Lewis did joy spoke with the Economic Club of washington dc about postal club operations. In the handling of mailin ballots. He also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on the workforce. Let me first now go to our special guest the postmaster general lewis did joy. Thank you very much for giving us your time today. Thank you david for having me and i want to thank the Economic Club of washington for paying attention to me. Thank you for attending. You are the 75th postmaster general the first one is behind you i can see. He was the inventor of the Postal Service. You are a native of new york and you went to college in florida in stetson and then you went back to your familys business and you belted up in greensboro North Carolina and built into the Largest Logistics Companies in the United States. You had been very involved in philanthropic alma mater. Thank you for giving us your time today. O let me just ask at the outset when you agreed to be postmaster general did you realiz
Attention to me at this time. Thank you for attending. Just briefly for those that may not know your background you are the 75th postmaster general. The first one is behind you i can see, Benjamin Franklin, that he was the inventor of the post office, Postal Service. You are a native of new york. You went to college in florida and then he went back to your families a business and you built it up, moved it to greensboro, North Carolina, build it into one of the larger Logistic Companies in the united stateses ultimate merged with another company of been involved in philanthropic activities at my alma mater, Duke University among other places so thank you for giving us your time today. Let me ask you at the outset, when you agreed to become postmaster general did you realize youre going to get this much attention . Because its not normally the most famous position in washington, d. C. And about many people can name your immediate predecessors. You are very well known. Did you expect you
Im also watching pinterest which has also moved higher, starting around 10 30. Im not sure what its about either, but i cant help and look at facebook and note theres no such bump in that stock. Facebooks barely higher so it makes me wonder if perhaps the news around some civil rights related groups being disappointed in facebooks progress in some areas lack thereof in addressing some issues that they would like to see addressed. Talks again of potential facebook ban those things dont always materialize. I guess facebook lets see, were showing a longer chart there in facebook. Today in the intraday action it has not moved higher maybe theres some hope. Theres the facebook daily chart. Its actually moving lower starting at that 1030 mark maybe theres hope among investors that some of those advertising dollars, some of that engagement moves off facebook to those smaller rivals, carl yeah. We talked to levis chip berg and he was unekwifable looking for concrete action in terms of changes
Abruptly on the day after the elections in 2018, and the president appoint me that day to be acting attorney general and ultimately bridge the gap between Jeff Sessions sessions d bilobar. Host how did you become jeff session chef of staff. Were you friends. Yes. Taj how it had only met Jeff Sessions once before i was selected to be his chief of staff. He was i interviewed with him and talked to him many times, but it was mutual friend, both in the white house and at the federal society that had recommended me to him and his people, and we bonded quickly over College Football and our love for good barbecue. So it was match made in heaven. Host one of the things you say but mr. Sessions recusal from the Russian Investigation that it was personal and factdriven. Guest yeah. I wasnt there when he did the analysis. He took over in february of 2017, after he was confirmed, and after the new administration came in, but having done sort of my own recusal analysis that took five weeks for me a
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