mr. gregory profiles five women who lived in the soviet gulag during the 1930s and '40s. it's a little over an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i'm not paul gregory. i'm mark harrison, i'm a hoover fellow, hoover research fellow. welcome to the concluding session of this year's hoover institution workshop on totalitarian regimes. every year the workshop gathers some of the most promising and best historians from around the world for two weeks to work in the rich holdings of the archives, and the workshop is led by mr. gregory who's this afternoon's speaker. for some of you, paul will need no introduction. for others, he's a leading economist and historian of russia under communist rule. among economists, he's a rarity. all economists work with theoretical models and statistical data. paul is one of the few who understands the power of the story. and among paul's most celebrated publications are books that tell stories. his book, "lenin's brain," is a collection of stories from the hoover archives that range from the grim to the comic and curious. his book "po

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mr. david gregory. morning. >> on set "fortune" magazine's assisting manager editor leigh gallagher and author of "the end of the suburbs." of course we want to talk about i believe we want to talk about -- >> the nasdaq. >> so the nasdaq yesterday shuts down for three hours. you have google and apple trading. you can trade this across the world but they are listed on this exchange, probably the second most important exchange in the country. for three hours it shuts down because they couldn't get prices out so you couldn't get bid and asks and you couldn't basically trade. we're going to call to carl quintanilla but since we have you at the table, leigh, is this something people should care about? they reopen and everything is fine. is this important to the average american or non-story? >> it's totally important to the average american. this is now becoming a pattern. i mean if we remember back when facebook had its ipo there were technical glitches. we all remember the flash crash a few years ago this

mr. vice president i'd like to call roll please. (calling names) and also, we have a quorum and a also the chief of police gregory p, sir. good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the wednesday of the san francisco police commission. thank you for joining us this evening. let's call the consent calendar >> receive and file action request and receive a ticket valued at the $244 for mr. kevin president of the verses cast for the youth engage program. and the request to be received if mr. norman new zealand resident arrest for presentation for the avoidance in locating a laptop >> the 7 tickets are to go to the kids in the tenderloin and the $50 certificate was for a great deal officer. >> move to accept. >> okay. i'll move to accept. motion made by commissioner khan. public comment on the consent calendar items. hearing no public comment. all in favor of accepting the it items listed under the consent calendar say i. all opposed? any extension. those items are accepted by unanimous consented. >> the public is well, to talk about the subject matter of the commission. they shall address the commission as a whole and

gregory scarpa next on book tv. a high-level member of the colombo crime family. and his role as an informant for the fbi going back to the early 1960's. mr. scarpa committed many of his crimes, including many murders, while working as an informant. this is an hour 45 minutes. [applause] >> okay. i feel like i know you people already. how is that? their i am. okay. now, first of all, i have to -- i just have to get a shot up to this museum. i have been to museums. we all went over kids in washington to the smithsonian because we want to look for john doe lungers' -- that's why we went to the smithsonian. this museum is absolutely extraordinary. it's astonishing that not only the depth and breadth of the research that went into this, but the multimedia displays, those of you are physically here understand what i'm talking about, but the museum itself is in this beautiful former post office, this historic building in downtown las vegas. the displays are extraordinary. it's not -- on the seventh or eighth level of meaning when comes to of material. i haven't done a miniseries eroded. it did not get made. this iconic book, the amazing -- the