Its inflation and employment goals, and the central bank is headed for its expected policy path. More from that exclusive interview with the Federal Reserve vice chair. As we have been reporting, donald trump is to hold a News Conference in a little bit. He told us earlier on in is near its inflation and employment goals, and the central bank is aaded for its listening meeting with congressional leaders that he would have a press conference from 12 00, and a press release from the white house came out and said there will be a News Conference at 12 30. Is ostensibly to name his new labor secretary picked up right lets bring in senior Bloomberg White house correspondent. Margaret, we have some names. Nbc is reporting that Alexander Acosta is going to be the pick. Margaret thats right. That is reported by mbc as well and we are all working to confirm this, the short list you mentioned. , as well as joseph guzman, a reporter and Catherine Templeton from the South Carolina labor department.
Its inflation and employment goals, and the central bank is headed for its expected policy path. More from that exclusive interview with the Federal Reserve vice chair. As we have been reporting, donald trump is to hold a News Conference in a little bit. He told us earlier on in is near its inflation and employment goals, and the central bank is aaded for its listening meeting with congressional leaders that he would have a press conference from 12 00, and a press release from the white house came out and said there will be a News Conference at 12 30. Is ostensibly to name his new labor secretary picked up right lets bring in senior Bloomberg White house correspondent. Margaret, we have some names. Nbc is reporting that Alexander Acosta is going to be the pick. Margaret thats right. That is reported by mbc as well and we are all working to confirm this, the short list you mentioned. , as well as joseph guzman, a reporter and Catherine Templeton from the South Carolina labor department.
Relationship with russia. The president talked about a lot of other topics and well cover those for you too. This was President Trump sounding a lot like candidate trump. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn and was in the east room for the event. Good evening. This was a hastily called News Conference. We only got the notification probably about an hour and 15 minutes before the president went on the stage. It was initially to introduce us to Alexander Acosta who is the president s replacement nominee to be labor secretary but it also gave the president a chance to try to change the subject from the terrible headlines that had been dogging him. It was an opportunity for President Trump to recapture the freewheeling days of his campaign, a spirited backandforth with the media he mostly sees as hostile and out to get him. President trump much of the media in washington, d. C. , along with new york, los angeles, in particular, speaks not for the people b
Even though he lied to the fbi about the nature and extent of his contacts with russia and turkey . Two propositions. Is it because going after him was so wrong in the first place, or because he made it so right with what information he offered up to mueller . Who else does the memo implicate, by the way . Lets bring in cuomos court. Asha rangapa. Do you believe it is wrong to go after general flynn in the first case or do you think its that flynn really did cooperate and provide value . I think its clear from the filing, even with the redactions, that this is about flynn cooperating. As i mentioned on previous show last night, there is enough in that memo thats not redacted to demonstrate that flynn could have been charged with other crimes, like not registering as a Foreign Agent. So i think he got a good deal because of what he provided. All right. So, lets put up some of the avenues of intrigue here on the basis of the theory that flynn was helpful, okay. Flynn offered firsthand in
Is it because going after him was so wrong in the first place, or because he made it so right with what information he offered up to mueller . Who else does the memo implicate, by the way . Lets bring in cuomos court. Asha rangapa. And jim shults. Do you believe it is wrong to go after general flynn in the first case or do you think its that flynn really did cooperate and provide value . I think its clear from the filing, even with the redactions, that this is about flynn cooperating. As i mentioned on previous show last night, there is enough in that memo thats not redacted to demonstrate that flynn could have been charged with other crimes, like not registering as a Foreign Agent. So i think he got a good deal because of what he provided. All right. So, lets put up some of the avenues of intrigue here on the basis of the theory that flynn was helpful, okay. Flynn offered firsthand information about interactions between Trump Transition Team members, plural, and russia government offi