he has been a venture capitalist, actually weisser in washington with a d.c.-based start of incubator and he served-- sort have been a tech and city terry to the obama campaign all the way through. he is on the advisory committee, and now he is probably going to be our next sec chairman, barring anything horrible or strange. >> host: phone johnson, given his background what we know about him now and where do you think he will take the fcc? >> guest: we know he is passionate about the internet and this comes from the obama presidential campaign. he was one of the early supporters of obama. he was actually when the first to bring the telecom community around him in supporting him. he brought people in who have never given money to a presidential candidate before so we know that just from his experience on the obama campaign that he is going to be very, very clearly, his first goal is to blanket the country with internet access, which squares very well with barack obama. it also squares nicely with congress because they put that into the stimulus bill. we also kn

he was soliciting the advice of everybody and in fact ultimately weisser people then i advised him and he gave so much money to mother theresa, some to africa to help the hungry, some to costa rica to set up a university for peace but i think he always feels his family is essentially a global family and tries to give all the money to tibetans. one curiosity about his scrupulousness there is when he is upset the people charge a lot of money for his appearances for his teachings and when he gives public teachings at the income he requests the close to stand up in front of the entire audience and account for every penny. i saw this happen in santa barbara. the person went through all the money they spend and all the money they earned and had to come clean in public before 5,000 people as well as the dalai lama. >> buddy does help raise money for the tibetan cause. wide visi troublesome much? >> well, he is more concerned about raising supporter raising concern, and he travels for two reasons. one, because he has done people enjoy listening to him and there is some virtue in sharing what h