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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on 360, the president tries to reshape the Federal Reserve by firing a member and |
| 0:08.4 | pressuring its chairman, what it could mean to the economy if he gets the kind of fed he wants. |
| 0:13.1 | Also tonight, as the president continues saying Americans would be okay with a dictator if he got |
| 0:17.0 | crime to come down, his cabinet puts on a show praising the president over and over. |
| 0:22.3 | And later, a story almost tailor-made for anyone with a song in their heart or a rooting interest |
| 0:26.9 | in the Kansas City Chiefs. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged, announced on Instagram. |
| 0:32.8 | Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with the president's latest attempt to assert |
| 0:37.0 | his power |
| 0:37.5 | in the face of generations of history, tradition, norms, and perhaps the law. In this case, |
| 0:43.0 | trying to fire a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. It's never happened in the |
| 0:47.2 | Fed's 111-year history as the nation's central bank. But it happened last night to Fed Governor |
| 0:52.3 | Lisa Cook, the first black woman to hold the position. |
| 0:55.7 | The president made his announcement on social media while we were on the air last night. |
| 0:59.7 | Tonight, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that he wants to quickly name an ally as her successor. |
| 1:04.9 | Ms. Cook, however, says she's not going anywhere. |
| 1:07.2 | Quoting now from a statement share with CNN, President Trump purported to fire me, |
| 1:11.6 | she wrote, for cause when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. |
| 1:16.6 | I will not resign. She also says she'll be suing the administration. The president was asked |
| 1:21.6 | about it at today's cabinet meeting. Her lawyer has said that they're going to be filing a lawsuit challenging this legal action. |
| 1:29.8 | What is your response, are you prepared for a legal fight? |
| 1:32.5 | And then a little bit more of a- |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, sure. |
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