doctor is a professor at ufc san francisco s collaborative research group. inventing new standards and reproductive, health a professor at advancing new standards of reproductive health. the author of no real choice, how culture and politics matter for reproductive autonomy. robbyn marty is the operations west alabama woman. center also the author of the new handbook for a post-roe america. i will discuss the latest on the debt ceiling standoff with democratic senator, chris coons of delaware. he says that defaulting would have a quote, catastrophic effect on the country and must be taken off the table. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, it s saturday may 20th, as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after just one bat election cycle, the gop would have regrouped and reassess its shortcomings so it could rebound. but it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significan
dealing with this house majority. this is the kind of thing that causes people to not want to follow the news because it sounds like chaos. but in, fact this is the normal business of the house and the senate. you are on the appropriations committee, that is the process by which we fund the government and prior to that we had a budgeting process, and this is ongoing conversations about how much we should spend and whether we should raise revenue or lower spending, they are valid discussions and i m sure yes but a lot of years having. they generally don t lead us to this point, where we may be about to default on our obligations. i just need to get from you why this is a serious as it is. well, first, ali, it is as serious as it is because the united states benefits from the fact that for the rest of the world, investing in our treasury instruments in the borrowing done by the u.s. government by our president department is viewed as the safest place to put their money. not just in t