boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss or in washington coming up the federal communications commission has moved to target social media giants following outrage over alleged censorship straight ahead we'll dig into what the moves mean for the new public square plus amidst the pandemic sports are in need of distraction to cope it has wreaked havoc on nearly every major league later i'm going to bring in a panel to analyze the financial state of the industry we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we leave the program with the latest in the world of social media in a week that has been nothing short of head spinning in the tech world we have new developments on friday as the federal communications commission is indicating that it may begin to regulate platforms over censorship on thursday f.c.c. chairman i said that the agency will seek to regulate social media platforms like facebook and twitter at the behest of the trump administration's executive orders signed earlier this year so let's waste no time to get to the details of a boom bust co-host and investigative journa

one business show you can't afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the federal communications commission has moved to target social media giant following outrage over alleged censorship straight ahead we'll dig into what the moves mean for the new public square plus amid the pandemic sports are a needed distraction kovac has wreaked havoc on nearly every major league later i'm going to bring in a panel to analyze the financial state of the industry we have a pack show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the latest in the world of social media in a week that has been nothing short of head spinning in the tech world we have new developments on friday as the federal communications commission is indicating that it may begin to regulate platforms over censorship on thursday f.c.c. chairman i said that the agency will seek to regulate social media platforms like facebook and twitter at the behest of the trump administration's executive order signed earlier this year so let's waste no time and get to the details of a boom bust co-host an investigative journalist ben swan

. >> host: brendan carr is one of five federal communications commission committee members, and he is one of three republicans on the commission as well in the majority and he is our guest this week on "the communicators." commissioner carr, not the politics but the mechanics, what happens to the commission if there is a change in administration after november 3? >> guest: thank you so much for having the on. there's five of us that are commissioners of the fcc. we serve staggered terms of every year one member of the commission is up for re-nomination and confirmation by the senate and the process continues a respective of the outcome of the election. for instance, my term runs through 2023 and i can hold over for a longer time potentially and i'm going to continue to serve regardless of the outcome of the election. >> host: and with michael o'rielly not being we nominated by the president, if there were a change in administration, you and commissioner pai would be the republican, correct? >> guest: yes. michael o'rielly has her longtime both on capitol hill and at the fcc and his te

which their work has been particularly influential the model which the united states federal communications commission uses to do its spectrum auction that would be auctioned for contracts on the communications spectrum whether that's wireless or television licenses the model that these 2 men come up with is used and has been used for years for the so it's you know they've already been seen as very significant figures in this field in some respects this award is a recognition of that lifelong work all right so they really created a hands on solution but is it relevant today i mean does it come as a surprise that they were chosen in a year with a pandemic dominates everything well yeah that's a very important point so a lot of people were speculating that because of the pandemic some economists who had done specific work in the area of health economics or medical economics were going to be awarded this prize there was also some speculation that it will be a woman because there's only been 2 women in the entire history of the nobel prize for economics and that's really a significant thing for the nobel

. >> brendan carr is one of the three republican commissioners on the federal communications commissionwe appreciate you both being on the communicators. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government created bike america's television company -- cable television company as a public service and brought you today by your television provider. eastern, 9:00 p.m. political commentator candace owens on why black americans should vote republican in her book blackout. she is interviewed by the chairman of the american conservative union. question 25% of african-americans call themselves conservatives. is that shocking or is that the story you are trying to get out there? >> i know it to be true. show me a black american, i will show you someone who is conservative and does not know it this is one thing republicans are really bad is getting out their message and this is what i have tried to be different about enjoying the conservative movement. you have to realize what the left one as the culture war. they were doing things on tv, being funnier. >> watch

. >> host: brendan carr is one of five federal communications commission committee members, and he is one of three republicans on the commission as well in the majority and he is our guest this week on "the communicators." commissioner carr, not the politics but the mechanics, what happens to the commission if there is a change in administration after

licensed by station the federal communications commission gives a candidate time on the air, they have to give their opponent equal time. johnson was not anxious to debate. you have all the minor party candidates. it is not practical. able to dodge it successfully. in 1968 when nixon was running again, he was not too anxious to debate. he learned his lesson. this kind of stop presidential debates. like 1960 was a one-off, it would never happen 1976, gerald ford was president. he was trailing his opponent but much is 30 points. they found their way around the fairness doctrine. it was not the networks giving the candidates a forum. it was covering a news event. find a lawyers work they way around it. we can do these debates with people we want. since 1976, we have had presidential and vice presidential debates every election. there used to be questions by a panel. more recently they have gone to a single moderator. there has been times when there was quite a lot of interaction. --the time of the debates, what is the polling now how many are undecided? there may be more people who say on

