have been much higher than 3%. and the stock market as high as it's been would have been at least i think probably anywhere from 7 to 10,000 points higher. but they wanted to raise interest rates. you explain that to mement. >> the president's raushs come as dow jones racks up its fifth con ssecutive weekly decline. the longest streak since 2011. at one point, reports surfaced that trump discussed firing powell, the head of the fed. i want to bring in catherine, she is a "washington post" opinion columnist and cnn political commentatocommentator. hello, thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> so the base ibs. start with that. is there any crede bability to the argument that the federal reserve is holding back the stock market and u.s. economy? >> i think there are a few things to lay out. one is that first of all, it is inappropriate for the president to be commenting on monetary