Didnt solve any problems today, they might have created more. Especially when we learned that three Board Members dissented on this guy. Here the cut to the chase, blake burman at the white house. Hi, blake. Hi, neil. Didnt take long for President Trump to continue to criticize the Federal Reserve and its chairman. That tweet that you just put up on the screen in which he said that jay powell and the fed have no guts and they failed came before powell even took to the cameras for his press conference 30 minutes after the big announcement. Remember as well, it was a week ago when the president called powell and the fed bone heads. So when powell was asked how he responds to the president s most recent swiped, he took a pass and said hes not that phased by the mounting criticism. Im not going to change my practice of not responding to comments or addressing comments made by elected officials. I will say that i continue to believe that the independence of the Federal Reserve from direct p
so he was around 5 two months ago. now he s 11%. that puts him in third on this particular look at this. ron desantis has dropped six points down to 16% in the latest snapshot of these polls. a lot to dig in to with our political panel. we have katie pavlich and jason chaffetz and bill steffian. first to peter doocy. martha, all signs point to whatever republican wins facing off against president biden. he s holding off strong against r.f.k. jr. and maryann williamson. he has a 47-point lead at the moment. head-to-head with frontrunners trump and biden has biden with a three-point lead for now. he s got an enormous 15% in here saying they re unsure or they re going to back somebody else. allegations of wrong doing are a drag on both of the
maria: efforts to censor democrat candidate robert f. kennedy jr. this week at a hearing on censorship led by the subcommittee of weaponization of the federal government as ranking member stacey plaskett raised concerns that kennedy s allotted 10 minutes for an opening statement as opposed to 5 minutes. even before the hearing started, efforts to shut him down were underway with representative debbie wasserman schultz making a motion to close the hearing to the public. that motion blocked by republicans. kennedy has also run into resistance in his efforts to take on and debate president joe biden who democrat committee leaders say will be their 2024 candidate with no debating despite competition from kennedy as well as maryann williamson. finish president biden opinion has less than two-thirds support while kennedy has been building momentum in the bid for this nomination. in a new poll from quinnipiac university, kennedy s favorability rating among republicans and independents is much