Adam Tooze

So I was like quizzing him a bit.

And at some point he literally said, you got to understand when it comes down to it, I am quote of the hammer.

Like it's like some, you know, some ambulance chaser advertising on the New York subway.

He referred to himself- As the hammer.

Yeah.

So gift to moderator-

Mr. Commerce Secretary, on the one hand, I hear all the Berlin energy, and then I hear this note of menace.

How would you anticipate Europeans, who are not fundamentally differently wired than you, reacting to this kind of mixture?

That didn't go very well.

And he went off down his track, and then I brought him back.

And he just point blank refuses to ask questions about Greenland and about the Fed.

Can I bring you back to Greenland?

Right.

It was as brutal a kind of, you know, pulling down the roller blinds as I've seen on a panel like this.

It's very unusual because it lays you open, right?

It's not really the more sophisticated way of just absorbing it would have been to roll with a hit and to give some kind of spiel.

I mean, it's real abuser's language.

The way they do it is to say, look, you're getting all upset.

We're just threatening you and brutalizing you, and you know what's going to happen.

We're going to sit down afterwards and make up, and then it's all going to be okay.