It comes to the fans of the humans and seem right to fools who have decided to put their trust in us. My name is jean in paris tonight a deed. Its the most wonderful time of the year but not everyone gets to relax that retailers around the world wrap up their final christmas preparations we take a look behind the scenes out of Portland Department store. Christmas is big business for ornament makers well take you to a polish bauble day care whose clients include 3 former american president. Could santa claus fall victim to a no deal breakfast in la la fears are growing that british visitors may soon find it more difficult to pay their respects to the feared dead that dr. This business on paper long has the theme to be jolly at least for the 2000000000 people around the world getting ready to celebrate christmas its one of the most important events in the christian calendar and the highlight of the retail season but not everyone gets to relax from baltimore all the way to here in berlin
Especially relative to the fevered pace of sales during the holiday season. But thanks to Michael Wolff, the last few weeks have seemed, well, like a second christmas for many booksellers. Given the surge in demand for michaels book, fire and fury, one frequent question ive been asked is whether there is any precedent for this sort of frenzy. Of course, weve had bestsellers before and seen people standing in long lines for them, and normally, were able to anticipate, at least roughly, how many books to order, but the velocity and volume of requests for fire and fury seemed to take everyone by surprise. Our events team did have the foresight weeks ago, before the books release, to schedule michael for an author talk, but it was at our new, smaller store at the wharf [ laughter ] which could have accommodated only about a fourth of the crowd here this evening. So, lets all give a giant round of applause to the terrific staff here at sixth i who [ applause ] they made this spacious venue
Good evening and welcome to our biggest event so far in 2018. I am Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of everybody here at six and i think you so much for coming you know january historically is a rather slow month. Relative to the fever pace of sales. Thanks to Michael Worth dash wolf. They have seemed like a second christmas for many book sellers. Given the surge in demand one frequent question i had been asked is whether or not there is any precedent for this kind of frenzy. Weve had bestsellers before and seen people standing in long lines for them. And normally we are able to anticipate at least roughly how many books to order. But the volume of requests for fire in theory seem to take everyone by surprise. Our event team it was at our new smaller store which kind of accommodated only about a fourth of the crowd here this evening. So lets all give a giant round of applause to the terrific staff here [applause]. They made this spacious venue available and e
Is a five day difference. This is amazing coincidence to me. I think it is more than a coincidence. I want to put up on a screen a directive sent out by the chief Technology Officer of the irs. If we could get that on the screen. And this is the directive that went out to managers, is that correct, telling them not to reace the erase the data. Correct. This went out on may 22nd, 2013. When were the taped erased at the irs. On or about march 4th, 2014. So about eight months later. And is this if we look at the highlighted part on here it said do not destroy, wipe, reuse any of the existing backup tapes for email or archiving or other information for irs personal computers. Did that go to managers that were at the facility where the tapes were erased . It did. And there was a lot of discussion that we captured in our investigation by capturing the managers emails over what mullholland meant by this directive. So what did they say they thought it meant when you talked to them . They belie
Todays event follows events on the current trade agenda. We have nafta, trade with china. All of those events, videos from all of those events are available on w americastradepolicy. Com. We are looking at the future of trade and hosting a series of events looking at things like 3d printing and the impact those have on trade. We couldnt have timed it too much better. Last night the president was tweeting about trade deficits. As you know, the mission is to educate about trade policy. We couldnt be more happy than to have todays panel. Well have a discussion and then open it up for questions. With that, peter. Thank you very much. Thank you all who successfully braved the rain today. Obviously we have a very timely discussion topic today. Really it is at the very heart of the debate about u. S. Trade policy. We are very fortunate to have three recognized experts in trade policy, Economic Policy. To my left here is rob shapiro. They specialize in Economic Risks and Economic Policy. He is