From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting ready to long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan with the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

Now David is not with us again today, Ralph. He's on the primary campaign trail. Last week he was in New Hampshire with Triumph,

the Insult Comic Dog, and this week he's in Iowa of all places. When he comes back, we're

going to have to get a full field report from him.

I want you to grill him is what I'm saying.

We'll be ready to grill him.

Well, on today's show, we're going to be talking to Washington Post columnist Kenneth Harney

if you've been having trouble getting a mortgage because of your credit score,

you're not going to want to miss this discussion in the second half of the show.

We'll also get our weekly Crime Report from Russell Mochiber, the Angela Lansbury of the corporate crime beat.

If we have time, we'll try to get to some listener questions, but before we do all that,

Ralph talks a lot on this show about the danger to our democracy when there's too much power in too few hands.

And one of the ways corporations consolidate power is to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

We see it with the banks, we see it with airlines banks we see it with airlines we see it with

telecommunications companies I think the latest in that field is a proposed merger

between Charter and Time Warner just when you thought the service couldn't get any worse.

And all this brings us to our first guest.

Professor Carl T. Bogus is a professor of law at Roger Williams University Law School.

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