the same thing applies for rpl and free mantle television production. so we try to make investments, and we have about 15 portfolio companies now, that can be lighthouse investments, that can kind of show the way forward for some of our core businesses. many times there'll be close connections where there'll be a supplier relationship or distribution relationship with our core division and these smaller innovative companies, but in any case, if these companies are successful, they'll show us something about how these markets will develop and how the digital media will be affecting these markets in the future. >> host: do you see a day where we move away from paper and television sets and 20th century technology such as that? >> guest: i do foresee a day, that day is today. i don't think there's any question that people's habits of media have changed substantially even in the last five years so that, you know, your kids and certainly mine are just as comfortable watching a television program on their computer as they are on a television set whether it's

i found an interview with mickey mantle. i think we gave him a $25 gift certificate to a clothing store. it was a nice store in those days which is closed. >> rob: do they still do like player of the game and stuff? i was going to tell a story from montreal days. >>> i was player of the game. usually it's the guy that wants to do the interview after the game. they gave me a weed whacker. i had to get through customs. i gave it to a guy. i'm not going to try to take that across the border in my bag bag. >> johnny: i thought it was to talk to the players before the game. we didn't do anything postgame. the guy would look at me and say when am i going to have time to go to a restaurant when it closes at 11:00? >> rob: i was player of the game a few times in houston. they would say brought to you by something and you'd get a $100 bill. i was like sure, i'll do it. you got an envelope with a crisp $100 bill in there. i was like i'll do it. >> johnny: count is full to adam dunn. dunn on base for the first time. we'll cover the bas

a new generation of leaders claims the mantle of reform, proving that ideas matter more than ever hillary rodham clinton -- more than ever. hillary rodham clinton, gen and appalling tunnel, bill richardson, bill ritter, can salazar, mark warner, and dlc leaders all make their mark on the national spotlight. the new dlc chairman harold ford, jr. continues to speak out as one of the nation's up and coming senators. rahm emanuel leads democrats back into the majority on capitol hill after penning with bruce reed a plan in 2006. in continuing with the tradition of helping young leaders emerge and the stars, the dlc founds a new program with an eye towards the future. a quarter-century later, barack obama and joe biden's historic victory in 2008 proves that the party is ready. the new administration and congress have the chance to build a long lasting change and reform, and the opportunity to carry out a new democratic agenda. education reform, national service, health reform, energy, fiscal responsibility, and long- term growth. on the democratic leadership council, the organization that al b

. >> is there any reason to believe that if the leadership mantle passes two kim jong-il's son, that it will result in any kind of a change in the leadership there with respect to decision-making? >> i have no reason to speculate one way or the other on that. as i said earlier, quoting former secretary of defense, william perry, i think you have to deal with korea as it is, not how it might be in the future. >> is there any information to suggest there might be disagreements within the north korean government regarding their nuclear policy? >> no. >> thank you. >> thank you senator shaheen guss senator corker, i know he has indicated to me he is not going to ask questions so this action follows if nation's recent nuclear underground test and subsequent missile testifieses in violation of previous security council resolutions. following the u.n. meeting, several members of the council spokes with reporters. this is about 25 minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. and today the security council has both spoken and acted decisively and clearly and unanimously. and t

you have to look around outside washington to see who is going to grab the mantle. there is no obvious candidate. governor bobby jindal tried to respond to the president, and sarah palin -- [laughter] >> she had a moment in november of last year, she was the second most well-known, most popular politician in the country and has done nothing with it for 7 months. david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of relief. [laughter] not that i have any political prejudice. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 months from now, my guess is mitt romney would win. >> then you have the genius of barack obama in appointing the governor of utah to be ambassador to china and thus removing one of his, perhaps, main rivals. >> someone from the west who was calling for a different kind of republican party. john mccue, secretary of the army, jim leac

things and finally concluded with michelle saying week in anticipation of view we can remove the mantle the soldiers of sojourners truth and command of the end anderson and rosa parks and on and on and later we send them 80 other letters so they could take a look. we knew we were onto something when we could not stop crying. every time we got a letter it was an emotional experience whether personal writing about their mother or father or men or women writing about their children or women advising obama's they had prayed for her. we never doubted we could do it. but one thing that was so power fall it is that black women have these incredible network all of these reports that say we don't use the internet is not true. not only that we use it but black women has established this base around the world because black women were sending us letters from africa and it says i just got to ethiopia we've found black women whether the buenos aires, italy, ethiopia all over the world and they were writing to say is this the real deal? are we actually going to see these letters in a song form? is a p