in 1961, president jfk appointed him chairman of the federal communications commission, where he served until 1963. in addition, he is a former chairman of the corporation trustee americas of the mayo clinic, a life trustee of northwestern university. and the university of notre dame, a former trust in of the commission -- a founder and a leader chain of he is a member of the commission on presidential debates. and related to what we're talking about here, he's actually been involved in every presidential debate from 1960 to the present time. in 2016, president barack obama presented him with the nation's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. this discussion, that we're having today, is particularly well-timed not just because on tuesday we're going to be seeing the first presidential debate, but also and i will confess this is entirely by coincidence. today happens to be the 60th anniversary of the first kennedy nixon debates, to the first televised presidential debate. accidental, i think a little bit providence show, and i think for that very reason. it maybe mak

with so many americans depending on conductivity for school and work, the role of the federal communications commissionas never been more critical. the fec is undertaking major initiatives close the digital divide, fund telehealth and navigate the thorny issue of the power of social media platforms. i spoke with the fec chairman new pai starting on apple's iphones and whether they really will usher in a truly nationwide 5g network. >> i decided to see how the introduction of the new lineup goes. it will offer consumers and small businesses tremendous potential. everybody talked about the much higher speed and much lower latency and responsiveness to the network but i think in particular about some of the applications zoomers will be able to use. everything from telehealth to gaming and remote learning, you name it. everything is on tap and will transform entire industries. it's one of the reasons the fec has been negotiating our plan, and place the building blocks to allow american entrepreneurs to thrive and deliver value. do you and carriers are making some broad updates but when will there truly be

agencies with the quasi- legislative powers and staggered terms of rule makers and like the federal communications commission. while there are presidential import --dash make appointments and play the minority party in this case is the one that doesn't control the white house. there are defenses of this. it creates a little bit more continuity. you don't get that independent agency structures. these sorts of bodies wield substantial power. and the white house has i want that security and exchange commission. all of these folks. while their unelected the big problem here is you often get true believers. folks who are committed to environmental reform. committed to a certain view of security law. they have a certain view of the world. and most of the civil service underneath the top elected officials tend to skew in a certain direction. it's rare you will get the d regulatory champion to want to devote a career to be in the regulatory agency. you have this problem. every country has a legal system. we've a private legal system as well. when we talk about criminal law is a state prosecuting misconduct. then we

they designed the auction that was most recently used by the federal communications commission in united which phone companies get which cellular frequencies. they also designed an auction to reallocate frequencies from the tv broadcast band to the cellular band. so, a lot of different auction devices they've worked on over the years as partners. silson was actually milgrom' thesis advisor in college. so, they have known each other for a very long time. milgrom is 72. wilson is 83. and they have taken the nobel of economics this year. [indiscernible] this is always interesting, michael. what i would really suggest with wilson and milgrom is we're an organization. it is so associated with stanford university. michael mckee and i know the work of john cho been an john taylor in monetary economics. when we use the word organization, or organizational in our economics, what do we mean? michael: you're looking at ways to functionalized society in a way that enables prediction. that's what people are looking for. what they have done in economics in terms of auctions is create a system that max

they went to the federal communications commission and asked for equal time. they wanted free time on national television to respond to the president. the fcc wouldn't grant that. so they basically took out a $60,000 loan and they purchased a half an hour's time on nbc and it broadcast on the evening aon may 12th in 1970. it was up against walter cronkite at that time. and they made that program. and several other stations felt that the program was so important, that they ran it later. so cbs, for instance, ran it if following sunday, and other networks followed -- local stations followed. the program ends with an appeal for money and for an appeal for petitions and it was so successful it raised a half a million dollars at that time which was maybe a little over $3 million today in terms of how people responded. huge bags of mail were delivered to the senators of offices of people writing in to tell them that they supported this. the public support, however, wasn't enough because when the senate eventually got around to voting on the mcgovern/hatfield, it was

