that's why they've moved to redefine the internet as telecommunications. so there's consensus after the fcc has now tried three times to impose these regulations and been unable to find clear authority. there's consensus that there's not clear authority. second there's i think, consensus on the solution. the solution is provide the fcc with the authority. that can be done very easily by congress, and we have seen a real bipartisan approach to doing this in the senate. chairman john thune and ranking member bill nelson have both been talking about the importance of providing the fcc clear authority to be able to guarantee an open internet. so i'm hopeful. >> do you share that optimism, and would you support a legislative approach? >> guest: you know, there's room for optimism and then there has to be a real dose of reality. the optimism is the consensus that we keep referencing, and i think that's why you see chairman thune ranking member nelson and others, leaders from the house as well sitting down and talking. i think that's why you see them calling folk

the fcc was given authority to regulate telecommunication, but when congress last acted in this area, nearly 20 years ago it said that there should be no federal or state regulation of information services and it is defining internet access service as an information service. the reason congress wanted to have the internet unfettered is because it is so dynamic. congress at that time just had experience with repealing this kind of common carrier regulation on the traditional industries of railroads, airlines and trains to spur investment. there is complete agreement that the fcc doesn't have clear authority. this is the third time it has tried. the fcc has no clear authority to regulate the internet. you can go to two branches of government to seek clarification. you can go to the judiciary and say does the fcc have authority. they can look at the statute and say it isn't clear they do. or we can go to the congress. that is why we are advocating this should be an area where congress should act. we are saying the fcc exceeded its authority in probigating the standards. but we are now as

bush to chair the national security telecommunications advisory committee. he was literally at the pinnacle of his career, highly trusted by the government, top secret clearance, when something happened on february 27th, 2001. an important date not just for joe, but also important to note that that was six months before 9/11 took place. by the late summer of 2001 he was gone from qwest he was under investigation by the s.e.c. and the department of justice. it wasn't until 2005, ten days before the statute of limitations expired that he was indicted for insider trading. he then spent 17 months going through a bizarre set of secret proceedings because of the classified information procedures act. at trial, the government pioneered a theory of insider trading that had never been used before. the idea that one could be benefiting from inflated future projections. and although he was acquitted on more than half of the counts, he was convicted on a number of them finding he had engaged in insider trading on that novel theory from a period of april to may of 2001.

guest: it is a deal that merges two former telecommunications rivals with ambitions to become a leader in cloud technology. nokia and alcatel-lucent will come together in early 2016 under the name nokia corporation. with the finnish company holding two parts it says it will give it greater scope to expand and make the french base an important center for research and design. >> it will make employment in france consistent with their plans plans. the company expects to expand employment with the addition of self hundred new positions targeting the skills of technology. guest: nokia has struggled to compete with smart phone giant apple and samsung but has seen success in its network building division. the french government initially wary of the deal has given its approval. >> this deal between nokia and alcatel-lucent will allow for the creation of a european giant in equipment and technology for mobile and land lines. 5-g will be developed under this. guest: alcatel-lucent hopes it goes better than the previous merger with lucent which resulted in the loss of 18,000 jobs. nokia expects t

challenging is the reclassification of internet access from being an information service to a telecommunication regulated as a common carrier pursuant to 19th-century railroad regulations. common carriage is a vestige of the english common law was originally applied to railroads and to trucking companies and then to airlines but it has been repealed for all of those industries going on from 30 years ago because it imposed new cost on consumers and delay deployment and slowed innovation and really chilled investment. >> we both agree that net neutrality protections are important. that's an important thing to start with. but we do disagree with a lawsuit. we have been supportive of the rules that the fcc and acted -- and acted -- enacted and now have become a force of law and we believe that after a decade of working towards a way to have net neutrality rules that could hold up in court that this is the strongest set of net neutrality protections we have seen in the three different attempts at the agency to ensure that the internet remains open. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" o

