The biggest misconception is that most of my life is taken up with junk and scandals and alleged corruption. Most of the no because i even in d. C. 152nd sound bite. And nationally the United States government. Beset that tape to every ambassador in the world cannot to every president of every country in the world, sent it to the other propaganda arm of the u. S. Government. It ran on television. But this so many have contributed to it, too. And that is all part of it. I am not fazed by it. Washington d. C. , as long as it gives them some hope that some help. I dont care. [applause] i dont care. The wanted thank you so much for coming here tonight. I also wanted to give you this is actually a very precious object. I dont know if you have gotten one of these before, the National Press club coffee mug. I have two of them. Well, now you have triplets. They do so much for coming. We will be outside signing a book. Im sorry. Right over here signing a book. [inaudible conversations] [inaudib
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Department of recreation. Every student in the top 10 . Were going to bring some of that back. We have term for one more question. He started to nine sing one of the reasons you wrote the book, question springs from that what you think is the biggest misconception that people have . The biggest misconception is that most of my life is taken up with junk and scandals and alleged corruption. Most of the no because i even in d. C. 152nd sound bite. And nationally the United States government. Beset that tape to every ambassador in the world cannot to every president of every country in the world, sent it to the other propaganda arm of the u. S. Government. It ran on television. But this so many have contributed to it, too. And that is all part of it. I am not fazed by it. Washington d. C. , as long as it gives them some hope that some help. I dont care. [applause] i dont care. The wanted thank you so much for coming here tonight. I also wanted to give you this is actually a very precious
Report. We need a robust industry they are, we also know that while this company was rated at an investment rate, they really failed to record highs the significance of the positions they take emily until the very end, when basically it was too late. So one of the things that we hope remain from this report as we begin to get feedback, it is important for all of the stakeholders and theres a number of stakeholders that have potential solution to how we prevent this from happening in the future. We welcome those. There is no legislation from a recommendation in this report at this particular time because basically the purpose was to begin the discussion. So many times the government wants to run out and passing regulations. First we need to find a what happened, all you industry an opportunity to bring forth what they think are solutions, to mourn for me the endgame will be to make whatever necessary changes, to make sure customers dont lose their money, that markets are fair and transp