paid to the songwriters, artists, it's not under an fcc umbrella, correct? >> correct. >> whose umbrella is that under? >> i don't know but it's not us. >> that's a good thing. i'll yield back for the moment. >> bmi is in charge of that. >> mr. diaz-balart. >> thank you very much. good to see you. let me first start by madam chairman telling you that the commissioner drk the chairman and his staff have been exceedingly open to us and to my staff. and i thank you for that, to have the opportunity to not only speak with you but to meet with you. i want to thank you for that. we spend a lot of time today speaking about transparency in a number of different areas. we were preparing for this meeting and the issue of light squared kind of came back. i was kind of -- because since you've been so open to me, i was a little shocked at some of the things that i've read about light squared, about the fact that had you a member of the senate saying he couldn't get the information, the fcc told him information of that sort is only given to members of relevant committeese

how is this effort going at the fcc? commissioner mcdowell do you see an uptick in this effort given your history at the fcc? >> we've been taken our obligation to review unnecessary rules for elimination very seriously. it was something i talked about on very first day as soon as the president issued executive order asking the ipd pent agencies to join the other agencies in doing reviews of rules we said one we're already doing it and we'll continue to do it. we've elem nated over 200 unnecessary regulations. we've eliminated five data collection obligations. we've identified another dozen data collection oxes for elimination. and we'll continue to do that. we run a regular prosoesz to identify outdated rules for elimination. >> can you give me before you answer just for example, for the record, one that was eliminated? one that we would be familiar with, perhaps. >> they expend both from eliminating rules like ones that were still on the books that apply to telegraph. the regulations that we eliminated they extend from

according to that website, the fcc is denying more foia requests under this new fcc and in the bastard as a matter fact, significantly, greater percentage of denials compared to other government agencies. for example, in 2010 the fcc denied 48% of freedom of information act requests, while the rest of the government denied only 7.3%. that's pretty darn huge difference. let me also been to put it in perspective, some of that data in that website indicates the sec has started denying an unusually large percentage of freedom of information request because of this thing called not reasonably prescribed. under your watch, the fcc denied about 16.4% of foia requests based on records that were not quote reasonably described. but again not only is that a huge increase from previous fcc years, only 3% denial based on that, but much higher than even the cia. which i thought was a big deal. the cia denies 0.7% denial rate of the same year on that same issue. so why is the fcc all of a sudden have more secrets than the cia, when you're dealing with foia requests? >> i'm not familiar with those num

that's the important core mission of the fcc. this is an election law issue recording campaign spending. so broadcasters have come to us in a couple of waves in 2007 and 2011, and 2012 to say this isn't cheaper thr them to do because of the implication that this would be realtime updating. keep in mind most broadcasters are not big businesses. most are small businesses. this might be an unfunded federal mandate of sorts. the second component it would require them to disclose to the public immediately proprietary pricing information. candidates campaigns are entitled to the cheapest rate. this becomes a competitive issue. one of the potential unintended consequences could end up being price signaling among broadcasters in a particular market regarding what the lowest rate should be. as you pointed out buyers sort of know what the lowest rates are anyway. but having it out there in realtime could cause some unintended consequences as well. so i think, you know, we need to sort through a lot of these. the chairman is right in that t

up next, a house hearing on the fcc's budget. the president is asking for almost $347 million way push for a expanding access to the internet and rural areas and making broadband space available for increasing use ever mobile devices. monday the house operations committee heard from fcc chair and the commissioner robert mcdowell. this is about two hours. >>> the hearing is going to come to order. and i'd like to welcome our two witnesses, chairman jankowski and commissioner mcdowell from the federal communications commission. thank you so much for being here today and for testifying on the fcc's fiscal 2013 budget request. while the fcc is funded by these congressional oversight over your budget is an important check on agency activities. this committee is committeed to fiscal responsibility and we intend to make sure that all agencies under the subcommittees jurisdiction are operating both efficiently and effectively. the fcc is an agency that places an important role on our country's telekman kegs television and cable industrie

