ali vitali, thanks for bringing us that regulatory. with us is one of the congresswomen who ali mentioned who testified at that hearing, congresswoman barbara lee of california. thank you for sharing some time with us this afternoon. you shared your story for the public record, uncharted testimony for you. why was it important to testify about your personal experience? thank you very much. let me say, having an abortion is my personal business, it s nobody else s business, it s a private decision i made with my mother and my family. so i have been very reluctant to talk about that because of just that. what is taking place in the country compelled me to talk about those days i remember so well, having a back alley abortion, and i survived. but you know what, we re getting back there if we don t do something and do something quickly. as hard as it is to talk about these grueling decisions that i had to make at age 16, i had
United states has coming due, it s really november 1st when they have $67 billion of payments that have to go out the door all on the same day. stop saying that. thursday. the question is whether or not markets will start to freak out on thursday or tomorrow when we get closer to it and looks like, hey, wait a second, looks like this thing isn t going to happen. unpredictable. if there isn t pain come thursday, a lot of members don t believe the debt ceiling is a real thing at all. they are going to dig in further and say why should we do anything. if it s not hurting my people back home, why should i care. this is like katrina coverage. i remember in the early evening katrina barreling towards new orleans, not so bad. a couple of hours it went dark and then we woke up to half a city under water. part of it we re much like hurricane katrina in uncharted testimony, we don t really actually know what happens when