Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central cheers and applause stephen welcome to the colbert report thank you for joining us. cheers and applause audience chanting stephen thank you so much for joining us, everybody nation, i dont mean to be a broken mp3 file, but i gotta say it again, barack obama doesnt have the right stuff to be president. And im beginning to think he agrees because hes started doing something worse than destroying america. Hes slacking off at destroying america. This week president obama refusing to go to the u. S. Mexican border. Guess where the president is planning to go . On vacation. News today that obama will head back to ritzy Marthas Vineyard next month. President obama spent three days avoiding a visit to the border while playing pool, sipping beers and raising lots of money. Make up, america. We elected a president whod rather play pool and drink beer in colorado than address the american crisis developing at our border. Stephen yes, while america burns, pre
Music and the restoration of the super saver at 100 fighter. See the laboratories of Thomas Edison in fort myers and hear the voices of them mormon tabernacle choir and Salt Lake City today at noon eastern on book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Next, we will hear from martin cooper, a motorola researcher who headed a team that invented the first cell tach and1973, the dyna became the first person ever to make a call on the mobile phone. On a mobile phone. The phone cost almost 4000 when it was offered for sale in 1984. The Smithsonian National is his aim of American History hosted this hourlong event. Before i invite art and marty up to the stage, i have one piece of house business. Which probably, in this context, is ironic but i do have to ask you to turn off your cell phone. That said, thank you for coming, and i will turn the microphone over to art and our speaker, marty cooper. Thank you very much. [applause] are we turned on . Anybody that canno
Mention, because i will go anywhere and work with anyone to do whats right for alaskans. I served with dan sullivan in the United States marine corps. Dan sullivan was one of those leaders that led by example. Dan sullivan trained hundreds of alaskan marines to be ready for combat in cold weather conditions. Alaska needs a fighter. I see that in dan sullivan. This country let alone this state was built by people like dan sullivan. When times get tough he cant take no for an answer. He cares about fellow alaskans and fellow countryman. If dan says something hes going to do i believe him because i trust him. Im dan sullivan and i approve this message. What was mark begichs real record as mayor . Over 9,000 now jobs. He eliminated a 33 million deficit. And invested in police, firefighters, and schools. Then as senator he took on obama to fix alaskas v. A. Exempt our schools from no child left behind. And is taking responsibility for fixing the Health Care Law so it works for alaska. Im ma
Center this goes to the. I see familiar faces in the audience. Many of you know we are live on cspan all day today such as want to share this information that we have with our cspan viewers, and that is this. The National Constitution center is a private nonprofit but it was created by congress on the bicentennial of the constitution to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And that means that we are the only place in america in these polarized times that invites people from all sides of the spectrum, left, right anyway between, to debate not political questions but constitutional questions, and let citizens make up their own minds. And as part of this Inspiring Mission i cant imagine a more exciting and momentous event than the one were celebrating today on bill of rights day book festival been of the new exhibit at the National Constitution center which displays one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. Basically George Washington on
Active in Spectrum Management, in fact, serves on two Advisory Committees, one for the fcc and one for the Commerce Department. What is your role on the Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, sir . Guest well, both of these committees advise their respective organizations on what to do about spectrum in the future. They have, each of them have subcommittees, the subcommittees face very specific problems, things like receiver specs the internet of things. But various issues on which these fcc and department of commerce are looking for input. Host whats your reaction to the 40 billion or so thats currently auctioned on the aws3 auction, spectrum auction . Guest well, i have some strong opinions about that. I think that the people that buy that spectrum, on the one hand, are getting a bargain because the spectrum will be so valuable for the long term, but i think the auctions are really the wrong way to do it. Host why . Guest because the auctions dont really reflect the fact that we, th