the fcc to carry out those provisions. but if i could, the issue that is raided in this proceeding is part of a broad effort to move from paper to digital, and in fact, the suggestion in the proposal i was made in october which is based on a widely praised report from about a year ago identified the broadcaster public file as one of the last pieces of disclosure that is purely on paper and in fact the files literally are in cabinet said tv stations. and so, the proposal in the notice was to enable the movement of all of that information from digital public files to do digital. it's a proceeding that is open now. we are looking carefully at the effort and all of the issues that have been raised. >> okay, so tell us what information is available in the political files. in other words, i mean i know that i personally do not have to go to to tv station and i can get this information and sent aimlessly as all of our campaigns do today so consequently i am curious as to why we are doing this. what is it in the political file tha

these will be the most complex the fcc conducted to date. please update us on the agency's plan for these auctions as it stands now understanding that things will change as we move forward. we won't press you for a figure today, but i imagine there will be additional administrative costs associated with these auctions. can you comment on that? >> well, the auctions will be, present and opportunity to deliver a great return for the american economy and the american people. raise billions of dollars for the treasury, for the spectrum, for ipads and other mobile devices. it also willi isbe incredibly complex. the two sided auction congress authorize, this will be the first of its kind. it will require a great deal of hard work, engineering work, economist work, and we're privileged to have that responsibility. the staff is now analyzing the statutes, developing an implementation plan, determining what effect it will have and more importantly, what needs to be done to maximize the benefits to the public, to our treasury, to the economy. there's

there are pieces that we will work on at the fcc. we have a public safety and homeland security bureau that's very focused on it, making sure that we harness modern communications for our first general respecters, with communication with 911 and community alert. >> we wish you the best. that's going to be a challenge and one everybody will be looking at. there's a question i asked to every agency that's of special interest to me. what about the territories? the territories -- if you are to ask the are the folks who live in the territories american citizens, we would have been shocked by that people don't know they're not an american citizen. i was told that satellite -- somebody said sitting right there "the at that time light -- so now they have satellite radio. what are the difference in the continental state and what is still missing to bring about equality under the um brel laugh the fcc? >> i would say the issue we most hear is the same issue we hear from rural america, which is ensuring adequate broadbalanced infrastructure and

number two, what fcc requirements that are duplicative to fcc rules violate paperwork reduction act andhey're more in my written testimony where's the fcc and singling out tv broadcasters for such disclosure or car and twin political campaigns spend money on it plethora of outlets that influence voters such as radio, newspapers, the internet, direct mail, outdoor advertising, tayeb -- cable-television settle rate radian tv paid activist to knock on doors and many for voter our reach. i'm hopeful that we as policymakers can strike the right balance between protecting court call political speech and encouraging transparency without disproportionally perjuring -- versioning one of many outlets. finally all of the should be concerned with a well organized international effort to give an arm of the united nations known as the international telecommuting sheets and -- telecom eight telecommunications union any treaty. the internet has flourished under deregulation not only within our country but throughout the world as well. some countries such as china, russia, india, iran, saudi arabia amon

will be done at the fcc is we've done two different things. we have set goals from where the country should try to strive to on broadband. for example, we set a goal of 100 megabits to 100 people by 2020. one gigabit access in every command in the country. at the same time for universal service fund where we have to decide okay, what are we going to actually pay for, it doesn't make sense to say we will pay for 100 megabits to everyone in the country, at least based on current usages. in the. >> translator: a few months ago we define that level as foreign megabits basically. with an ongoing obligation that the fcc to look at the uses that are essential for participation in our economy, for small business, or looking for job, for education. and making adjustments to that over time as is appropriate. >> you know, let me close by saying something that you both know already, but i think merits repeating in public. you have one of the most important responsibilities in our society, and our government. and i mean that. of course, a lot of people who

meanwhile, the debate over whether how the fcc should shape the outcome of this process. history has proven that regulators tend to overengineer spectrum options backfire so i hope all of us can apply the lessons learned from the commission's past missteps in ram with al and this new love. r. option rule should be minimal and future-proof allowing for flexible uses of spectrum and technology and markets change in the years to come. furthermore i'm optimistic we can create a structure that offers opportunity fo s

