good evening it's wednesday june fifteenth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and you are watching r.t. now as united states lawmakers are trying to come to an agreement on the country's debt problem and also to decide on raising the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling which you may recall the u.s. has already blown through in greece it's a different story protesters are taking to the streets in opposition to their government solutions greek police have fired tear gas at protesters they were trying to block the parliament building more than twenty thousand of them trying to prevent members of parliament from voting on a new austerity measures austerity measures so that the country can get more bailout cash for of has been on the ground here is a report. the clashes between the police on the protesters still they. say something else of the state you can head to build a fire in the crowd you can see the destruction of the central area that was built at a time that. people have one thing that was going to go to the game and the police trying to find

i'm lauren lyster and you are watching r.t. well austerity maybe it's a word you've heard it seems to be the word of the summer california just passed around a bit in response to its budget crisis they're cutting our purse billions of dollars to schools the health care programs for the poor they're increasing fees to close more than nine billion dollars and another at and nationwide congress. san the u.s. is struggling to try to stop piling on to fourteen trillion plus dollars of debt and agree to raise the debt ceiling meanwhile in greece this is what the reactions look like so that they passed austerity measures well on the streets violent protests have been raging people angry that our country is being saddled with debt and a bailout that they'll never see a dime of but artie's sara first has the very latest on the story. on the streets about the polices of discontent it's very loud. it's a war we did not create this oil going to pay for this but we want to become less but if we continue to fight against economic ruin second

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out our you tube page it's you tube dot com slash our team america and follow me on twitter at lauren lyster and stay tuned to our team for much more news analysis and political opinion coming up right here shortly. this is the kaiser report covering the global insurrection against banks occupation for a months we've been telling you that the globe is on fire from people in the streets looking for some scalps i noticed down there in athens they actually put up a few misses so good things yet to come stacey herbert tell us more yes max the raging greeks have staged the biggest protest yet and that seen in this headline giago thieves hustlers bankers so giago of course is the global insurrection against banker occupation and at the weekend's protests in athens the article says that amidst a sea of splayed hands waved at the parliament building apparently an offensive gesture for greeks one demonstrator raised the placard reading bravo yemen whose president underwent surgery in saudi arabia for injuries suffered in a rocket attack on his palace and then another drew comparisons with rallies ear

dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at lauren lyster thank you so much for watching have a great night. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. really you believe the signs and signals from the realms. of the future covered. keep. away in welcome the cross talk i'm peter lavelle is the chaos being played out in yemen turning the country into a failed state how should the international community be reacting to events there and will the end game for the regime in yemen result in still another terrorist base that threatens the region and world. came. across the protests in yemen i'm joined by daniel pipes in philadelphia he's an author and director of the middle east forum and in washington we have edmund hull he's a former u.s. ambassador to yemen and he's also author of the book high value target countering al qaeda in yemen all right gentlemen this is crosstalk i mean you can jump in anytime you want mr ambassador if i go to you first here i mean as we go to air here there's a lot of speculation some people say evidence that t

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left over battles are still being fought by many more and a war that lives on today lauren lyster r.t. and that wraps up our main news this hour kareen is here next with the business. terrible thing to a business british old major b.p. has confirmed its arctic alliance with russia effectively dead at the same time the company says it has no plans to sell its stake in its russian joint venture tain k v p u peace partners in the firm have opposed the proposed deal with nafta and the company as it's going to focus on oil exploration outside russia. taking a look at the markets now who continues to rally after opec failed to agree on increasing opposed this raise fears of supply shortages later this year but sweet is trading about above one hundred one dollars per barrel and brant is around one hundred eighty dollars. talks in europe gave off early gains in late morning trades banking sectors wait on the indices as markets await the outcome of rate setting policy meetings from the bank of england a good p. and central bank commerzbank down over two hundred percent credit agricole one poin

