Stephen Stephen Stephen stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Mwa folks i cant stop these people. I cant stop them. cheers and applause . Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, weve got a big show to do. Folks, weve got a big show to do. I know. I would try to stop you from chanting but we know what happens when someone tries to stop the colbert nation. cheers these people are locked and loaded. Folks, speaking of which, you know im a proud supporter of the second amendment. I consider it first among amendments that arent the first one. laughter these days we gun advocates are being treated like common crim nalz. A 54yearold Research Doctor arrested after he entered an airport terminal carrying an Assault Rifle. Dr. Peter steinmetz was carrying an ar15 over his shoulder when he was taken into custody last week. He told police he visited the airport to simply buy a cup of coffee. laughter stephen, of course. You gotta go to the airport for coffee. Airports are to coff
The show, before we do anything, its been a long summer. Weve got good news. Good news. They dont even believe it. [laughter] just sitting there waiting. Good news . Ill give you that. The summer started out a little doomsdayy. You have your putin being sanctioned. Hes calming down, maybe putting a shirt on. [laughter] you have a ceasefire finally in gaza. Oh, please let it hold. Time for everybody to take a breath, calm down. Its all good. Ebola alert. Fastgrowing Ebola Outbreak. One of the most feared and deadly diseases on earth. Surging out of control. Jon what the [bleeped] oh, my god. What the [bleeped]. [applause] [bleeped] thats going to make a good gift. All right. [bleeped]. First it was war. Then it was plaismg were either in the end times or a scifi original movie. Were all in danger. The World Trade Organization reports there are now 1,603 cases in west africa. [laughter] jon oh, well, thats terrible for those countries. I didnt realize. All right. I guess i wont be needin
Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Mwa folks i cant stop these people. I cant stop them. cheers and applause . Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, weve got a big show to do. Folks, weve got a big show to do. I know. I would try to stop you from chanting but we know what happens when someone tries to stop the colbert nation. cheers these people are locked and loaded. Folks, speaking of which, you know im a proud supporter of the second amendment. I consider it first among amendments that arent the first one. laughter these days we gun advocates are being treated like common crim nalz. A 54yearold Research Doctor arrested after he entered an airport terminal carrying an Assault Rifle. Dr. Peter steinmetz was carrying an ar15 over his shoulder when he was taken into custody last week. He told police he visited the airport to simply buy a cup of coffee. laughter stephen, of course. You gotta go to the airport for coffee. Airp
Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the two countries working sidebyside with iraq inquiry by this committee and the housing inquiry and currently it taken Something Like four years. We are beginning to emerge
New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different Things out there, and cybersecurity. But sometimes it doesnt make all the news, but the subcommittees been very, very active. Host and were going to talk about some of those issues in this edition of the communicators, but i wanted to ask you about the fcc. Brand new fcc, five be members all coming to see your committee, potentially, in december. Is that correct . Guest correct. Host whats the importance of having all five . Guest well, again, the fccs so important to the industry and to the co