essentially they wanted a chance to respond and so they went to the federal communications commission and asked for equal time. they wanted free time on national television to respond to the president. the fcc will not grant them so they basically took out a 60,000 dollar loan and they purchased at half an hour's time on nbc will. it was broadcast on the evening of may the 12, 1971 >> 1970, 7:30. they made that program and then several other stations felt that the program was so important that they ran a later. cbs, for instance, ran it the following sunday and other networks and local stations followed. the program and with an appeal of money and an appeal for the petitions. it was so successful in raised half 1 million dollars at that time, which was a little over 3 million dollars today in terms of how people responded. they are huge bags of nails delivered to the senate offices and people writing in to tell them they supported this. the public support however, was not enough because when the senate eventually got around to voting the mcgovern hadfield, i think was defeated by 65 t

it said if a station licensed by the federal communications commission gives a candidate time on the air, they have to give their opponent equal time. in 1964, lyndon johnson was not anxious to debate. he had a huge lead. he did not want to debate with barry goldwater. you have all the minor party candidates. it is not practical. he was able to dodge it successfully. in 1968 when nixon was running again, he was not too anxious to debate. he learned his lesson. in 1968 and in 1972, nixon was at the top of the ticket for the republicans. this kind of stopped presidential debates. it looked like 1960 was a one-off, it would never happen again but in 1976, gerald ford was president. who took over for nixon when he resigned. he was trailing his opponent but -- he was trailing his opponent by as much as 30 points that summer. they found their way around the fairness doctrine. if a third party, in 1976, it was the leak of women voters, if a third party held an event and the networks decided to cover that, it was not the networks giving the candidates a forum. it was covering a news event. s

probably led to them winning this and impacted policy is that in the united states the federal communications commission which organizes auctions for its so-called spectrum auctions that would be where licenses for telecommunications and internet and so on are given and the model that these 2 men came up with is the model which is used for that and that's quite a may seem like something that in theory shouldn't be that incredibly complicated but it is extremely complicated mathematical economics where they've come up with all kinds that are basically designed so that those that are selling the spectrum space can get the maximum use out of it by allocating resources according to what a different company may do and so on so that's essentially why they've been given this award and doesn't come as a surprise well with the other contenders more likely to win well there was some speculation this year that because of the pandemic economists focus in the area of health maybe given the price of for obvious reasons also there was speculation that a woman may win it because there have been so few female winners ho

. >> reporter: democratic member of the federal communications commission is also frustrated tweeting the fcc has no business being the president's each police. the republican chairman announcing he is launching a review in light of bipartisan criticism from capitol hill, the white house and the supreme court about an overly broad interpretation to section 230. to protect companies from liability should a third-party uphold libelous or defamatory content. internet company takes down third-party content and good faith it is protected. in a ruling issued this week justice clarence thomas wrote that by adopting the current practices of extra immunity and statutes where it does not belong courts relied on policy to grant sweeping protection to internet platforms. >> judge amy coney barrett said this in response to a question about whether courts have broadly interpreted section 230's protections. >> without respect to section 230 the danger of the court doing that to subvert the will of the people, you represent the people. >> reporter: the next step is hearing from the social media giant

biden story was not great and they could have provided more context the head of the federal communications commission suggest social media companies could face more regulation in the future, this is what he had to say, quote, social media companies have a first amendment right to free speech but they don't have a right to special immunity denied to other media outlets such as newspapers and broadcasters. that's not just republicans that are republicans that are speaking out. we heard from a subcommittee, suggesting that apple, google, facebook, that they are essentially monopolies and they are too big and the government may need to step in. they feel it's not just about information, but also about commerce. eric: mark, thanks. arthel: now we're going to go to claudia cowen in california with the latest response from those big tech companies. claudia. >> reporter: arthel, as you might imagine, the big tech companies in cal california are unapologetic, saying it's their company, they can make their own rules, especially when it comes to what their employees are posting on social media. twitter says emp

order on section 230 of the communications decency .ct couple of months ago he told the federal communications commission that he wanted them to set up rulemaking that would look into the scope of section 230 and whether it needed to be narrowed. actually just last week, ai indicated he would be moving forward with the rulemaking. whether that results in anything before the end of the year, i is't know, but it seems pai on board with potentially narrowing the idea of the scope of section 230. host: rich in new jersey, supporter of president trump. go ahead. caller: yes, pedro. i have a comment from ms. gold, but also i have a little dialogue for you. what i want to say is, i think c-span in the last eight months has really shown your true colors. for eight months, i watched "washington journal" every morning. you have never had one banner under there about joe biden. it has been trump, trump, trump. you are covering up the stories of biden. you have every tom, derek, or fake opinions and now you are blocking the story. host: we are not blocking the story, we even committed a segment to this yesterday. bu

