. >> host: eliza krugman is with us as well, she is our guest reporter with politico. commissioner, if we could start with a vote that the fcc took this week which was the comcast/nbcu merger. you voted for it, and in your statement you attached strong reservations to the whole process and to the vote itself. why. >> >> guest: good question. you know, historically, the fcc has taken too long, and they've attached too many not pertinent conditions to the merger. and this is my first time through a merger at the fcc. and, unfortunately, i would have to say that we've fallen into the same pitfalls. for instance, comcast filed this merger with us on january 28th of last year. we have an internal shot clock of 180 days for review. now, this is a big merger, and it should be thoroughly vetted, and we should absolutely carefully consider it, but with i think we need to do it in a more timely manner. as far as the conditions go, let's just take one, for instance, broadband deployment. now, you know that i've been involved in the policy area for the last eight years really with