>> markets have been wrong, so have television commentators. >> greta: what happens then? >> well, i don't know if we want to think about that. it could be ugly. remember we have tarp. it didn't pass first time around, the dow dropped 800 points and congress came back and backed it. >> greta: so a couple days of -- . >> i'm not saying it's not going to be a bumpy ride. we have all of the politics and but none of -- nobody on either side of the aisle is saying we're going to have a default and that we're not going to not agree to pay our bills. >> greta: i can't imagine us defaulting. the united states defaulting? sounds unheard of. and newspapers from around the world online. i see what they're saying about us. and other people discussing it. we can't do our own finances,