that same day, the chair of the federal communications commission got into the act. he said he would soon clarify the law. here were his words, social med mediaia companies have a right to free speech but they do not have a right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets such as newspapers or broadcasters. second 230 of the communications decency act, 26 words that provided internet platforms with a liability shield that enabled the internet to thrive. here are those 26 words. no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. meanwhi meanwhile, president trump is calling facebook and twitter a monster and threatening to go after them, repeal section 230. here's what he said on thursday. >> and a big tech persists with coordination with the mainstream media, we must immediately strip them of their section 230 protection. okay. it's very simple. and we all believe in freedom of the press, but don't forget, big tech got something years ago tha

you may know him as the former chairman of the federal communications commission.that was newton minnow's phrase, but for our purposes tonight, he worked with and was an associate of adlai stevenson for many years. newton minnow, if you can start by telling us when did you first meet governor stevenson? >> i was a law clerk at the united states supreme court for chief justice vincent. one of our law professors, cal mcgowan, came to visit one day. he later offered my clerk a job as his assistant in springfield as assistant to the governor. it turned out howard wasn't interested, but i was. i ended up being interviewed by governor stevenson at 7:00 a.m. for breakfast in the spring of 1952. and he said to me, if i hire you, young man, is there any reason why you wouldn't take the job? and i said, if my current boss, chief justice vincent, runs for president, and it was rumored in the press that he would be a candidate for president, if he asked me to stay with him, i would like to do that. and governor stevenson looked at me and he said, i don't think that's very like

listen to what the current republican chairman of the federal communications commission recently said about t-bands. earlier this year chairman ajit pai stated, quote, an f.c.c. auction of the t-band is a bad idea. this is not a partisan issue. it is a public safety imperative. there is no cost associated with stopping the t-band auction, and congress must ensure that the people who step up to keep us safe are taken care of. if we fail to act, the f.c.c. will have no choice but to move forward and strip this resource from our first responders. to allow that to happen during a public health crisis like the one we face today would be reckless. first responders already face enormous strain economically, enormous pressure to address the pandemic as well as deadly natural disasters across the country. the last thing we should be doing is saddling them with millions or billions of dollars in costs to needlessly alter their critical communication system. congress can no longer drag its feet. we have run out of time. the f.c.c. has called on this body to stop the t-band auction, but the commi

things like the federal communications commission's or security and exchange commission.while there arepointment in play there are bipartisan commissions for the minority party, in this case it's the party that doesn't control the white house, minority of the seats. there are defenses of this, it creates a little more continuity, you don't get the à Ãit's very very different from the basic constitutional design we all learned about in grade schools. these types of bodies wield substantial parties delegated by congress. in the white house can't come in here and say, i want this person off the security and exchange commission i don't like their views, what else does not have that power? the elected president doesn't have that power.all of these folks, while they are unelected and, the big problem is you don't get true believers except for those of us who think that government can get too big. you get folks who are committed to environmental reform or folks that are committed to a certain view of securities you get folks that manned the agencies that populate these agencies that have a cer

in order to have a debate, you had to suspend a rule of the federal communications commission so that every candidate, all 30 candidates, including the beekeepers party wouldn't have to be on the stage and linden johnson wired that in congress so that it was impossible. he didn't want to face barry goldwater. that says something about he thought barry goldwater would have been a worthy adversary. >> a question from somebody here. please go ahead. >> abraham from scottsdale. do you see the tea party movement as a resurgence of the goldwater movement? >> i definitely think that there are a lot -- you know, the tea party, i guess, the best way to answer that is to say that it's not monolithic. there are all kinds of people who constitute the tea party and a lot of different ideas in the tea party. but i think if you look at the tea party as a group of people who have fought these gigantic bailouts in washington, they fought the raising of the debt ceiling, they fought the federal takeover of health care. all of those things, i think, barry goldwater would have been with them on. so certa

