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john a. powells a beam of light on how we can move from othering to belonging to build bridges instead of walls, few endeavors are more important and few voices, more eloquent. john's background is too deep and wide to recount here. suffice to say that he's had an illustrious academic, legal and activist career. he's long been one of the worlds and nation's

a moment from john taylor. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ romaine: today's triple take is focused on the fed, talking about what jay powelld do and may be more importantly, what he should have done. in simpler times, we could have an equation, plug it in and he gives you more guidance. left tried that in the past, taylor, and it has not been without controversy or debate. but you sort of wonder what is guiding the fed right now. taylor: that age-old saying, garbage in, garbage out, the data you put in will be the date that you put out. not garbage is the taylor rule. we have a cool chart on the bloomberg showing the famous taylor rule formula the targets inflation related to the actual inflation rate and re-levels of employment, all of which are under discussion about what are the real numbers, but to those numbers look like? let's talk about this and more with the founder of that taylor rule, professor john taylor at stanford university and senior fellow in economics at the hoover institute. great to have you. talk to us first about some shifts the fed has seen relative to what you are looking up. a lot of people have sa

a compromise bill. if it blocks the freedom to vote, john r lewis act, there could be some compromise bill that includes revision of this electoral count act which senator powell says he has considered to hear the electoral count act as well as the freedom to vote revision. in terms of negotiation, it seems like senator collins, -- may talking about this. host: we will watch what happens together on c-span2 at noon tomorrow. if you have questions, comments about voting rights and election law reform, phone lines are open for you to do so, (202) 748-8000 four democrats: (202) 748-8001 four republicans: (202) 748-8002 for independents. guest: we are america's black think tank. we were founded just after the voting rights act of 1965 were passed. to help people from being civil right activist to governing, re-budgeting. we focus on issues that help include african-american communities in the future of our economy, democracy. issues like the future of work and workers. when we look at misinformation for broadband -- or even automated decision-making. risk assessment that results in discriminatory decisions being made in lending. those are the types of issues we fo

a year ago. emily: everyone is talking about the fed and rates. we heard jay powell's testimony today. what will be the influence, you think about of fed policy on crypto? johnin the short term but it will affect public market participants and retail investors. ultimately, and i have seen this in every single tech cycle, smart money will follow innovation. the innovation is happening on web three. that is where the talent is going. that is where the applications are going. that is where development is going. that is where -- there is a crazy amount of growing usage. they will follow the innovation and it will be a nice buffer for asset classes, especially for the tokens and companies creating utility. emily: let's talk about regulation. jackie powell, ceo of crack in last year had this to say about regulation to come. >> we are not against regulation. we are happy to work with regulators. it is about clarity. it has a chilling effect on banking across the board. emily: what kind of regulation are you preparing for this year? john: we are always fully compliant. we do everything by the book. it is a good thing. no one here is against regulation, they just wan

a decent enough sell-off to keep your eye on it. >> john: if it's swooning now, wait until jerome powell will raise interest rates. >> sandra: indeed. we'll talk to larry kudlow about that later. fox news alert, new warnings on russia from both the white house and the pentagon. let's go back to the white house, our correspondent jacqui heinrich is standing by. so, we heard from the president, a shorter of a speech than we thought we were going to get but we are watching this news with russia, the false flag or pretext to invasion, what are we hearing now? >> yeah, sandra, hearing alarming language from a u.s. official is who we are attributing it to. this is working its way around many agencies in the biden administration. basically real concern that russia is prepare to invade ukraine, saying they have staged an eastern ukraine proxy forces, that they believe are trained in urban warfare and explosives to carry out attacks on russian forces so a sabotage of their own people in order to set the pretext for russia to invade ukraine. similar to the play book in 2014 when they annexed crimea, and you are hearing some pretty serious wa