Questions, there will be a signing. We have books behind the register. When you come back david will be happy to sign them and then finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse your chairs and prop them up against the wall that would be greatly appreciated by the staff. Thank you. So yes, tonight politics and prose has the pleasure of hosting david enrich at the New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the washington journal, new york and london and was a journal editor. Hes won numerous journalism awards including 2016 journal for future writing and previously the author of the Spider Network hell a genius and scheming that bankers pulled off one of the greatest scams in history which was shortlisted for the Financial Times best of the year and his new book dark towers Deutsche Bank donald trump and the epic trail of destruction, traces the dark history with the president as well as the tragic case of William Brookes illustrates the evolution of ch
Reporting like ronans and some of the other reporting where people are trying to figure out how this banking information came into the public domain, we know from the reporting the way that data base of those reports works is that you can tell who looks at what. Theres a record when anybody looks at those things, let alone accesses them in the kind of way that presumably would have been necessary to give them to reporters and give them to Michael Avenatti last week for dissemination to the public. So this person clearly knew they were taking a big risk by doing it, now learning the rationale behind why they took the risk, they thought there was a danger that some important records related to the case were being disappeared potentially for nefarious purposes so the public had to know. Its incredibly human, dramatic and that person is at risk. There are hard workers in this story. Im going to talk to david maury, an extreasury official mentioned in ronans report, he gives a reaction to t
Tonight. Thats the deeply personal story of his source, who remains secret, but is a Government Official who knows that releasing that was a violation of law and he or she, whoever it is, lives in fear of what will now happen to that Government Official. And, you know, we know from reporting like ronans and some of the other reporting where people are trying to figure out how this banking information came into the public domain, we know from the reporting the way that data base of those reports works is that you can tell who looks at what. Theres a record when anybody looks at those things, let alone accesses them in the kind of way that presumably would have been necessary to give them to reporters and give them to Michael Avenatti last week for dissemination to the public. So this person clearly knew they were taking a big risk by doing it, now learning the rationale behind why they took the risk, they thought there was a danger that some important records related to the case were be