himes, the 21st century dollar act to make sure that the u.s.overnment has they plan to maintain the dollar as the global reserve firms now and well into the future, with or without the central bank digital currency. in 2019, congressman foster and i authored central bank digital currency study act which -- to study a potential cbdc, its impact on consumers, businesses, monetary policy, and the u.s. financial system. that bill has not passed, we are here today talking about precisely that kind of a study. so i am delighted to see the work of the fed, both with the province sector, and mit to conduct the study. i was also pleased, i think i heard dr. brainer confirmed, that they would not issue a central bank currency without clear legislation from it. so i think that mr. holmes and mr. foster, thank you for working with me on this issue. in looking at the feds report, one stood out at me. the federal reserve act is not authorized a direct federal reserve account for individuals with such accounts who would represent a significant expansion of th

congressman jim himes is with us. he is a member of the financial services committee, he is also on the select committee on economic disparity, fairness, and growth. he is the chair of that select committee. with us today to talk about a number of issues, inflation, some of the issues that have been dealt with in the u.s. health. welcome back to washington journal. >> good to be with. >> let me ask about the fairness and growth, you are the chair of this, what is the purpose of that committee. >> this is a slight money that the speaker of the house created to look at this problem, it is bad and getting worse in this country, it is getting more and wealth and income, concentrated in a very small group of wealthy americans. the problem with that is we have always lived with poverty, what is happening now is the middle class is finding it very hard, in some places in profitable to stay middle class. rent, food, all of that stuff. education, they are very expensive and wages are stagnant. the it is a problem politically,

i appreciate the comments of my colleague, representative himes. i have heard a lot of talk about how bad inflation is from my colleagues over there on the others of the aisle, but i haven't heard much about the solutions that they want to provide. i am here to work on those solutions, i am glad to hear of -- have you here. we need to reduce inflation, we have got to figure out what is driving it. the synthesis go federal was old banks put out research yesterday looking at -- san francisco federal banks put out research yesterday. what they found was that supply factors are responsible for more than half of the current level of inflation. while prices increasing or hurting people across a lot of sectors, gas prices have been driven up the last few months. chair powell, on gas prices, could you talk about some of the supply constraints that a push gas and energy prices higher recently? chair powell: sure. two big things would be, one, the price of oil is set locally -- globally. we take that price. the second piece of it is, the spread that refiners

jim himes rep. jim himes d he is on the select committee of income disparity.e talk about a number about a f issues, inflation, some of the issues that he dealt with in the u.s. house, welcome back to the washington journal. let me ask you about the the ine disparity committee. guest: it was created to look at a problem that is getting worse in this country which is more and more wealth and income is and income is concentrated in a small group of wealthy americans. the problem with that is that this country has always lived in poverty but the middle-class tht this country has always lived in poverty but the middle-class, rent is really expensive and the problem with that, i, i think at of the volatility in our politics is attributable to the fact that the system isn't working for them. we will put together as many recommendations as we can. without some support from both parties it is really hard to get through. what is the makeup of the committee? guest: the democrats are the majority because we have the majority. my republican ranking members, we put a lot of

himes noted that the american recovery plan, i think he meant american rescue plan, is not mentioned in the monetary policy report chair powell, is it federal reserve practice to comment on bills passed by congress in the monetary policy report >> no. >> turning to a question we obviously talked about a lot already, inflation and rising prices on things like food and fuel are having a devastating impact on people all across middle tennessee and, indeed, across the country you have told us you will not comment on fiscal policy but you have also previously urged congress to support fiscal spending some of which caused this inflation in my view. democrats are still pushing a reckless spending proposal reports are it will be smaller than the one they tried to ram through congress late last year. chair powell, will you commit to pushing back as strongly against reckless spending proposals that would exacerbate the current inflation as much as you pushed congress to support more fiscal spending during the pandemic >> i did not support any particular bill but i did say there was more to be