what we've done at the fcc is done two different things. we've set goals for where the country should try to strive to on broadband. for example, set a goal of 100 megabitz to 100 million people by 2020. 1 gigabyte access to everyone in country. at the same time, universal service fund. we have to decide what are we actually going to pay for? it doesn't make sense to say we're going to pay for 100 megabytes for everyone in the country based and current usages. in the university service fund ord frerd a few months ago we defined that level as 4 megabytes buy an ongoing obligation for the krk fcc to look at looking for a job, for education and making adjusts to that over time as is appropriate. >> you know, let me close by saying that, something that you both know already, bumt i think it merits repeating in public. you have one of the most important responsibilities in our society, in our government, and i mean that. because a lot of people who work in government and head agencies and sit on boards, affect certain segments of the population

first, as we discussed in the last month's hearing, the fcc chairman is proposing a voluntary isp codef conduct as a way to alert consumers when a bot net or malware infection is discovered. today's witnesses will be on the frontline in ensuring such best practices are effectively implemented and obviously i think that you will talk about that. i look forward to it. second, i would like to hear more about your views on this supply chain security. i continue to have grave concerns stemming from my eight years that i recently completed at the house intelligence committee about the implications of foreign control tell communications infrastructure companies providing equipment to the u.s. market. in 2010, i wrote to the chairman asking for a better understanding of the fcc authority to address the challenges and what kind of transparency requirements should be placed on companies seeking to sell telecommunications infrastructure equipment to u.s. network providers. third, i would like to learn more about any unique challenges in securing mobile networks. as more data is transmitted wirele

the fcc upcoming release of the cyber best practices report developed by the communications security reliability and interoperable council such a long name reduced to srioc. i understand the chairman is planning a third hearing with government agencies. i commend him for this series of hearings and look forward to what our witnesses have to tell us. i want to thank you, mr. chairman, for organizing a bipartisan working group to study cyber threats and inform the committee of the findings. this is a good opportunity for staff to work together on the issue of common concern the i look forward to hearing back from the working group and exploring for further actions. thank you for the hearing. i thank the witnesses for being here. i look forward to the testimony. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back his time. we have a lot of big brains on the committee. we need them all to protect america. thank you for agreeing to serve on that working group. gentlemen, we are delighted to have you hear today. we will start with mr. livingood. we appreciate you being here. from comcast corporatio

but i'm of the opinion that their political appointees at the fcc. rush has so much money, he can keep the thing in court for two, three election cycles, regardless of first amendment. >> john, let's have a question for stephanie? . you can address what he said. bill maher, calling governor palin, a derogatory word used for women. that similar, and should president obama as our tweeter asks return his campaign contributions because of that? >> there is -- again, there is no place for this kind of dialogue. but i would argue that in the case of rush limbaugh, he has gone so far here. an he has done really very, very little to get himself out of it. i was so insulted by the first round of statements. i was shocked that he inessence doubled down the next day, thinking this was a good idea. and then he instead of having a full-throated apology, threw something up on his blog over the weekend. this is on our american airwaves. this is not on a cable show. this is on our american airwaves. and it's enough. he has been doing this for years, and now he is in

the fcc, the federal communications commission, which is supposed to make sure the broadcasters don't completely get away with highway rob-- excuse me, airwave robbery, the fcc has proposed to the broadcasting cartel that stations post on the web the names of the billionaires and front organizations paying for those campaign ads. that's all, give citizens access online to find out quickly and directly who's buying our elections. doesn't seem like an unreasonable request, given how much cash the broadcasters make from the free use of the airwaves. but the broadcasting industry's response has been a simple, declarative, dismissive, not on your life! speaking on their behalf, robert mcdowell, currently the only republican commissioner on the fcc, said the proposal "is likely to be a jobs destroyer" by distracting station employees from doing their regular work. the party line has also been sounded by jerald fritz, senior vice president of allbritton communications. he told the fcc that making the information available on the internet "would ultimately lead to a soviet-style standardizati

and so from this decision the fcc created a new category of entity and it's a mouthful and i believe it was recoined here by our friend here as the super pac. >> i know why i came up with that term. >> the other name was so catchy. so let us move on to our other panelists. but from that creation story as it is, i just want to underscore three particularly troubling assumptions that super pacs are based upon. one is this idea that independent expenditures are noncorrupting. i mean, this notion is, quite frankly, ludicrous here and i know all about it and that infusion of money is, let's say, given to me at a critical moment in my campaign and necessary for me to achieve a key win. it is crazy to think that i would not feel indebted to that individual in some way. the second fallacy is this notion that the coordination rules are sufficient to prevent true coordination the way that you and i talk about coordination and there is political money and i'm going to end illustrating that the best to steven colbert. have you guys talked to him yet? >> as many of you probably know, comedian and

