other whether those remain as a big competitor to us p.n. or not one thing that we believe that's happened we don't have all the financials but we believe that the national t.v. contracts for for fox sports the national channels were being highly subsidized with the money they were making from their local channels so it'll be interesting to see whether fox sports as a national channel can survive without all of its local people shinners buter channels bringing in all that revenue is pianos constantly criticized as being too political so do you think by joining forces with fox sports which has been operated by the same people that run fox news and cox business network well help that at all so i find that pretty hard to believe again there will be a pretty strong break here again fox news is not part of the deal so with it when we say that disney has acquired twenty first century fox they're actually acquiring most of the stuff except for fox news as well as the national fox sports so i would suspect that doesn't do a whole lot for e.s.p.n. sp

easier to get people to actually stick around and watch those commercials which of course is where yes p.n. makes all their money what do you think this deal long mean for consumers or consumers is there anything that you think could change drastically or will it stay the same pretty much. so consumers it's hard to know whether they're made better off or worse off with this certainly one thing yes p.n. is thinking is if they control both the local sports fans local teams as well as the big national package that makes it much more difficult for that local councillor to cut the cable completely e.s.p.n. is typically the most expensive single channel single channel in a person's t.v. cab package for people so yes pm is trying to figure out ways that they can make sure that those local watchers those local viewers that they stick around with the cable package and one way to do it is to make sure that look i've got all the big national t.v. games on e.s.p.n. but i also have all of your local sports teams favorites the of these new newly acquired local regional fox sports networks well on monday

and south korea will again conduct drills on north korea's doorstep a practice that p.n. yang sees a blatant threat that they will not leave unanswered. i . russia and china have called for the maneuvers to be paused numerous times and light of the less than friendly climate but those suggestions have been ignored along with pleas to restrain from the back and forth name calling and aggressive rhetoric between the u.s. and north korea that has been a trademark of this year this is all culminated in north korea possessing a nuclear bomb and a missile to deliver it anywhere allowing them to probably announce the conclusion of their nuclear program it looks like diplomacy may never be given a chance. north korea is coming under a lot of pressure for its actions some believe too that washington is not helping the situation is gregory from the advisory board of the korea policy institute united states with really concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would again dialogue but the only way to resolve the problem of north korea said many many plans for the future we ar

interesting to see in the deal how sports plays out in your spin writes great disney disney owns yes p.n. it also owns a b c but twenty first century fox owns a number of regional and national networks in addition to a european channel so would be interesting to see how sports looks under this deal if fox is going to keep some of its more national sports channels in order to spin off its regional sports networks in order to kind of maybe lay low in that area but i still think that the department of justice is going to be very interested to see how film looks under this deal you essentially have lucas films marvel studios fox searchlight pixar they would all be under the same umbrella of this you know this new disney twenty first century merger and i can't believe that that's not going to get some intense scrutiny so it's only questions are fascinating so the d.o.j. they could look at this deal i think they've done in the past but you're the expert and said look you know we're not ok with it for these certain reasons and then you know does the for example could sell off that thing and. re

. 1286, p.n. 1287, and p.n. 1288. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the morris k. udall and stuart l. udall foundation, tadm. johnson of minnesota to be a member of the board of trustees. list johnson bailey of oklahoma to be a member of the board of trustees. lisa johnson bailey of oklahoma to be a member of the board of trustees. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the nominations be confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and no further motions be in order, and that any statements relating to the nominations be principled in the record, all en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nominations en bloc. all in favor, say aye. all opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following nominatio