But the marriage is obviously going very well indeed. Spina bifida roast, in 1997. What did you see in that clip you may comment on . Nothing. It is Andrea Mitchell who was a terrific journalist. You cannot emphasize that enough. It looked just seeing that right now it looked like a friendly washington event. Jokes are told. Looks like a lot of comedy. Anything wrong with that . No, not really. I think the reference he was making was to Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspans wedding that had been held around then. They are a power couple. Andrea mitchell is a great journalist. Alan greenspan is one of our most powerful economic minds in the last decade. It is an interesting dynamic when you have this crossover between friendship and social life. But the president of the Motion Picture association told you he would never lobby. He did. I think what chris dodd is implemented in this book is the impermanent feudal class, which is a term that tom coburn uses. It is used to describe the imperm
Attorney would waive lien privilege, which is something that corporations had ahind often, and a judge in scathing ruling said that the prosecutors had violated the constitution, violated the Constitutional Rights of these defendants, and that also led to this rolling back of these prosecutorial powers and techniques, which has led them to really be rendered unable to to investigate people at the higher echelon of corporate america. Host this is peter on our republican line. Caller mr. Eisinger, no comment, this was a failure of government basically. I would like to give context to the situation. In the late 1970s during the carter administration, they develop the Community Reinvestment act, which made fannie and freddie about three percent of their purchases of the prime mortgages. In 1995, there was a lot of pressure on the Clinton Administration to increase the amount of mortgages that were given to poor and minority people, so clinton developed these publicwrite it harder ships, wh
Beats me. What is interesting, a lot of what you are seeing there was done before we saw the book. The speculation took on a life of its own. Look. It is nice to have a book the bull are talking about, and obviously what happens is people focus on who is up, who is down, what news has broken. Ultimately i do know what people to miss the more serious point. Washington is doing very, very well in a very gilded age in some ways while the rest of the country is suffering. Any reaction you have had to the book, surprising . Not really. Look, when you write a book, a lot can go wrong. That is the way i approach the world. I am somewhat neurotic in writing reporting and a lot can go wrong in 110,000 words. I was shocked i guess if there has been criticism from inside, it has mostly been in the vein of how dare he . How dare an insider give away the secret handshake . How dare an insider talk about other insiders in a way that perhaps might not be in keeping with the codes that we have in wash
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