topic du jour in theington, not through month over the year. >> there is some criticism. washington. not happy with where the president is going. the question becomes what is your proposal? what is your alternative? does this not need to be addressed? think the entire premise on which the president is at doing in terms of the types of work cast is completely overstated. i do not support that draconian action that is going to have a huge impact on the economy. this is very suspect in terms of the numbers. none of these has come true. impact ofhave zero china, india and other countries do not genetically change their policy. >> what is the plan? republican being focused? >> they're focused on other things like any the economy back on track. if we have real job growth we are much better equipped to deal with the plethora of challenges. >> final question. this is when people are talking about. that is veterans affairs issues. >> i agree with the. that is being talked about everywhere. >> on your homepage you invite them to share the stories. town, doss leaves this you feel li

is this a massive victory for theington in just saying to entire industry, listen to us carefully, we want competition? think it probably is, particularly in the backdrop of comcast-time warner cable, and att-directv. both of those deals are likely to be passed. at least washington can look and say, this one did not go through. they can say, we are not just patsies for total industry overhaul. >> thank you so much. >> our guest host for the hour he served as a member of the ipo task force that provided a report to treasury in 2011. as we take stock of the deals that have fallen apart over the last day, fox for time warner, sprint and t-mobile, does the unraveling of these deals in this very hot sector, media, telecoms affect the market? >> i do believe so. i think we are starting to see momentum in the m&a market. both of these deals were not high likelihood to happen. i don't believe there any signal to a trend. >> is it something with the players involved are going to come back when things quiet down a little bit? >> i don't think so. on the 21st century fox-time warner deal, the ma

quickive you a presentation of what's going on in d.c., what's pending in theington, but then reserverest of the time for you to ask questions, because we typically get more questions than we have to answer, and so it's not me picking favorites or in terms ask theets to questions. we've asked you to fill out your name on a piece of paper, namesly i'll select the and we'll just go through as many as we with can. ask that everyone confine themselves to asking a quick question or making a quick comment. and i've told my staff to please try to keep me on the clock to give as concise an answer as i can. often times it's tough because i to ask reallytend good questions, and sometimes i have to dig a little deeper so theget the meet of response. okay. let me thank the center for the here for legalling us use the facility. lit give them a round of applause. michael, i know he was in the back, we want to say thank you and brian martinez the director of vents as well here at the center. introduce my staff. i'd like to make sure you know whens on my staff because i'm not here i want you to know