speaker, i rise to recognize national public telecommunicators week. after working 18 years as a 911 dispatcher, i know firsthand the challenges our public safety dispatchers face. the stress that they are put under and the critical importance of their work. this is why last week i was proud to introduce a resolution commemorating national public safety telecommunicators week. i remember working the graveyard shift four floors below ground taking calls from people from all walks of life. often during their most vulnerable moments. 911 dispatchers hear it all. they are the first point of contact for public safety and no matter the crisis, losing control is simply not an option. public safety telecommunicators week also provides us with the opportunity to remind our constituents the importance of maintaining emergency lines open for just that emergencies. 911 isn't an information line. local governments have limited resources. they can't afford to have 911 lines tied up with nonlife-threatening emergencies. simply put there is no excuse for 911 abuse. i

>> i've worked in the telecommunications field as a cable puller and installer.et and door shops. carpentry. pretty much anything that's labor-intensive, i've done. i use heavy equipment. >> my recommendation is that you continue classes when you get out. i imagine you want to get a degree. >> yes. >> that's my recommendation for you. >> your last job, how long did you have it? >> seven months. >> where was that? >> because i got arrested. >> this is your first term in new mexico? >> yes. and my last. >> basic conditions of parole, no drugs, no weapons, no alcohol. no liquor establishments. are you familiar with what your requirements are as a sex offender? >> pretty much. as far as the registration, where i can live. how close to schools, parks, stuff like that, i'm pretty up to date on that. >> okay. you have ten days to register after you're released. it's different in albuquerque than in las vegas. when you go in to the sheriff's department, ask them how often you have to report. i know in some counties it is 60 days, some 90 days and some it's every year. ok

we hope to be able to help on humanitarian projects, to provide more access to telecommunications and the internet and free throw of information. we continue to make progress in foreign diplomatic relations and i've asked congress to work on lifting the embargo put in place in the first place. >> we will bring the pictures to you now. we can see from panama raul castro the cuban president rather fidel castro, but raul will be taking cuba into a new relationship with the u.s. he has not said anything of significance in the bigger picture, that being the two countries. but we'll keep an eye on that as we bring our diplomatic editor james bays. >> did they deliver on anything else other than symbolism? >> so far no, david. there was a handshake and a brief chat between the two men that took place in the opening of this. but we understand a bigger meeting is on the way. i think looking at the schedules it's most likely that's going to be when there is a break in these formal speeches, a break for lunch and some bilateral meetings. nothing formally announced but all the indications certain

we are challenging the reclassification of internet access being an information service to a telecommunication service, regulated as a common carrier pursuant to 19th-century reregulation. common carriage is a vestige of the english common law originally applied to railroads and the two trucking companies and the to a lines, but it has been repealed for all of those industries going on over 30 years ago. it proved to impose new costs on consumers, delayed employment, slowed innovation, and chilled investment. >> we agreed that net neutrality protections are important, and that's an important thing to start with but we do disagree with the lawsuit. we have been very supportive of the rules that the fcc enacted and of now have become force of law. we think that after a decade of working towards a way to have net neutrality rules that could hold up in court that this is the strongest protections we have seen in the three different attempts by the agency to ensure that the internet remains open. announcer: monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the communicators on c-span2. announcer: florida senato

erm but it mainly derives from the network diagrams that telecommunication engineers drew and they tended to identify the nodes in the network, generally locations/cities/towns in the form of a cloud. the diagram would connect the clouds with telephone lines. that is where cloud comes from. but there is debate. more importantly you ask what is the cloud and again there are many different definitions but when you boil it down the cloud is a system for storing, processing and distributing data information, e-mails, apps and software. companies that operate cloud systems then provide individuals and organizations with access. the cloud is located through data centers and they are enorm enormous buildings located all over the world filled in some cases with tens of thousands of severs or computers that store the data and process it. and these data centers are located all over the world. and i mean everywhere. one of the best places to locate a data center is in a cool climate. so canada and scandinavia have centers because the server needs to be cool. the physical location would be in the dat

