Your new book is called living in plain sight what really caused the financial crisis and why it could happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the causes of the 2007 in 2008 financial crisis. You said that only democrats on the committee but the republican appointees what did you see they didnt . Looking at the housing system in the United States with dodd frank and fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before i got on the commission so i had a lot of background of what was happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and the role they played in the housing crisis and ultimately the financial crisis and i found the commission was not interested in they would not look at it. s. Host that i was outside i thought, the partisan differences between the republicans and democrats and and am afraid that the republicans felt that they just would not agree with
Eastern on book tv from cspan2. And now on book tv, reset author programs about the Trump Administration. We begin with the author and journalist donald, he appeared on the other Interview Program afterwards in 2018 where he discussed how President Trump business experience has impacted his presidency. Lets talk about the media. You put a lot of examples in the book is you just described. It seemed to have no bounds for discrediting the negative narratives on donald trump. Sue present trump could do no wrong. But for donald trump, he to do no right. What is your sense of what is driving this in the news or the Mainstream Media that you are part of. Will first of all, theres a bias against republicans in general. With dragon he was portrayed as stupid or dangerous both and thing in the same thing with trump. According to the median they just cant get rid of that. And i think, if they feel that if they did, it would be ostracized by their colleagues. For example, some people within the w
Hidden in plain sight and why it could happen again. You remember the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the causes. You decided not only with democrats but the republican appointees. What did you see they didnt . Looking at the housing system and dodd frank im sorry fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before i got on the commission. So i have background on what was happening in the housing sector. So i was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and the role they played in the housing crisis and ultimately the financial crisis and the commission was not interested in that and they wouldnt look at it to the degree that i tried to interest them. I was just told i was given all kinds of signals that something they would do so i decided i would dissent so the differences with the other republicans came from the fact that my view our responsibility on the commission was to make sure the American People understood what ha
Archives the focus on the 2008 economic recession, trade and finance. All of the programs that youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org and you can do for the search function at the top of the page. First and february of 2015, the American Enterprise Institute Peter wallace and appears on our Author Interview program afterwards. He argued that government policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Hidden in plain sight pretty literally caused the world financial crisis and why it could happen again printed you remember the financial crisis. It was investigating the causes and oh seven and oh eight pretty and you said that not only in the democrats on the committee but also from the republicans appointees, what did you see that they did not. Ive been looking at the housing system in the United States printed donna frank ansari, fannie mae and freddie mac. For quite a while before i got in the commission. So i had a lot of background of what is
Industrial mobilization to make adequate ventilators particularly a short one to help the people of new york, detroit, new orleans, chicago, denver, seattle, all around this country as this virus bears down. The ventilators of the most important things for the patient to become more seriously ill. They are the lifeline for people. I personally have been working with fema and with hhs and Ventilator Companies making sure we can get what we need as quickly as possible. Virtually, every one of those companies whos been cooperative, patriotic, moving and trump time with us as soon as possible but we did have a problem with gm. On the one hand, we have ford and g moving forward on a similar project. Patriotically moving as fast as possible over the last several days, we ran into roadblocks. We cannot afford to lose a single day, particularly in the next 30 to 60 days. President trump, the defense production act is enhancing and accelerating, i salute him for doing so. Its going to make my j