butee each interest rate increa, it increases the cost of mortgages and car loans and student loan payments and those higher costs are not some bad side effect of the fed s policy goal, rather increasing borrowing costs across the economy is the goal. it is what jerome powell wants to happen. because when people have less money, the theory is they spend less money and when people spend less money, inflation goes down. that is whatat we are talking about when i we say that the federal reserve is raising interest rate. there is a case to be made that is the kind of tough medicine our economy needs right now to keep prices from continuing to soar. which is ace real problem that needs to be addressed. but there are also those who think wet may be on the verge taking it too far. one of those people is senator warren. this week, she published this op-ed in the wall street journal, jerome powell s fed pursues a painful and ineffective inflation cure and the senator writes quote, when the fe
platform, for what s certainly will be a contentious exchange with the panel. in many ways, michael, i think steve bannon was the architect of the authoritarian trump. we witnessed that over the course of many years. he grew more and more bold, and why. it was steve bannon whispering and easier. i m very concerned, michael, about this rise of silent authoritarianism in the republican party. how it has been just swept under the rug, not just by the usual suspects in congress, but by it feels like everywhere we look all the way down, the local leaders, you say well, look, trump was a guy who we knew who he was. and now, he s probably toast, he s done. let s go for somebody like governor desantis. guess what, he may be political, but he is not quite different when you look at exactly how he wants to lay out his plan to get to his policy goal. are they even policy goals, the committee has his work cut out for it, no doubt. i think the turn and the road was cassidy hutchinson s
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evidence of the virus infection. kristen welker has much more. reporter: tonight, america s most powerful woman contracting covid-19 the white house announcing vice president kamala harris tested positive on both rapid and pcr tests this morning all unfolding just before she was scheduled to meet with president biden in the oval office. harris tweeting, today i tested positive for covid-19 i have no symptoms, and i will continue to isolate and follow cdc guidelines i m grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted. she is boosted, actually twice-boosted, right we have a very, very contagious variant out there. it is going to be hard to ensure that no one gets covid in america, that s not even a policy goal. reporter: according to the white house, the last time the vice president saw president biden was last monday at the easter egg roll. and mr. biden tested negative yesterday it comes as the cdc reports as of
nimble, to adjust our assistance and approach as the russian war aims have evolved and continue to do that over time depending on how things evolve on the battlefield. is the u.s. policy objective to defeat russia, can you say that definitively? our objective to enable the types of activity that allow ukrainians to win a victory in the battle for kyiv. russia intended to topple the ukrainian government. the ukrainians won that battle. we think that exact approach is going to be the way we follow through in the battles ahead and now focused on the south and east. also then, by that logic, is the broader policy goal to see ukraine defeat russia writ large? in our view, lost many of the war aims. intended to divide the west, and a nato alliance that s much more united than it s ever been and then to throw the ukrainian government, president zelenskyy continues. ukrainian democracy continues. russia more isolated.