shelter and first aid and telecommunications. to give you a sense of what is going out.atch of 90 tarps. 15 organizations involved in getting out the first wave in the first 48 hours. first aid kits and then the basics in terms of i.t. in telecommunications and logistics on the ground and getting things into the country quickly. there is also the absorption capacity. we did not know if shipments can get in to the airport. you can deliver 90,000 tons every load. by the end of the week they would like to see 400,000 tons go in. they are waiting to see how much they can absorb on the other end. in the second wave after the initial tarp and i.t. and first aid, they will send food as well. this is the largest logistics hub in the world. they had a lot of experience because of what has taken place all taking shape. the first shipment from this hub going out in the next 16 hours. >> the focus on shelter and first aid and communication. our oren liebermann reporting the aid getting in there and babies born via surrogates and getting them out of the country in the hours after tha

middle class will help take the focus away from oil by bringing in revenue from the developing telecommunications sector. a film industry employs 300,000 people and makes around 300 million euros per year. >> a lot of challenges for nigeria moving forward. a quick look now at the top is smith headlines. the opening bell in new york. the long anticipated initial public offering got off to a stellar start. shares surged more than 33%. ipo priced at $22 per share. $4.5 billion. go daddy known for the saucy super bowl atds. the vatican will share tax information with the italian government. the deal could clamp down on potential money laundering. it has found many italian citizens to hold accounts for decades. a practice that was in violation of the banks mission to help individuals evade taxes and launder money. france has said the french video sharing network will stay european. the government has said the talks were at 49% stake in the website. meanwhile, a french holding company is allegedly preparing a motion for 2013 -- repairing a motion. on to ukraine now we're fighting between pro-russian re

just to do gore you can with the antitrust division can stand up to the telecommunications giant's? research to make to play the extremely important role to keep the market competitive of forward to your learn more about this case to make sure all of the concerns are brought to our attention and to be dealt with as we move forward. >> okay. then i will probably vote for your. [laughter] >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate it and hearing your life story with your family here and appreciate the reading in my office a few months ago as well. i will bring it up again to the voters situation in arizona we share such a large border with mexico but there has been considerable success in the of sector called yuma that was down at 6,000 last year so considerable success contrast with tucson that has seized the drop but not nearly as significant they had about 87,000 apprehensions. one of the things that everybody attributes the success of yuma sector is operations streamline to allow the consequences to be implemented with first-time crossers are met with consequences and it has pointed

it mainly derives from the network diagrams that telecommunication engineers drew . they tended to identify the nodes in the network, in the form of a cloud. the diagram would interconnect a group of clouds with telephones. that is where cloud comes from. there is some debate. more importantly, what is the cloud? there are many different definitions. when you boil it down a cloud is a system for storing processing, and distributing data information e-mails, apps and software. companies that operate cloud systems provide individuals and organizations with access to the data on an on-demand basis for a fee. the customer receives storage space and has access to data from anywhere, any device, and companies make money by providing that data and services derived from it. peter: is there a physical location of the cloud? vincent: there are many physical locations. the cloud tends to be located in non-cloudlike looking structures . data centers. these are an enormous buildings located all over the world that are filled with in some cases tends of thousands of servers that a

the telecommunication industry in the world we live today. it was in san francisco that the 100 years of celebration and this will exhibit the programs throughout the long celebration. we also know this innovation depends on our youth and will inspire the years to tackle the challenges of the technology base economy and that's why we are glad to make an additional $50,000 contribution for the program executed by the california historical society and partnership with the san francisco recreation and parks department after school program and the national parks service. [ applause ] this program willen game engage hundreds of local students and local institutions participating. at & t thanks the california historical society and all the partners who have come together to celebrate this important event in our history, in our city and in our nation. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, ken. we are deeply honored and very much and this program will hold a very special place in our heart. thank you very much. it's my pleasure to introduce