and he said no, i sent the fcc the same documents i set my customers.[laughter] and inspector general said, but weren't the sole stock units? and that's when he uttered that line, after a long pause, i can see how you think they might be false. so he defended himself. i'm him as a psychiatric nurse and she has to tell me that the mind will not see what it cannot. c. that people will defend themselves against knowledge that they cannot bear to it now which. maybe there is something of that in madoff's assistance that he really was an honest and successful manager or many years. the government says no for most of this years to recruit. he really was failing on this record. while no, he wasn't. i think he can really bear to face who he really is. and until he does, i don't know that anything like the kind of remorse that we might expect to see a demand would cause such devastation, besides his son's suicide, two other investors committed suicide in the aftermath of the retired british military man who went into a park and blew his brains out in a french mo

invests are and engineers build out networks, they've passed that idea buy and you have to go back to the fcc with another rule making to change what another micromanagement might be from the government. it good to have flexible uses. the light squared did not rise to a level of the commissioner's vote. that was handled by the chairmanman's office. any detailed questions i would defer to them on that. >> i just think it's useful to keep that situation relevant as we discussed how we were going forward. i think there were a lot of fierce whether they were going to come true or not. those fears themselves have an impact on other decision that other companies make. as we go forward, there are companies that are making

where do you see the fcc as an independent agency playing a role? >> well, i don't -- i mean, i don't think there's an agency right now that's in a good position to come in and solve a problem we can't solve ourselves. i mean, if it really was a case where you could write out these five things that we should all be doing, and for whatever reason negligence, ignorance, whatever we're not doing it, then you need somebody in government to shake us into action. the problem is that we don't know what it is that you should be telling us we should be doing that's why we're pointing to innovation as the key. so it's almost kind of a moot question whether it should be dhs or fcc, because i'm not sure what they should be telling us. that's the problem. and, you know, there are some things, i said i'm part of the team. i'm trying to make recommendations. i'm not -- i don't want to lead you to believe that we're not trying to reduce the risk, but i would say from an agency perspective if there was an obvious set of things that should be done right now, kind of

i rode to the fcc -- wrote to the fcc chairman about what transparency requirements should be placed on companies seeking to sell telecommunications equipment to u.s. network providers. i would like to learn about unique challenges in securing mobile networks. more data is transmitted widely -- wirelessly and we need to look closely at how these networks are secured to make sure they do not become the entryway to the broader network. today's hearing is an important aspect to our work on cyber security. i want to thank each one of our witnesses or be instructive to us. i want to thank the chairman for the spirit of cooperation on this issue. usually, there are some democratic witnesses that are called and republican witnesses. that is not the case today. this is something that rises above that. i look forward to working with the entire committee so that we not only better understand the cyber security challenges facing our communications networks, but what steps we can take to secure them and strength in the country. i would like to yield the remaining time to representative matsui. >

support voluntary industry efforts and standard and enhanced governmental consumer education and the fcc cyber security stake holder efforts. along with government sharing along with a national clearing house. no carrier should be libel for using such information. thank you for the opportunity to testify and i look forward to questions you may have. >> thank you, mr. olsen. we will be back with you with questions as well. we will turn to our final witness on the panel this morning. mr. scott totsky. blackberry security group. rim, research in motion. >> thank you. members of the committee, thank you. i'm the senior vice president of blackberry security of research in motion. i'm here to talk to you about security. our products and services are used around the world. we have partners in 175 countries that offer blackberry products. more than 90% of the fortune 500 customers are blackberry customers. several of the same times of threats and techniques can impact smart users today. as the power and competing ability of smartphones have increased over the last few years, the threat matrix ha

