understood, judging from what we ve heard from the president of the new york fed. and then second, the fed has to realize that it cannot keep a really important policy tool on automatic pilot. that it needs to be more sensitive to what s happening. and i think that the fed can regain control and we can stop the self-inflicted wounds. sandra: do you think the president s criticism of jerome powell and his actions as the federal reserve chairman, are they warranted? no, i think the president has a point in saying fed, get a feel for what s going onioned the strict narrow domestic economy. i think you don t want to cross over too much the line of central bank independence. central bank independence is very important for economic stability and economic stability is key to economic growth. and inclusive growth that brings up everybody s well-being. so i think there is a point in telling the fed be more sensitive about the spillbacks
we ve heard from the president of the new york fed. and then second, the fed has to realize that it cannot keep a really important policy tool on automatic pilot. that it needs to be more sensitive to what s happening. and i think that the fed can regain control and we can stop the self-inflicted wounds. sandra: do you think the president s criticism of jerome powell and his actions as the federal reserve chairman, are they warranted? no, i think the president has a point in saying fed, get a feel for what s going onioned the strict narrow domestic economy. i think you don t want to cross over too much the line of central bank independence. central bank independence is very important for economic stability and economic stability is key to economic growth. and inclusive growth that brings up everybody s well-being. so i think there is a point in telling the fed be more sensitive about the spillbacks
be held accountable. i don t see any republican senators joining you and asking for that. what we ve heard from people like jeff flake and susan collins and lisa murkowski, the people who said they want to hear from professor ford, they said she needs to show up on monday. look, any prosecutor worth their salt knows you don t just throw your witness or your victim up on to the stand. you do investigation first. the fbi knows that perfectly well. if the fbi had a candidate for an fbi position who had a background check and at the last minute a new allegation like this was brought up, automatic pilot. the fbi goes back and completes the background investigation as to the new allegation. every single time. the fact that they are not doing it this time is a very bad practice, and it s a measure of how far they will go to try to stampede this nominee on to the court. how far the fbi will go? how far the republicans will go, that they have should down the fbi investigation and aren t
intelligence community are always in an ongoing battle for fighting against america s enemies. that s always going on. but that is specific to the election meddling. there is no program in place, no strategy. what s your take? the president asked for and got involved in crafting a comprehensive program. this president hasn t done that. he does sort of work on automatic pilot. for some things the president has to give an order. for nsa and cyber command and cia to do some things covertly inside to stop the kind of attacks that are still ongoing with the russian bots and trolls trying to make argue against itself, trying to create discord
course not. it was because there was no platform upon which they could stand. aides to biden say another democratic campaign is passing out the kinnock commercial to discredit biden. that s true. they also say it wasn t conscious plagiarism that he s been under great pressure preparing for bork hearings and that night he was just on automatic pilot. september 12th, 1987, did you catch an toward the end from ken bode, the nbc news correspondent? he said aides to biden say another democratic campaign is passing out the kinnock commercials to discredit biden. that s true. the whole story was put out by a rival campaign. at the time, no one knew whose campaign was responsible for putting that tape out. but once the story was out, once that is piece aired on nbc, once maureen dowd s story ran in the new york times it, had a life