the idea includes the hikes and the telecommunications tax and the personal property taxes as well. >>> and also in maryland tonight, state police are looking in to a deadly crash that began as a police chase where sky 9 is out over the scene, giving us a view of the aftermath right there in charles county, right near route 301. and the trooper tried to stop that scion. the driver of the scion took off with the trooper in pursuit. well he ran in to a utility pole and the driver died as a result of the crash. >>> and this fire at the assistant living home turns out it was accidental where it was five people in there when the firefighters arrived on the scene this morning all managing to get out safely. they blame the electrical malfunction for it, but it did about $10,000 in damages before they could get it out. >> reporter: he claims he was in jail for six weeks with no way to communicate to the outside world. now, he plans to take action in court. he sued arlington county for damages under the americans with disability acts, claiming his rights were violated. he is with his attorney.

manuel: i think telecommunication companies have been suffering a little bit.lity has been suffering and they just need to combine, and that is one of the main reasons why they have been merging in the past few years. i think the exposure to the u.s. and to china will help nokia but i think the business will face more challenges. mark: thanks manuel. manus: let's turn our attention to germany, because the hanover mass is to be the latest in robotic gadgets. on display this year is the first robotic kitchen. ♪ >> we are making a crab dip today. we start off by sauteing some shallots and melted butter. it cooks exactly how i would be cooking it. >> he knows how to cook, he won tv show master chef. tim anderson has every right to be scared stiff but machine in front of him. >> it does the exact same thing the right way, every single time. i've 32 thick of it as the ultimate sous chef. -- i'm starting to think of it as the ultimate sous chef. >> it is programmed to cook a dish precisely how tim has made it. the system features a dexterous hand used by nasa. the pos

we married it to the entrepreneurship of our companies our telecommunications firms. so we do have a blend. i think in the case of the united states, what's very exciting going forward is, that so many of the applications and the whole way that the digital world is being created are really being led by the companies that are envisioning digital health. digital energy, precision architect. smart grid and creativity. all of the smart grid -- i was just at a meeting yesterday out in seattle on the whole smart grid issue and we're talking about delivering energy by the electron. so this is really an incedeical time and so i think that while 00 we need to continue on the digital divide, we have to also move forward on ensuring that we don't have regulations that restrict, that ration, and that don't permit this tremendous explosion of innovative that's occurring on top of this network. >> i almost want to go the other direction with you. let's just talk about when you and i were first involved with the internet it was optional and it was novel. now 90% of those who graduat

indian banks and financiers leant $153 billion to private corporations for roads, port, power, telecommunication, railways, according to jpmorgan, but you had cost over runs and delays, and an unfair system during which contractors were chosen. talk about that. >> yes, if you look at india, there's about a million youngsters joining the work stream. we are talking 10 to 12 million a year that needs to be created. if you look in here, we realised that this was required, and from the year 2002 to 2003. we started an oon the experiment. what happened was that a number of mistakes were made. there were questions regarding the dolling out of natural resources, questions recording transparency, and environmental clearances and land acquisition, and anything that could go wrong did go wrong. as a result we saw the impact that we had from 2007 to 2013. as you said, the mood soured. projects were un viable there were cost overrun, and the banking sector, they are sitting with stressed assets. we have realised that a number of mistakes have been made, but a new government comes solely on the platform. the

served and that needs attention and proper funding to maintain access on cost -- the colombia telecommunications study fiber study back in 2007 or 8 i think it was that the that the that the board of supervisor's commission and further to the premise there were 6 different financial strategies outlined and i don't believe it costs over a half a billion dollars then it may now but thinking of scales of economy, probably the affordability is about the same and probably far more reasonable than say the puc sewer replacement renovation project in san leandro we heard recently that a sizable network by one business owner was donated for all of downtown and their education system but it it couldn't be expanded out to their homes because there's no infrastructure it's kind of a waste right now because they have high technology in schools but the kids can't use it at home and that's why infrastructure has to be first and we reject the notion of out right leasing of any city sets what have you and ten see like leasing on the network is a far better way to go i think the residents of our city have had eno

