and as the f.c.c. asks in its most recent letter to you, how exactly does directtv make payments to at&t mobility for this service and do the respective entities record such payments? >> i don't know what exactly the payment mechanism is across entities. >> i think it would be good that you did know it. >> i don't know if we do a wire transfer or just a journal entry to record the transfer, but at the end of the day, the results of directtv do indeed reflect that cost that's paid to our mobility business, they do. so when you look at the margins of direct tv they reflect that cost in it. there is a cost. incurred by delivering mobility. it's a variable cost business to put another meg a byte. >> how do we know that you can't be favoring something that you own, directtv as opposed to some entity that would like to have their data delivered free to the consumer? >> we are charging everybody the same, the lowest wholesale price for data transport that we have. everybody gets the same, big companies, small

the f.c.c.'s role is limited by the statute that governs us. back to 1934. i do believe the government has a role to monitor and provide additional fixers in the stays, they are not authorized by the lawyer for us to do. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2 >>> the business insider reports that janet yellen took a victory lap. at the university of baltimore's commencement she said although there are changes, the jobs market is the strongest that it's been in a decade. here is some of what she had to say. >> short version of what i have to say is that while i expect workers will continue to face some challenges in the coming years i believe for two reasons the job prospects and opportunity for knew graduates are very good. first, after years of slow economic recovering, you were entering the strongest job market in a decade. the unemployment rate is near what it was before the recession. this is a level associated with good job opportunities. job creation is continuing. the rates are low and job openings are up over the past couple o

because the f.c.c. department of justice which this actual regulatory body. the reason comcast time warner cable didn't go through was because the f.c.c. said we do not see a demonstrable public benefit. not that it won't do no harm, but no benefit of this deal. and therefore, we plan on kicking it to an administrative hearing, which can sometimes last years and therefore, the deal fell apart. this dials uncertain if the f.c.c. will even be able to weigh in because time warner, inc. only has one license to a broadcast station. if they sold that off, the f.c.c. will say we're not involved. david: that's the speculation. the f.c.c. would lose jurisdiction. even if they had jurisdiction, it's going to be a different f.c.c. tom wheeler is already stepping down from the chair. >> absolutely. but at least you can follow along today and listen to what these different senators and so forth are saying and think about it in the lens of will at&t and time warner be able to make a case that there is a public benefit

the f.c.c.'s role is limited by the statute that governs us, the communications acts of 1934, while i do believe that government has a role to monitor and potentially provide additional fixes in this space, they aren't authorized by the law for us to do. watch the communicators at 8:00 eastern on cspan 2. arkansas governor and mayors of oklahoma city and dallass talk about the way they intend to work with the trump administration on housing and infrastructure. christine todd whitman is the moderator. >> well, first of all, let me just say it's governor asa hutchinson, it would surprise the state to know there was one mayor for the entire state. and the other thing i would just like to note is in the introduction, you didn't hear r or d after any names. that is significant. because as a governor or as a mayor, whether you are republican or democrat, really doesn't matter all that much. you have to deliver programs that work for every one of your citizens, all of them. republicans, democrats, indep

wave three but wave two is filling out treasury but also starting to look at the fed, you know, the f.c.c., the cftc. some of these conversations are occurring at the hill as we speak because there are names still pending as the f.c.c. will be in a position with a -- not having a quorum with the resignation and departure of the chairwoman. so, you know, at some point some of these positions will have to accelerate or congress is going to decide here in the next week that they're actually going to confirm some of these folks to begin to fill out these positions. but given the discussions, maybe we could turn a bit to the fed. we know we had two vacancies that remain pending. they don't appear to be going anywhere right now and we had the vice chair of supervision. you know, turillo has been in the acting role but not been officially appointed or confirmed so there are some slots that certainly can be filled. if treasury secretary gets named and the trump focuses on it, -- structure and just and begins to focus on it, what impact do you think a new administration, whether transition or admi

