worse and worse not better and better and more about the us rating downgrade then i talked to dave johnson from the campaign for america's future which provides analysis of economic issues in the us and boise got a lot to talk about for a good evening too thanks for being on the program so let's just get this strike some of them paul was stripped the u.s. of its top notch rating and just before the movie stuck with its aaa rating after the debt deal was reached late last week one of the two different verdict. this is unusual i have to say the standard artist would do this you keep in mind in the context of everything you're hearing not long ago when they extended the tax cuts on the wealthy in the united states none of them spoke up so this this is question a whole it seems to be more related to a political agenda than the phenomena suggested because the economic agenda or that i'm certain economic conditions are not as bad as we're here so so is a lot of this the problem once the politicians in the school has been going on is that what a lot of this if this lack of trust is coming from th

with traders now seeing gold as the safest dave we tell america's three major banks the board of repeat of the two thousand and eight global recession jason johnson is a professor of political science he told us he thinks the recession of the u.s. is a. never people if they invest they come for them to keep. the companies that have lost your glass to gaze or to these companies aren't magically not working anymore it's just that people's confidence is at an all time low so if confidence stays low we will see another recession of confidence improves the economy the only problem with that is when someone actually wants to call it or most of the us right now is owned by china china is not about to reclaim the state of virginia they're not about to reclaim new york city by calling in their debts they primarily want to see america so if legislation to be passed united states if the president can sort some control and there's still some confidence in our future economy. and people's inertia and inability right now to get the economy moving right now it looks like the chances of barack obama getting real like it are actually are still better than fifty p

johnson's denial discriminatory and asking the federal government for help. >> interesting. >>> let's check your commute now. sal is watching the roads and bridges. sal. >> daved pam, good morning. we are looking good around the bay area. we have a pretty decent drive. the road work that is right here is still going on between highway 4 and the carquinez bridge. you can see it's showing a little bit of slow traffic in this area. be careful with the road workers. there is plenty of room for you. it should be about 6:00 and we move to the rest of the contra costa re on. antioch pittsburgh bay point that traffic is looking good. approaching pittsburgh there is a little bit of late running road work in this area. 680 traffic looks good. if you are driving from concord to walnut creek it's a nice looking drive. let's go to some live pictures interstate 80 westbound it's pretty good driving out to berkeley to oakland and the bay bridge toll plaza. and in san jose northbound 280 getting up to highway 17 that traffic looks good if you are san jose if you live there and happen to have access to twitter. send me a tweet. i have a question to ask you. in the meantime at

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dave camp, and fred upton. the house and senate are back the week september 6. in just a couple of minutes, we will take into holland, michigan. president obama is touring the johnson's control plant, and energy corporation. they will be talking about job creation and clean energy manufacturing. we will take you there when the president's comments get underway. in the meantime, what washington -- "washington journal" viewers had to say this morning. poll. democrats are evenly divided on the tter. that only hints at the dissatisfaction aimed at political leaders in washington who must specify in excess of $1 strode in more in deficit reduction by later this fall or trigger across-the-board cuts in defense andon-defense spending. now we want to hear from you. now we want to hear from you. can or should washington do more on the economy? we will start with william on the democrats' line from baton rouge, louisiana. hi, william. caller: tariffs need to be put on all imports. they need to close tax loopholes, raise revenue, get rid of medicare part d. and -- host: you would like washington to be more active? caller: they definity need to get on the ball. this is absolutel