afghanistan and many more subjects you can all check out there you can follow me on twitter at lauren lyster have a great night. issue is that so much different if you can use it if you're. in the market freedom flotilla two point zero four thousand photos to me and others from twenty two countries for safety joy and freedom full tilt to. a timer over here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. of the future covered. can't. stand. alone and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle freedom flotilla two point zero four thousand pro palestinian activists from twenty two countries are said to join the freedom flotilla two in a bid to break israel's five year blockade on gaza where one point five million palestinians live where we manged to be seen is whether they'll be a violent repeat of last year's flotilla to gaza. crossed out the second freedom flotilla i'm joined by cots in jerusalem he's a military correspondent and defense analyst for the jerusalem post also in jerusalem we have chris

left over battles are still being fought by many more in a war that lives on today lauren lyster r.t. . if you missed any of the stories we're covering on air you can always find. our team dot com there's also plenty of analysis and eye catching videos there for you as well all of the all of all at our college degree despair a prestigious diploma is no longer a guarantee of well paid jobs for us students it is a guarantee of debt i got why it's their chinese counterparts who are banking on american education. and also the landing of a passenger plane in a russian airport that could have ended in tragedy after its pilot was why did the laser directed from the ground. next explore the parts of russia few people got to discover our clubs like to. so there were high in the caucasian mountains in the republic of north of one of russia's smallest regions that literally sit on the slopes of the hells it's a land where maddow mountain rivers and waterfalls and alaska is breathtaking but a half of its area is taken up by national parks and reserves and it's well known for its there with your b

correspondent lauren lyster and catherine c i know warren brooks journalism fellow at the competitive enterprise institute thank you so much for joining me a ladies man first turners we have i don't even know what to say about this story i think that's just kind of tells you that it's a screwed up messed up world that we're living in and there was a kid who actually sold his kidney for an i pad and here's here's the news story on it take a look. he allegedly sold one of his kidneys to purchase the device but boy he's not being identified his mother reportedly became suspicious after the seventeen year old turned up at home with a new i pad and a large scar on his right side that. you know i think suspicious that my son just came home with a giant scar on his side really we were out there ready to explain watching this segment of this news because it looks like the onion news network it's like unbelievable you would think that actually it is so out of this world and it's really sad too because. you know all of our i pads all of our apple except series are made in china with cheap labor

defense robert gates stepping down what does that future in afghanistan going to look like artie's lauren lyster finds out. the aftermath of a taliban attack in kabul. this week a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners earlier this year taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests stole the guest house used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels there's murder in your. examples are strewn through the near decade more familiar aftermath we had any pay down here in the south only now americans heard this declaration before news of the glass was starting this drawdown from position of strength about u.s. plans to begin pulling troops out of afghanistan next month but there are declarations on the ground from afghan activists of military might that's left a different mark democracy never come by a completion democracy in the military integration of all christmas. plus the thought by white phosphorus by muscle car by pumping our wedding parties and in washington talk of winding down war in one country does not wind down talk of tackling the global terrorist threat as the focus seems to shift to

dot com slash usa and our you tube channel you tube dot com slash our to america i'm lauren lyster stay tuned for more news and analysis. pleasures the same i understand the feeling of them let me be and look you're from the mark of the example the president must get approval from congress within sixty days to ordering u.s. forces into combat now the president. will. bring you the latest in science stimson knowledge from around the world. we've done the future of coverage. download the official tea allocation q i phone the i pod touch from the i choose i'm still. life on the go. video on demand. my blog. r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the call. you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle under the war powers act the president must get approval from congress within sixty days after ordering u.s. forces into combat neither president barack obama nor any other president has formally acknowledged being bound by this restriction it would appear u.s. presidents can go to war that well. they can. live. cross talk the war powers act i'm joined by robert naiman i