hall in fire himes. i remember washington . i took a promise from ukraine not to shoot them at our territory, but everyone knows nothing about what zelensky’s guarantee is worth, however, without long-range missiles, these installations do not differ from those that the armed forces have and the alignment of forces, they will not change. there is nothing new here. first, here are these multiple launch rocket systems. after all, the ukrainian army is armed with similar systems soviet russian production. hailstorm hurricane what is now supposed to be delivered and the range depends on the system itself on the missiles that are used. and we know what we see and hear. but here it has nothing to do with trust in the ukrainian regime, or it depends on what kind of missiles the americans deliver with distrust. here is what we hear today and, as it were , what we understand is a rocket, just, uh, which fly at 45-70 km, depending on the type of rocket e. uh, so, well, it was the same with those fences, hurricanes, tornadoes, about which

right nowow from cnn as the fbi arrives at roger stone's residence in fort lauderdale, florida, taking hime intoor custody. they arrive before dawn. they're before 6:00 or justd after 6:00 a.m. a dozen officers, we're told called. th so that's the actual norm. if you were tony podesta and you work for the democratic nothing you do is going to get you in trouble and you know it if you're roger stone, you've done nothing wrong at all. but you've givenen the finger to the democratic party . they show up at your house with guns. that's the norm. the attorney general is upholding serve the democraticl party and you will be rewarded even if you're a felon and almost exactly the moment the doj was putting peter navarro in shacklesg pe, the doj was also dropping the most serious charges against the two left wing lawyers who tried to incinerateo cops burn them to death cars during the blm riots. now this pair had facedea 30 years in jail on terrorism charges, but that was toooo tou for the biden doj. he'll be out in a couple max.? why? because they got the politics and liz cheney is giving you a lec

. >> now let's bring in democratic congressman jim himes of the house intelligence committee. thank you so much for joining us. the select committee argues that former president trump was at the center of this, quote, sophisticated seven-point plan to overturn the presidential election. how did they build that case over these upcoming hearings, starting monday morning? >> well, wolf, i think they build it doing exactly what they did last night. which is to basically offer incontrovertible, irrefutable arguments. when you see a video of bill barr, the attorney general, when you see a video of ivanka trump, president trump's daughter, when you see videos of president trump's campaign people saying we told him that he had lost, president trump had heard that over and over again. when you use that video, now, by the way, my republican colleagues are doing it or trying to do it, how do you say it's fake news? it comes straight out of the mouth of bill barr and ten other people. so i think you're going to see the committee in a sophisticated way understand that if jamie raskin or li

huge amount of— secretary then, invested a huge amount of capital in ensuring the deportation of abba himesall night _ her special advisers stayed up all night to— her special advisers stayed up all night to ensure that they were aware of any last—minute legal challenges - and _ of any last—minute legal challenges - and there — of any last—minute legal challenges — and there were last—minute legal challenges — — and there were last—minute legal challenges and it was all brought at about— challenges and it was all brought at about 3am, but they did get that flight _ about 3am, but they did get that flight out — about 3am, but they did get that flight out and i think the deportation was a important moment in theresa _ deportation was a important moment in theresa may's political career, asserting — in theresa may's political career, asserting she could not only be tough — asserting she could not only be tough on — asserting she could not only be tough on immigration but achieve her objectives _ tough on immigration but achieve her objectives legally. so maybe a split political _ objectives le

we will hear, we'll be joined by representative, jim himes, our democrat of connecticut and our member of the financial services committee. we'll talk about a number of issues, inflation, the economy and progression news of the day. later on the program, eric ross back of the bucket -- for religious liberty will talk about yesterday's supreme court ruling that the state of maine may not exclude religious schools from the state tuition program. january 6 committee enters dave five of the public hearings. watch as they examine the trumps administration's attempt to overturn the results of the election. coverage continues live thursday at 3:00 p.m. or anytime on life at c-span.org. you can also visit our website c-span.org/january 6. your unfiltered view of government. see spans the weekly podcast has over 40 years of audio files comparing the past to today. today, watergate and g gordon liddy. g gordon liddy. in 1972, the police arrested burglars, we remember g gordon liddy in this episode of the weekly. he wenthe went to jail because e break-in and served five years of a 20 year sentenc

