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So much of this was built into what we expected. fed chair powell signaling over the last month, what he was going to do. unanimously, the federal reserve voted to do it, the raise interest rates a half opoint. looking ahead, that's where the key components of this inflation situation are, we do expect more half point increases in the next few months over the next few hikes. he's taken off the table in the press conference the idea of a three-quarter point hike, saying that that might be a little bit too much and could then trigger some of these fears that people have about a possible recessio...

Depression. they pushed for, frankly, more misery and more tangible harm to people's lives and less spending. they also attacked the fed for doing too much to help the reeling economy. so much so that when then texas governor rick perry ran for president back in 2011, he kind of implied he wanted to beat up the then chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke because his monetary policy was too loose. do you remember that? >> if this guy print morse money, between now and the election, i don't know what y'all will do to him in iowa, but we'd -- we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. >>...

Governor rick perry ran for president back in 2011, he kind of implied he wanted to beat up the then chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke because his monetary policy was too loose. do you remember that? >> if this guy print morse money, between now and the election, i don't know what y'all will do to him in iowa, but we'd -- we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. >> what is that? you treat him pretty ugly? rick perry was not alone that same year donald trump attacked the fed's monetary policy. quote, the fed's reckless monetary policies will cause problems in the years to come. ...

Story at all. >> in fairness they only have 22 minutes a night and you have a flood of news. a tax bill and new fed care nomination and the mueller investigation. the story is out there but backward looking. this opened up a grenade when they're trying to unit ahead of the elections donna brazile threw this grenade. some said she's trying to sell books and it's not fair because some of it was known. we know hillary clinton had an agreement with the dnc. what is new is donna brazile, the chairwoman said it compromised the party's integrity but it basically gave hillary clinton full control of t...

It in slow motion. ali velshi joins me now. are they headed in slow motion? >> during the campaign, donald trump was all over the map on what he thought the fed should do. the fed has wanted to slowly increase interest rates because in the case of a recession, and we're not expecting one, but when there is one, one of the tools, one of the best tools the fed has is to lower interest rates to encourage borrowing. they have nothing in the arsenal and they want to build it up. they need to do that without slowing the economy down too much. donald trump complained that the fed capped interest rate...