very a kind of suggested or especially suggested is get some people in the community like john mcdonough you know i know john a long time and i respect john it's but but when he speaks he sent it doesn't really come across as as what you would expect the voice of the toshi to be if you read the white paper what's going on there so i was very dubious to craig right when he first came out i never said this publicly but i was very dubious about craig whyte and i try to give people the time of day that whatever so he contacted me and he said hey can we chat so i think i did and i and i knew that people would find out that we were talking so i actually told like a doctor on a back america and a bunch of other corner people that hey i'm going to i'm going to jump on a call with craig right i'm telling you in advance or there's no like conspiracy theories behind it so i spent three and a half hours of google video with him. and and i asked him a lot of questions now i grew up as understand like when i got into because i was a kid i idolized the toshi as people idolize their fav their favorite baske

you are staying out of the washington heat in the air-conditioning and enjoying the launch. my name is john. i'm a professor of economics, business, public policy at georgetown university's mcdonough school of business. i'm also the executive director of our host institution today, the georgetown center for business and public policy. we are delighted to have a discussion on something very important, near interior to the georgetown center, that is the subject of trade policy. in particular, we will examine the issue of trade remedies, think tariffs, quotas, and the like, remedy unfair trade practices. or, are they themselves simply protection policies. today's panel will be moderated by my colleague bob, he senior industry fellow at the center, he has taken a lead in promoting and advancing the georgetown hill and has gotten so popular over the years. again we are glad to have you here. i won't steal bob's thunder but in terms of introducing the panelist josÉ it's an extraordinary blue ribbon group of people we will be talking with today. when we looked at the list of registrants for today, we saw a number of experts in the audience. we wanted to make sure to have ample time for q