unit take the time to change -- and i didn't take the time to change that, so working backward, richard cordray is previously the democratic nominee for ohio in 2018. before that, the first director of the consumer financial protectionbureau from 2012-2017. cordray served as ohio's attorney general, solicitor general and treasurer. in 2008 he received the financial services champion award from the small business -- the u.s. small buzz administration -- business administration. he was an adjunct professor if at ohio state university college of law and served as representative for the 33rd ohio house district, was also the first solicitor general in that state's history. he was the editor editor-in-chif the university of ohio law review. his book "watchdog: how protecting consumers can save our families, our economy and our democracy," is the subject of tonight's timely talk. please join me in welcoming richrd ard cordray. >> thank you,ware -- richard. and thank you for making this format available during these challenging times. i'm glad to have the chance to be with you virtually and to talk ab

. >> during a virtual author program richard cordray ordered director of the consumer financial protectionhe important thing for people to realize is finance has changed in the last two generations really since world war ii. there was very little credit available to our grandparents and it wasn't a big part of their lives . they didn't face a lot of risk and couldn't get into a huge amount of financial trouble in today's society, fast-forward 2 generations, credit cards and is pretty ubiquitous among americans . auto loans are a big part of people's lives in any part of the country where people drive to work. mortgages are the way in which we buy houses they are significant obligation. and student loans are not a very prevalent part of life for many families carry those loans for years even for decades. so people have a lot more opportunity that credit provides what a place a lot more risk in making these more trouble so there's sort of a bigger piece of our lives. this brings us to the financial crisis of 2080 which was caused by widespread irresponsible and predatorymortgage lending . it

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eastern, richard cordray, former director of the consumer financial protection bureau. >> it's aboutconsumers and the problems they faced. it's about consumer finance and how it has changed and it is about the new consumer financial protection bureau and the role and importance of the work that it engages in to protect people across america. >> sunday at 12:30 p.m. eastern, h. r. mcmaster, former trump administration national security adviser. >> the united states and other free and open societies will do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party to subvert our free-market economic systems and our democratic form of government. >> and at 6:20 p.m., ruth gilmore, author and city university of new york professor on mass incarceration in the u.s. >> the fact that most people leave prison, , do a little bitf analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already, and jails already, if we just cut by two weeks and three weeks and four weeks, much less years, the kinds of sentences people are serving. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2

. >> was the rest of this program is in our website and search record richard cordray for the title of hisbook watchdog . >> now on book tv, some recent offer programs about the trump administration. we begin with author and journalist ronald kessler, he appeared on our author interview program in 2018. discuss how president from this experience impacted his presidency. >> lets talk about the media because you do put a lot of examples in the book as you just described. where there seem to have no bounds for discrediting, destroying, driving negative narratives on donald trump. it's as if with president trump he could do no wrong but for donald trump he can do no right to what's your sense of what's driving this in the mainstream media that you're part of ? >> first of all, there's a virus against republicans for a bias against republicans in general. reagan was portrayed as dangerous and the same thing with, he's dangerous according to the media and you just can't break out of that . i think they feel that if they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues and i know for example

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please join me in welcoming richard cordray. thank you for making this format available during these challenging times. watchdog is a story that is timely to the society today and to the economy today and as we move away to another financial crisis we need to brace ourselves. the book is about consumers. they are all of us, every one of us that goes to the financial marketplace and makes decisions and choices and it's all of those decisions that we make every day the economy and the united states of america is the most powerful and most affluent economy the world has ever seen as the activity is generated. when i started the book i wanted to start with a story about the average consumer, that is you and me and the people we know, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters. most people understand consumers often face challenging situations and sometimes get into problems that are not of their own making. some of them are but there are many situations where people are misled or cheated or mistreated in the finan

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this weekend on book tv saturday at 6 pm eastern richard cordray former director of the consumer financial protection bureau. >> it's about consumers and the problems they face. it's about consumer finance and how it's changed and it's about the new consumer financial protection bureau and the role and importance of the work engages in to protect people across america . >> sunday at 12:30 p.m. eastern david mcmaster, national security adviser. >> the united states and other free and open societies ought to do everything we can to protect ourselves against the efforts of the chinese communist party to subvert our free-market economic systems and our democratic form of governance. >> and 6:20 p.m. ruth gilmore, author and city university professor on mass incarceration in the us . >> the fact that most people leave prison do a little bit of analysis to see that we could be closing prisons already and jails already if we just cut by two weeks in three weeks and four weeks much less years the kinds of sentences people are serving . >> watch tv this weekend on c-span2. >> welcome everyone, i am

economy and our democracy is the subject of tonight's timely talk, please join me in welcoming richard cordray. >> thinking and thinking to everyone at this townhall for making this format available during these challenging times, i'm glad to have the chance to be with you virtually into talk about my new book watchdog. watchdog is a story that is very timely to our society today into our economy today and as we move into another financial crisis we need to brace ourselves for the same types of problems that we have seen before. the book is about consumers and who are consumers, consumers are all of us, every one of us is somebody who goes to the financial marketplace and makes decisions and choices and it's out of those billions of decisions that we make every day that the economy of the united states of america is the most powerful, the most affluent economy the world has ever seen as its activity generated. when i started in the book i wanted to start with some stories about average consumers, that is you and me and the people that we know, our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, son

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