carl: c -- gillian caldwell from usaid, thank you for your thoughts.to bring in a democratic representative for maryland. chris, great to have you here. i know you were with a group of democrats today outside the headquarters in washington, usaid. i think you are blocked from entering the building. what was the scene outside those headquarters? guest: it is good to be with you. what we witnessed is a takeover of an essential u.s. government agency. the agency for international development, by elon musk and his so-called doge committee. supposedly about government efficiency, but what we are learning is an instrument to replace civil servants who are hired based on qualifications, with political cronies. what we are seeing at aid is a gift to our adversaries china, russia and others. it is a blatantly illegal way to dismantle an important u.s. federal agency. carl: you call it illegal. why is that? it is unconstitutional? guest: it is a violation of a number of laws including the fact aid was established by statute. if the trump administration wanted to

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in fact, gillian tett, writing in the financial times over the weekend that if the us did revalue its gold holdings, it would inject $800 billion into the treasury. so this idea is making its way to her and others. currently, the gold is only valued at $42 in national accounts. and brian, this gets mentioned in surface, you know, time and again, whether they do or don't do it doesn't solve anything fundamental. but central bank purchases of gold are a major trend, and one that has continuing to drive this bull market. >> so can you help. help me. >> understand, because i actually we do a morning call every day and i don't fully understand this story. you do. >> i'm not sure that i would understand the accounting of it, but i can understand conceptually if for whatever reason, we're holding it on the books at $42 and it's worth what it's worth, and they revalue that, then voila. now how does that actually flow through? i couldn't tell you that. >> does this go to that story that trump was sort of claiming that they found irregularities? >> people are wondering. >> in the treasuries. >>

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