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john d. rockefeller and all these people, it meant content and product, and it meant distribution. and that's what this merger is all about. it's bringing content and product into the hands of the distributer, or and possibly freezing out a lot of independent voices that would otherwise be heard but can't cope with that kind of power amazed into one -- amassed into one entity whether it's at&t or comcast or whoever it is. >> host: commissioner mcdowell, commissioner copps, january 21st of next year, when that rolls around, what's -- who's going to be on the commission -- [laughter] who gets to have a voice, and what will be some of the items that the trump administration, fcc will have to tackle? >> guest: again, we don't know the prediction business has been bruised here recently -- >> host: right. >> guest: we can guess. >> host: will chairman wheeler be gone? he doesn't have to be. >> guest: you'll have to ask him that question. so people understand, the president designates who the chair is but can't fire you from the commission altogether. you can only be removed by 'em peachm

john d. rockefeller at the helm.pratt becomes begin an executive in the standard or company, and henry starts at the bottom as a clerk and works his way up, eventually becoming president of the standard or company of new york. 1911 the antitrust case against standard oil results in it being split into 36 different companies, the largest piece to standard oil of new jersey the second largest the standard all of new york, and that is the one that hundred becomes the president of comment and later becomes the chairman of the board. so from being a clerk he works his wake -- he works his way up to being chairman of the board. so 95 he is writing -- excuse me, he's running the world's largest corporation, and then after work he goes home, and his wife it was was a shakespearean her own right, she ran herer's masters thesis at faster on the two decks of shakespeare, he and his wife would go through catalogs and order things for their collections. and open the packages that arrive, examined the books, read the books. they w