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President Trump's decision to try to fire a member of the Federal Reserve's governing board is his most audacious attack yet on the independence of the country's central bank.
Today, Ben Castleman.
on the story of how Trump decided that the road to taking over the Fed ran through an economics professor named Lisa Cook.
It's Wednesday, August 27th.
Thanks for doing this on short, relatively short notice.
We appreciate that.
Yeah, happy to do it.
I mean, it's never good news when I'm on this show.
No, it's never good news when you're on the show.
Ever.
Shall we get started, Ben?
Let's do it.
Okay.
Ben, just to start, tell us about the Federal Reserve governor now at the center of this political,