Will you emphasize to the president the importance of Fed independence. >> Absolutely. I spent 20 years of my life working on central bank independence and why it was important.There's no doubt. I've got a long paper trail of this. The one thing everybody always forgets in central bank independence is there's another side of it which is accountability.There's no institution in this country that is unaccountable to the electorate. that that's not and that's pe what people often forget is that we want central ...

you're going to uh be meeting with the president later today. And first of all, yeah, it's what that we reported that. Um I want to thank you for continuing to keep your appointment at this for this conversation, which other people might have otherwise.Uh but um I'd like to say the president called me into a pre-in, but that's not precisely what happened. The president has said that he thinks he ought to have a say in interest rates. Um I imagine he might say that to you. I wonder if you might share your re ...

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It's really hard to put into words honestly. I think we felt like it was such a victory when it passed the house. There was really this sense of momentum and energy and we were very excited but we were also stealing ourselves get because we believed that there would be a long road ahead of us with trying to get it to the floor of the Senate and then getting it passed the Senate.So to to hear, you know, at this moment when we were coming together honoring honoring survivors, you know, more generally and then ...

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President Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing to make room for a ballroom destroyed way more than just a building. It erased an important piece of American history where many first ladies have dedicated their public lives. Former staffers tell East Wing magazine they're shocked and saddened by what the demolition of what they call a cherished workplace.And former Laura Bush chief of staff Anita McBride recalled this quote by Betty Ford. If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East W ...

On September the 7th, 1812, two great armies gathered on the fields near a small Russian village called Borodino. It was just west of Moscow. Napoleon's troops advanced from the west while Russian forces dug in to face them.History would remember the subsequent battle of Borodino as one of the bloodiest single days of combat in the Napoleonic Wars. The moment that the French invasion of Russia began to unravel. A half a century later, Leo Toltoy, a veteran of war himself, sat down to write about that event. ...

Chicago has long been one of Donald Trump's favorite targets. At this point, it is frankly difficult to keep track of all of the ways he is trying to intimidate that city. I mean, just today, the Trump administration announced that it plans to claw back $2.1% billion in federal funding for Chicago's desperately needed infrastructure projects. And those cuts come as Trump continues to threaten to deploy National Guard troops onto the streets of Chicago. Federal agents are already on the ground there openly c ...

Well, join me right now. We have Arizona Congresswoman Yasame Nanssari. She is on the Oversight, Education, and Natural Resources Committees.Welcome back to the broadcast. I know that you have lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including Alexandria Kaz Cortez, also Nancy Mace. They are cancelling appearances. They are beefing up security after this killing.Do you share their fears and concerns. >> I absolutely share their fears and concerns. I think all of us here in Congress and elected officials across ...

Joining us a member of the House Oversight Committee, Congresswoman Yasiman Ansari, who is a Democrat from Arizona. So, um, your colleagues, Congresswoman Roana, Tom Massie, you heard them. They're confident. Are you confident.>> I am. I am. I mean, I'm disappointed that we don't have the numbers quite yet, but you know, I sat in the room with the survivors of Epstein and Galain Maxwell for several hours listening to their heartbreaking testimonies, their stories, their account of this massive cover up in t ...