and another piece of legislation actually gives president trump the power to name him as acting director. so acting director english, anticipating the standoff with actor director mulvaney filed a lawsuit yesterday against both the president and mulvaney, claiming that the position he is currently occupying is legally hers. mulvaney, as you might imagine disagrees. so my guess is the court will hear the same arguments from capable folks. if the court decides to issue a temporary restraining order, order me not to come in the building, i will absolutely follow the law. i want to make that perfectly clear. well follow the law. i m going forward tonight and tomorrow assuming that i m here, and i ll be here until either the court or the president tells me otherwise. senator sherrod brown of ohio is a member of the finance committee and he joins me now. all right, senator, what the heck is going on down there? good question. the swamp is not being drained to start with. you see the pr
even for the things that were once a given. going to college. buying a home. and not being in debt for it for the rest of our lives. but we re only as strong as our community. who inspires and pushes us to go further than we could ever go alone. sofi. get there sooner. my opinion of the structure of the cfpb has not changed. i still think it s an awful example of a bureaucracy that has gone wrong. and i told him look, i m not here to shut the place down because the law doesn t allow me to do that. that being said, we re going run it differently than the previous administration did. president trump s budget director mick mulvaney who already has a job on his first
consumer protections in wall street s pocket cabinet members over at the consumer bureau like it s a coup d etat telling ms. english she can t do anything and nobody should respond to anything she said. it really is a case where in the end, politics is whose on your side. and clearly this administration over and over it comes to financial rules, they re always on wall street s side every single time. soy understand substantively you re on one side. the president and mick mulvaney, most republicans and most of wall street are on the other about this bureau and what it does. but in a sort of process question in terms of government, it does not seem crazy to me that the president can direct who is going to run essentially a federal agency. well, play it out, though. if the president can put somebody in as an interim director or an interim cabinet member, as an interim anybody like they did at the office of the comptroller of the currency, you bring a total special interest person in w
president obama honored these men in 2010. president george w. bush did the same back in 2001. and today it was president trump s turn to honor the men who risked their lives during world war ii, who used their indigenous language to create a secret code to help the u.s. marine corps transmit messages that could not be intercepted. the ceremony took place in the oval office under the watchful eye. the portrait of andrew jackson whose forcible removal of indians from their land became a death march for thousands known infamously as the trail of tears. and then our current president opened his mouth. i just want to thank you. because you are very, very special people. you were here long before any of us were here. although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahantas. but you know what? i like you.
member, as an interim anybody like they did at the office of the comptroller of the currency, you bring a total special interest person in whose interests are wall street, never main street s, that main street centrist, that person stays in six or eight months. no senate confirmation. i m not a lawyer, but i know the constitution talks about advise and consent. so you can put the special interest people in like nick mulvaney. there are no ethics rules around them because they re interim. so that s what the president can start doing over and over. it s a total violation of what we used to do or what we stand for. but these guys play hardball. look at how he did this today. and that s the way they are going to behave on agency after agency. it s clear. if they win this one, it s katie bar the door. that s what they re going to do. so you met am i correct you met with ms. english today? i did. what was that meeting like and what is her game plan going forward? i really can t tal