educating consumers about the choices they have and the remedies available is also important. >> mr. kerry committed to what that something? >> i would add a couple of things because i agree with mr. uva's points. first in terms of time, you know, we provide a lot of time for the actual negotiations we had. our process with cable was for the better part of six months, so it's not -- it's not like these have come up and somehow there isn't time to address them. there's a lot of time. we've provided a lot of time to get there and realistically most agreements get done with a deadline and that seems to be the way the world works. at the point of a deadline they don't go along and i don't know -- we were getting zero. we were trying to get a fair rate. if one is going along open and the i'm not sure where the incident isn't for the cable operator to keep it going open-ended lee for as is happening pushed to a point of time which it happened in some other cases this summer where the broadcaster has particularly disadvantageous time of year like this summer when you're on the run and all of a su

mr. chase kerry and mr. charles segers thank you all for being here. mr. britt, would you lead off and we'll go down the line? >> good afternoon. i want to thank you for invite ing me here today and i want to express my appreciation to members of congress who recognize the regime is fundamentally broken and in they'd of reform. i'll focus on three points to demonstrate why reform is needed. first, congress created retransmission concept 18 years ago as a property right to subsidize free over the air broadcasting, but much has changed since that time. when retransmission concept was first created, broadcasters and able operator each enjoyed local monopolies, and as a result they came from equal positions of strength and with a shared interest on reaching an agreement. this produced a process that was essentially invisible to the public, but retransmission concept negotiations now occur in a vastly different environment. today, the pay tv industry is robustly competitive while local broadcasters have benefits that now distort negotiations. that has allowed t

. >> mr. kerry? >> i honestly believe as this process has worked for decades we are negotiating a rate for the channel and i do think it is the specter of government involvement that is sort of distorted the process, and i think if people accept the have to go along with business and largely with pretty constructive relationships here. yes, broadcasting went from zero and i understand we've gone from zero to say we need to get paid and that's a change but i think the facts of what broadcasting is facing proved it is a reasonable request. but i think we will get on to business. as we have gone on to business and in many ways i think we can get back to focusing on how we use the digital age and other things to bring excitement to the consumer but this is not some unique complicated process. i think there's been an attempt, a segment of the business to make it sound much more unique, much more complicated. i think this is a rate negotiation like all of them that have happened if one should have been in

mr. chase kerry and mr. charles segers thank you all for being here. mr.ritt, would you lead off and we'll go down the line? >> good afternoon. i want to thank you for invite ing me here today and i want to express my appreciation to members of congress who recognize the regime is fundamentally broken and in they'd of reform. i'll focus on three points to demonstrate why reform is needed. first, congress created retransmission concept 18 years ago as a property right to subsidize free over the air broadcasting, but much has changed since that time. when retransmission concept was first created, broadcasters and able operator each enjoyed local monopolies, and as a result they came from equal positions of strength and with a shared interest on reaching an agreement. this produced a process that was essentially invisible to the public, but retransmission concept negotiations now occur in a vastly different environment. today, the pay tv industry is robustly competitive while local broadcasters have benefits that now distort negotiations. that has allowed to

mr. kerry: mr.ing officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to proceed as if in morning business for such time as i will consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kerry: mr. president, we live in what we all understand are very difficult times, challenging in every respect and certainly with respect to the national security concerns of the country. as we speak, american soldiers are fighting a war in afghanistan, winding down a war in iraq. our nation is engaged with young men and women in harm's way in many parts of the world against a persistent challenge against global terrorism. iran's nuclear program continues to advance. in north korea, they're building a uranium enrichment facility and provoking the south on a regular basis with its military aggress. every single one of these is a complex challenge without any easy solution. but in the middle of all these challenges, the united states senate has been given an opportunity to actuall

. >> reporter: mrs. kerry says she's seen the monster 16 times, that it looks like this, a photo taken in 1960 around when she recalls seeing it. >> but suddenly it turned, it came rushing straight towards me from the far side of the loch. and there's no head and neck or anything showing. and i realized then it was just this great hump and it was the monster. >> reporter: but what is it? something prehistoric? a hallucination? photographic fakery? experts can't say. "operation deep scan" came up dry. so chalk one up for nessie. the mystery remains. the legend of loch ness survives. abc news, loch ness. >> stories about that date back to the seventh century. it goes back forever, these reports of this money. >> there's so many theorys. could it have been an eel? i actually went there. i waited and i watched and i didn't see it. >> you saw nothing out there? >> i saw it and i went to the real place. i tell you what, when you go there there's a whole lot of rain. that's what it's like. >> there you go. >> i don't

so since you were fielding a lot of the questions, mr. kerry, i will start with you. i've heard from executives from the broadcast network that he should be compensated on par with cable networks especially given the fact the audience share is haulier for broadcast and cable. do you agree with that statement? >> yes i think we should have fair compensation and i guess i would say we are asking for a small fractions of what that mass would calculate and would lead to as a great. >> mr. britt, you want to comment on that how you think the compensation what would be fair? >> yes i think we're talking about apples and oranges and peaches. they were created an uncertain environment which was around free over the air broadcast. they are for each station and we don't really talk about a station as we talk about networks. they are exclusive so there's only one fox station on each market, completely different market cable networks were invented in the world they had to sell to the different distributors the british and no privileges, they conveyed copyright with the network. w