. >> the f.c.c. has changesed direction. .om >> the follower of the cable and satellite industry what's advice for folks who see something on their bill and have a question about it? what should they do? >> first go to the company and see if they cooperate. if not, the most -- the media is very vigilant specifically the consumer media that covers technology about these companies. there's been a lot of attention paid to the way they treat customers and there's a lot of interests in terms of readership and viewership about this issue. so take your complaint to the local tv news station. write the editor of a tech blog. let people know. these companies are very responsive to bad press and don't want to see more. and write your congressman. it doesn't hurt. >> what of those digital companies covering that, our guest daniel fanchingele. you can read more at fierce cable.com. thanks for being with us. a reminder to our viewers, you can watch the entire hearing on cable and satellite billing practices on our

the chairman of the f.c.c. tom wheeler announcing his resignation, intending to leave the f.c.c. on january 20, saying in part, quote, serving as f.c.c. chairman during this period of historic technological change has been the greatest honor of my life. i'm deepful grateful for the president for giving me this opportunity. and just a reminder, meant to mention the donald trump rally this evening. hershey, pennsylvania. we will have it live for you on c-span. we are live from the white house at about 11:15 with the news conference with josh earnest and also comments from economic director jason fuhrman. you can continue to watch video from trump tower lobby live at c-span.org. next up, a look at the democratic party. keith ellison outlined his vision to transform the democratic party. he's running for d.n.c. chairman. and senator bernie sanders was lso at this event. >> hello, everyone, who's here. welcome to the a.f.t. i'm andi and wanted to welcome you to the a.f.t. and the first job is i wanted to play from a message from former secretary of labor hilda solis who was unable to b

with the f.c.c. going forward, loosening of is a egulations, i would be a promoter of that. on to directv lot of talk. out, why?ed to sit it always said wewe ill join any and we are in active discussions right now with directv. have different needs than some of our competitors who own of cable network. our centerpiece is a broadcast network. some financialishes and other issues like digital issues. deal with to make a them. to be part of it. >> you have been a pioneer. figured out a way to include the broadcast stations in that. over the topto the world, can the broadcast conversations participate and ffect the value of your stations, for that matter. >> the thing is it resets the table. negotiations, they already were paying a lot of money to different cable and we were coming in after the party started. there is a brand-new network e broadcast should be paid more than the stations. more eyeballs mean more pay. think any of them can successfully without stephen colbert or "60 minutes," we are a necessary any package. >> they're building a new exclusive content so rival does

wave three but wave two is filling out treasury but also starting to look at the fed, you know, the f.c.c, the cftc. some of these conversations are occurring at the hill as we speak because there are names still pending as the f.c.c. will will be in a position with a quorum with the resignation and departure of the chairwoman. so, you know, at some point some of these positions will have to accelerate or congress is going to decide here in the next week that they're actually going to confirm some of these folks to begin to fill out these positions. but given the discussions, maybe we could turn a bit to the fed. we know we had two vakeansies that remain pending. they don't appear to be going anywhere right now and we had the vice chair of supervision. you know, turillo has been in the acting role but not been officially appointed or confirmed so there are some slots that certainly can be filled. treasury secretary gets named and the trump focuses on it, what impact do you think a new administration, whether transition or administration itself, can actually have on the fed and what are th

he says things about the regulation, he mentioned the f.c.c., so far he is good on school choice, give more people school choice, i'm for that. he also, you know, he doesn't grasp a lot of the details. and when he talked about shutting down that internet, he said i'm going to talk to bill gates and it's kind of like, you are already -- bill gates had his lunch eaten by the internet. that was microsoft's downfall of migrating to the internet. i'm not expecting a lot of visionary leadership on his part. but to the strength of this, he can't shut it down and most governments can't. >> you cut off one head it comes up somewhere else. do we have any questions from the audience? i ask you keep them short and i will keep them back so the folks on the live stream can hear them. >> carl -- >> we have a mike coming down, actually, so -- >> thank you. high carl. i was a 911 responder as a special agent of the u.s. custom agent office of internal affairs, i went to november of that year to ground zero and helped sift through the rubble, the third building that collapsed that day. there is a tyrann

