eliza krigman covers technology for pretty quay. gautham nagesh is the editor of the technology executive briefing for congressional quarterly. and brendan sasso is a technology reporter with the hill newspaper. thank you all very much for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> guest: thanks for having us. >> anticipators also airs in -- "the communicators" also airs in prime time on monday night. if you missed this discussion, you can watch this program again tonight at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. and you can also watch it anytime online. log on to our web site at c-span.org. click the series tab and select "the communicators." you can also watch other regularly-scheduled c-span programs at this series link. c-span.org is your online resource for public affairs programming. >> in november senator john mccain spoke at the fourth annual halifax international security summit. he criticized the obama administration's policy towards syria and talked about the u.s. role in dealing with global issues. joining him were c

. >> host: another guess that we have today is eliza krigman. >> guest: thank you for having me on the show. i would agree with brendan sasso. when you look at regulating the internet, which is of course the most important platform and and communications right now, i think the conventional wisdom is that the court is likely to strike down supporters of the rules aren't comfortable with the fact that the commission does not use the authority under the communications act. another thing to consider about this issue is will google provide the same rule as corporate rabbis, if you will, to guide this issue forward. he was the top issue for them. >> host: there was talk of rewriting the telecom act of the 1990s. what do you think about this? >> guest: there has been a lot of talk for about a decade. i think some members are more inclined to try and just deal with specific issues and think it might be too difficult at this point in time. one has to remember that that law came here by 1934. it was kind of digging into all of the past. and i think that is a big thing that we have to talk about.

eliza krigman collects information for politico. bendan sasso is a technology reporter with the hill newspaper. thank you all for being here. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> tomorrow on "washington journal" we'll talk about the 113th keeng how president obama will govern in the year ahead. we're joined by political strategist john feehery and jim manley. then we'll look at how congress members are paid. later a discussion about president obama's foreign policy agenda in his second term. washington journey live at 7:00 a.m. here on c-span. >> it is quite true that people's history is the result of how we're synthesizing the work of a great many other historians. what had happened in the 1960's with the counter culture was that a whole new generation of young historians had come up. they were in essence reevaluating all aspects of our past. >> martin duberman tonight at 10:00 eastern on c-span2. look for more book tv online. like us on facebook. >> what i like about c-span's coveage is it is very thorough. every program i wa