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our team take a look at the big news coming from capitol hill today. we're waiting for anthony weiner to walk through that door go up to the microphone and announce that he is resigning from the u.s. house of representatives and this is congressman anthony weiner about to announce his resignation let's listen and so today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. so there you have it he's almost exactly four minutes for a lot of anger in that room for the hackling are there seeds of a potential if he were to come back in that. believe it or not winner's resignation is not the most important news you need to know coming from the nation's capital as united states continues its military intervention in libya the two branches of government are now battling it out as a result ten members of congress are suing the president in an attempt to end u.s. involvement in libya for failing to get congressional approval the white house for its part claims it is not in violation of the law because it's not actually at war but is operating in a support role first i

in the midst of those great protests that's quite compelling and also follow me on twitter at lauren lyster. a telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. and. a low in welcome across talk i'm peter lavelle it is being described as one of the worst meetings we have ever had is the organization of petroleum exporting countries or opec in crisis if it is doesn't really matter and with or without opec are we destined to live with very high oil prices. and. cross-talk the controversial role of opec today i'm joined by bill found price in london he is the founder and c.e.o. of petroleum policy intelligence also in london we have so many he is a founding partner of the energy management institute and in boston we cross to robert kaufman he's director in full professor and the center for energy and environmental studies at boston university ok gentlemen this is crossfire means crosstalk rules in effect you can jump in anytime you want but before let's take a look at how the world has been reeling since opec's last meeting. when last week's opec meeting e

or should check out that guy's whole video it's quite entertaining and follow me on twitter at lauren lyster and i will see you right back here for more news and analysis shortly. wealthy british scientists are. time to explain the. market trying to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cars reports on r.g.p. . today violence is once again flared up first so these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada best selling corporations rule today. this is the kaiser report money is getting tight i'm reading that the state of ireland is actually scavenging the sea floor looking for a copper left by the telecommunications industry to sell for scrap their drudging their own seabed first scrap copper that's how bad it is in ireland and around the world let's get all the updates from stories you heard max actually you know that story line three of the seventies when inflation was raging and money was tight and oil in particular was out of control in price but the seven

slash usa check out our youtube channel youtube dot com slash america and follow me on twitter at lauren lyster and stay tuned for more news right here on our team. well. new the latest in science technology from around. the future. download the official allocation q i phone the i pod touch from the i choose ups to. life on the. video on demand keys my old car. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. can. follow and welcome to profit i'm peter lavelle saving the euro in the financial and political costs of doing so is it all worth it there's a euro project need a serious rethink should there be a two tier year old system and can the politics of the euro serve the interest of all in this currencies on. can. cost up a year was viability i'm joined by andrew moravcsik and princeton he's professor of politics and director of european union program at princeton university in washington we go to sheriff raymond she's a professor of international business finance and international affairs at the george washington university and in madrid we cross to philip bagus he is an associate professor

need another round of how do the hour and joining me tonight for happy hour is r t correspondent lauren lysternd of my craig's an associate editor at reason magazine and reason dot com thanks for joining me today and chase kids are asking us to so yesterday this actually was happening i think i was doing the show or maybe right after i got off air because i suddenly remember looking over and every single t.v. screen we work in a news channel right so we have a million t.v. screens all over the place on every channel so we can monitor what everyone else is doing and everyone is just fixated on this story about a mass grave here you can look at some of the coverage. believe me everyone begin with breaking news this hour in southeast texas investigators we are told are on the scene of what appears to be a mass grave containing according to a sheriff's department official twenty five to thirty bodies including we are told to like the bodies of children but look obvious to. as many as thirty bodies are buried at what's described as a hole of course that. the residents here are said not to be cooper

is time for our wednesday edition of happy hour and joining me tonight is artie correspondent lauren lyster and alex sites all reporter and blogger for think progress dot org and the progress report thanks for joining me this evening he's writing out i'm really excited for republican candidates to finally just jump in and just admit that they're running because i love nothing more than cheesy campaign ads but they're. hurdy a really really good one from someone who's been in the race for quite a long time coming from herman cain take a look at this. now sarah palin gets a fancy buzz herman cain as a zone trade i kind of like the better of you guys i find this whole thing really endearing and it can i have it up i think about the little engine that could because herman cain you know he's the underdog doesn't have a whole lot of money and the production value of this thing is a little bit if you know it's him paul and you know michael bay produced you know it's simple and yet for sure but the it's just so endearing you know he's out there talking to the people they're saying he's going to rai

