. >> host: and eliza ceilingman is technology reporter with politico. commissioner copps, if we could start with a bill that's currently working its way through the house, and that's fcc reform. what do you think about that? is it necessary? >> guest: well, there's always room for an agency to reform. i like to think that i contributed some to reform when i was there, when i was acting chairman we opened up the agency, made it a lot more transparent, a lot more participatory. the biggest reform i would like to see would be to empower commissioners to talk to one another as a group so we could sit around a table like this and talk about some of the momentous issues that are carving the destiny of our future and our kids' future. we're prohibited from doing that by something called government in the sunshine law which was something passed way back in watergate days. it really hobbles the fcc. nobody else operates like that. members of congress talk to one another, cardinals in the church talk to one another, the members of the supreme court who are meetin