republic has risen to 13th hag. shelling mostly hit residential areas and vital interest. several himes were heavily damaged or completely destroyed. and he thinks about the la guns republics. territory is now under the control of russian. lead forth is times in the city at the very done yet square some of the heaviest fighting. it's been circled back as russian had forces pushed on with their advance from the north by relentless parcels. citizens of through hell via the town is no more this all over the place. it won't be soon when the life with. this is murder hugo, in miniature, but i'm on a proposal. has had it worse. and this hidden villages that the ukrainian forces refused to leave. for example, this little village of apartment block for every building as they well set up their firing positions on top of well buildings like this, there was no other choice but to well raised the place. been a month since the ukrainians fled from this place. yet the scenario desolation and endless columns of tanks, artillery, and other military vehicles, all source key of every house was a fortress

himes, for one minute to get an opening statement. >> thank you, madam chair, chairman powell on your confirmation. i do not member a moment as consequential for this one for the federal reserve. or as testing of its leadership. i think i would have to go back to the end of 08 and the first quarter of 09 to think of a moment that was quite as important as the americans watched the economies collapse around their ears with their jobs and assets being lost. there is a very real possibility that americans will be caught in an economic vice. not of their own making. between inflation that makes their everyday lives unaffordable. and the much contemplated possibility of a recession. simply put, as one of the last members of congress to get out of the chamber when it was under attack on january six, 2021. i do not believe that our democracy can sustain either runaway inflation or another recession. despite the rhetoric that you will hear all day today, there is not a lot that we can or will do. much of this rests on your shoulders. chairman powell, i ask that as you make your decisions you

helps our armed forces of ukraine, in particular, the american himes salvo fire systems are already fighting in ukraine. this was reported by the commander-in-chief of the shutter valery zaluzhnyi and accordingly published a video of the combat use of these weapons against enemy targets. x years, a module of six missiles installed on a wheeled chassis is capable of hitting targets at a distance of two to more than 70 km with a deviation of several meters thanks to this himers received an unofficial nickname sniper missile rifle after firing a salvo in less than a minute, the vehicle can immediately leave the position, which reduces the risk of being impressed by counter -battery fire ukraine has already received four himers systems from the united states, four more are included in the next package of defense assistance, at the same time, the white house noted that in ukraine will give as much as it is able to effectively apply ukraine is currently fighting for all civilization and european values, but if the russian invaders do not will stop, europe will have to fight with them with its own

forest belong to british journalist dom ah, you're watching all of their life from headquarters in del himes. navigate also ahead. ukrainians are ready to dive for the european perspective. we want them to live with us. the european dream, the european commission backs ukraine's membership bid moving it a step closer to joining the blog. yeah, anger and india, chris, esther demand, the government's withdraw, its new recruitment policy for the military and western europe sweltering under an unusually early wave. scientists are blaming climate change. ah hello. we start in brazil. that's where a human remains. shonda in the amazon rain forest have been confirmed as missing british journalists. don phillips. authorities have yet to identify other remains thought to belong to indigenous expert. bruno perrera, who was traveling with phillips investigator, say, a suspecting class that he has confessed to killing the men and burring them in the rain forest. they've also arrested the mans. brother, monica panik ever has the latest from rio de janeiro, people from their shoddy valley. they say that t

live from headquarters in del himes. navigate also ahead. ukrainians are ready to die or the euro pin prospective. we want them to live with the european dream, the european commission backs ukraine membership bed moving it a step closer to joining the blog. congress the soldiers killed in rolando, escalating tensions between the 2 neighbors. the shooting out for london forces on western europe swelter is under an unusually early heat wave. scientists are blaming climate change. ah hello, we begin in brazil, that's where a human remains found. in the amazon rain forest have been confirmed as missing, british journalists dom phillips authorities have yet to identify other remains thought to belong to indigenous expert. bruno perrera, who was traveling with phillips investigator say, a suspecting custody has confessed to killing the men and burying them in the rain forest. they've also arrested the man's brother, monica. anna kev has the latest from rio de janeiro, people from their shoddy valley. they say that this is part of a bigger picture. it's not just to local fishermen killing t

