[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
Questions, there will be a signing. We have books behind the register. When you come back david will be happy to sign them and then finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse your chairs and prop them up against the wall that would be greatly appreciated by the staff. Thank you. So yes, tonight politics and prose has the pleasure of hosting david enrich at the New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the washington journal, new york and london and was a journal editor. Hes won numerous journalism awards including 2016 journal for future writing and previously the author of the Spider Network hell a genius and scheming that bankers pulled off one of the greatest scams in history which was shortlisted for the Financial Times best of the year and his new book dark towers Deutsche Bank donald trump and the epic trail of destruction, traces the dark history with the president as well as the tragic case of William Brookes illustrates the evolution of ch
falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same basic alleged crime in 2020 but he was pardoned by donald trump as trump was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations. cnn s kara scannell is here with the latest. this has a familiar ring to it, but steve bannon, these are serious charges. yeah, these are serious charges and a serious investigation by the manhattan district attorney s office. sources tell me that bannon will surrender, a expected to surrender tomorrow here in new york to face these new york state charges. the conduct he is being charged with is very similar to the conduct that he was charged by federal prosecutors in 2020 and that was for allegedly along with co-conspirators misleading donors who donated money in this fundraising effort to raise money to build a wall along the southern u.s. border, an entity called we build the ball.
Nonetheless, outside counsels like this case. And yet there is one more approach being taken and this is by our indiana governor and Vice President ial candidate, mike pence who directed his voluntary agencies, the ones responsible for receiving and placing refugees in the states to withhold funds. So hes not going to allow them to get reimbursed by the federal government. Hes going to stop the flow of funds until he gets some Additional Information from the federal government. Threatening government in a sense. What made the news in this case was that one agency had our defend the process of placing the syrian family in indiana. Exodus ended up going to court against the direct to an indiana said this is a clear violation of the equal protection clause given that it is identifying people by National Origin and to refuse and are victims of refugees. Yet despite all of these legislative proposals and losses and threaten lawsuits, there is no amount of begging that i could find they woul
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