we have reed hundt, michael powell, and kevin martin. amy schatz is our guest reporter. >> you are aware of the issues that julius genachowski is dealing with, including in decency and net neutrality. do you have any advice for him on how to handle this? he is getting attacked from all sides. >> we're smiling because we're grateful we are not there. >> i think probably some of the most important advice i got when i was chairman was that you had to be delivered to end -- deliver it in your thinking and in your decision making, but that you moved -- deliberate in your thinking and in your decision-making. reed gave me that advise when i became chairman and i thought it was the most important advice i got. >> i think you hope and pray, when you take this seat, which ultimately proves futile, that somehow, through your gifts, you will bring collective consensus around difficult issues and you will leave the group -- to lead a group happily to the right results. the reality is this is an intensely-fought industry. even interest groups who are

reed hundt served under president clinton, and kevin martin served from 2005-2009 under president george w. bush. amy, next question. >> are aware of we could talk a little bit about indecency -- i wonder if we could talk a little bit about indecency. the fcc has not done a lot of indecency enforcement and the past few years because of court challenges. i wonder if you regret pushing for it so heavily that it caused broadcasters to challenge fcc enforcement on this. >> i think one of the obligations you have to the commission is to enforce the law as written. even the current commission has continued to appeal those decisions. i do not think the commission should be afraid that the court may rule one way or the other. questioning the commission's authority is a good thing because it will help the commission know how to respond in the future. >> kevin makes a good point reporte. it does not matter if you like the portfolio or not, it is a statutory obligation. it is on the bucs. -- the books. the job proves heinous lee difficult to do because it is fraught with ambiguity. i never found it

. >> michael powell, reed hundt, kevin martin, tonight on c-span 2. >> middle school students, high-chool students, get warrant -- get working on those videos for studentcam. this year the theme is washington, d.c. through my lens. for complete rules and information, go to studentcam.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: felicity barringer is the national environmental correspondent for "the new york times." thank you for being with us. i want to talk about a situation in the west with water. he recently wrote an article that the headline was water in the southwest was headed for a day of reckoning. what is the situation? guest: basically, along the line of the rockies there has been in a 11 year drought. 11 years of under-average and in some cases, like 2002, one- quarter of average rainfall, meaning that there is an area of the country where 28 million people live that is looking towards the future where there may not be, certainly will not be the water supplies that they were used to in the past. it may be difficult to sustain continued growth in that area. specific areas

. >> this week on "the communicators," reed hundt, kevin martin, and michael powell on regulating broadbandoadcast indecency, and the fcc. tonight on c-span2. >> the keyspan network to provide coverage of public affairs, non-fiction books from an american history available on television, radio, online, and and social media networking sites. find our content any time for our c-span content library. we take our content on the road bringing resources to your community. washington your way -- the span networks now available in more than 100 million homes. created by cable and provided as a public service. >> the conversation now about the declining water supply in the southwest from today's "washington journal" and is under 45 minutes. barringer is the national environmental correspondent for "the new york times." thank you for being with us. i want to talk about a situation in the west with water. he recently wrote an article that the headline was water in the southwest was headed for a day of reckoning. what is the situation? guest: basically, along the line of the rockies there has been in a