shaped his music. also there for us is royal albert hall archivist, alicia kirkbride, who s been looking into the venue s history when it comes to windrush and caribbean culture. thank you for being on the programme. it is an absolutely fascinating anniversary and the events around it, how do you feel about performing tonight and in terms of the experiences from your family when they first arrived in just go through some of that. it’s a just go through some of that. it s a resti . ious just go through some of that. it s a prestigious building just go through some of that. it s a prestigious building so just go through some of that. it s . prestigious building so to be part of it, i am chuffed. from where i am from as an eastender, nobody has really done this kind of thing so i m happy to be representing. my family worked really hard to raise me and they taught me a lot about
available. in the meantime the treasury has not said how it will pay bill or issue ious. before any of that happens, the u.s. got slapped with a new warning. overnight one of the top credit rating agencies, fitch, put the u.s. on a rating watch negative. making clear this man-made political crisis has put the country on the verge of losing the triple a credit rating. the last major debt debacle in 2011 led to the unprecedented first ever downgrade to the united states from s&p. christine romans is here on this. this is something you and i talk about all the time. a watch negative, what does it mean? it means if they don t do it exactly right. the u.s. is going to lose the triple a credit rating and that will make it more expensive to
its own because that way the u. s. government funds itself by treasury auctions, by auctioning off, essentially, ious. and if that process is challenged by quote, republicans, you could end up in a real dangerous situation where interest rates still spike, and as you saw in the financial crisis, according to the administration. the key point here is that, if you don t raise the debt ceiling, you have two completely inconsistent orders from the law, pay the debts, and not to pay the debts, which the executive is gonna have to be something. jeff stein, great reporting on this. thank you very much. there is all kinds of trouble for donald trump tonight. there is an expanded investigation to his overseas business. a new defamation charge from e. jean carroll, resulting i ll tell you on the flip side. also, his own lawyers think he s headed to the cling. george conway joins me on all of that, next.
you have been, you know, talking about this ad nauseam over and over and over again. you said something that really sent shivers down my spine. you said if we didn t pass the debt limit, we would see our living standards go back in time. this is uncredibly dangerous. we have $56 billion in the bank this morning. we have a bunch of bills coming due next month. there will be money coming in from state tax receipts and the like. to be playing it this close is really, really dangerous. you re talking about ious for service members. you could have delays in soeshl security check. think about the senior that can t go to the store to buy
but that would put the country in the fault anyway because we would end up with ious to all the people who were being stuffed by the president of the united states. so, it wouldn t achieve the purpose of any such lawsuit. it would be asking a court to order the president to violate section four of the 14th amendment, which says that we must pay our debts. so, i think the president really need not to worry about any law so that would stop him from obeying the spending laws, and i m not suggesting that some people have that he go to court. he doesn t need the courts permission to follow these laws. and this isn t at all like the lawsuit that was brought on monday by 75,000 federal workers, who said that they want the debt ceiling to be held unconstitutional because it threatens their jobs. that s a different kind of