happy hour on this monday evening and joining me tonight is archie correspondent lauren lyster and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger of black five dot net thanks for joining me guys. you know i was really hoping over the weekend that maybe we're fever would die out we made fun of the media last week for just giving it not coverage to this story but then today there are a few new pictures that surfaced from a lady that those are the pictures right there are only when are you going to have a small guy kind of ripped i guess nice packs whatever. jim is looking at me in disgust right now but the best was that wiener that had to give a speech today like all the politicians do and they've been lying to everybody for weeks and the media just could not believe that this moment was actually happening take take a look. welcome back here to c.n.n. newsroom i'm brooke baldwin any second now congressman anthony weiner is expected to address members of the media from sheraton hotel in manhattan all of this comes one week after the new york democrat begin to a

i'm lauren lyster you're watching our t.v. now ninety years ago coal miners rose up in the largest armed insurrection since the civil war it became known as the battle of blair mountain some credit it with launching the labor movement and creating a middle class america that exists today but the battle is not over some of those coal miners descendants along with activists and environmentalists marched this past week at what's being called the second blair mountain arches killing board was there and she has the story. in the mountain west virginia a battle is raging. for the feet of amount in its core. and a sort of resistance in appalachians the same cause. it's not easy. that a hundred miners activists and environmentalists marched at blair mountain to demand an end and mountaintop removal. technique that blasts right to get a call seems within which environmentalist say send debris rating down i think flooding in contaminating rivers water going to water the retrace the steps of more than ten thousand coal miners who in one

and that is going to do it for our news at eight i'm lauren lyster thanks so much for watching and have a great night. wealthy british scientists are. not likely. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our key. emissions free cretaceous free zones for charges free to make amends three years three stooges free. the old free blog just call it video for your media project a free media gun to our teeth dot com. a telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. looks. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a show the day. the sun. this is the kaiser report money is getting tight i'm reading that the study of ireland is actually scavenging the sea floor looking for a copper left by the telecommunications industry to sell for scrap for drudging their own seabed first scrap copper that's how bad it is in ireland and around the world

good evening it's friday june third i'm lauren lyster coming to you from here in washington d.c. and you're watching our team now it has been a bad week for the u.s. economy new jobs numbers revealed today the worst private sector job growth in eight months knocking the unemployment rate up from nine to nine point one percent and according to analysts at morgan stanley half of last month's job growth came from mcdonald's now a distressing housing report came earlier this week and has economists saying the residential real estate market has double dipped the u.s. debt ceiling has been raised and moody's issued a warning on the country's credit rating as a result and today president obama right there. behind me in the face of these dismal jobs numbers gave a speech at a chrysler plant to celebrate the resurgence of the auto industry saying that in the economy there are bumps on the road to recovery but is it a is it time for a major rethinking of the u.s. economy but earlier i asked peter schiff he's president of euro pacific capital and smart money is going into gold look at the d

it's wednesday june eighth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and you're watching our t.v. now we know that the united states is facing a one point three trillion dollar deficit we hear about all the time but a new analysis shows the situation is actually worse than it sounds in part in part because of the way congress gets to do their accounting five trillion dollars worse for last year alone an allin this amounts to more than sixty trillion dollars and unpaid financial promises now the government doesn't have to take into account what's owed to seniors that are in and retired employees and the official federal debt that's why we always hear that the official federal debt is fourteen point four trillion dollars but even with that number the u.s. national debt is now expected to exceed the size of the u.s. economy this year a first since world war two and that's according to the treasury report which originally thought this would happen in two thousand and fourteen now the government can't agree on how to deal with this but for more our earlier i spoke with heather sermo fr

to their bases pushing the problems of the last minute when we really are backed into a corner lauren lyster spoke to dean baker about this he is the co-director of the center for economic and policy research she started it she wanted to get from him his take on exactly what's going on here. well we're close a lot of political theater and certainly cancer walked out last week said their campaign is tax increases the clues political theater i'm sure planned i want time in advance the thing knew it happened so it was obviously theater and they know there's no way if they're going to have an agreement with president obama and it doesn't involve some type of tax increase whatever they want to call it connected by some some revenue increase so they're parts theater now are they actually making progress i guess they will because you know at the end of the day they are going to have to have a deal so you envision those two series basically one is that they come to some sort of deal in the not too distant future they will turn to those who actually get to this stead line august second and that's a h

