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Because of all of the controversy over the sheer pants. In their defense, it has been a massively growing company. Hi, short interest. Questions about inventory. The scandals about the comments from the ceo. Of they a classic case could have handled it much better once they made the misstep. Instead, they stumbled, they took too long to repair the situation. As you say, the founders founders comments were not listen to hear for some women. Fish stinks from the head. Problemnot beinthe lulu anymore. Were going to go inside ups these next two hours. Carol massar has been working on this special for quite a while. Is probably the biggest day of the year for the Worlds Largest packaging company. Carol massar is in the thick of things. Hubis at their massive called world port. Hows it going down there . It is a little quiet. Most of what happens here happens overnight. We had a little bit of snow this morning. The planes got out this morning. The line behind me is a little quiet, things wil
Delivered effectively and with integrity. What does your background have to do . That igs havesays to have expertise in a number of perfections. Auditing and public management. Above all, being people of integrity. How long have you been in Inspector General . Of 2002. December how would you describe the job it agriculture . My job is to oversee the operations of all of the usda programs to make sure that they are being delivered as effectively as possible. Dayt that means, on a dayto basis, is that we, in the ig office, need to conduct audits to make sure the programs are running affectively. That improper payments are not going out the door. And, we conduct investigations when there are allegations of wrongdoing in a program, either by a Department Employee or someone receiving benefits. It is our jurisdiction to one investigations on those activities. How long have you been there . Since 2002. Who appointed you . President george bush. What kind of autonomy do you have . Statute, ar
one of america s most influential and important for better or ill treasury secretaries because he got a really bad start to the job. he stumbled out of the gate. he gave press conference that s were panned. he was not particularly close to barack obama. yet he managed to have by all accounts across the spectrum, tremendous influence and as someone who worked with him and sat across tables with him, neil, how did he pull that off? i think he has a sense of president obama. and i think they connected on a personal level. and he somehow earned the president s trust. but i think when you look at what he s done, it is a remarkable thing. most of the policies that he engineers or did in response to financial crisis were failed policies. and i think, you know, part of his legacy going to be what we re going to have to deal with in the coming years as a result of the failed policies. it s a mystery to me. everything he touched really didn t go the right direction. you disagree strongly?
everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she s right behind me isn t she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. hello from new york. i m chris hayes here with alexis goldsteen, neil borofsky, stephanie kelton, professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city and joe wisenthal. in the wake of the news of tim geithner s departure to be replaced with jack lu, we re talking about the geithner legacy. and because i think when you look at the first term, he s, i think it s hard to argue anyone was a more influential cabinet member. you know, the signature things that happened particularly in the midst of the crisis have