we work with a lot of folks at the fcc and enjoy doing that. they have a lot of expertise. whether they have enough here, i think that's a tough question. i don't know the answer. >> i've said earlier, i don't think there is any agency that has the right expertise to do that. if we knew what the answer was, we would be doing that. i don't think it's a knock on any one particular agency. i just don't think there is any agency that has that capability right now. >> mr. mullen? >> and i would agree with ed. the answer is no, but i don't think anyone does. and i think that is the importance of collaborative relationships. you do need to bring people in from all sorts of the federal arena, as well as the private industry arena to work together, do the evolving nature of the threats in this arena. >> mr. olsen? >> it's an important question, but i would have to agree with mr. livingood. i don't know whether they do or not. >> i don't know either. i think what you're hearing here and common amongst the panel is the defender job, the job we're trying to do to protect your informati

what we've done at the fcc is we've done two different things. we've set goals for where the country should try to strive to on broadband. for example, we set a goal of 100 megabits, affordable to 100 million people by 2020. one gig gag bit access in every community in the country. at the same time, for universal service fund where we have to decide, okay what are we going to actually pay for, it doesn't make sense to say we're going to pay for 100 megabits to everyone in the country based on current usages. in the universal service fund order from a few months ago, we defined that level as four megabits basically with an ongoing obligation of the fcc to look at the uses that are essential force participation in our economy, for small businesses, for looking for a job, for education. and making adjustments to that over time as is appropriate. >> you know, let me close by saying that something that you both know already. but i think it merits repeating in public. you have one of the most important responsibilities in our society, in our government

. >> now, we had jane fonda, gloria steinem calling for the fcc to intervene here. >> yeah.ver the weekend. and it's just one of those things that shows that the anti-rush rhetoric continues to build. the momentum continues to build. we had hillary clinton making a statement about what she calls a kind of global attacks on women, contextualizing limbaugh without mentioning his name. within the global picture that she looks at as secretary of state, is it your sense -- what is your sense about where we are in the curve of this story? is this still -- >> well, i think that because the story has its own momentum and because it doesn't seem like it's going to abate, that's why i think that calls -- i think calls for fcc action are really misguided for a number of reasons, as much as i admire gloria steinem. but for one thing, i don't think that the feminist movement should be aligning itself with censorship. and beyond that, it just seems like a really bad move at this point to turn rush limbaugh into a free-speech martyr when, you know, the free market that he loves so much is

dirty words that george carlin made famous -- >> it's obnoxious. >> it's -- >> and if you pronounce fcct. >> and the something they're talking about is something he said on a stage show, a standup show. >> definitely not covered by the fcc. >> we were talking about -- oh, 2 years old, healthcare is. >> woogy woogy woogy. >> chuck e. cheese. ball jump. >> but that soup of bacteria yuck, no, thank you. hmm, hmm hmm. >> just inincredible, who two years ago, passages healthcare reform is armageddon because it will ruin our country. >> any random republican. >> that's actually right. john boehner. >> that's about as random as it gets. >> healthcare reform -- did i see a picture of him crying on st. patrick's day, what was he crying about? >> he was crying because there was some irish music playing. >> give me the cabbage. >> all his orange ran on to his green tie. it was a mess. >> it just made an ugly dark brown color. >> who said healthcare reform will destroy the country because in the next year or so america will have to dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it? >> mitch

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thisy have joined in saying it is time for the fcc to crush rush. the co-founders of the women -- the women's media center accused them of using sexist, racist and homophobic language and we shouldn't insight speech. as the left often does, the three say that if clear channel won't drop rush they should step in with the sec banishing him from the airways. let's go to the senior media correspondent playing with a red pumpkin. >> basically it is a war on pumpkins. and that is a metaphor for a lot of the wars. we will get to snooki later though. that wasn't even worth it. michael, the best part in this fonda, gloria stenam op ed is a claim -- they claim it isn't political. how is this not political? if this was bill mar, this would not happen. >> i saw daily beast op-ed. they compare him to joseph gerble. they are immediately disqualified. i think she disqualified herself by going to north vietnam. the factor is giving aid and suffer to the enemy of war. that said let's move to the real issue. gloria all re d, my anger is directed to the media. i hate

