Kevin Warsh tapped for Fed chair.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced his nomination of former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, choosing him to succeed current Chairman Jerome Powell when Powell’s term expires in May 2026. The nomination will now go to the Senate for confirmation, where Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has vowed to block its advancement in the Senate Banking Committee until a Justice Department probe into Powell is resolved.
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm your host today, Senior Editor Will Kayback. A bunch of the Tangle team is going to be congregating in Philadelphia this week for some in-person meetings. |
| 0:39.4 | So John is currently in transit right now, and I'm filling in for him. |
| 0:43.6 | I also wrote today's take, so you're going to be hearing a lot from me. |
| 0:47.4 | So settle right in, and I'm excited to jump into it with you. |
| 0:51.0 | The topic that we're going to be covering today is President Trump's pick to replace |
| 0:54.9 | Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell when his term expires in May. And that nominee, who was announced |
| 1:01.6 | on Friday, is Kevin Warsh, who is a former Federal Reserve governor. He served on the board |
| 1:08.7 | during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. More recently, |
| 1:13.4 | he served as a visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute. So he has an interesting background, |
| 1:19.3 | a little bit of an orthodox background. We're going to be breaking down what went into the pick |
| 1:23.8 | and what we might expect about how Warsh could lead the Fed amid a time of, I would say, |
| 1:28.9 | fairly unprecedented conflict between President Trump and the executive branch and the Central Bank. |
| 1:34.7 | So before we dive in, a quick plug for an interview that we're putting out today. |
| 1:39.5 | Last week, Isaac sat down with Elliot Williams, who is a CNN anchor and an author to discuss his new book |
| 1:46.2 | called Five Bullets. The book retells the story of Bernie Gets, the crime-ridden New York of the 1980s, |
| 1:54.0 | and how the shooting that Gets was involved in mirrors so much of what we see in today's politics. |
| 2:00.0 | It's a really great interview. I actually just |
| 2:01.6 | had a chance to listen to it myself. And it came at the end of our latest episode of Suspension of the Rules. |
| 2:07.2 | So if you check out that episode, you can also hear Ari, Camille, and Isaac discuss how they |
| 2:12.3 | interact with law enforcement against the backdrop of some recent stories involving law enforcement |
| 2:17.0 | interactions. And also Isaac's piece about Kanye West on Friday. enforcement against the backdrop of some recent stories involving law enforcement interactions, |
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