mr. hal? >>> mr. mayor, i wanted to thank you for being here. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. >> okay. i'm sorry if we missed some cards. we meant to get to every single card that was submitted. so, our apologies if that happened. but i will say, david, if there's any question about our commitment to small businesses, you hear from me directly that we are investing in neighborhoods in a very large amount. my budget from last year and this year reflect a very strong consideration for neighborhood small businesses in our city. and i know of not only your leadership, but mr. carnilowitz's leadership. this is why we have an abundance invested in the leadership program. maybe if you have particular issues off line, we can do that after this, or if you want to have one more question, that's fine. >>> [speaker not understood]. >> okay. >>> [speaker not understood]. >> all right. if everybody didn't hear, the question is some businesses that want to operate mobile and that's coming from the mayor's office what the rumor is. i can cor

we'll turn now to the director of navigant directives, mr. hal singer. please go ahead. >> thank you. complaints, including an expert for the nfl network, tennis channel and madison. the role of the s.e.c. and that oversight process -- to design the proper regulatory framework, one must first understand the nature of the potential harm presented by vertical integration in the cable industry, namely, real estate dux in innovation among independent content providers. why we care about that potential harm? because some of the best content has sprung and will likely continue to spring from independents who are free from the scriptures of a clumsy conglomerate. without any protection against discrimination, independents will be forced to surrender equity in exchange for carriage and thus will be less willing to take risks which would result in fewer programming choices and less programming diversity. there are two schools of thought on how best to deal with this problem of vertical integration. the first, advocated by professor tim wu of columbia law school i

mr. fancy pants. hal: welcome back, it's the "stephanie miller show," the final hour of the final day.ki: super sad. hal: it's been great though, i have to say. jacki: sad panda. hal: it's nice to be able to get on a long-range discussion about a lot of topics. there's certainly been tons to cover this week. we'll take your calls about the doma ruling in a little bit, as well. there's an interesting response from the family research council, which is the most ironically named group in the world. it's like the anti home schoolty society. jacki: shall we tie it into the new yorker cover too. hal: yes. we're talking about climate change, and dealing with a bunch of that. let's take calls. tom in maryland says he can explain global warming. hi tom. caller: hi. it's not so much explain it, but i'll give you a model. hal: ok. caller: if you think of any device you had with an equalizer, you see it going up and down as you add power as you turn up the volume, the highs go higher, the lows lower. the highs are the first we're now seeing, the lows are the record blizzards we had a couple of yea

the house appropriations chair hal rodgers liked that a lot. >> mr. werfel, i'm beginning to like you when you say you don't want more money. that's music to my ears. i'm sure the cramer feels the same. >> of course, larry, there are more irs hearings ahead in both the house and the snoochlt we have to see whether darryl issa and the others investigating this are going to be able to pin it to the white house or to officials in washington higher-ups in washington. he did get some aggressive pushback over the weekend from the former white house senior adviser who brought up some criminal charges in darryl issa's own past, which is an indication that the white house is saying you want to have a full volume fight over integrity and honesty? be careful what you wish for. >> well, okay. thank you, john harwood from washington, d.c., we appreciate it. now, we will bring back ileana johnson and ed conner from aei. ed, i read your foreign affairs piece about america's growth and so forth. one of your biggest beeves is we spend too much money and we should cut

mr. issa engaging in this conduct. here's kentucky's halhe interim irs commissioner on the scandal. take a listen to him. >> you say you will follow the facts wherever they go. well, we want you to push the facts to find out where the orders came from. >> professor, don't follow the facts, push them. isn't that why we have a scandal? because someone pushed something they weren't supposed to? >> they are factless pushers. like the dope pushers on the corner, pedalling mythologies that have no substantive base in reality. it's tragic here, martin. they're wasting the taxpayers money when they could be getting after serious criminals, when they could be investigating banks that are too big to fail that have continued to exploit average people. but instead, they are engaging in what the gop is, goofy, ominous and predatory. i hate to say that. if we're going to give an acronym to fox, full of xenophobia. a bipartisan approach to try to get at what is a serious problem. instead, by overreaching, they undermine and sully the very name of democrac

we'll turn now to the director hal vigant directives, mr. singer. please go ahead. >> thank you. complaints, including an expert tennis nfl network, channel and madison. the role of the s.e.c. and that oversight process -- to design the proper regulatory framework, one must first understand the nature of the potential harm presented by vertical integration in the cable industry, namely, real estate dux in innovation among independent content providers. why we care about that potential harm? because some of the best content has sprung and will likely continue to spring from independents who are free from the scriptures of a clumsy conglomerate. without any protection against discrimination, independents will be forced to surrender equity in exchange for carriage and thus will be less willing to take risks which would result in fewer programming choices and less programming diversity. there are two schools of thought on how best to deal with this problem of vertical integration. the first, advocated by professor tim wu of columbia aw school in his book, "master switch," is to ban v

mr. lowenthal. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. the the hal: i thank gentlewoman from california who has been an outstanding champion of ocean protection. mr. chairman, i rise in support of this amendment t it would not only honor the wishes of the governor of california, but also f the -- all the federal, vast majority of the federal and state representatives, especially all those that are closest to where this misguided bill would not only authorize but would force the sale of offshore oil and gas leases. these are the people who would bear the greatest risk of this -- of any oil spill. which we are all -- which we all have known have already occurred in the past in these waters. as i said, the underlying bill we are considering today not only just authorizes but it mandates lease sales in the vast portions of the outer continental shell, including southern california, which forces, then, the interior department and the states to accept leases in their back yards, regardless, regardless of the opposition from potential mpacts, and it not onl

hal: yeah. >> you were on stage and you said, doing a joke, nothing disrespectful, you said mr. calisa.e audience went nuts. >> ran out yeah. >> i don't know if you could hear it. he goes call the authorities call the authorities. i'm like oh, god he's going to shoot me. we're in dubai this is not good. the police came and took him away. it was like a -- it was only one guy got upset. all you said was mr. calisa. >> i was referencing because we were staying in that to your, the burg dalisa. he was given $10 billion to finish the to your. they named it after him. the gift shop still had things that had the wrong name on it. i was being a character being kind of dismissive of him. that was the whole purpose of it. that was enough. this dude threw his arms up and walked out. by the time the cops got there. jacki: did you just keep going? >> i finished my set and walked off stage and people were going oh ok, the police are on their way. you go up and introduce john and come down here. it was bad. [ laughter ] >> so that's our history. that's jon and i. now jon. >> 800 people for something,