kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. it is pretty much a year and a half now since you were released from imprisonment in iran. how much distance do you now feel from that whole experience? it feels sometimes like it never happened. it feels like it was a very lengthy, especially vivid nightmare that ijust dreamt one night when i was asleep and have woken up the next day, and i still have those memories of that nightmare lingering with me. but because i m in the same familiarspaces, back at my home that i was in before i went to iran, sometimes i have to pinch myself and remind myself that i ve actually gone through that terrible ordeal and that experience in real life. you did say a little while ago, you said when you first released, you think that you re going to be shattered, you re going to be broken but actually, that s not really true. from my experience, at least, you say the
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our debt even if the debt ceiling is not raised. okay? okay. having said that, i mean, it s very important to know that. having said that, if we don t raise it, that might mean that we have less revenue to pay into, you know, to our debt and as a result of of that our triple-a rating is on watch, and could be subject to coming down, which makes sense, just like a corporation, kelly. if a corporation s earnings aren t good their credit rating might drop a little bit and that s what s happening here, but we re not going to default on our debt. kelly: well, let me ask you, how would this affect our personal saving and spending? what should we do about our 401(k) and our future savings? and this is a good question. regardless if we default or not default, but we have a problem in this country with debt. and if our credit rating does go down or regardless if it goes down or not. people should stay fully invested. we re going to closer to the wire to that august 2nd deadline a lot mo