Welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta show. It is Thursday, April 17th. As you can see, on screen

with me right now, is the one and only David from with the Atlantic. And of a new podcast, I

understand, David, is that correct? It's now two weeks. We've had two issues or two editions out,

an interview with Rahm Emanuel and some comments I make there. And then

just Wednesday, we released a discussion with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and it drops every

Wednesday. And I know you've been really focused on Trump's tariff policy, which has obviously

been wreaking havoc. And just today in the New York Times, they're reporting that a day after the Japanese delegation

met directly with Trump, it is Italy's turn with the arrival at the White House of one of

the few European leaders Trump actually likes.

This is Prime Minister Georgia Maloney, whose conservative board nationalist views, the New York

Times says should be in the

minds of many in the administration a model for the rest of Europe. Who knows whether any of that

is going to shield Italian products from all kinds of tariffs? But I know that David, you wrote in

the Atlantic today, can the U.S. President fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve because he does

not like the job

the chairman is doing? Once upon a time the answer was a well-understood no, David writes. The Federal

Reserve was created by Congress. The founding statute guaranteed the Fed's independence. Chairman

Jerome Powell repeated that conventional answer at the Economic Club of Chicago only yesterday. The chairman

cannot be removed for policy

reasons. But it seems like Trump's going to try to have his way anyway and bully him out of there.

What do you think? Well, the article goes on to say, look, we all believe that the chairman is

irremovable by the president for policy reasons. But we used to believe that the director of the

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