congressman jim himes, thank you for being part of our coverage.an and claire mccaskill to respond to something the congressman just said. i mean, to me, my read on merrick garland's justice department is that -- and katie benner just provided the reporting that suggests this is the case -- that his deliberate and cautious and conservative view of the rule of law would have him not proceed down a path of investigating and prosecuting a former president of the other party. but it feels that people who pay attention to the evidence and to what's happening in this country, which is an ongoing threat of domestic violent extremism of domestic violent extremism in this country connected to donald trump's key messages, the lies about election conspiracy, ongoing agitation about covid protocols and vaccines. i wonder what you -- and i know, harry, you've already crossed the transom into thinking there's enough evidence, but what do you make of this justice department? what would you say to merrick garland if he were right here? >> welsh i think he's procee

yesterday apu was used for the first time, received from the usa rszo m142 himes in the city of perevalskpublic . you do not care about this, as it was not the case all 8 years, while the ukrainian army, methodically destroyed the inhabitants of the donetsk and lugansk people's republics. dmitry polyansky said that it was not a random situation now swaying on the eve of the nato summit, the representative of china said that nato cannot be considered as such a peace-loving organization, on the contrary, it poses a threat in different parts of the globe, somewhere davydov and nikolai koshkin lead from the united states the turkish leadership agreed to join finland and sweden in nato these countries nevertheless went to meet ankara in her fight against the kurdistan workers' party, recognized as a terrorist in turkey, the process of joining the alliance of two new members is promised make the fastest in its history, the official invitation from stockholm helsinki will receive. as expected today, after which the ratification process will begin, the decision on the new enlargement of nato in t

announced yesterday about the decision to send a new package of military aid to ukraine, including himesstems, similar decisions were announced by germany and great britain well, logic. it is obvious for the west to inflict maximum damage to russian troops in equipment and manpower, at least to force it to slow down the pace of the offensive. and how to allow ukraine to go on the counteroffensive as much as possible, but in reality, of course, these deliveries are not capable of changing the balance of power and are not able to translate into a radical change in favor of kiev. russia easily compensates for these supply, build-up, of our own military equipment and even more intense fire and, as a result, the only one. the current will be an increase in the number of victims and destruction, the result will be an increase in the suffering of the ukrainians themselves, while provoking an escalation within ukraine, the united states seeks to prevent an escalation outside ukraine, and therefore they take promises from kiev not to use multiple rocket launchers the extent to which such a positi

because tim himes got a track record it is not deadly. just much of the commercial about china. he said he's getting trough with china. well trump did that in people don't like it. a j.d. -- voting record that is the reverse of what he just said. that's the proof and. that's one thing, democrats, when you read, with reagan said -- they don't tell the truth of the time. >> okay, that's giorgio. this is drove from cudjoe key, texting us this morning, saying that abortion and gun control our tops on my list of. i will vote for anyone who does not respect these two things. so far and republicans are doing nothing on these issues, only blocking the democrats. this is from pam in tennessee, saying, get rid of republican traders who want to restore the previous president as dictator. 2020 deniers should not be allowed to run for office since they have no allegiance to our country. which it in las vegas and saying, my main motivation comes from this administration refusing to change any of their failing policies. it seems like they are trying to figure out how to maintain power rather t

himes. now recognized for five minutes. >>, thank you, madam chair. mr.irman, it is important to the american people to understand what is being said today. it is being said in other rooms in this building. with -- what the american people are seeing today is something my republican party friends have given over to recently all too often. that is, rank dishonesty and the service of acquiring and retaining power. a party without any resilient or discernible principle has stumbled upon inflation. there is inflation all over the world. germany, japan, the united kingdom. there is inflation all over the world. the republican party has decided inflation is joe biden's fault, or the american recovery plans fault. i have read the monetary policy report from start to finish. it gives the russian invasion of ukraine, supply chain bottlenecks, high fuel costs, it does not mention joe biden or the american recovery plan. the american recovery plan is a rank piece of dishonesty. aside the fact it cut childhood poverty in fact. as mr. green pointed out, if that isn't

