White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is asked about the possible consequences of President Trump firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
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00:00I think that at that time, the market was in a completely different place, and I was referring to the legal analysis that we had back then, and if there's new legal analysis that says something different, then it would be a different market response as well.
00:27Do you think it would be a problem to fire now?
00:29The U.S. team and China, President Trump says, are communicating in talks on a potential deal.
00:36Can you discuss any more of what that looks like?
00:38I can't discuss anything about China.
00:40Anything that might progress from that?
00:42Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't have anything.
00:43Okay.
00:44So do you think –
00:45We're going to get another question then, right?
00:46Because it's no fair to be asking –