Bullies with way through on this, and the information i have, its going to be just a a train wreck upon a train wreck at election or after election time. How do you count the votes, how do you make sure that there is a fair and square election . Were were heading into another chapter, chapter 73 of trump world and were just going to have to watch it day by day, hour by hour. You spoke with the president , i believe, 19 times, for this book. How did it come about . And how did he agree to talk with you . Well, i did a book in 2018 fear, on his first two years, and he did not cooperate. I tried to talk to him. He regretted that he, of course, denounced the book. Said i was a democratic operative. Some people close to him said, oh, by the way, the book is true, and so the president , when i wanted to do the second book, said he would cooperate. I went into the oval office, put my little tape recorder down op the resolute desk and said its all on the record. Im going to record it all, and
Pending books begin with jeffersons memoir and 18 cents have written books. Prior to the 20th century memoirs were rare grants were the exception. Jimmy carter the author of 25 books including Public Policy and Foreign Policy and a novel and also a Childrens Book which was illustrated and then appeared on book tv afterwords where he discussed the white house diaries he kept while in office 1977 to 1981. Welcome to washington dc mr. President. When you fly in and go over the monuments and the potomac what do you think flying into this town . I look for the white house to see if its there and the wonderful times. And we flew over the canal sounded by douglas a justice for the Supreme Court. I was running about 40 miles a week then. Thats a lot. I think about the good times and how thankful i am now to have that bipartisan support which doesnt exist anymore. Is there a republican in the senate are congress that you learn to enjoy working with that you became friends with . Senator baker w
[inaudible conversations] welcome to politics politics and prose so we will jump right in. Please silence your cell phones we will be recording audio and video. To ask the same questions there will be a signing behind the register and then he will sign them and just prop them against the surface when were done thank you. Finance editor from the New York Times reporter and editor at the wall street journal david enrich before that and a reporter in new york winning numerous journalism awards previously the author of the Spider Network how the scheming bankers pulled off in history which was the book of the year so his newest book dark towers donald trump and the epic trail of deception and its relationship with us president and then to demonstrate the evolution and character to become the global face of financial malfeasance please welcome david enrich to politics and prose. [applause] hello. Ive had a lot of book events im not kidding six people in the room this is awesome so i will ta
Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship
Club. I want to take a second might be going to please silentio cell phones. We will be recording audio and video so thats a great incentive to try phones, and also to ask questions with open the floor up, theres a standing mic here in the middle when we do that after the talk here following the talk and the questions there will be assigning. We have books available behind the register. After the talk if you want to get up and purchase book and come back david would be more than happy to sign the. Finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse futures pictures about them up against a surface, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tonight i have the pleasure of hosting david unhra, plaintiff entered at New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the wall street journal in new york and london. Before that he was journal of European Banking london and has won numerous journalism awards including the 2016 award for feature writing. He is the author o