that is ervin laws. he doesn't appear to be complying, not putting his hands behind his back. >> that's when he says -- >> taiz me if you want. taiz me if you want. >> oh, [ bleep ]. >> ervin laws go down. he appears to be unconscious. his head does hit the pavement. the sheriff's office said this happened because ervin laws was walking down the street and appeared to be intoxicated. they claim he tried to strangle the officer at one point. they say had he was thrown into the sheriff's car creating some damage. >> does the use of the taser cause ervin ne injuries? >> his head did cut when he fell down. paramedics were called. they sent him to the hospital to fix up his head. you see foiks and witnesses itht this. >> that's some [ bleep ] man. >> lots of people claiming he didn't do anything wrong and upset this taser was used. >> keep that video going. >> oh, i am. i am. >> as the sheriff's office said that this was justified? >> some reports say the sheriff's office has seen the video, investigating it

i want to ask ervin to come up and explain from the time of the box walk to when we schedule those hearings >> thank you. i'm arian i want to address the concern about the timeframe between the box walks and scheduling the hearing i'm the person who scheduled the hearing to the best of my ability the time delay at&t is referring to say not quite to simply the way that previously the way the appealed locations were being considered the way that the process is going not necessarily towards the order at&t was scheduled a box walk and conduct their outreach and they'll thrills that timeframe when at&t conducted the box walk and, yes the site is ready to go to hearing was often one or two months that timeframe so that accounts formal some of the lag between the end of the box walk and the beginning of skementd the hearing. we have extremely limited scheduling i'm the only person that works on that i speak to the fact we have completely saturated basic 2013 saturated the dpw hearings system with s m f orders we were only able to schedule two hearings a month because we needed space for the other

in nearly ever ervin romans majr news -- every major news outlet, this is yoreiou serious stuff. >> veryerious, a little bit of reporting but not much analysis of that big china and russia oil deal that is a huge deal. we're talking about doing a twist to the asian community, russians there are spending putin himself, spending 3 days with chairman to get the deal done, this is a big deal, that gives them an independence and lets them brush aside whatever sanctions we put. the veterans thing, it has the potential of becoming a bigger issue than benghazi. it is clear, people understand it. we are expecting our veterans to be taken care of, this did not stop on president obama's watch, they knew it from the beginning, it needs to be fixed. >> it has gotten worse under his watch. lou: looking at our on-line poll results. whether you believe in political influepbgs oinfluence of the cld tea party is exaggerateed? do you find it interesting that boning thating thatobama adminio longer calling its many scandals, phony? cast your votes. >> france committed a costbly mistake after buying $20 bill

very much immersed in the racist ideology, but at the same time some of them were very well -- sam ervin was by far, along with strong thurmond -- strom thurmond, he went to harvard law school, he was a former justice of the north carolina supreme court your these are very accomplished people. nevertheless, he was willing to go to the mat and carried out the filibuster, or wanted to carry out the filibuster, and those filibuster activities long after russell was willing to give him and sort of let the bill pass. >> you wrote this in our time as you were talking about this, it sounds awfully familiar. >> no, it's true. i think one of the interesting things when you think about what the bill represents in some ways it's the end of a certain kind of politics, you know, a bipartisan politics, were you a liberal -- or conservative democrats and seven democrats and liberal democrats, liberal republicans, and you had more fertile ground for bipartisan interaction. and yet also the beginning of ideologically find partisan. at the same time you guys like strom thurmond for democrats but on the cu

and daniel hill, president of ervin-hill strategy, a public relations firm here in washington.k gordon erik gordon, let me start with you. what are we to make of this run of recalls, some even very small. what's happening from a business perspective? >> well, it's a disaster for general motors. it's damaging their reputation, will end up damaging their sales, hurt their stock price, and i think the damages will last a long time. >> brown: and what do you see them doing in drawing out these recalls at the moment? >> you know, i think the game of drawing out the recalls and, you know, announcing recalls in a way they hadn't previously done is to try to get everything out and over with and to avoid having more explosions. i think the thing that makes g.m. look the worst is not that there are problems with cars. the cars are big, complex things. there are going to be problems with cars. it's the idea that g.m. has been covering things up. so the last thing g.m. wants is to have another event come up they haven't disclosed. it just makes them look terrible. >> brown: daniel, what do