debate about the origins of the term but it mainly derives from the network die grams that telecommunications engineers drew and they tended to identify the nodes in the network generally location, cities, towns, in the form of a cloud. so the diagram to interconnect the group of clouds with telephone lines. so that's where cloud comes from. though there is some debate. more importantly, you asked what is the cloud and again there are many different definitions but when you boil it all down, the cloud is a system for storing, processing and distributing data, information emails apps and software. companies that operate cloud systems then provide individuals and organizations with access to the data on an on-demand basis for a fee. so the customer saves storage space and has access to data from anywhere, any device. and, companies, make money by providing that data and, services derived from it. >> is there a fiscal location of the cloud or many physical locations? >> i would say there are many physical locations because the cloud tends to be located in many non-cloud-like looking structures,

the artists are jack kalish and they are graduates of new york university's interactive telecommunications program. i want to give tremendous thanks to sean farly who really took this on in addition to his day job. it's not something i think he had ever done before but he really embraced it whole heartedly and to willie adams who gave him a lot of guidance and support and of course to mayor agnos. it was an important moment for all of us and it was a wonderful celebration and i want to thank president p katz for being there as well. i wish commissioner adams was here today to say a few words but i hope when we get to the commissioners report you will say a few words, commissioner katz. at the same night at another spot in san francisco, the cruise ship terminal won a an award in the category of best infrastructure project and that was a really great recognition. i don't think that while there have been port projects that have won awards as best real estate deals of the port, we were honored to receive the award on behalf of all our partners and particularly on behalf of the port commission

are challenging the classification from an intermittent -- from an information service to a telecommunication service pursuant to 19th-century railroad regulation. common law was originally applied to railroads covert truck is -- railroads, trucking companies, and airlines. it delays deployment, slowed innovation, and it really chilled investment. crist for lewis: we both agree that net neutrality protections are important. we do did -- we do disagree on the rules that the fcc enacted and have now become force of law. we think that after a decade of working towards a way to have these economies this is the strongest federal protection we have seen. >> monday night on the communicators on c-span's here. >> each week american history tv visits museums and is for places. you are looking at peterson house and washington, d.c. where president abram lincoln passed away -- abraham lincoln passed away. up next, the boarding house across the street from ford's theatre where abraham lincoln was shot 150 years ago. >> at about 10:00 10:15, ford's theater opened. people came out screaming. i first they t

. >> we hope to provide more access to telecommunications and the internet and the free flow of informationtinue to make progress toward fulfilling our shared commitments to formally reestablish diplomatic relations. i have called on congress to begin working to lift the embark embargo that's been in place for decades. >> at that submit f joining us live lucia, we have the cuban president apologizing to the current u.s. president. quite extraordinary. >> this is really it is a historic. we have been saying that now for days but who would have againsted of all people roul sounds like almost the new best friend of the barack obama. he said he thought president obama was a very very good person, that he was the only president among the last seven or eight in the -- presidents in the united states who was not guilty of having committed great injustices against the cuban people. het president obama did have to sit through a barack of criticisms from others in the hemmis fear until now t including the president of bolivita. >> we know the two men are due to have this historic meeting later. i am

investment in their infrastructure and they may not operate the network themselves or serve as a telecommunications company but stockholm leases out to private companies to provide the service and enables more competition among providers and a portion of the fees of course going to the city and a number of the cities with really high speed are also high density cities the same as san francisco so proximity to the network is definitely a plus for getting high speed and what's emerging also is the private sector moving into hybrids and fiberoptic hybrids more fiber now but still some cable and verizon working on a system like this and google has gotten into the business and they are not technically an internet service provider but they are constructing networks and then they link up certain neighborhoods with cables to the premises. at and t with its u-verse is moving into this network. and you mentioned monkey brains that's an example of where there's other challenges with that approach in terms of getting access to utility poles or rights of way. and public private partnerships are emerges also and