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ah, you're wanting a news, our life from a headquarters in del himes, eddie and abigail coming up in the next 60 minutes is that we weren't letting people do the night with weapons. the committee investigating lost her attack on capitol hill hears that donald trump grabbed the steering wheel from a secret service agent demanding to be taken to the capitol. the deadly cost of human smuggling, at least $50.00 migrants are dead. after being abandoned inside a truck and texas, leaders of turkey, nato, finland, and sweden, me to our and our differences over the nordic nations bed to join the blog. and columbia will hear the truth about nearly 60 years of an armed conflict that killed tens of thousands of people in sport will have blazes from wimbledon way. women's wool number one, eagle fiance as cooked her spots in the 2nd round with a dominant display. ah, welcome to the news hour, the u. s. house committee investigating the january 6th riots on capitol hill is hearing how donald trump knew some of his supporters were armed, but wanted them in the area where he was giving his speech any

much has been touched on, but it gives me a great opportunity to segue from esther himes, mr. davidson, and mr. scott. when i think back to technology, in my district, because of the project hopefully that will be here, we will have a small microchip that will control just about everything that we are doing. i put this in the same alignment would we start talking about whether it is sandbox for coinbase or any other form of cryptocurrency, is education and awareness. we know what happened with the stimulus checks. we had a great idea, we got money out there, but because of lack of education, the lack of banking for those who had bank accounts with businesses but to be in good standing meant that you had to have that much money -- my question is, how do we get the underbanked and unbanked educated on this? i am hearing people well-educated on the financial services committee. i am a skeptic. many would say this is the wild, wild west. i believe it's the new frontier. i am not as a skeptic. i just returned from a codedale in the caribbean with congresswoman waters and got probab

we asked himed him that and oury released documentary which is out this week. here's how it went. he's 51 now. he lives on his ranch. he doesn't have to go anywhereoe but he does and he putss, y everything into it. but itt makes you wonder how much longer is he going to do this ? you're very much a product ofch michigan. you and uncle ted. eminem, seeger. i mean, it's produced a lot ofof a lot of pretty famous artist currently run by a characterr called gretchen whitmer. right. i mean, would you ever run against her take over michigan ,bring i it back to what it was i'd run behind to try to trip her upri, which would also me know i like my day job. yeah. you're not running for office? no, not now. n i mean, if one dayow ever thougt i was bored sitting around really thought, you i know, i could serve my country to help out stir things up a little bit and do what's right, let's take a hard look t at it.oard butlook you know, we're do you e yourself in 10 years? th ten years i see myself on the front porch glass of whiskey, cigar , the rockingki chair. ds my grandkids come over and w

the economy is and how great, a you know, any time that he'sd doing that , his people should call hime back and say this is not the right time for that ., and then when he goes on and this is the thing that's so crazy even after even like left wing media is laughing at him about this price hike stuff, but he keeps doing it and what we're getting into is literally a credibility death spiralmi with this administration when every timenith joe biden goes ot there and tries to blame this on on vladimir putin, when everybody knows voters know what voters are going to express this in november,o that this is not putin's fault,t he might be a terrible, horrible person, but this is joe biden's fault f. fill this . that's your wheelhouse. prices energy. he always pointss to putin. itever never stops. what is the real cause of why we are where we are right now? >>w, you know, it's been bad energy policy. i'm an i anti fossil fuel polic. listen, it wasn't vladimir putin. we closed five refineries in the united states. it was it was over regulation. right. there's a refinery open for sale. nobody wi

himes. >> open hearing is to try to e thank you, mister chairman. one of the objectives of this open hearing is to try to erode some of the stigma that attaches to, in particular, our military men and women reporting this. it's obviously really, very serious, because short one of our adversaries have developed a technology that we don't know about, and we need to know about it yesterday. and obviously, any sort of stigma that prevents our military from reporting this data as comprehensively as possibly is a national security threat. so i really just have to questions in the service of that goal. the first is the chairman asked that we run that video again. most people when they see a video, we're all used to seeing things from a car, seeing six from a sidewalk, very few people have the experience of observing something gets through night vision goggles at mock 1.5. so just talk for a minute, if you would, whichever of you is most appropriate, how radically different observation is at high speed and three dimensions and it is for most of us who walk