he says things about the regulation, he mentioned the f.c.c., so far he is good on school choice, give more people school choice, i'm for that. he also, you know, he doesn't grasp a lot of the details. and when he talked about shutting down that internet, he said i'm going to talk to bill gates and it's kind of like, you are already -- bill gates had his lunch eaten by the internet. that was microsoft's downfall of migrating to the internet. i'm not expecting a lot of visionary leadership on his part. but to the strength of this, he can't shut it down and most governments can't. kat: you cut off one head it comes up somewhere else. do we have any questions from the audience? i ask you keep them short and i will keep them back so the folks on the live stream can hear them. >> carl -- kat: we have a mike coming down, actually, so -- >> thank you. hi. carl donovan. i was a 9/11 responder as a special agent of the u.s. custom agent office of internal affairs, i went to november of that year to ground zero and helped sift through the rubble, the third building that collapsed that day. there

the f.c.c.'s role is limited by the statute.the government has a roll to monitor and provide decisional fixes in this space, they are authorized by the law to do. >> announcer: communicate katers on c-span 2. c-span is talking with incoming freshman of congress, we caught up with them at ab orientation on capitol hill. representative elect, tell us about your backhand. >> i'm an immigrant from india. came to the united states when i was 16. by myself. my parents had about 5,000 in my bank account and used it to send me here for college. i fee like the opportunity i had to go from that 16-year-old girl to getting to serve as the congresswoman from the 7th congressional district is the south american dream, i think it's why i devoted the last 25 years of my life fighting for other people for the opportunity. >> you are a democrat from the washington state. what impact did that experience you had as a young girl have on you today? >> it is a huge impact. it's why i spent so much time working on immigration perform policy. that's wh

initial speculation was maybe trump is going to go after social media or he's going to tax amazon or the f.c.ceregulate netflix and youtube so netflix and google suffer. there's another notion that certain investors are preparing for a snap chat i.p.o. with your banking hat on, i wonder if you see is that something you hear about from investors, certain investors are getting their dryer, if you will? jim: there are a couple of things i would comment on. first of all, technology traded down, but it was a little more rational in terms of why it traded down initially, because if you look at companies, technology companies actually have the highest percentage of foreign trade in terms of exports. so when you look at potentially trump coming in and having a more protectionist policy, there were some fear over retaliation and other areas, so a lot of the big global tech companies got hit. cory: but more on the enterprise companies? jim: that's right. so we did see some momentum down. i think they've recovered. so tech overall is up modestly, not as much as some of the other areas, as you mentioned.

the press corps. ms. palmer: do you think press conferences are important? it sounds like you're moving in different directions here. mr. spicer: f.c.c. interaction with the press is a healthy part of a good democracy. mr. sherman: you've been around d.c. for a while. you've seen a lot of press secretaries in the white house. in the bush white house, in which you worked, in the obama white house, and there's different styles. fleischer was an aggressive press secretary. that's how he's seen. he was seen as a pretty combative, aggressive, sharp guy. someone like jay carney was seen as a little bit more laid back. your boss reynoldsered his opinion on josh ernest last night. unexpected twist of a speech. talk us through what you think is an effective strategy for somebody in that role. mr. spicer: thu one of the things that -- you guys know this, is that there's this west wing in the show version what have a press secretary does, which is, like, stand up in a podium for 12 hours and answer questions and then go on tv at night. i think that as you guys know, a lot of this, not a lot of it, 95% of it is off camera, helping to facilitate

the u.s. d.o.j. or f.c.c.?ent regulatory regimes, and different standards. and so you know, i'm not going to say which one's going to be easier or tougher at this point because that's not really my wheelhouse. i would say that the last time through, you know, fox had this in the bag until the phone hacking scandal. it became more of a political issue and an issue of was there any corporate malfeasance? that question is now behind them. so it would seem to be better positioned now than it was before and it nearly went through before. julie: is fox a more attractive investment with all of sky under its ownership? >> well, look, i think that that gets to the question of whether there's incremental value from putting content together. and maybe. it depends on how much freedom the regulators give the companies to differentiate things with their content. i think in the u.s. we thought for a long time there was going to be really no flexibility. with the new regime, it seems like maybe there will be flexibility. and t