fried for his assistance in trying to get the undergrounding of electrical and communications telecommunications utilities undergrounded. this is a perfect use for lafco and i would agree with previous speaker who said that the budget for lafco is exactly to study this kind of thing and for you to continue to have an adequate budget means that an infrastructure project that cannot be researched by individuals or the general public can still be funded and studied by lafco. so thank you very much, director fried. >> thank you, any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none we will close public comment and go on to our next item. >> item no. 6, public comment. >> public comment again. any member of the public who would like to comment? seeing no one come forward we will close public comment and our next item. >> item no. 7, future agenda items. >> okay, colleagues, any future issues to bring forward? okay, we will have public comment on future agenda items and we'll close public and go to our last item. >> item no. 8, adjournment. >> colleagues, we are adjourned. i would like

we depend on israel for a lot of critical telecommunications technology. these are our two friends. we should side with our two friends. and it looks like happily that the iranian intransigence is going to possibly blow up the deal. >> mike the only thing in saudi arabia's favor by the way, if they do go to war, is that iran is broke right now because oil prices are down and because of the sanctions. the sanctions one way or another would be relieved if this thing is signed in june. >> deal or no deal, saudi arabia and other countries that are our allies are going to take out iran's capabilities of making nuclear bombs. they're not going to wait for the possibility of a regime change. i think when that happens i think oil may go up only slightly and temporarily because the world is awash in oil. >> john, what do you think? >> i think all of this is irrelevant. they need our dollars far more than we're going to need their oil. so the oil is going to flow into the u.s. no matter what. what i think the ayatollah's comments speak to is the utter dysfunction in the middle east and it mak

> what we are is the reclassification of internet act test of being information service to a telecommunication service regulated as a common carrier pursuant to 19th-century railroad organization. this is a vestige of the english common law. apply to airlines. it has been repeal for all of the industries going on 30 years ago. it delayed deployment. slowed innovation and really cheered in cure meant. -- procurement. that is an important thing to start with. we have been very supportive of the rules that the fcc enacted and have now become force of law. we think after a decade of working toward net neutrality rules that will hold up in court with the strongest for talladega -- net neutrality rules we of seen at the three different attempts at the agencies to ensure the internet remains open. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on the communicators at 8:00 eastern. next the new -- the republic new hampshire committee hold it -- held a conference. coming up, remarks from scott walker. his remarks are about 40 minute. >> thank you. thank you for the great pet rally. i think we should go start charging the

what you had was a revolution in how telecommunications went about its business of switching and of communicatingbetweenion - the computer, the microwave, the satellite -- were really available to everybody. it wasn't like stringing a wire. and that made possible the competition. but if the bell long distance monopoly is dead the idea of a natural monopoly lives on. across the country when cities and states decide to set up the ground rules for local phone service or electric power, they generally decide that under the circumstances a regulated monopoly is their best buy. our economic analyst richard gill can tell us how he and his colleagues view this term "natural monopoly." basically what we're talking about here is a fall in cost as we produce more and more of a product what economists call economies of scale. in most industries after a certain level of production is reached, a business firm's costs per unit of output tend to rise. but they may not do so. because telephone customers need to be connected to each other, it may be very expensive to have several small-scale telephone networks servicing

at as a venture investor saying hey, we have seen startups like skype completely traps form telecommunicationsr tesla change the entire auto industry or e-mail or hot mail changing all of communications. if you could easily see the idea of six new states transforming the way governments work. >> hewlett-packard. doesn't work very well let's pull it in. >> we had the president of estonia come to draper university and he spoke and he said, we have started fresh and we have much more virtual state and just by instituting digital signatures, we have saved 2% of our gdp and by doing digital voting, all the young people started to vote. and digital identity lowered the crime rate. you can't tell me that a new state can't do some extraordinary things and really improve our lives. and the education system we have let that go from -- we were first in education. >> the best place to do business. >> everything was great about california. now we are 47th in education. and the businesses are thriving bus the immigrants are still coming because we have great weather. >> that question you want to ask? >> i g

