President Trump comments on Chris Waller following Fed chair interview

Kelly Evans (Co-anchor of Power Lunch) 00:01.550

we've got some breaking news on the race for fed chair steve liesman is standing by for more on that but first let's head to washington to eamon javers and eamon what's the news

Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent) 00:10.470

kelly the news is the president was just talking about the fed chair race in a session in the oval office reporters asked him about how many people he's considering for the job the president said he's considering three or four people for that job the president did not commit to

Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent) 00:25.230

selecting a fed chair before the end of this year he said it's coming soon but not necessarily before january first first and then he was asked specifically about chris waller and michelle bowman he called each of them fantastic you know discussing each of them in public is is

Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent) 00:40.630

interesting but you know to my read kelly it didn't appear that the president here was doing anything other than being polite and responding to the reporters questions about each of those figures hard to see the president sort of leaning in either of those directions although

Eamon Javers (Senior Washington Correspondent) 00:54.950

i'm sure you know we're going to sort of parse the comments and look at the tea leaves and see if just by the fact of mentioning them it indicates sort of downward momentum for kevin hassett in this race overall kelly back over

Kelly Evans (Co-anchor of Power Lunch) 01:07.470

to you wow all right i think we can look at maybe at kalshi too see if see if those odds are are swiftly moving but what would

Steve Liesman (Senior Economics Reporter) 01:14.430

you add i was just looking at that a waller bounced up a little bit then he bounced back down where is he now he's is it nineteen yet he he was at he was at below fifteen before the president made those comments look i i would not disagree with amon i would just point out these

Steve Liesman (Senior Economics Reporter) 01:32.630

are some of the first nice things that the president has said about waller there's a lot of people on wall street and in corporations across america that think waller would be an excellent choice yesterday at the yale CEO summit after waller spoke and i interviewed him eighty

Steve Liesman (Senior Economics Reporter) 01:48.590

three percent said they wanted him to be chair we've reported and talked about some blowback from wall street against hassett by the way blowback that judge secretary scott besson called absurd but that is there nonetheless i think what's interesting here is that i asked waller

Steve Liesman (Senior Economics Reporter) 02:08.350

were you going to tell the president that you needed to remain independent and he said absolutely so if the president if if he said that to the president yesterday in the interview and the president is still saying good things about waller then i think that's probably a positive

Steve Liesman (Senior Economics Reporter) 02:22.110

development for waller 's candidacy yeah

Kelly Evans (Co-anchor of Power Lunch) 02:24.270

again the market market kelsey prediction markets whatever reflecting those odds but this is now an entree in another chapter of who becomes chair steve that we're going to wait to hear more about frankly