my name is ervin, i'm a professor here at hunter and in queensboro community be college, i'm also a graduate of morehouse, so i understand what you're saying. my question, actually, speaks to this idea of the limitations that you mention of barack obama. obviously, james baldwin famously said i love america, that gives me the right to criticize her, right? but that point being, so if we recognize the limitations of representative democracy in the sense that we elect people that we may not be able to trust, you know, two months later or three months later or maybe inserting their own agenda at times, where should we go? is that power now shifting to the academics when there was a time, you know, you mentioned that whole idea of, look, there i us with in that heat, i did that, but we all speak about this changing of the culture. i don't, i personally -- and maybe this is my own choice -- don't believe that it could happen within our current representative democracy, you know, system of political power. granted, you know, you guys are saying naacp, all these things happen, we need to keep fight

sam ervin, the avuncular senator from north carolina, they found he and seven of nine other senators -- majority of democrats -- and to investigate the nixon administration. they were pretty successful in unearthing aspects of the watergate scandal that have become sort of essential to the story. the existence of the taping system in the white house, for example. john dean talking about cancer on the presidency. they certainly laid the predicate for the public to come to understand and suspect that there was a cover-up that would later learn to be the case. in iran-contra, i would say, yes, they got pretty deep into the bottom of what went on with all of that. -- aney put out a report indictment handed out on some of the participants. i would say those two were pretty successful. host: democratic caller. perspective,my this benghazi select committee is totally unfair. first of all, john boehner had select the eight republicans for the committee -- sorry,epublicans, i am and offered five seats to the have not come -- inclined whether they will join the committee or not. people are not

i've known ervin since 1979, and his whole mission in life has been to create business opportunities in urban america and to be charitable. rosen is the executive vp of the los angeles dodgers. let's talk about this with my friend in the studio. >> nice to be in atlanta with you. >> so you were in l.a. for nine years. you know magic. you've known magic for a few years. >> yes. >> you've watched all this unfold. you've been talking to your friends back home. >> i've been a hearing a lot from the folks from los angeles. it was interesting to watch it through the eyes of myself, of somebody who lived in los angeles for nearly a decade, covered that city extensively in the news. covered things that magic was involved in. and was in the communities that he was directly affecting. i've heard from people -- donald sterling was completely off-base. they're shocked, and just the fact that he got it plain wrong about magic. look at the things he has done. >> not just a little bit wrong. >> not just a little bit wrong. aside from the racial comments, but the attacks on magic. there are two sepa

sam ervin, the avuncular senator from north carolina, they found he and seven of nine other senators- majority of democrats -- and to investigate the nixon administration. they were pretty successful in unearthing aspects of the watergate scandal that have become sort of essential to the story. the existence of the taping system in the white house, for example. john dean talking about cancer on the presidency. they certainly laid the predicate for the public to come to understand and suspect that there was a cover-up that would later learn to be the case. in iran-contra, i would say, yes, they got pretty deep into the bottom of what went on with all of that. -- aney put out a report indictment handed out on some of the participants. i would say those two were pretty successful. host: democratic caller. perspective,my this benghazi select committee is totally unfair. first of all, john boehner had select the eight republicans for the committee -- sorry,epublicans, i am and offered five seats to the have not come -- inclined whether they will join the committee or not. people are not b

sam ervin, the avuncular senator from north carolina, they found he and seven of nine other senators -- majority of democrats -- and to investigate the nixon administration. they were pretty successful in unearthing aspects of the watergate scandal that have become sort of essential to the story. the existence of the taping system in the white house, for example. john dean talking about cancer on the presidency. they certainly laid the predicate for the public to come to understand and suspect that there was a cover-up that would later learn to be the case. in iran-contra, i would say, yes, they got pretty deep into the bottom of what went on with all of that. -d they put out a report .. >> host: and michael o'reilly is the newest member of the federal communications commission, sworn into office on november 4th a maturity 14. welcome to the communicator's. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: just a start command and general sense how you approach your job, the different issues, is each issue different? >> guest: it is both. each issue should be handled. it starts with the ba