Senator gordon smith, president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, welcome back to the communicators. We appreciate being here. Guest thank you its a pleasure. Host the current fcc, five commissioners have been a place for a couple of years now, youve, youve got to work with them, how would you describe your relationship and how would you describe the current fcc. Guest i think it is fair to say this is proving to be one of the more partisan fccs i have ever observed. I say that having observed many of them on the congress committee. I think it is stylistic and i think chairman wheeler has an agenda in mind and he wants to push it and he needs to votes. It makes it challenging for us but because on one hand our issue, telecommunication issue should not be republican and democrat. It seems to be more divided that way than i have ever seen. That is their business and my business is to work with both sides constructively and as effectively as possible. Is the fcc structu
Is i have ever observed and i say that having observed many on the same committee. Is the fcc structured, in your vie, in a way that fits the 21st century . Guest i think so, but i do think House Commerce Committee and others have come up with reform ideas that are probably long overdue. But, you know, again, i dont im not anxious to venture into telling them how to do their job, because my job is to get along with them and to work with them and try to make the broadcasting case as well as i can on the basis of good Public Policy. Host well, joining us today to talk about some of those issues that the broadcasters face is monthty today low of communications today low monty tayloe of Communications Daily. Does the election time make a difference . Guest you know, the Election Year all the time consumes a lot of oxygen on the hill, and so the focus of the hill tends to be more focused on the ballot box than necessarily government agencies, at least that was my experience. I would say tha
Morning defending that 21day quarantine. The fact of the matter is that i dont believe that when you are dealing with something as serious as this, that we can count on a voluntary system. This is governments job. If anything else, the governments job is to protect the safety and the health of the citizens, and so we have taken this action. And i absolutely have no secondthoughts about it. I believe that the folks who want to take this step and willing to volunteer also understand that it is in their interests, and in fub lick Health Interest to have a 21day period thereafter if they have been directly exposed to people with the virus. As we saw with what happened with some of the Health Care Workers in texas, and with the cdc shifting the the protocols, we had people infected from that type of contact, and we cant have that in the new York New Jersey area, and that is why Governor Cuomo and i agree on this, and now you can see they agree in chicago as well. This is a policy that is go