i was an advisor to the knight commission that studied the types of content needed in order to enable and empower a democracy, and it was not, uh, netflix and movies and other kinds of distractions. it was the kind of information that included what's happening at city hall, what's happening at the state legislature, what's happening with the federal government in terms of services. we have an opportunity now, because congress had mandated that the fcc develop a national broadband plan, and the united states is one of the few advanced countries still without a national broadband plan... >> hinojosa: hard to believe. >> ... to develop a, uh, infrastructure for the 21st century. however, that was not done. at most, the commission's plan looked only for ten years that everyone would have a, um, ten megabytes per second in terms of access, and they would call that high-speed broadband. whereas now, if you look at the kind of access available in south korea, hong kong, and even kansas city, upcoming, as a consequence of a gift from google, they have one gigabyte per second access. we should

congressional testimony, hearings, i read the reports that the nca presidential task force put out, the knight commission put out, all the stuff that the presidents were associated with. when you read that history, two things are clear to me. one, the presidents clearly understand the problem. they talk relentlessly about the escalation it has caused and the impact on the schools and how they would like to change it. the second point is, then they say we are powerless to do anything about it. we need someone outside the university to tell us what to do. the question that is, who is that going to be? is it the ncaa? i don't think so. is it congress? again, i don't think so. if you look at the history of congress in this, forgive me, former congressman, but it is not great. they have written into laws, tax breaks for some of this. they have backed away from some of the reforms. i don't know, maybe i'm being a little harsh, you tell me. >> host: when i was in congress senator bill bradley, myself we put together the student writes no bill which required schools to disclose the graduation rates of their stud