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. now where is the united states heading it's a question many are asking but the answer depends really on who you ask and if you look at a recent rasmussen poll it shows a pretty large divide sixty one percent of the political class voters believe the country is headed in the right direction compare that to seventy eight percent of mainstream voters who disagree and if you want to see an example of what mainstream voters may be experiencing that political you are not i want to take you to los angeles now this is where tenants are living in squalor and one of the world's largest banks is being accused of being their slum lord it's a german banking giant deutsche bank and artie's among glinda shows us how it's just one part of a nationwide crisis. roach infested ations cracks in the walls mold growth mounds of trash these are just some of the deep horrible conditions that low income families in los angeles are dealing with. at night i have bugs crawling on my arms and on my face and the m

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. now where is the united states heading it's a question that often gets asked but the answer really depends on who you ask take a look at a recent rasmussen poll that shows sixty one percent of the political class believes that the country is heading in the right direction while seventy eight percent of mainstream voters disagree and if you want to see an example of what mainstream voters may be experiencing the political elites are not i want to take you to los angeles now this is where tenants are living in squalor and one of the world's largest banks is being accused of being their slum lord is the german baking giant deutsche bank and as our teaser monga linda shows us it's just part of a nationwide crisis take a look at the story. roach impressed ations cracks in the walls more growth mounds of trash these are just some of the deep horrible conditions that low income families in los angeles are dealing with. at night i have bugs crawling on my arms and on my face and the mice make

i'm lauren lyster you're watching our team now as the u.s. government remains deadlocked over the budget and the nation's debt the credit rating agency fitch has said if lawmakers can agree to raise the debt ceiling this could endanger the nation's aaa credit rating if you've heard this before it's because now this makes three all three credit ratings agencies that have come out with warnings over the u.s. debt debate as lawmakers grapple with where to cut spending and have social programs on the chopping block a new poll shows more americans blame the debt on the nation's wars and the federal reserve's role trying to pump up the economy with more cash is set to expire at the end of the month so what does this all mean for the u.s. economy not to mention the global economy to help us sum it all up earlier i spoke with renowned investor jim rogers i asked him if lawmakers should be concerned about the three credit ratings agencies warning about the debt and here's what he said. one of the rating agencies doing america is already bankrupt the i

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. well take a look at the big news coming from capitol hill today. we know we're a leaner and meaner leader wiener. and maybe this is the theory is right now anthony weiner about to announce his resignation so today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. for a lot of anger in that room socially for the morning for almost exactly four minutes he is here rock bottom are there seeds of a potential if he were to come back in that maybe this was just the beginning of the healing but not the end of his political career those four minutes all over the mainstream media and believe it or not wieners resignation is maybe not the most important news you need to know coming from the nation's capital as the united states continues its military intervention in libya the two branches of government are now battling it out as a result ten members of congress and backed are suing president obama in an attempt to end the conflict in libya for failing to get congressional approval now the white house

i'm lauren lyster and you are watching r.t. now the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for libyan leader moammar gadhafi along with his son also his military intelligence chief there for crimes against humanity against political opponents now this is the second time in the court's nine year history that it's issued an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state let's look at the success of the other one it was sudanese president omar al bashir who is not facing trial at the hague rather he is still ruling not facing those charges you see there here's some of the other arrests the court has issued the kenyan prime minister and minister for finance was charged with murder rape persecution among other charges he is at large not handed over to the court a few of the. people that have been charge that have been handed over let's look at those charles taylor is one he's a former leader of the lid liberia now those charges are from the i.c.c. he was handed over to the i.c.c. to face the. will trial also the former