i have a high degree of confidence that himes is on territory.h rocket system with a range of 300 km, depending on the missiles that are used there, in the same way that we have modernized tornadoes and hurricane systems. on it, too, uh, depending on the rocket from this civilization, they also have similar things, but uh, this is very serious. and most importantly, the operation was already controlled by the americans before, but they listened to the e military of ukraine today, the military of ukraine is following the instructions of those senior military leaders who represent nato as american rule. well, imagine the ministry of defense said that the ukrainian side assured them that they would use them only for defense. and it kind of satisfied. this is just complete nonsense and it is impossible to talk with americans and ukrainians in these conditions today. e, i think that e is a continuation of this conversation, but it wears. uh, the following character. we are talking about our tolerance. we give signals when we say that this line cannot

himes, also the chair of the subcommittee on national security, international development and monetaryzed for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. if you will indulge me one minute, it's important for the american people to understand what's being said here today because it's being said in other rooms in this building what the american people are seeing today is something that my republican party friends have given over to recently all too often, and that is rank dishonesty in the service of acquiring and retaining power. a power without any resilient or discernible principle has stumbled upon inflation. there's inflation all over the world -- germany, japan, africa, south america, the united kingdom. there's inflation all over the world. but the republican party has decided that inflation is joe biden's fault. or the american recovery plan's fault. i've read the monetary policy report from start to finish. it gives the russian invasion of ukraine, supply chain bottlenecks, high fuel costs, wage growth, it does not mention joe biden or the american recovery plan. by the way, the am

. >> mike himes director of the cleanpowersf program. our first goal is to really listen to the community and hear that kind of interest. what is the community's interest in the planning process. i think, what we -- the action that we can take in response is going to be little dependent on whether it's within the frame of the i.r.p. questions like that about green job creation, things that can happen in the community, some of that may be slightly to the initiative. delivering an i.r.p. plan. >> commissioner maxwell: what about outreach? do you have a plan for the outreach and is it something that we can see and send to us so we have an idea who in the community you're talking to? not everybody is interested. who in the community and are you trying to get people more interested in what you're doing and how is that happening? >> we can share more information with this commission. we're casting a very wide net. my understanding, i think, prior to workshops that are taking place next week. we've reached out to something like 600 organization

himes noted the american recovery plan and i think he meant american rescue plan is not mentioned in the monetary policy report. chair powell is at the federal reserve'spl practice to commentn bills passed by congress? >> no. >> according to a question we have obviously talked a lot about today already you question the rising prices on things like food and>> fuel and the devastating impact it's having on people across the country. you told us you will not comment onon fiscal policy but you have also previously urged congress to support fiscal spending some of which caused inflation might be. democrats are still pushing their reckless spending proposal although reports are it'll be smaller the go when they tried to ram through congress late last year. chair powell we commit to pushing back as strongly against reckless spending proposals that would exacerbate the current inflation asas much as you pushd on supporting more fiscal spending during the pandemic? >> i didn't support any particular bill that i did say there was more to be done in by the way i completely ended that practice a

jim himes rep. jim himes d he is on the select committee of income disparity. we talk about a number about a f issues, inflation, some of the issues that he dealt with in the u.s. house, welcome back to the washington journal. let me ask you about the the ine disparity committee. guest: it was created to look at a problem that is getting worse in this country which is more and more wealth and income is and income is concentrated in a small group of wealthy americans. the problem with that is that this country has always lived in poverty but the middle-class tht this country has always lived in poverty but the middle-class, rent is really expensive and the problem with that, i, i think at of the volatility in our politics is attributable to the fact that the system isn't working for them. we will put together as many recommendations as we can. without some support from both parties it is really hard to get through. what is the makeup of the committee? guest: the democrats are the majority because we have the majority. my republican ranking members, we put a lot