D.C. Amon Jabbers has this latest. Amen.

Melissa, CNBC has obtained a clip exclusively of an interview with former White House advisor,

Steve Bannon. The interview is conducted by Sean Spicer, who's, of course, the former

press secretary for Donald Trump in his first term. In this interview, Bannon makes a provocative

suggestion about the future of Scott Bessent,

who's the Treasury Secretary, and whether or not he should have a role at the Fed.

Here's what he says.

I am a big believer that on an interim basis, that Scott Besson should be both the head of the Federal Reserve and the Secretary of Treasury,

and maybe get through the midterm elections, step down as Treasury and take over the Federal Reserve.

Now, that full interview is going to air at 6 p.m. on Sean Spicer's podcast on YouTube, but

in that you see Spicer discussing this with Ben. And we should note, of course, neither one of

those men is a current White House official.

Both of them retain significant relationships here inside the building. And so this idea that Scott Bessent should be both the Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve

after Jay Powell is clearly an idea that's going to get some traction inside this building.

Whether it will be embraced by this building is a different question entirely.

We'll ask White House officials what they think of that idea.

Scott Bessent himself has said he does not want to be Fed share.

He's happy in the job that he's in.

The president said in August that he was taking Bessent off the list of candidates for the Fed

because Besson told him he wants to stay at Treasury.

So this idea, though, that he could have a dual hat obviously will raise a lot of concerns

among people who are very focused on the idea of Fed independence.

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