here is senator sherrod brown of ohio. [video clip] sen. brown: they work with us on help for eviction and emergency rental assistant, cutting red tape and encouraging them to move past that to get help. it has delivered impressive results. within 520,000 renters received emergency rental assistance in october alone, meaning the families kept their homes and kept their lights on and worked to get back on their feet. in total, more than 2.5 million payments have gone out to tenants and landlords. with the end of the year, we need the final push to get funding to renters and landlords who need it. host: congress has approved $47 billion in federal rental assistance last year. how much of that has been distributed, and where is it going? guest: as of the end of 2021, treasury expects that between $25 billion and $30 billion of those overall funds will either have been spent or obligated to landlords. there have been, these funds were distributed by programs at the state double, county level, city, and tribal level across the country. there are

of these bite-sized morsels being shutdown by people like speaker pelosi and progressives like sherrod brownanwhile there doesn't appear to be anything else on the drawing board nor willingness to move closer to republicans which has a lot of folks wondering if president biden officially becomes a lame duck in just a few weeks brian brimberg joins me, first on a notion of pushing through build back better as an appetizer rather than an entree. >> [laughter] we'll do the chunks here, i love that word by the way, chunks. look, he got a gift. this thing failing was a gift because it keeps the spending out of the economy that could have ramped up this inflation more. he got a gift with the vaccine mandates on the private side being quashed because that gets, you know, things oust of the way in terms of hiring. let it go. don't salvage any of this , let it go and start talking about things that you might be able to see eye to eye with on republicans but most importantly , this has got to be his theme for this year. we got to get back to work. that's how you solve the inflation problem. that's how

sherrod brown currently giving his opening remarks, talking about how powell has shown the leadershipo meet challenges. will he get reconfirmed? terry haines, pangaea policy founder, joins us now. you had a note that said you only see a 60% chance that powell gets reconfirmed. that is definitely out of consensus. what is behind your call? terry: a couple of things. one is simply that this is one of these rare hearings where the result really isn't baked today, and the reason for that is that powell, unusually for the biden administration, is reliant on a coalition of republicans plus centrist democrats to be confirmed, so some of the progressives like warren are already opposed. others like chairman brown i think frankly are a little but on the fence for a variety of reasons. but you've got that kind of coalition of republicans that could decide that inflation politics means that they've got to attack one of the architects of inflation policy, which would be chair powell. right now i think they probably don't do that, thus my 60%, but i think it is dicier than anybody appreciates. sec

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are havingto find an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got to produce smart that's on both political parties that on the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses, capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >>

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are having trying to find an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got to produce smart that's on both political parties that on the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses, capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for f

ohio senator sherrod brown is part of that push.eople 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years out of college. >> who are so oppressed, if you will, with 30 1500 or more $1000 in debt. president biden did pause student loan repayment during the pandemic, but so far hasn't fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in debt. we're still looking at administrative options, but congress can also send the president a bill. >> that would provide $10,000 in debt relief and he'd be happy to sign that meanwhile, many lawmakers are holding their breath with several of them introducing bills to tackle problems related to student loans. in other ways, we've got to make it easier to pay off student loan debt. and when you pay it off, we've got to make sure you've got a clean slate. north carolina congresswoman deborah ross and other lawmakers introduced a bill that would broaden relief for borrowers who defaulted or made late payments on their student loans, making it easier to remove that from their credit history. what you pay it off. >> you

ohio senator sherrod brown is part of that push young people's 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years out of college. >> who are so oppressed, if you will, with 30, 50 100 or more $1000 in debt. president biden did pause student loan repayment during the pandemic, but so far hasn't fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in debt are still looking at administrative options. but congress can also send the president a bill. >> that would provide $10,000 in debt relief and he'd be happy to sign that meanwhile, many lawmakers are holding their breath with several of them introducing bills to tackle problems related to student loans. in other ways, we've got to make it easier to pay off student loan debt. and when you pay it off, we've got to make sure you've got a clean slate. north carolina congresswoman deborah ross and other lawmakers introduced a bill that would broaden relief for borrowers who defaulted or made late wayments on their student loans, making it easier to remove that from their credit history. what you p pay it off. >> you should have a clean score and be able to

we will be speaking to senate chairman sherrod brown just moments from now.

