tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
and perhaps more important, polluting the jury pool, and not just polluting the jury pool, but kind of intimidating the jury pool that will ultimately decide his fate. yeah. interesting. and you re kind of reminding us, there s more than one way that these kind of statements can play out. as for the hearing itself that s coming up, mr. pomeranz has been louder than the d.a., that s for sure. they initially tried to find some way to avoid this, but because he s i guess a former government official that proved harder and he ll testify in a closed door setting. what can he do if he wants to maintain privacy or privilege where warranted in this setting? and do you expect any of it to leak out given that the republicans seem to want to make something of this on the committee? second question is the easier one. there s no closed hearing where things don t leak out. i ve done many congressional hearings with all sorts of assurances that no, no,