the latest is that a former russian counterintelligence personl was the eighth in the room and the meeting conducted with donald trump jr. and jared kushner, paul manafort last june. what do you think the implications of that revelation are? guest: as far as i know about the specific individuals we are discussing, he was someone who became a lobbyist and was engaged in this effort for quite some time in the united states. he had dual citizenship, russia and u.s. that not that surprising somebody of the nature would ve joined the meeting because the russian attorney who he will be hearings a lot about, the person who asked for the meeting supposedly, was a lobbyist herself and likely worked closely with this other individual and other lobbying efforts on behalf of russian business interests and the russian government. we have to understand about the issian contact context people in the soviet days, and i think this individual was old enough to have experience, often deeply i
thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg. sure. francine: can you tell us about that first day you started at siemens. it has been a while, obviously, but i was coming into siemens and i thought, oh, my know nothing anymore about what i studied. it was quite an experience. francine: going into it, what did you think? this is a company i want to work for for a long time? i was interviewing a different places, but then i thought siemens at that time was still in the semiconductor business, and thought this is really cool. they were about to develop this one chip, so it felt pretty cool. so i said, yeah, siemens. francine: how has the company changed? its like day and night, really. i was coming into a manufacturing environment, it was about protection and process therest efficiency, and was a very technologically focused company. in.as outside francine: what was your favorite day? i have had many favorite days. tonever my team comes up celebrate some big success. y
to bloomberg. sure. francine: can you tell us about that first day you started at siemens. it has been a while, obviously, but i was coming into siemens and i thought, oh, my god, i don t know nothing anymore about what i studied. it was quite an experience. francine: going into it, what did you think? this is a company i want to work for for a long time? i was interviewing a different places, but then i thought siemens at that time was still in the semiconductor business, and thought this is really cool. they were about to develop this one chip, so it felt pretty cool. so i said, yeah, siemens. francine: how has the company changed? its like day and night, really. i was coming into a manufacturing environment, it was about protection and process and cost efficiency, and there was a very technologically focused company. it was outside in. francine: what was your favorite day? i have had many favorite days. whenever my team comes up to celebrate some big success. you
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thank you very much. we re delighted to have you at this event, the office at mit series. tonight we re featuring steven sloman, a cognitive scientist who studies how people think. he s been a close friend of mine for many years and also the editor of the journal cognition. and he s joined in conversation today with drazem, professor of economics at mit s sloan school. he also holds an appointment in the department of brain and cognitive sciences. before we begin, i ask that you please silence your phone if you haven t already. i should also introduce myself. i m the director of the mit press, my name is amy brand. it s a pleasure to welcome you. we just started doing this series of events at the mit bookstore, and they ve been incredibly successful. we do events about every two weeks, so next one coming up is on a may 23rd, the book dream chasers: immigration and the american backlash. so tonight s event will last for approximately, you know, 45-50 minutes before les a book