one conference held at the capitol hillton in washington, doj spent $4,200 on 250 muffins at a cost to taxpayers at $16 each. for a u.s. attorney summit, taxpayers shelled out $54,000 for meals, drinks and tips highlighted by beef wellington hors d'oeuvreses. costing more than $7 a serving. swedish meatballs served at another conference was $5 apiece. then the march 2009 meeting at a san francisco hilton to discuss violence against women. they provided snacks that cost $32 a person. coffee was also se

what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standards are. would you like to see? i am going to push the access key which will activate the voice. i want to go to floor 24. ok, to the left. >> elevator j has arrived. >> that was smooth. >> i am getting a text message. it is amazing, these destination elevators. pretty soon, the signal that changes the system will be able to be routed through blue tooth and your phone, which is amazing. my iphone will be able to access the controls. in paris already, they are rounding the pedestrian signals through blue tooth and into people's phones. so the future is really exciting and technology will make it quite a journey for everybody. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> so now i would like to introduce the chief engineer. can you tell us about your experience? >> there were a lot of anticipation about how people would respond. at first, we had to get in