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he ny americans are having trying to find ant-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests critical. the administration should have known this. but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got produce smart that's on both political parties that won the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses. capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >> and next week, th

school, law school then they come with these different interviews i don't know if you saw governor sherrod brownthe view of democrats from the view of what the fed is supposed to be doing. you are saying they are behind the curve. what i gather from what democrat brown was saying is democrats want to stay easy even longer. that was one of the reasons powell wasn't unanimous choice for some people on that side of the aisle because he might take the punch bowl away too quickly. don't you think the punch bowl adds to the problems we are trying to solve we're with income and equality? >> absolutely. look, no question about it and in my mind, it's not really realistic to achieve the mandate of maximizing employment unless you have price stability right. if there is a world in which the value of the dollar is volatile, uncertain inflation is a big problem, you can't possibly maximize employment. i always thought price stability should be the first responsibility of the fed and other good things then can flow from there it's not the way many of my democratic colleagues look at it >> so is lysle brainar

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are having trying to find an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply drop the ball. the availability of testscis critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got to produce smart that's on both political parties that won the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses. >> capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on test ng. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are having trying to find an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests critical. the administration should have known this. but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got produce smart that's on both political parties that won the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses. capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free.

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are having trying to find an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply drop the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got to produce smart that's on both political parties that on the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses, capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free

ohio senator sherrod brown is part of that push the young people's 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years out of college. >>who are so oppressed, if you will, with 30 1500 or more $1000 in debt, president biden did pause student loan repayment during the pandemic, but so far hasn't fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in debt are still looking at administrative options. but congress can also send the president a bill. >>that would provide $10,000 in debt relief and he'd be happy to sign that meanwhile, many lawmakers are holding their breath with several of them introducing bills to tackle problems related to student loans. in other ways, we've got to make it easier to pay off student loan debt. and when you pay it off, we've got to make sure you've got a clean slate. north carolina congresswoman deborah ross and other lawmakers introduced a bill that would broaden relief for borrowers who defaulted or made late payments on their student loans, making it easier to remove that from their credit history. let you pay it off. >>you should have a clean score and be able to raise

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are havingind an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got produce smart that's on both political parties that won the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses. capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >> report

ohio senator sherrod brown is part of that push young people's 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years out of college. >> who are so oppressed, if you will, with 30, 50 100 or more $1000 in debt. president biden did pause student loan repayment during the pandemic, but so far hasn't fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in debt are still looking at administrative options. but congress can also send the president a bill. >> that would provide $10,000 in debt relief and he'd be happy to sign that bill. meanwhile, many lawmakers are holding their breath with several of them introducing bills to tackle problems related to student loans. in other ways, we've got to make it easier to pay off student loan debt. and when you pay it off, we've got to make sure you've got a clean slate. north carolina congresswoman deborah ross and other lawmakers introduced a bill that would broaden relief for borrowers who defaulted or made late payments on their student loans, making it easier to remove that from their credit history. what you pay it off. >> you should have a clean score and be able

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are havingg to find an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got to produce smart that's on both political parties that on the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses, capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are havinghome covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got produce smart that's on both political parties that won the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses. capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >> reporting in was

there as we saw standing over president biden's shoulder, both senators from ohio, a democrat sherrod brownn. >> reporter: that's right. there was big news from the president in terms of american manufacturing and our global competition, in terms of our supply chain. it has to be said that it's also big news, whenever we see a republican at the white house, especially in the highly partisan times, and when you think about the challenges president biden has had during one year and one day in office, it has been about the promise of bringing americans together and working across the aisle. and one of the areas in which the white house is now putting its foot forward to show is there are smaller issues beyond build back better which has really exposed the visions within the democratic party. where there is bipartisan progress. you heard him talk about the innovation and competition act. it's passed the senate. we've barely talked about that on the air during the course of the last year. but it includes more than $50 billion to promote the public/private partnerships that led to the intel facto

