. >> host: why bring it here to the congressional internet caucus expo? >> guest: there's several reasons for that. one is this is a place about how the internet is revolutionizing the way we access information and we interact with each other. and this is truly an application where it really simplifies the way people access information wherever they are. i could be in china and have a question about medicare, medicare part d, and i can basically ask that question and get the answer to my question. that's one important aspect. the second part of this is that simply finding the way consumers access that information. at the moment today there is no really one place for people to get information. there are many places to get information. and to get one place it's very hard, basically, to do that. so we sort of brought it here as a way to sort of expose it to the masses here as to how can we bring information together and allow our consumers our, you know, people out there to have a one-stop place where they can access the information. the third one is from an

perhaps the biggest topic at the wireless expo in las vegas.cott cohen is there with a special guest. take it away, scott. >> reporter: erin, it's a huge issue. an issue for all of us when we get calls dropped and everything else. and calls failing, whatever. all of this data, all of these new smart phones are increasing the stress on the system. but there is help on the way. we're delighted to have the warrior of the chief technology officer of cisco systems. and you've unveiled something at this show that may not be as flashy as a smart phone, but it's huge. it's a router that's pretty amazing. tell me about it. >> we announced a couple of weeks ago our latest router that's called the crs-3, basically it has targeted the problem that you are describing. if you look at the demand for high-bandwidth applications, big in the consumer space, with smart devices, in the public sector, with new opportunities to transform health care, education, even government, there is a big demand for mobile data. that's going to require for us to have the capacit

eastern time over at the fox business network, he'll bring you more consumer reporting, he has expo -- exspoes and he does it before a stewed on audience, thursday nights, 8:00 p.m. eastern, fox business network. stossel! >>> taliban tactics over in afghanistan. silencing informants by shutting down the cell phone towers. are the terrorists overplaying their hand? on the growrntiond colonel oliver north is live at camp weatherneck, helmand province. >>> and some of our neighbors to the north, not so civil when it comes to free speech. ann coulter, threatened with prosecution and prevented from speaking. a canadian journalist defend the very chilly reception, moments away. megyn: now to afghanistan, where the dark of knight is dead silent, reports today that cell phone towers are shut down and the phones go dead at dusk under pressure from the taliban. we're told that that keeps the villagers there from passing tips to our coalition forces. and demonstrates how entrenched the taliban still are. colonel oliver north is live from camp weatherneck in the helmand province in afghanistan. c

i pressed for some time that we would to a new products expo where the usda with the department of energy would host of bring your latest dismal out, what you're doing with ith agriculture renewable products. like that detroit auto show where the latest and greatest comes out. maybe you want host it in a great midwestern city of kansas city. in that area, anyway. i think you would really get a lot of interest. there would be a lot of people looking at it just to see things. this start to tell people a different narrative. it also helps attract human capitol into our industry, which is at the root of what we need to do. we need to attract more people into the industry. to do that you have got to sell some excitement with it. i think these things can be very exciting. i hope you consider doing that. >> positive suggestion. i will commit to the kansas part of it. i've got a wisconsin chair, missouri fan, mississippi could make a case for it. >> thank you, mr. secretary. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i agree with my friend from kansas. it's just so happens that the science center which is comin

you can't just sell these things with abandon and then when the world expos, expect to collect your money on them. it is a kind of instrument that can be abused and has been abused and really central to the crisis that we are still living through. no one has taken this examination of these instruments down the road to, how can we defang them, defuse them, not give them weapons of mass destruction in the financial world. host: let us begin with travers city, michigan. a bruise on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i agree with my statement that you just made about a social experiment, and quite honestly, i don't appreciate the united states government subjecting us to that experiment through nafta and sending our jobs overseas. but to get back to the fannie mae and freddie mac -- not much said about ginnie mae. it seems like 90% of the mortgages are underwritten by these three agencies, which my understanding they are owned by the federal government primarily. and since they are the ones that basically took these mortgages and bonds of the securities and sold them t