Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk in the Street. I'm Carl Kainan with Leslie Picker and David Faber live at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Sarah Eisen has the morning off. Got some risk on this morning as all sectors are green. S&P and NASDAQ up better than half a percent. We're watching, obviously, the VIX back to 16.

Treasury is also a little elevated here as the tenure gets closer back to 4-3.

Coming up on today's show, a can't-miss exclusive interview with David Ellison,

chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance, fresh off the closure of that long-awaited skydance deal.

New York City comptroller and former mayoral candidate Brad Landers with us.

Talk about the city's pension fund holdings and the latest on the Mamdani campaign.

First, though, President Trump officially announcing a new pick to fill Andrea Kugler's spot on the Federal Reserve Board of Governor.

Steve Leastman's here, and he has that story for us.

Steve.

Hey, good morning, David.

Yeah, the CEA chair, Stephen Myron, has been a stalwart defender of the president's economic

policies and an architect of those key policies.

But the appointment by the president to the Fed to be a Fed governor sounds initially temporary,

the president writing in a tweet.

It is my great honor to announce that I have chosen, Dr. Stephen Myron, current chairman of the

Council of Economic Advisors, to serve in the just vacated seat on the Federal Reserve Board

until January 31st, 2006.

In the meantime, we will continue to search for a permanent

replacement. Evercore ISI writing, given his support of Trump's policies, we think Myron would

likely continue to act as a Trump loyalist once on the Fed Board, calling for lower rates and voting

for rate cuts in FOMC meetings. More than that in the second. Myron, though, has become known as a principal author of the controversial Mar-a-Lago Accords. What do they call for? Weakening the U.S. dollar, boosting U.S. manufacturing, reducing the trade deficit, and using tariffs. Sound familiar? Myron is an economist with a Ph.D. from Harvard. has also called for reform at the Fed, including eight-year terms instead of 14,

and governor's service Myron is an economist with a PhD from Harvard, has also called for reform at the Fed, including

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