this new semiconductor chip plant but rob portman, a republican senator was behind him along with sherrod brown the democratic senator. you don't see much of that in washington. >> yeah, you know, it's very, very clear that the white house and the president are trying to do something of a policy reset, but even though it is a new calendar year he has the same political problems, and i thought senator manchin's comments earlier this week were incredibly telling when he essentially said, look we can turn to some of these bigger agenda items when we have dealt with things like inflation, a problem like covid. well, those two things happen to be the two biggest problems that the biden administration is facing, and he can't, the president just wave a magic wand and have these issues go away. we know that these are going to be problems that the president confronts for months to come. now, aside from the policy reset, i think there's clearly a political reset that they are considering as well, and we clearly saw that laid out by the president in his own press conference doing things like traveling mor

senator sherrod brown worries the steps the fed is considering will hurt consumers to people talk about cooling off. >> the economy. what they really mean is making it harder for people to find jobs and stopping paychecks from growing. and we know how this goes. the cooling off never seems to extend to corporate profits. are executives pay instead, brown wants to see fixing supply problems remain. the government's primary focus in washington. alexandra limon. starting saturday, private health insurance companies will be required to cover the cost of at-home covid tests. the >> biden administration announced the change in order to lower the cost to make testing more convenient health insurance providers will have to cover the cost of up to 8 at home tests per person per month. the white house says it will soon roll out a new website where you can order those covid tests online and have them delivered to your home. >> next 3.30, the bay area city that's working to expand voting rights to non u.s. citizens. and the red cross says it needs extra help with blood donations saying there are se

ohio senator sherrod brown says things are getting better there. economy has weathered the storm. >> and rebounded in 2021. re added a record. 6.4 million new jobs. but republicans argue the pandemic is just a small part of the problem and instead bought the president's policies agreed that inflation is spreading. but i don't see people going around coughing inflation on each other. part of the problem. >> is the federal government's just been shoveling money out the door. now brainard says the federal reserve is preparing to raise interest rates to help stabilize prices are monetary policy is focused on getting inflation. >> back down to 2% while sustaining a recovery. that includes everyone. >> this is our most important task reporting in washington. i'm hannah brandt. grocery stores across the country are experiencing another round of empty shelves. >> the shortage is being reported nationwide are widespread impacting produce and meat as well as packaged goods. there are a few reasons for this. the recent surge in covid cases and some significan

on the democratic side there are sherrod brown, senators in contested states. given how close their states are and johnson is like the inverse of that. he has far worse politics than you would anticipate based on how close the state of wisconsin is. >> yeah. and as a result he's giving a lot of republicans a heart attack. not only are democrats excited to run against johnson, republicans will say privately that they really, really hoped he would not run. they had some other people who were a little more normal that they had in mind, including mike gallagher, congressman from green bay, who is very personable, presents well, seems kind of moderate. the problem for johnson is the softening of support for trump in the suburbs in wisconsin, which helped defeat trump here in 2020, those are the people that johnson needs. and yet johnson is doubling down on all the positions that the suburban women who turned against trump really don't like. all the anti-vaccine stuff, the real extremism. you know, he doesn't seem terribly concerned about hanging on to the people who

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are having at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply drop the ball. the availability of tests is critical. the administration should have known this, but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got to produce smart that's on both political parties that on the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses, capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >> reporting in

. >> he's trying to position himself ala sherrod brown. the flip side of how a primary could impact the democrats chances. wisconsin, natasha, that's what you've been all over and have new reporting to share with us, but i believe there's only one real self-funder there, but the front runner is somebody that's from the progressive wing, national progressives, mandela barnes, lieutenant governor, they've been rallying around him. i wonder how nasty could that primary get. walk us through and i know you have breaking news having to do with potentially ron johnson. >> right. we've just reported that the self-funder alex lasry is a billionaire, he is the executive owner of the milwaukee bucks, the very successful milwaukee bucks, just put in a million dollars in a massive ad buy and we are told that's just the beginning here. it is going to keep growing exponentially from there. this ad buy will include in addition to television we're looking at a huge digital buy, lots of mailers. so he is really pumping in some serious money here and i think

democratic senator sherrod brown says he doesn't expect president biden's nominee to be controversial. >> and should get republican support. he will choose a mainstream, jurist. >> briers departure won't change the 6, 3, conservative majority on the court. >> republican lawmakers tweeted their reactions. south carolina senator lindsey graham said, quote, elections have consequences. and missouri republican senator josh hawley said this will be a quote moment of truth for the president and called on him to reject radical nominees during his campaign, president biden promised to appoint a black woman to the high court. the short list reportedly includes federal district judge cut 100 brown jackson in california. supreme court justice leondra kruger reporting in washington reshad hudson. >> justice briar is a san francisco native who attended ball high school and stanford university and today low with least a statement congratulating justice briar on his time on the nation's highest court. here's part of the statement. the lowell alumni association congratulates justice steven briar, low

