congressional black caucus suggested that she janet yellen was in fact a racist. maybe even a white supremacist. what does janet yellen do wrong? they suggested what she did wrong was she failed to harness the power of the federal reserve to help african-americans specifically. now at first janet yellen seemed confused by this point, the point of the fed is to keep the american economy stable. it s not to pay off loyal blocks of democratic voters and tried to explain this. our power, she said, can t be targeted at the experience of particular groups. that was her response. the congressional black caucus did not buy it. their message to janet yellen was the same to you and every other person in the country, do what we say or we will denounce you as a racist. and finally, janet yellen got that message. boy, did she. within a year she had all but abandoned the traditional constraint of monetary policy, and steady there she was yammering on a public about things like racial equit
progress and who isn t. two other points to make. a big study out of cornell is looking at body and brain aging to be able to predict it. another big study just came out that shows that women who take estrogen replacement therapy post menopausal decrease risk of alzheimer s dramatically. we re looking deeply at alzheimer s now. how do we prevent it and treat it and the new thing today, can we diagnose it by a simple blood test before you ever get it? that s a big advance. we need a bigger study. martha: always good to see you. thank you very much. bill: the u.s. embassy breaking news, u.s. embassy in baghdad, iraq attacked for the first time since israel started the war in hamas. a rocket hit baghdad s heavily fortified green zone that houses a number of iraqi government buildings. getting from jen griffin at the pentagon. senior u.s. defense official describing seven rockets landing inside the compound causing minimal damage, no injuries. it is not clear if the u.s. inte
tucker: go away, peasant, troll! your inflation talk, i m worried about climate change and gun violence and abortion. leave me alone. it s not like i m a treasury secretary, begone! she should be gone. this is crazy! and in a functioning country, she would be in a retiring home somewhere riding her memoirs that no one would ever read. but that s not what is happening, she is still the treasury secretary and that s how it happened today. instead democrats took turns bragging about their expense of electric cars, worried about gas crisis, just get a tesla, baby. here is debbie stabenow of michigan. well, good morning, we are glad to have you with us, i just have to say on the issue of gas prices, after waiting for a long time to have a nice chips in this country to get my electric vehicle, i got it and drove it from michigan here this last
point, not even included in this number. wait until the next number comes out. they are saying it s going to be over by the end of the year. i hope to god they are right and so does everybody else. they have gotten it wrong so far, sandra. sandra: an environment we do know multiple studies and reports are showing the average american family is living paycheck to paycheck, 65% of them. you get that kind of hike in gas prices, that is pain on the american family. it s interesting, though, it sounded wonky the viewers understand the inflation talk now, originally the white house only talked about core inflation, it behooved them to do it, less volatile, not going up, stripped out food and energy. now saying the spike in inflation is because of energy and vladimir putin. it is interesting to me. i want to hear from jen psaki, her a few moments ago, i believe i believe this is, the same we heard from peter doocy or different? let s play this out.
0 i m not going to get into intelligence but the president s intention of sending u.s. military to fight in ukraine against russia has not changed. even if there is a chemical weapons attack, the calculus will not change? i want to be clear what the response would be. we are conveying to all of you what the capabilities are. the steps they have taken in past. the president and our nato partners have not changed their assessment about their plans to send u.s. troops in. president biden let a chemical weapons attack in ukraine go unanswered by the united states. we have not let anything go unanswered to date. we have not let anything go unanswered to date, any steps that president putin has taken to date. what that would look like, i can t give you assessment of that from here. one other question. the u.s. says their assessment is ukraine has planes that they could use, they don t think it would be effective to send more aircraft to ukraine right now. president zelenskyy has pl