the fcc should be focused on what the fcc has jurisdiction over which is the transfer of a license. the marketing does not have anything to do with the transfer and that is one of my criticisms. this would be addressed in our process reform bill. it gets pretty near the definition of extortion when somebody comes in in your process and says we want to exchange this and they do their diligence. we want to affect the market place over here and we do not have the legal jurisdiction to do that. you want this license changed, do not do this as a side voluntary agreement? it is hardly monterey. these agencies if they want to change the marketplace should do so using their legal authority, promulgate a rule, have comment, and affect the market place. in the scope of a merger, exchanging licenses, they need to not agree to the merger or not agree or fix the harm or not fix the harm but they should not use those situations to legislate outside of where they have jurisdiction and they have done that repeatedly. commissions before this one and this one. i think that is a bad way to do public p

and there is fcc says don't pay money upfront to join a lawsuit, oofr a new under sea rover sounds like something jewels vern might have dreamed up. it's base ond simple movement of the common jelly fish and created by engineers at university of texas and virginia tech. it runs on gases found in water and designers say it could include deep sea rescues and surveillance. >> very cool. and thousands of runners will be hitting streets this weekend and organizers expect 9,000 runners for the third annual marathon. change this year is the start and finish line, moved to snow pack to avoid occupy demonstrators and will take runners past a new encampment. >> there is very, very surprised if they did anything to disrupt this event for the city. it's so positive for the the city in many ways. and. >> it's generated almost $5 mill yichblt a half million has been donate toad charities. >> there is is a weather boost this weekend. >> they'll be running in the rain this week. >> and that is is going to be wet out there. this is just the beginning of what is still to come. there is a live picture sav

as soon as that work gets done, based on what we are getting from the fcc, even under obama, we have moves by a very massive corporations to take control of the internet. advocates that have been working on that are pretty afraid that if we don't move soon to set up a public broadband system in san francisco that covers the entire city, we will get preempted from doing that by corporate takeover. as soon as we get community choice put to bed, we need to jump on that right away. commissioner olague, i wanted to make sure you got that message. commissioner campos: any other member of the public that would like to speak? public comment is closed. >> item nine, future agenda items. commissioner campos: colleagues, this is an opportunity to discuss or introduce any other item that you would like for lafco to consider as we move forward. why don't we open it up for public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. item ten. >> adjournment. commissioner campos: meeting adjourned, and i want to take this opportunity to wish a happy birthday to commissioner pimentel. she makes me feel ve

where do you see the fcc has an individual agency playing a role? >> i don't think there is an agency right now that is in a good position to come in and solve a problem that we can't solve ourselves. if there really was a case where we could write out these things it we should all be doing and forward ever reason negligence, ignorance, whatever we are not doing it, then you really do need somebody in government to shake us into action. the problem is that we don't know what it is that you should be telling us we should be doing. that is why we are pointing to innovation is the key. so it's almost kind of a moot question whether it should be dhf for the fcc or whoever because we are not really sure what they should the telling. that is the problem and there are some things, like i said i am part of the team trying to make recommendations. i don't want you to believe that we are just punting on such a hard problem and not trying to ease the risk that i would say from an agency perspective if there were an obvious set of things that should be done rig

received an e-mail from the mobile phone association, it reads in part, cta are in active discussions with fccregarding possible solutions. at the same time we want to make sure that whatever solutions are adopted to address this problem do not have unintented consequences. we're live in san francisco, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the state's unemployment rate remained unchanged in february hovering just below 11%. california's jobless rate last month was 10.9%. that's higher than the nation's unemployment rate of 8.3%. january was the first time in three years that the state's unemployment rate dipped below 11%. >> our peak was 12.4% so we're down significantly from that during the course of the recession. now we want to see better momentum starting to gain in this recovery. >> california added 6,000 farming jobs. >>> here in the bay area all but one county beat the state's unemployment rate. marin county had the lowest jobless rate with 6.6%. solano county had the highest. >>> the american soldier charged in the shooting rampage of afghan civilians was charged today with 17 cou

and i spoke with the fcc. many say they should have disclosed this because it is such a unique lawsuit. >> that statement is very generic. it could mean anything. >> legally, they are covered. >> okay. interesting. julie watts, thank you. >>> it has been over a decade since anthrax packages shut down the post office and crippled capitol hill. well now deliveries with a suspicious white substance have returned. tonight, only cbs has learned what is inside and what the sender is threatening. robert lyles has exclusive details. >> february 22, seattle fire crews race to the side of patty murray. a package of white powder has been found. 3,000 miles away in philadelphia, another white powder package evacuates republican senator, patrick's office. then, 212 miles away, a staffer opens a pack canal dripping with white powder at joseph leberman's office. what's going on? cbs 5 has secured an intelligence bull ten from the fbi. a weapons of mass destruction directory, to be exact. each package contains a picture of jo

