Republican and Democratic Leaders set to meet with the president for highstakes negotiations on the debt ceiling. America is not a deadbeat nation. We pay our bills. With the Clock Ticking toward a june 1st default deadline failure to do that would be unprecedented. We talk with two powerful senators who have a history of working across the aisle about how to avoid an economic meltdown. We should never put the credit of the United States at risk. Until the president engages, it doesnt matter what we do. Later this hour country superstar Miranda Lambert on how she could set a new record in Country Music. It sounds really big when you say it like that. Is that part of your super power . Get it done, baby. It was possible that i may not see the end of the year. You mishandled that . I dont know if i mishandled im a little wistful. This is not where i thought this story was headed. Good evening and welcome back to whos talking. Its called the x day, the day when the u. S. Government defaul
republican and democratic leaders set to meet with the president for high-stakes negotiations on the debt ceiling. america is not a deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. with the clock ticking toward a june 1st default deadline failure to do that would be unprecedented. we talk with two powerful senators who have a history of working across the aisle about how to avoid an economic meltdown. we should never put the credit of the united states at risk. until the president engages, it doesn t matter what we do. later this hour country superstar miranda lambert on how she could set a new record in country music. it sounds really big when you say it like that. is that part of your super power? get it done, baby. it was possible that i may not see the end of the year. you mishandled that? i don t know if i mishandled i m a little wistful. this is not where i thought this story was headed. good evening and welcome back to who s talking. it s ca
Ari melber in the news media space. he is connecting with you on multiple levels and educating you culturally, and also reaching the depth of seriousness and journalistic integrity that we all deserve. you re very kind, very kind. and this is why this is why you can only be in so many newsrooms. we need to be around musicians pause then you get the energy up. they call it the hype man in hip-hop, the band leader, whatever you want to call it, you get the energy up. let s take it to world music radio. tell us about the new album. it took ten years, not 11 or 12 years to get to this. but i just couldn t do this until we had the support and the success that s allowed for this record to happen. it s an expansive global popular music album. and it really is a concept record. you re guided through the album.
you thought the west was wild but you ain t saddled up with me if i was a cowboy i d be a queen you say it s not a concept record but it does have a thread, which is? it s got a traveling thread in it. we wrote most of this record in 2020 when we didn t have pressure writing for anything. we went to our farm, kind of holed up. what better to write about than travel when you can t? so we kind of lived vicariously through this record, through this process. what s funny is they always say, life follows art or art follows life. in this case, wrote the record, it came out, my husband and i took a month-long airstream trip last summer. so i felt like i was kind of living out some parts of palomino and all the characters and stories we told. i want to talk about the acm awards. because you have the most of those in history. 38 acm awards, including nine