eastern on c-span next, theup communicators would republican presented of joe barton. after that, the security council meeting. an event recognizing the fifth anniversary of the tea party movement. >> c-span, grated by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you by a public service by your television provider. >> revisited of joe barton -- representative joe barton joins us this week on "the communicators" to talk about some of the telecommunications issues facing congress and the fcc. congressman, if we could start with a couple the issues in the last week or so. i want to get your thoughts on the comcast and time warner cable merger and whether or not congress will end up playing a role in that. >> we haven't had a chance to study it that much. i think we will have a hearing on it. on the surface of it, i would think that congress would be generally receptive. we will look into local issues where there is a market dominance disproportionate shared concentration. i think overall we would tend to be receptive. >> tom wheeler's comments regarding the net n

. >> host: and representative joe barton, a republican of texas, is the chairman emeritus of the energy and commerce committee, he joins us on "the communicators" to talk about some of the telecommunications issues facing congress and the fcc. congressman, if we could start with a couple of breaking issues in the last week or so. number one, i want to get your thoughts on the comcast/time warner cable merger and whether or not congress will end up playing a role on that. >> guest: well, we really haven't had a chance to study it much at the committee level. i think we will have a hearing on it. i'm sure the chairmen will have a hearing. on the surface of it, i would think the congress would be generally receptive. we would want to look at any local issues where there was a market dominance, disproportionate share of concentration, but i think overall we would tend to be receptive. >> host: the other issue i wanted to ask you about, tom wheeler's comments regarding the net neutrality ruling. fcc chair wheeler said he would leave title ii on the table. >> guest: well, the fcc under presid

. >> host: joe barton is chairman emeritus of the energy and commerce committee, brendan sasso is technology corps sont with the national journal, this is the that iters. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a public service by your it's provider. .. and the pentagon, plus selected supreme court oral arguments and appearances by the justices. watch live or on your own schedule. federal focus on c-span.org. making it easy to keep tabs on what's happening in congress, the white house and the courts. >> next, discussion assessing u.s.-afghanistan relations. including a bilateral security agreement. speakers included former state and defense department officials and thand a representative withe u.s. agency for international development. the event was hosted by the u.s. institute of peace in washington, d.c. it runs about one hour 10 minutes. >> i would also like to thank all of you for coming. thank your distinguished guests, ambassador dobbins in particular. also our panelists for this first panel which is titled the united states and afghanis