we support the fcc's attempts to look at althouernative strategi. one would be to go away from the net asset additi-- fixed net as approach. i think the industry will reject that pretty categorically. what else could be done? one approach would be essentially to create more capital. they have limited capital at it this point, and there might be ways to build up the capital base. so that's one possible approach, and then either complementing that as a separate approach would be something that involved not allowing the draw out 100% immediately. if you think about that, what that really does is that it makes it unattractive to be the first person to withdraw your money, and therefore, it reduces the risk of runs considerably. it also has an investor protection benefit, which is if you're a, quote, slow investor and not monitoring the situation moment by moment so you're the last guy to take your money out, you're still protected because there's this 3% or whatever -- >> i've heard from some investors and from some funds that given the low margin that

what has been the role of any of the fcc in all of this? >> i mean look, fox is a cable network which means "fox news" i should say, is a cable network which means the role that the fcc is fairly limited in its regulation. i'm also going to say and this is a personal point of view now. i really believe in the first amendment first amendment and what the first amendment says is that government should not interfere in free speech so i think it's our jobs as activists and progressives and media watchers to fight for a better media. i don't want the government stepping in and saying don't do this and don't do that and don't do this and on a personal level, that i don't like. i think we as a people should stand up and make your point now and when we see something in media that is not right and recent events have shown that we and i'm not counting people here but we as it community and progressive movement have a tremendous amount of power to influence the media and i think that is where we should look and not look to the government for remedies.

now we have occupy the fcc which submitted a 325-page comment letter. that's never been done before like people like us, getting involved in the regulatory process. there are all these different groups, all these different kinds of people lawyers journalists, activists involved that weren't involved in the fall and that's why it's bigger. >> is this a change in strategy or evolutionary. >> it is evolutionary. there are more people physically involved. they reached out to people who were involved in a lot of these realms of the economy and they needed more expertise what could they do to bring more pressure to bear and be more effective. they're targeting their resources more effectively. i think you'll see them have even more of an effect in the coming year. >> is that why you use the term "we" to define occupy. >> i guess i'm doing this. i'm peripheral to all this. >> there you are we are. is that a royal we, an unofficial we. we all know what happened to trotsky, not wishing you bad luck in mexico city, but almost to that point. the story that homelan

and he stays here in washington at least until 1944 working at the fcc. all right. so now we're actually going to get to ernest's story. and this is the story that pretty much takes all the air out of the room. i think the story -- i think bumby's story and lester's great are both great. and they had a lot of adventure, more than many of us will experience in a lifetime. but ernest is going to go one better. no what's going to have the most excellent adventure of anybody in the family or social circle. and this is one that to a surprising extent is focused on intelligence operations in one way or another. and this is even though ernest doesn't take his own advice. he's married and has two wives and two kids -- three if you count bumby. but two small kids to worry about. it's interesting to note, that for about a six-year period he puts his writing career on hold. he's off doing the intel tasks and following the war rather than sticking to his writing. so when we encounter ernest in the war, he is living in cuba. he kind of goes to a different place every time he swi

where do you see the sec -- fcc playing an individual? >> i don't think there's an agency right now that is in a good position to come in and solve a problem that we can't solve ourselves. if it really was a case where you could write out these five things that we should all be doing, and for whatever reason negligence, ignorance, whatever, we're not doing it, then you really do need somebody in government to shake us, you know, into action. the problem is that we don't know what it is that you should be telling us we should be doing. that's why we are going to innovation as the key. so it's almost kind of a moot question whether it should be whomever, because i'm not really sure what they should be telling us. that's the problem. there are some things, like i'm part of the team trying to make recommendations. i don't want to lead you to believe that we're just kind of hunting, it's such a hard problem we're not trying to reduce the risk. but i would say from an agency perspective if it was an obvious set of things that should be done rig