i have a tweet here from the chairman of the federal communication commission. he recounts four tweets by the iranian dictator which twitter did not place a public label on, all four of them glorified violence, the first tweet says," each time the regime is a deadly cancerous growth and a detriment to the region, will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed, that is the first tweet, the second tweet though only the remedy of the regime is firm armed resistance. again left up without comment by twitter, the struggle to free palestine is jihad in the way of god, i quote that in part for the sake of time and number four, we will support and assist any nation or group anywhere who opposes and fights the zionist regime. i would simply point out that these tweets are still up mr. dorsey and how is it that they are acceptable. all ascii unanimous consent to enter this tweet, record at this point and that will be done without objection, how is mr. dorsey, how is that acceptable based on your policy that twitter? >> we believe it's important with everybody here global lead

from mr.tweet here ajit pai, the chairman of the federal communications commission. he recounts some four tweets by the iranian dictator, ayatollah khamenei, which twitter did not place a public label on. all four of them glorify violence. "theirst tweet says this, zionist regime is a deadly, cancerous growth and a detriment to the region. it will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed." that is the first tweet. the second tweet, "the only remedy until the removal of the zionist regime is firm armed resistance." again, left up without comment but twitter. the third, "the struggle to free palestine is jihad in the way of god." i quote that in part for the sake of time. number four, "we will support and assist -- alix: we have been listening to the senate hearings with mark zuckerberg, sundar pichai, and jack dorsey. they are talking about what took them so long to label a tweet , which goesst china back to what we talked about before, how do you take bias out of content reporting? ,rom an investor perspective what matters is daily active users. monthly active users. bo

ajit pai, the chairman of federal communications commission which twitter did not place a label on allfy violence the first tweet says this, i quote each time, the zionist regime is a deadly cancerist growth and should be uprooted and destroyed. the only response to removal of the zionist regime is firm armed resistance third, the struggle to free palestine is jihad in the way of god, i quote that in part for the sake of time and number four, we will support and assist any nation, any group anywhere -- >> that's the senator with some cross-examination of jack dorsey of twitter looking at some of the policy which even jack dorsey has been late or poorly communicated. we'll see how this q&a or framework develops at some point, the question is going to be why not try another platform and maybe the market will return to the idea that these are private companies and each individual interaction has been guided in some way by a human hand >> with so much content on each of these sites, there is so much material for these lawmakers to work with so much examples where these policies were not ap

the head of the federal communications commission said he'll soon clarify e whoo type type -- what type: as companies acted to limit the spread of the hunter biden story, both stumbled in communicating the reasons behind the decision to the public. twitter's ceo jack dorsey later admitting it was, quote, unacceptable. claudia cowan live in sausalito, california, with more on the reaction to the fallout. claudia? >> reporter: well, arthel, in fact, the media giants excuses for blocking those bombshell stories have changed. facebook canceled and, essentially, censored the story before they even found anything wrong with it. spokesperson andy stone, a former democratic operative, said, quote: while i will intentionally not link to the new york post, i want to be clear that this story eligible to be fact checked by facebook's third-party fact-checking partners. in the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform. twitter took it a step further, banning links to the story altogether and freezing the accounts of the new york post, president trump's campaign and white house press

iii, newton minow who worked for years with and for adlai stevenson, and was former federal communications commissionn author and historian richard norton smith. we're going to take this call from sally in chicago. hi, sally. >> caller: hi, let me correct something, i was born and raised in chicago, but i live in california. and i'm calling because i -- adlai stevenson's 1952 election was my first presidential -- in other words, when i was eligible to vote. so i went door to door and did whatever i could. i was crushed that he didn't win. but on retrospect, i thought he would contribute so much more on the world stage as a statesman. and, in a way, he did. but i will never forget how disappointed we were. one other thing, being a chicagoan, i worked at the "tribune" tower when the dewey-truman election results -- you never saw such panic in your life as was in the "chicago tribune." i will let you go and get your response on air. thank you. >> i think we could talk -- i think we could talk to sally all night, but senator stevenson, if we could start with you, you heard the emotion in her voice, could

