[general chatter] [laughter] democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. You can find her remarks in our video library. It look at tweets from some of the republican president ial candidates. Dr. Ben carson said he had a great time at blakes Family Restaurant in manchester, new hampshire. Ted cruz will be in iowa fundraising for the Republican Party appearing with steve king. Today in washington dc, a discussion on oil prices and their impact on racking. That will be hosted by the Atlantic Council. We will have that live at 3 00 eastern time. The u. S. Senate is meeting this afternoon. The house returns tomorrow. We spoke this morning with a capitol Hill Reporter to get a look at the week ahead in congress. Their district work period. What is on tap for today and the rest of the week . Guest a big issue in the senate this week is going to be trade. All eyes are on president obama. One of his Top Priorities for a second term is to get some of these International Trade deals done
Its front pain daily basically all european papers and the equivalent in social media. Its a huge debate and many people are very concerned about it. The debate has shown that people are concerned about theth what shay see as possible impacts. Public services, regulatory, investment arbitration environment, et cetera. Men of those fears north justified aft all by facts bit they show that people feel distanced from politics, from trade policymaking, they want to be involved and this is something we need to address. So our challenge is to provide a broad response to this and other challenges. And we are doing that by asking questions about four groups of issues. First, how do we find a way to seek broader engagement and broader trust from the public . This has bun one of my priorities so far. We have put basically all documents on the european side online so that everybody can see what we are negotiating and what we north negotiating. So were looking at now how we can be more transparent
And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . Guest the size and parts of different markets. They have 30 of cable between them and 57 of internet broadband, highspeed internet broadband, that is just too big. I had a lot of content providers, networks come to me and say they were opposed to this deal but this gives you some idea of what happens when you get this big, they were afraid to say so to be public because they feared retrobution. Host did comcast come to you and try to influence your opinion guest they did not. I have been against
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