i wanted to say this is i national day, a national public safety telecommunications week where around the country many other major u.s. cities are honoring heroic that 911 dispatch -- dispatchers do everyday and we have hundreds of folks in the department and on the job 24 hours a day, seven days a week and answering 911 calls and coordinating police officers and firefighters and the first responders and paramedics and they're the ones that go often unacknowledged often and unlike the police officers and firefighters and medics they're the ones that we don't see and work hard everyday and provide help and reassurance to people on the worse days and hairy situations. they give directions for cpr and medical assistance for people, blifer babies, giving information to people that deliver babies and give the first responders critical information to get to the site and keep them safe. we're recognizing kalely today because of incidents in the last year where she provided clarity and precision keeping people safe and supporting police officers and in extremely stressful events and include h

opening telecommunications and other areas for engaging cuba, particularly, people to people.ernor and other potential republican candidates have been very clear in their opposition to the president's decision even though i think the number of polls have been taken at the national level, as well as in florida, and a majority of americans -- we're majority of americans, support the president's decision. host: our guest is frank mora with florida international university joining us from miami, the latin and caribbean senate director and talking about the future of u.s.-cuba relations. our first call comes from iris who lives in michigan on the independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning, everybody. i was just wondering if didn't that issue with cuba start over sugar? domino sugar in the cane fields or something? am i correct? guest: yes, the sanctioning of cuba really began lot -- not long after fidel castro came to power in 1959. the relations deteriorated rather quickly in the early 1960's and the caller is correct in that the stationing of cuba began early with cuba bega

s chairman of the commerce committee, i've been involved in many of the telecommunications aviation transportation issues. as one of the authors of the transportation security act, which, you know, post-9/11. i think we have tried to take care of our constituents who need help. i'm very proud of that. so, you know -- normalization of relations with vietnam is something that i'm proud of. kelly: you refer to hemingway's "for whom the bell tolls." how do you feel your life and public service has gone according to the philosophies extolled in that book? senator mccain: well, robert jordan, hemingway's hero and protagonist in "for whom the bell tolls," was a man who was dedicated selfless, brave capable, but also stoic. he recognized that the cause he served was a flawed one, but he still served it to the point where he was willing to sacrifice his life even if not only the cause but the particular enterprise -- the blowing up of a bridge -- would have no effect on the conflict. he still went out and did it and then was willing to sacrifice his very life, and his final words were "the world is a fine

. -- telecommunications. mark: last month, the united states placed sanctions against venezuelan officials. will this overshadow the summit? ted: it created a problem that was not necessary in terms of the timing of this decision. it was not a surprise that the u.s. administration was going to move in this direction. congress has mandated it. the timing was unusual given the goodwill that was generated by the december 17 announcement on cuba. this brought back some of the old memories of u.s. intervention and sanctions, even though the sanctions themselves are very minor. in the last couple of days, we have seen the administration respond quickly with not only the hands that they will lift cuba off the terrorism list, but also an important visit by the senior envoy from the state department to meet with the president of venezuela to smooth over the problems they have had. the president will show up in panama and make a fuss. he will make his point and have protections in hand. it will be a theater as these th

police found an arsenal of where weapons, handguns, bullet-proof vest's, and computers and telecommunicationsystems in a car and at the home of an individual injured by a gunshot. mark: authorities say the attack was planned for the past sunday. france has been on high alert since the terrorist attacks in january killed 17 people. in paris, soldiers and police have been patrolling possible targets. the taliban has e-mailed the media, announcing afghan family in on friday, the first time the taliban has launched its annual campaign without having to face nato troops. the taliban appears no closer to its goal of overthrowing the afghan government. that is a look at top stories we are following. coming up, the u.s. supreme court hears arguments in a challenge to the government passes raising marketing program. our agricultural reporter will have the latest. tom petri joins me from denver with analysis of oil prices and the latest inventory report. at 2:45, i will speak with the godmother of fashion are at all that and more when we continue in a moment. ♪ mark: welcome back. the u.s. supreme cour