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Turning back to the Federal Reserve, sources telling us our colleagues here at Bloomberg

that a driving force behind the DOJ's decision to subpoena the central bank is the Federal Housing

Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.

Director Pulte has been busy over the last week, some purchases of MBS in focus as well.

Director Pulte, welcome to the program, sir.

You are cited in our story this morning, just wanted to give the opportunity to respond to it. Bill, what was your role in the developments over the weekend? The DOJ is outside of my purview. This is out of my purview. I don't know anything about it, and I would defer you to the DOJ. Bill, you haven't been shy of sharing your thoughts on the Federal Reserve before, particularly over the last 12 months.

You have thought that the chairman would ultimately resign. He's standing firm.

Do you think this push against the Federal Reserve is actually leading to unintended consequences and leading this Fed to dig in?

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