. >> testing ohio democratic senator sherrod brown says he understands concerns many americans are havingd an at-home covid test. my own families had trouble getting enough tests for their their children. 5 senate democrats went as far as to send this letter to the white house. they complain of long lines at testing sites and want answers about the white house response to omicron. >> and plans for responding to future variants republicans like west virginia. senator shelley moore capito say the white house has simply dropped the ball. the availability of tests critical. the administration should have known this. but brown says there's plenty of blame to go around. got produce smart that's on both political parties that won the last 2 presidents in the last 2 congresses. capita says congress has already provided billions for testing for some reason. >> the administration has pulled back on this. the biden administration rejects it is not doing enough on testing. >> i'm directing my team to procure an additional half of additional 500 million more test to distribute for free. >> reporting i

ohio senator sherrod brown is part of that push young people's 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years out of college. >> who are so oppressed, if you will, with 30, 50 100 or more $1000 in debt. president biden did pause student loan repayment during the pandemic, but so far hasn't fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in debt are still looking at administrative options. but congress can also send the president a bill. >> that would provide $10,000 in debt relief and he'd be happy to sign that meanwhile, many lawmakers are holding their breath with several of them introducing bills to tackle problems related to student loans. in other ways, we've goi to make it easier to pay off student loan debt. and when you pay it off, we've got to make sure you've got a clean slate. north carolina congresswoman deborah ross and other lawmakers introduced a bill that would broaden relief for borrowers who defaulted or made late payments on their student loans, making it easier to remove that from their credit history. what you pay it off. >> you should have a clean score and be able to ra

ohio senator sherrod brown is part of that push young people's 2 years, 5 years, even 10 years out of college. >> who are so oppressed, if you will, with 30, 50 100 or more $1000 in debt. president biden did pause student loan repayment during the pandemic, but so far hasn't fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel up to $10,000 in debt are still looking at administrative options. but congress can also send the president a bill. >> that would provide $10,000 in debt relief and he'd be happy to sign that bill. meanwhile, many lawmakers are holding their breath with several of them introducing bills to tackle problems related to student loans. in other ways, we've got to make it easier to pay off student loan debt. and when you pay it off, we've got to make sure you've got a clean slate. north carolina congresswoman deborah ross and other lawmakers introduced a bill that would broaden relief for borrowers who defaulted or made late payments on their student loans, making it easier to remove that from their credit history. what you pay it off. >> you should have a clean score and be able

here is senator sherrod brown of ohio. [video clip] sen. they work with us on help for eviction and emergency rental assistant, cutting red tape and encouraging them to move past that to get help. it has delivered impressive results. within 520,000 renters received emergency rental assistance in october alone, meaning the families kept their homes and kept their lights on and worked to get back on their feet. in total, more than 2.5 million payments have gone out to tenants and landlords. with the end of the year, we need the final push to get funding to renters and landlords who need it. host: congress has approved $47 billion in federal rental assistance last year. how much of that has been distributed, and where is it going? guest: as of the end of 2021, treasury expects that between $25 billion and $30 billion of those overall funds will either have been spent or obligated to landlords. there have been, these funds were distributed by programs at the state double, county level, city, and tribal level across the country. there are progra

democrat sherrod brown says he expects an easy confirmation.hery: kathleen hays breaking down the latest from the fed. we are getting inflation data in china later today. the picture is very different from the u.s. with economists seeing both ppi and cpi easing. the brick economics says inflationary pressure is seeing a broad retreat. this may be the first time that post cpi and ppi will moderate since july. let's get more analysis from -- what is driving this? >> on the consumer side, there has been a big pullback in food prices and pork prices in particular. there is year on year effect, that is probably going to drag consumer prices. on the producer side of things which everyone is watching so closely, there has been a retreat in prices paid for oil and coal. that is going to drag down upstream cost and bring back overall ppi to around 11.3% from almost 13%. when you have moderating inflation, the pboc now has room to start supporting the economy more. they have already signaled a big shift that they are going to start doing more to have gro