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and some of the most extreme far right members of the gop will have real power in the house thanks to kevin mccarthys desperate deal making to become speaker. and also ahead, another tragic scene in ukraine. well have the latest on a deadly helicopter crash outside kyiv. good morning, and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, january 18th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin in washington where the white house is making efforts to tamp down cr...

he says are threatening the very foundations of our republic. plus, trumps lawyers and the justice department face off in federal court. well explain the big developments to come out of the special master hearing. and, a hot holiday weekend arrives with little to no running water for nearly 200,000 people in mississippi. the state has troops on the ground to help in the water crisis. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." im jonathan lemire. on this friday, september 2nd. th...

how you and your colleagues had set the expectations during the interim meeting. . you said what changed was the inflation expectations data. was there something you saw that was unsettling enough to risk eroding credibility of your verbal guidance by doing something so different from what you had socialized before? chair powell: we look at a broad range of inflation expectations. you have the public, surveys of the public and experts, and we have market-based. if you look at the broad...

2%. 75 basis points seemed like the right thing to do at this meeting and thats what we did. >> steve, cnbc. thank you for taking my question. you have not used the phrase in a long time monetary policy is in a good place, a phrase you use often. now that the committee is projecting 3.8% next year in terms of the funds rate, similar to where the market is now, do you think thats a level that is going to be sufficiently high enough to bring down the inflation problem? as a follow-up, co...

three decades. it was necessary to address high inflation. chair powell: i will begin with one overarching message. we understand the hardship high inflation is causing. we are committed to bringing it down. we are moving expeditiously to do so. we have the tools and resolve to restore price stability. on c-spans new podcast. >> the next episode focuses on lyndon johnson. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> johnsons secretaries new because they were tasked with transcribing ...

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in the statement they mention the russian invasion in ukraine is creating tremendous hardship and continuing that upward pressure on inflation. the federal reserve also blames the china lockdowns for creating supply chain and continuing the supply chain issues. the fed balance sheet will continue as scheduled with the runoff of the balance sheet. the federal reserve revised inflation forecast for this year. went up to 5.2%, almost a full percentage point. they also revised the core inf...

introduced the fix nix ni -- the fix nics act to ensure all federal agencies accurately and entirely upload the conviction records on a timely basis. yes, this is the same senator chris murphy im working with now to try to achieve a success here. weve done it before, and i believe we can do it again. our bill was signed into law in march of 2018, and in the first three years 11 1/2 million more records were uploaded into the three national databases that the f.b.i. checks. the number o...

E. Trump we condemn in the strongest possible terms this display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. President trump addressing the violence in downtown charlottesville, virgina after clashes erupted between white nationalists and counterprotesters. A number of people were injured during the unite the right demonstration and not just from the fighting. Several pedestrians were struck by a car that slammed into a crowd of people. Nats thousands made their way to Emancipation Park prote...

Protesters stop cars in both directions. A twocar accident sends one driver off the road into a store parking lot. We will not let anyone tell us to be quiet while they cover up this great injustice. Reporter about 100 protesters gathered peacefully outside get and go where 22 yearold Levonia Riggins worked. As the night went on, things Hillsborough County deputies executed a search wanter. Three people came out of the house and Levonia Riggins never made it out alive. They were fearful he may b...