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on the cnbc agenda, don't miss an interview with patrick harker.s steve leasen voting member interview. >>> among this morning's top stories, g-20 finance ministers, change coming amid pressure from the trump administration. steven mnuchin did not support the free standing trade. >> we do have a new administration and we do have a different view on trade but i want to emphasize that view is making sure that trade works for the american workers and for our counterparties, that it's a good deal for both. >> while they argued about trade, they back their long standing warnings against disorderly foreign exchange markets. >>> meanwhile, christine leguard says global strength is gaining strength but warns the wrong moves -- and leguard did say global corporation is crucial to achieving future growth. >>> g 20 is a group of the biggest nations of the world that get together to make the these sort of blanket agreements and while maybe it's not considered the biggest deal for the markets, it's a symbolic statement. the fact they removed pledges for antipro

on monday, exclusive interview, talking with philadelphia fed president patrick harker, 10:00 easternshow about some issues like the outlook for growth as well as the outlook for monetary policy. carl? >> wow, that is a heck of a chart regarding those -- >> yeah, thou shalt not. >> that's good stuff. thank you very much, steve. steve liesman. for more on the economic and market impact of deregulation, we're joined by william beach, vice president of policy research at george mason university and jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities. guys, good morning to both of you. jared, do you think we overshot on regs long ago? >> not in any measurable way. i think the key thing from what steve was saying -- i get that the markets love deregulation, especially the financial sector, and we can talk a little bit about that, because i think i know what that's about, but broadly speaking, you really can't find deregulation impacts in prices or growth. and it's really, really important not to forget the benefit side of the equation, and that's often missing in t

and later, the president of the philadelphia fed patrick harker will be joining "squawk on the streethe house intelligence committee's going to hold its first public hearing on russia and fbi director james comey will be testifying before law makers. ammon, obviously a lot of questions. you think we'll have answers by the end of today? >> i don't think we will as many as we want. james comey going to be in the hot seat. he's one of several people who are going to be testifying today. but he's the one a lot of americans want answers from particularly on whether there's an investigation into donald trump's campaign and any potential collusion or interaction that the campaign had in terms of the 2016 election. he has refused to say whether or not there is such an investigation. what's he going to say on that front? and there's the question of donald trump's assertion that president obama wire tapped trump tower last year. will comey be asked about that? will he publicly refute the president? there's been refuting that he privately asked to push back on that. today might be the day for th

francine: everyone from janet yellen to the newcomer, patrick harker, has said march is a live meeting. the psychology of them doing it is because they want to keep it alive or because they want to preempt the markets? kit: i don't think they think they can go easily if the markets aren't prepped for it. you have to prepare the market, clear a path. i think this fomc is still very easy to dissuade from action on a given meeting because there's not that much inflation. but they need the market to be ready. francine: if they don't do it in march, does it make a difference? are we splitting hairs? kit: in the big scheme of things, no. or may or is march june, do i really care? i think it only makes a difference in, if you go in march, the chances of three hikes this year are quite a lot better. you've got more time. because we've only had one in each of the last two years, you asked me last week, what did i think this time last year -- my forecast starts to feel conservative the minute they go. francine: morris, talk to me about this 15% corporate tax rate. this is priced into the markets

. >> i might have met one yesterday, patrick harker. the new philly fed president.as a business background, academic background. went to the university of delaware. interesting guy. has a civil engineering degree and a master in economics. >> he was trying to be a homer. >> i know. i got it. i was ignoring it. >> that's your first meeting with this guy? >> yeah, it was. he's not as hawkish as charlie plosser. much more down the middle. >> love charlie. >> he's on board with a few rate hikes, but not in a hurry to do more. >> three more or three total? >> three total. two more. >> we had kashkari on yesterday. >> i know. i saw that. >> you did? i read the transcripts later. >> you did? >> yeah. >> some people with that viewpoint like the interview, my viewpoint. you heard, if you read -- you know what i was saying to him, i think he's crazy. >> right. >> because you're close enough to the statistical inflation numbers to where if you're at all forward thinking at all, now is the time. he just kept trying to defend that position. i thought what maybe was interesting i

chicago fed president charlie evans and philadelphia fed president patrick harker have public appearancesto address their latest views of the economy and monetary policies. >>> in washington, the trump white house will try to move on from its defeat on health care. kayla tausche joins us with more on what's been happening. we guess that they're going to be moving on to tax reform from herein >> that's at least what the white house is saying. the administration has promised countless times that i would pursue tax reform, whether it's the campaign trail or stump speeches meant to sell the health care bill. on friday following the defeat of the american health care act the president said tax reform is on his mind. >> we'll probably going are right now for tax reform. which we could have done earlier but this really would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support. remember this, we had no democrat support. so now we're going to go for tax reform, which i've always liked. >> we know the president likes tax reform. but the problem is there are a few policies on the table