comes from senator kerry because mr him what he learned that he was doing over there for corporations. in the last year has been to his work and with the legislators from corporations who reinvest their profits do you ever read the flow of funds are confident it will stuff i know what i'm talking about investing in real investment and real employment comes from the for the profits of business which are generated internally they do not turn outside very much for the savings. there is a lot simpler that you have to admit and we're going to see how much you but you got to clean this is not a guys it's going to gym in singapore go ahead. even socialist economists say that savings leads to investment where do you think investment comes on you think it comes from the tooth fairy you think it falls out of the sky you have to have somebody saving so that can lead to investment i mean even the even crewman knows that i mean what is this doug i mean let's let you believe me and invest it let's not get into that. i seen most of the real investment in buildings and machinery the kind of things th

supported the modernization of our nuclear, i've supported all of the efforts of the president and mr. kerry, and working with others in the republican party essentially. we're at a point where we are unlikely to have the treaty or modernization unless we get real. that's the point of our meeting today. i appreciate the secretary sharing so vividly her impressions. i appreciate the chairman's patients through the negotiations. we thank each one of you for helping us here, this is the american people. >> any questions? [inaudible question] >> well, i hope that through our own outreach efforts to the russians which have been ongoing as we have discussed the process of ratifying this treaty, i hope the statement from the vice president, i hope that the very strong statement that you just heard from senators kerry and lugar send a message that we intend to do everything that we can during the lame duck session to get a vote to ratify the treaty. i think it's -- it is to me essential that we bring this before the senate. i think what senator lugar said is so important. nobody knows more about thi

kerry the founder and director of the g. twenty and g. eight research groups. well i had mr alex our shingo here in the studio a while ago we were talking about the these possible currency wars financial wars and he said. well i almost quote i almost because that's that this finance ministers meeting in a job or the g. twenty pledged to refrain from damaging competitive currency devaluations but they can refrain from that well maybe for a week maybe for a couple of weeks no more do you agree is that true or is it is that the price of those of those. i mean the taunts and decisions taken well i his week is up and they're still refraining so whether they can move beyond two or three weeks we don't know but so far so good and i think it will go on for a much longer time because many of the countries that were engaging in practices that their neighbors their partners or didn't like have really seen that they could be moving too close to the brink that everybody would be much worse off if they didn't stop so what they did a couple of weeks ago at the finance ministers' meeting wh

kerry, he said, and i quote him, ratiing new start is not a political choice. it's a national security imperative, unquote. but apparently, mr. speaker, some over in the other chamber aren't moved by national security imperative. for them 1,550 strategic warheads, the level mandated by new start, isn't a sufficient arsenal. even though 1,550 strategic warheads is enough to blow up the world several times over. the only way they know to deal with national security it appes is to send thousands of american troops to die in failed wars that carry a combined price tag of over $1 trillion. new start isn't perfect. i wish it were less incremental and more ambitious. i wish it embraced more of the principles contained in my resolution which is called nonproliferation options for nuclear understanding to keep everyone safe, or no nukes for short. no nukes would move more aggressively toward complete nuclear global disarmament which is exactly the long-term goal we committed to as a nation when we signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty 40 years ago. but new start is most definitely contiss -- consistent with the smart security i

kerry on the start treaty. right now we'll show you remarks from the senate earlier today from the floor of the senate. senator george voinovich had these remarks. he spoke for about 20 minutes. >> mr. president, i rise today to discuss the challenges america faces in our relationship with russia and their implications on the senate's consideration of the new strategic arms reduction treaty known as the start treaty. a number of my colleagues on both side of the aisle have spoken about the treaty's impact on global nuclear nonproliferation. i like to use my remarks today to highlight my concerns about the treaty in the broader context of, one, the obama administration's reset policy towards russia. two, the start treaty's impact on our allies in eastern europe and the ball particular states. i believe -- baltic states. i believe these concerns must be addressed by the administration before i can determine my support for the treaty. mr. president, over the last decade i have been an ardent champion of nato and have worked diligently to increase membership in the aligns. i have also been active in improving our public diplomacy in eastern europe through our expansion of the visa waiv

acknowledge kerry wagner who is the undersecretary for intelligence analysis at the department of homeland security. what she got called on something the secretary asked this afternoon. teller were mrou can also let her know you are a very able substitute. thanks very much. [inaudible [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> all right, we have lunch outside. if everyone can get their food and bring it back to their seats i think we can get started. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. >> now we bring you white house senior adviser, david axelrod and former white house chief of staff, joshua bolten. they will talk about why politics has become so divisive and how civility and cooperation in return to government. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. >> i'm the dean of the national cathedral and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to our 2010 observance of the nancy and paul ignatius gathering. tonight our topic is governing across the divide, restoring civility and a public discourse. around a large undertaking for one's work that we are going to give it our best shot this evening. we wouldn't be here without t