good evening it's wednesday june twenty ninth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and you're watching our team now austerity maybe it's a word you've heard because it seems to be the word of the summer california just passed around a bit in response to its budget crisis they're cutting or postponing billions of dollars to schools health care programs for the poor they're also increasing fees to close another more. the nine billion dollars a nation why we see congress struggling to try to stop piling on to the fourteen trillion plus dollars of debt facing the u.s. and trying to agree to raise the debt ceiling nein while in greece they have passed austerity measures against this backdrop violent protests resistance on the streets has been raging the measures were demanded by international lenders such as the e.u. and the i.m.f. to stave off a greek default now earlier i spoke with me three covina a financial journalist on the ground there covering the protests in greece he gave us the very latest what is the worst that i've seen yet and i've been to a lot of these pr

bases while pushing the problem to the last minute when we really are backed into a corner artie's lauren lyster spoke to dean baker about this he's the co-director of the center for economic policy research she wanted him to start with his take on what exactly is going on here. well it flew through a political theater and certainly one senator walked out last week said their campaign has tax increases that close political theater i'm sure planned long time in advance the king knew it happened so those obviously theater and they know there's no way out they're going to have an agreement with president obama that doesn't involve some type of tax increase whatever they want to call it it's going to have to involve some some revenue increases if arts theatre the actually making progress i guess they will because you know i think end of the day they are going to have to have a deal so you can vision there's two two scenarios basically one is that they come to some sort of deal in the not too distant future the alternative is you actually get to the state run in oregon second and it's a hard and fast

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. now the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for libyan leader moammar gadhafi along with his son and his military intelligence chief there for crimes against humanity against political opponents now this is the second time in the court's nine year history that it is issued an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state let's say the success of this though the other was sudanese president omar al bashir who is now facing trial or excuse me he's not facing trial at the hague and that is because he is still ruling he's the president of sudan and his charges include war crimes now there are some other arrests that have been made that the court has issued let's look at some of them one is for the kenyan deputy prime minister and minister for finance of the republic of kenya. on charges of murder forcible transfer rate persecution other inhumane acts now if you have and it up the court been handed over by countries let's look at look at a couple of those one is charles ta

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. now this meeting brings together public and private leaders from the united states and other world democracies but it's a secret informal meeting and critics and activists allege it is anything but democratic it's called the builder group and the european union and the euro currency were reported to be its brainchild now this group is made up of heads of global companies big banks together with heads of state and leaders of nato and they're getting together right now for their meeting in the swiss resort town of st moritz now arches or and it is there and i asked her about the invite list and the agenda is here what we know about yours and she said we've already noted. we saw you outside the house where i think how i'm going to be coming up is one thing i'll point out is big because the people inside of them also get got like how when this is ready to know who is who is inside because unlike the process from the people who have the merit the cost and they think i would change presiden

i'm lauren lyster in your watching our team now while u.s. lawmakers are trying to come to an agreement on the country's debt problem and still trying to decide on raising the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling which mind you the u.s. has already blown through in greece protesters are taking to the streets and opposition to their government solutions greek police have fired tear gas at protesters they're trying trying to block the parliament building more than twenty thousand of them trying to prevent members of parliament from voting on new austerity measures measures so the country can get more bailout cash are to sara firth has been on the ground in the middle of the action and here's her report. the clashes between the police on the protesters still going to be something else in the states you can head to build a fire in the crowd you can see despite being told a long distance larry that was killed at a time. people have much a exactly most a lot of the blame of the police trying to find out that violence still breaking ou

i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. now president obama met with house republicans today on the debt ceiling in an exchange that house speaker john boehner called quote very frank we've got how you will but they reportedly reached no agreement and that's really no surprise now on the line is this bickering over the budget and meanwhile there is a risk that the country will default on its debts now it comes just after the white house voted down an increase to the debt limit by two point four trillion now the country has until august to get its act together and chances are congress will raise the debt limit as it has ten times over the last ten years so is what we're seeing all just what political theater well joining me now to talk all about it is motley he is president of less government. and caroline hellbent she is professor of politics at occidental college i want to thank both of you guys for joining me so first of all can we just agree that the debt ceiling needs to be raised and this is all showmanship in the mean