Jessica Tarlov

And looking at those statements, I mean, I'm a sucker for a joint statement.

So, you know, all the former Fed chairs and Treasury secretaries and just this morning, all of the central bankers also issued a statement saying, you know, we stand in solidarity with Jerome Powell.

And he was going to go down in history, kind of just going down in history.

I don't think he had a reputation for being particularly amazing, not as a human being, but in terms of his stewardship of the Fed.

And Trump is solidifying his place in this story, right, of...

the few last good men and women that have any backbone in the face of this aspiring authoritarian that we have down 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

And I think he totally called all those people.

And it also made me think about Tom Tillis, who...

I've been interested in, I guess, I mean, really only for the last year, but starting with the confirmation hearings and just his willingness to speak out and then, like, how important it is that people actually stay and fight, right?

So, like, just don't resign and leave.

You got to stay in that role because guess what?

Tom Tillis, he might be retiring, but he's still sitting on that banking committee, right?

And he's still the one who gets to decide who the next Fed chair is.

And Kevin Hassett,

who loves to give every interview that he possibly can because he knows Trump loves nothing more than being able to see you in HD, might have...

obsequious himself.

I don't know if that's the word, but a kissed ass to the point that he's not going to get to be the next Fed chair because everybody is concerned now that you can't have someone who is so deep in Trump's pocket in that role.

And so you should stay and you should fight for those Republicans that are thinking about, you know, dropping out early or kind of checking out and giving an occasional interview and just doing constituent work like you matter in all of this.

And I hope that they're taking it to heart.

Yeah.