sight things like transmission lines and power plants and wind farms, to oversee the federal communications commission act and its application in north dakota. and as a state regulator for nearly ten years, by far the greatest problem, the greatest obstacle to doing my job were the maintains coming from -- the mandates coming from washington, d.c., trying to impose their mediocrity on north dakota's excellence. so, when i came to washington, i set out to change some of that. i wanted to try to change our bureaucracy a little bit, find -- find somebody in this place that understands and respects the role of states in this cooperative federalism. because what i saw and what i continue to see is a big bureaucracy trying to run right over, roll right over the states of this country. and i think that overriding issue of the role of states and of federalism gets to it the heart of lots of these other smaller issues, lots of these more granular issues. now, whether it's the waters of the u.s. and what's a and a halfable water -- that's one of the big ones -- and what's a navigable water -- that's one of the

ajir pai, the chairman of the federal communications commission a --jit p -- ajit pai . four tweets bye , whichnian dictator twitter did not place a public label on. all four of them glorified violence. the first says this, and i quote each time, "the zionist regime is a deadly, cancerous growth and a testament to the region, it will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed." that is the first. the second, "the only remedy until the removal of the zionist resistance."m, or again, left up without comment by twitter. ree third, "the struggle to f palestine is jihad in the way of god." i quote that in part for the sake of time. number four, "we will support and assist any nation who opposes and fights the zionist "egime. i would simply point out that these tweets are still up. mr. dorsey. how is it that they are acceptable to be there? i will ask unanimous consent to enter this tweet from ajit pai. how is mr. dorsey -- how, mr. dorsey, is that acceptable based on your policies at twitter? mr. dorsey: we believe it's important for everyone to hear from global leaders. and we ha

ajit pai is the chairman of the federal communications commission., and he, he recounts some four tweets by the iranian dictator ayatollah ali khamenei which twitter did not put a label on. all four of them court violence. the zionist regime is a deadly cancerous growth and detriment to the region. it will undoubtedly up uprootedd destroyed. that is the first tweet. the second tweet, the only remedy until the removal of the zionist regime is firmed armed resistance. again left up without comment by twitter. the third, the struggle to free palestine is jihad in the way of god. i quote that in part for the sake of time. and, number four, we will support&as sis any nation or any group anywhere who opposed and fights the zionist regime. i would simply point out that, these tweets are still up, mr. dorsey and, how is it that they are acceptable to be, to be there? i will ask unanimous consent to enter this tweet from ajit pai in the record at this point that will be done without objection. how, mr. dorsey is that acceptable based on your policies at twitt

sight things like transmission lines and power plants and wind farms, to oversee the federal communications commission act and its application in north dakota. and as a state regulator for nearly ten years, by far the greatest problem, the greatest obstacle to doing my job were the maintains coming from -- the mandates coming from washington, d.c., trying to impose their mediocrity on north dakota's excellence. so, when i came to washington, i set out to change some of that. i wanted to try to change our bureaucracy a little bit, find -- find somebody in this place that understands and respects the role of states in this cooperative federalism. because what i saw and what i continue to see is a big bureaucracy trying to run right over, roll right over the states of this country. and i think that overriding issue of the role of states and of federalism gets to it the heart of lots of these other smaller issues, lots of these more granular issues. now, whether it's the waters of the u.s. and what's a and a halfable water -- that's one of the big ones -- and what's a navigable water -- that's one of the

federal election commission to say this is helping and a one -sided attack on conservative s you better do something about this. now, we've already heard from jack dorsey at twitter who said we didn't communicate this effectively this whole new york post story whether it was iffy or not, we shouldn't have shut it down or made it very very difficult for people to sort of retweet it. he's now allowing that but is it too little too late? senators watching all of this very very closely, right after this. >> if they don't before the election you are open to expanding the court? >> i'm open to considering what happens from that point on. >> you said so many times during the campaign all through the course of your career it's important to level. >> it is, but george, if i say no matter what answer i gave you , if i say it, that's the headline tomorrow. it won't be about what's going on now, the improper way they're proceeding. but don't voters have a right to know where i stand? >> they do have a right to nowhere they stand before they vote. >> you'll come out with a clear position before election day? >> yes depending on how they handle this. neil: all right, not quite sure about that depending on h

. : : brendan carr is one of five federal communications commission committee members and he is one of three republicans on the commission as well in the majority and he is our guest this week on "the communicators". permission or -- commissioner car, not the politics but the mechanics but what happens to the commission if there is a change in administration after november 3? >> guest: thank you so much, peter, for having me on. five of us are commissioners of the fcc and we serve staggered terms so every year one mem