I'm now find executive editor Brian Todd taking a look at a live shot of the opening bells on Wall Street on this Thursday morning. An extra special I would say guests ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. That is Disney CEO Bob Iger.Uh also I see I see Mickey. I see many very important guests there getting trading underway down there. They're at the Disneyland Resort in Anon, California in celebration of Disneyland's 70th anniversary.NYC President Lin Martin also there in attend. You can see her ...

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Well, I think let's back up and talk about principles. As you think about across time, the the the Fed was set up to be independent and have a dual mandate, unemployment, price stability, i.e. inflation. And their job is to manage you add their management economy through short-term interest rate adjustments to accomplish that outcome.And I think a stable central bank is a is really very important and very important in the United States because of this size economy with 30 trillion dollars plus of debt out t ...

President Trump says it's highly unlikely he will fire Fed Chairman Pal. But if the president in fact did want to remove Pal from his position, uh what would the process uh look like. Joining us with more on that, Jonathan Caner, former assistant attorney general in the Biden administration.He's also a CNBC uh contributor and our senior economics reporter uh Steve Leeman. I I would uh Jonathan I would say well he said he's not going to do it but um about a month or two ago there was some conjecture and he s ...

Why don't we start off with yesterday. Uh, you know, there was reports from a White House source that the president was very close to firing J. Pal.The president then spoke during a news conference saying that's highly unlikely. Um, just that drama and we saw the action in the bond market, the equity market and with the dollar. Does that drama change the view of US markets right now.Look, it it it matters. Um, but uh I'm not sure the thing that matters most. um when you're looking at what's really driving m ...

President Trump. Um, enough about me. Now you talk about him.Confirming he has no plans to fire Fed chair J. Pal, downplaying earlier reports that suggested otherwise. Joining us now with the latest on this story and what firing pal could mean for the markets, Nick Timosro, Wall Street Journal chief economics correspondent.Earlier, Nick, we Fed whisperer. Fed he is. He's uh he's got if you read it from him, you you probably can trust u what he's saying.But my point earlier was, have you ever heard anyone ar ...

Anything left unsaid, anything that we need to give extra emphasis to. Do you think when it comes to President Trump's criticism of Chair Powell and how this still sits in the market, I was wondering whether we get any clues from what happens at the short end of the U.S. Treasury curve as to how much Fed independence there is, I suppose how much the two moves on criticism from the White House. I think that's a great way to look at it in terms of like we did see the tear come lower but didn't completely coll ...

>> THE FAKE NEWS IS SAYING, IF YOU FIRED HIM, IT WOULD BE SO BAD. SO WE HAVE A STUPID PERSON. I KNOW THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE, WHO YOU ALL ARE GOING TO PICK.I WOULD LOVE HIM TO RESIGN IF HE WANTED TO. HE'S DONE A LOUSY JOB. JEROME POWELL HAS BEEN BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY.WE SHOULD HAVE THE LOWEST INTEREST RATE ON EARTH AND WE DON'T. HE REFUSES TO DO IT. YET, HE IS SPENDING TWO POINT $5 BILLION REBUILDING THE FED. HE IS A TERRIBLE FED CHAIR.I'M SURPRISED HE WAS APPOINTED. WE ARE NOT PLANNING ON DOING ANYTHING. WE ARE ...

I'm wondering, do you disagree with the criticism of the Fed chair's performance or just the suggestion that he should be fired over it. Look, I have made clear for a long time that I disagree with Jerome Powell on monetary policy and on regulatory oversight. And I've been open and vocal and quite public about all of that.But I have no hesitation about saying that the Fed chair is independent. I will try to persuade him about what I think he should be focusing on, on interest rates or on oversight of the gi ...

camera and joining us today for a big story, the big story for the markets today. Let's get more reaction on the fed with Jefferies chief market strategist and CNBC contributor David Zervos. David, it's great to have you on. You know, it's interesting because you're on CNBC.Earlier today, as we were getting reports that Trump was drafting this letter and planning to potentially do this. And then right after that hearing from the president himself that it's unlikely. And, you know, I sort of leave that with ...