century developing a deeper vault of new ideas and talent, a new generation of leaders climbs the mantle of reform proving that ideas matter more than ever. >> d.n.c. leaders then all make their mark in the national spotlight. the new d.l.c. chairman harold ford jr. continues to speak out as one of the foremost. rahm emanuel leads democrats back that a majority after penning with bruce reed "the plan" in 2006. and continuing the tradition of helping leaders emerge into stars the d.l.c. found a new fellows program with an eye for the future. the quarter century after the d.l.c. took up the challenge of bring being back the forgotten middle class barack obama's and joe biden's victory proves that the party has been reborn. the new administration and congress have a chance to build a broad lasting majority for change and reform and the opportunity to carry out a new agenda for a new era. education reform, national service, health reform, energy, fiscal responsibility and long-term growth. in the democratic leader council the organization that al from built from the ground up is taking on th

policies from the time he was in exile in france feel that ahmadinejad is just not worthy of that mantle, of that succession to the presidency and that he has seriously isolated iran to the point where it is hurting economically and vulnerable to economic sanctions. and to go back to some previous questions my view is instead of focusing on changing the regime, that maybe the best focus to achieve u.s. objectives would be to redouble our efforts on the sanctions issues which i think were hurting the regime, particularly last july to the point where perhaps they were reconsidering their strategy on the nuclear issue. >> a question back here. >> sir, you mentioned that 11 million vote would be a lot of fraud, and you said that those people on the streets are not majority of iranian people. what you say to -- >> can't hear you. >> sorry, go ahead. yeah. >> okay. what i'm asking is when we read the chatham report and also when we go back to 2005 first round ahmadinejad has 5 million votes and in the runoff he had 70 million. at that time people were very suspicious about that as well, and no

administration has talked a lot about open government and transparency and made it sort of their mantle and taken this on, and open government directive but it is limited to a small number of groups and solutions. it has really been a lot of the foundation does great working people like that, and very limited notion of what open government means. it is more technology center then people-centered. i think there's a sense that anything could be better than the fcc under former chairman martin, but how much better again, we don't know. we are going to have to see what happens. >> guest: it is worth noting also that the former fcc chairman kevin martin had made some efforts in this area as well. it is true that his administration was considered very secretive and he was very good it conducting deals but he also put all of the orders that were circulating around the fcc up on the web site. it was always easy to find and i did it after a while. he would hold press conferences when it was time to announce the meeting's agenda which was the purview of the chairman. there are parts of the fcc wh

. >> is there any reason to believe that if the leadership mantle passes to kim jong-il's son is there any change in leadership with respect to decision-making? >> i have no reason to speculate one way or the other on that. as i said earlier, quoting former secretary of defense, william perry, i think you have to deal with north korea as it is, not as it might be at some point in the future. >> and is there any -- any information to suggest that there might be disagreements within the north korean government regarding their nuclear policy? >> no. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator shaheen. senator corker, he indicated to me he's not going to ask you. we thank you ambassador bosworth. we want to stay in close touch and we will and i look forward chatting with you for a moment. if we could ask the second panel to quickly come up and take their seats so we can have a seamless transition. that'd be terrific. i would ask each of the following panelists if they would try to summarize comments in five minutes or less. your full statements will be placed into the record as if read in full. th

administration has talked a lot about open government and transparency and made it sort of their mantleand taking this on, they had an open government directive, but it's really been limited to a small number of groups and solutions. it's really been a lot of the sunlight foundation, they do great work, and people like that. a very limited notion of what open government means. it's more technology-centered than people-centered. i think there's a sense that anything could be better than the fcc under former chairman martin, but how much better, again, we don't know. we're going to have to see what happens. >> guest: it's worth noting, also, that the former fcc chairman, kevin martin, had made some efforts in this area as well. it's true that his administration was considered very secretive, and he was very good at conducting last minute deals, but he also put all of the orders circulating around the fcc up on the web site. it wasn't always easy to find, but i did it after a while, and he would hold press concerns when it was time to announce the agenda which is the purview of the chairma

using excessive violence against its citizens, it risks letting the opposition wrap itself in the mantle of islamic of virtue. brookhaven, mississippi. next up on our republican line. what about the administration's response? this is mary question -- this is mary. go ahead. caller: i get disgusted with the democrats calling in and saying that republicans want to go to war with iran. all the republicans are saying is just support and tell them that they agree with freedom and everything and they do not need to be says -- the host should specify this when it comes up and say that. they did say, now, look, lindsay graham did not say anything about military action, he only supports their freedom and their right to protest. that is all they are saying. and something needs to be done about this, because this is telling the american people that the republicans want to go to war with iran because of this. they are definitely against that and they have come out and said that. just keeping on saying it, that republicans want military action, they have not said nothing about military action in this