twitter, the republicans, the usual critics of president trump voicing their significant concern. people like ben sasse calling it bizarre to say that the united states was involved and bears some responsibility for the deteriorating u.s. relations with russia. jeff flake, the retiring senator from arizona calling it shameful. but by and large, most republicans have not said a whole lot. darrell issa is right here if he wants to weigh in. i wasn t intending to. what is your reaction to the president throwing cold water on the u.s. intelligence community s assessment that russia was behind the interference in the u.s. elections? i think just last week in these very halls we saw an example of the fbi not being trustworthy. we saw the downgrading of hillary clinton s criminal activity, the words being changed on peter strzok s own computer. so for the president to cast doubt is not unreasonable. at the same time, we take those
direction. without a doubt. what is interesting, all of these gyrations, wall street has been talking to the feds. you have a new fed chairman. he s not an unknown. he has a track record. he comes from carlisle. he s an unknown to wall street and may be more hawkish than we thought. if you look what is happening in the last two days, these officials have come out and tried to provide some sort of guidance. today we had two members that voted. he said we ll get at least three rate hikes. we should have them because the economy is coming out of survivor mode. we did things that we never had to do as a federal reserve. so of course we want to take some of this risk off the balance sheet and move rates to where they normally are. they don t stay at zero. it s rare they have always been at zero. isn t it bizarre that you can borrow for 30 years? it s like charles, i need to
rattner, and andy card and yamiche alcindor. great to have you all on board this morning. andy, before we jump into health care, this ominous warning put out by the white house unexpectedly about syria, what questions do you have about that? have the state department, the defense department, the intelligence community been engaged in this for a little while? or is this the first time they re hearing about this as well? we have reports of the dod that no. that s the bizarre thing. this is a call to action or a threat of action without understanding if there s an underlying cause. there was a report yet that sitcom on the tip of the spear was caught off card by this. i find it bizarre, and i
world, the thing that the american public looks to most for their security, opportunity, guarantees and focus on your job. that s the job. i ve found it bizarre to talk about well i could have made it a $2 billion deal, victim done both, but i decided not to. as if you re doing the country a favor. i just think it s look, this is a place where the public is going to decide whether or not the failure to divest, the failure to meet what were considered to be the basic minimum ethical standards of disclosure and if the public turns around and 50% say no problem or if 80% say this is a big problem, that s going to alter outcome. remarkable interview with andrea mitchell with joe biden there and an amazing moment earlier today when the president offered him or gave him the medal of freedom. it s very rare you see in public
for their security, opportunity, guarantees and focus on your job. that s the job. i ve found it bizarre to talk about well i could have made it a $2 billion deal, victim done both, but i decided not to. as if you re doing the country a favor. i just think it s look, this is a place where the public is going to decide whether or not the failure to divest, the failure to meet what were considered to be the basic minimum ethical standards of disclosure and if the public turns around and 50% say no problem or if 80% say this is a big problem, that s going to alter outcome. remarkable interview with andrea mitchell with joe biden there and an amazing moment earlier today when the president offered him or gave him the medal of freedom. it s very rare you see in public life people genuinely surprised in public moments, unguarded and surprised. we got to see that today.