[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
So hes out sourcing the seeing part of the driving to his wife. Its an arrow, not that way. One area in my life where i can see the generation difference most clearly, when you do a book signing and the end of the book signing, often theres a line of people who get their books signed but they want their pictures taken with you. Everybodys got a picture with the author and this can happen sometimes dozens and dozens of times in a typical book signings over the course of the year ill have this same process repeated thousands of times and theres, heres how young people do it. They hold up the phone and they take a picture. Heres how old people do it. They hold up the phone, its sounds for about 30 seconds. They Say Something like wait, i think its on google. Then they stab at the screen for a while with a forefinger. Then they hold up the phone and say okay, smile. Then they smile again and say wait, i think its making a video. Then a stab at the screen some more and hold up the phone aga
In europe things are in the red. The dax and cac are down 0. 6 . The ftse off by 0. 8 . Knitly, sto ly in italy, stocks are down about a percent. Right now the dollar is up against the euro which is trading at 1. 0874. Down against the yen. And crude oil has been weakening even as the dollar had been struggling with issues. Wpi down abo wti down by 1. 43 . Have we shown the tenyear . No. I would show the tenyear. 2. 40. I will do a story in a second talking about fed speak again. Who cares about the fed anymore, theyre irrelevant, not at 2. 40. 2. 40. We were on our way again. We were on our way again theoretically to 2. 60, 2. 70, 3 . What does that say . Does that say 1 gdp number in the First Quarter stays at 1 . None of these things in the trump agenda come on time . Or big as expected . Are they delayed . Does trump care lite mean tax reform light . Or do we even get the taxes . So these ive never been in congress, i never will be. But theres a lot of kabuki dance. I understand th
Way. We know the most recent reporting suggested there were four hostages killed there, but were not certain of that number. We believe there may have been as many as 10 or 12 hostages in total in the super market which the gunman took control of early in the afternoon when it would have been filled with shoppers. So, the death toll may be much higher. It may not be. French authorities have not given a final figure about that which is a little curious a little concerning. It has people here wondering when theyll know and what theyll find out. Its been an incredible day here of fastmoving developments that started early on with a carjacking in the north of france involving the kouachi brothers. Then a shootout with authorities, a chase, and then a hostage situation out of that Printing Company out in the industrial park. Hours later a supermarket is taken over by another gunman. Hostages are held. This goes on for several hours until simultaneous raids happen and both situations are bro