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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

4/22/26: Fed Chair Nominee Grilled, Data Center Revolt, CIA Officers Die In Mexico, VA Redistricting

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Government

4.310.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ryan and Emily discuss Fed Chair nominee grilled by Congress, data center revolt, CIA officers die in mysterious Mexico crash, Virginia redistricting approved by voters. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.1

Hey guys, Saga and Crystal here.

0:06.1

Independent media just played a truly massive role in this election, and we are so excited

0:11.1

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0:13.1

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0:32.4

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0:38.0

The battle for the Federal Reserve played out in the Senate yesterday, but the morning started

0:43.2

with Donald Trump himself on CNBC commenting in an interview with Joe Kernan, extensively on

0:50.2

the war with Iran.

0:51.0

We covered that earlier in the show.

0:52.2

But he also talked about oil prices.

0:54.8

Let's go ahead and roll this clip, C1. And they said, wow, that's going to be bad. I said, yeah,

1:00.2

it's going to hurt the market and it's going to drive up the price of oil and whatever it is.

1:05.3

But that's peanuts compared to what would happen if we let this happen. And I told them,

1:09.1

47 years other presidents wanted to do it.

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