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Patard of sexism, firing the praised federal reserve chairman for not being tall enough. maybe there's some binders on high shelves on the federal reserve he didn't think she could reach, or something. obviously a sexist assessment of her fine work. i don't really know if she would be doing a different job, but at least he could wonder, maybe, if he has the self-awareness of maybe he made a mistake. >> alexis, obviously the sort of political economy of the federal reserve is complicated. there's this idea of independence and the important of that, and sometimes i think that's been taken way to...

Together. >> the other thing, if i may-s that janet yellen would have been a lot less likely to raise rates than jay powell. and trump made the choice to not reappoint janet yellen because the "washington post" reported he thought she was too short. she's 5'3", and therefore he wanted someone taller. that's what the "washington post" reported. so if he wanted someone who wasn't going to raise rates, he could have stuck with janet yellen, but he didn't. >> it's honestly one of the most insane and delicious ironies in a sort of macabre sense of this era that the first woman to ever run the fed r...

Kind of a nihilism to what trump is doing. he feels cornered, chris. he has these scandals closing in. he's not going to pass any legislation with a democratic house. and my concern is that he burns down the house with him as we go, ratcheting up trade wars, ratcheting up the dysfunction in our foreign policy, playing politics with the government shutdown and paychecks of hundreds of thousands of americans. that's what i think should worry us. the one thing that could possibly get through to him is the looming economic downturn, the tanking stock market, the negative economic indicators, all t...

That's how concerned he is about the economy. which seems a little overheated to me. but it would be kind of ironic if he was hoisted by his own petard of sexism firing the beloved and universally praised federal reserve chairman for not being tall enough. maybe there's some binders on high shelves in the federal reserve he didn't think she could reach, or something. obviously a very sexist assessment of her fine work. i don't really know if she would be doing a different job, but at least he could wonder, maybe, if he has the self-awareness, of maybe he made a mistake. >> you wonder, too alex...

That's what should worry us. the one thing that could possibly get through to him is the looming economic downturn, the tanking stock market, the negative economic indicators, all these actions have a real consequence and they're going to make his difficult reelection that much harder. >> senator boxer, you can see he's spooked by that, reporting suggests that he's saying it in public, berating the fed chair and maybe threatening to fire him, which is not something that happens that often. do you think fundamentally there's danger as we go into this next year with the president in the kind of ...