a novel that was inspired by events in his own family in divided germany a story that says light on the impact of lies and deceit on generations of germans . the german spy museum in the center of berlin this man is no ordinary visitor and it s no coincidence that he s come here and is looking at the collection of dead drops dick brown s grandparents were spies they worked in east germany for west germany s foreign intelligence agency and they used dead drops which could be something as a conspicuous as this nutshell to exchange secret intelligence their story took a fateful turn one that had consequences across three generations eventually catching up with dick brown s inspiring him to write his novel. a go you know i think every novel is autobiographical in some way and this one is especially so i used the story of my family but only certain details about your inspiration for my
trafficking charges. sound like he flew in and flew out. some of the details of this, he arrived at the day spa at 10:59 on january 20th and left at 11:13. didn t sound like he lingered. one other colorful bit of detail that is appropriate for our breakfast crowd, he arrived in a chauffeur-driven whiteentley to this seedy day spa, stayed for 14 minutes and drove off in his white bentley. he didn t want to be noticed, when you drive up in a white bentley, conspicuous, the whole thic thing. perhaps it s just somebody that arrived for services and left. the problem with human trafficking and why it s a month-long operation and the video camera didn t pick up certain elements of it. sometimes it s difficult to not
that s so true. i remember in 2009, when she had just come off of her pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and she insisted on attending a joint session of congress, where president obama was speaking for the first time, and at that moment, she happened to be the only woman on the supreme court, sandra day o connor had left, and sotomayor had not yet been appointed and she said to me, i want americans to see that the court was not all men. and she s very fierce about, first of all, showing up, being conspicuous, and casting her vote for her side. and that decision, that order that you just referred to, fred, it was again by one vote 5-4 to ensure that president trump s new asylum restrictions did not go into place. what president trump has tried to do here is to say that anyone who crosses the border beyond a port of entry cannot be considered for refugee status, and all the judges who have
didn t like it, there s an idea that is not my present. no one cares. there s no offense of your president but the office of the president. if you have a problem [cheering and applause] greg: i always said that to the heaviest critics of obama. number one, he still your president and number two, if you don t like him, when the white house. and if you recall, who try to trick him by saying we respect the results of the election? they were so sure they would win but they said it must be because of russian interference. could there be a worse person to because of by? [laughter] someone who put their names on buildings, conspicuous. greg: though true. great point. i think there other problem is embracing old ideas is a can t find new ones.
results came in because they didn t like it, there s an idea that is not my present. no one cares. there s no offense of your president but the office of the president. if you have a problem [cheering and applause] greg: i always said that to the heaviest critics of obama. number one, he still your president and number two, if you don t like him, when the white house. and if you recall, who try to trick him by saying we respect the results of the election? they were so sure they would win but they said it must be because of russian interference. could there be a worse person to because of by? [laughter] someone who put their names on buildings, conspicuous. greg: though true. great point. i think there other problem is embracing old ideas is a can t find new ones.