Hey everyone and welcome to TYT. I'm Anna Casperi and joining us today is John Iderola

which can only mean it's Wednesday. John, what's up, how you doing?

I'm good, excited for the news, feels like it's been a very long time since we did this.

Yeah, except we did it last week and we did it right, we did it well. And we're going

to do that again for today's show. But before we get to that, I would like to encourage

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few people that like to tweet me about this every time we promote it, planting trees does

not mitigate climate change. We are aware of that but it doesn't hurt to have more trees

in the environment so check that out. Also the nation has a new podcast called System

Check. It is something you should also check out, go to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever

you get your podcast to learn more about System Check. One of our good friends, former colleagues

Ken Clippenstein works over at the nation so I love supporting them and the work that

they do. All right, without further ado, let's get to the news.

Katie Porter had a pretty tense exchange with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin today.

This was during a House Financial Services Committee hearing and it had to do with the

fact that Steve Mnuchin has been trying to transfer $455 billion in funding that was

part of the CARES Act from the Federal Reserve Bank to the Treasury's General Fund. Now,

the reason why he would do that is to essentially make it very difficult for Janet Yellen, the

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