effective in either preventing you from getting infected and the first place, or if you get infected, keeping you from getting sick enough to feel symptomatic or have to go to the hospital. i think it the power of science is enormous here, and we shoulde very optimistic. but it is going to take, i think, a very concentrated effort to accelerate the debt element of these antivirals. gillian: the biden administration is following cdc guidance here that says you can get a booster shot, that you are eligible if you have your second vaccine shot in six months or longer ago. right connect we now know that in europe, a lot of countries, folks are getting booster shots in as little as three months. if the president s priority is getting everyone the maximum amount possible, why aren t we loosening the guidelines, whatever you want to call it connect decreasing the timeline
reasonable cuts, similar to what moody s and s&p are asking us to do so this is not a partisan bill. neil: but it is weird whoever arranged the meeting with the s&p folks, what they will say is we risk financial armageddon if we default, and the aaa credit rating goes away, association obviously, i would assume it was meant to scare republican members who were there. guest: i don t think so. if you read the statements we have from moody and standard & poor it says if we raise the debt element without credible, significant long term deficit reduction, they are going do lower our bond rating so they are not after us just raising the debt limit they know we have to do this. neil: all right. putting meat behind it. you have been a critic as you have written in your book, about this sort of facade.
the work force have given up on the idea of actually firing anybody. or laying them off. they talking about plans to reduce the workforce through attrition, the senator was talking, saying, well, maybe we can hire one new worker for every three who leave but the idea that underperforming workers are let go is not possible. stuart: not present in government thinking. all right, bring ron, former bill clinton said he would use the 14th amendment to raise the debt element to congress doesn t, if he were president now, like all immigrants i carry around my copy of the constitution so i am looking at the 14th amendment section four that says the public debt of the united states including pensions shall not be questioned. president clinton says that would give president obama authority to raise the debt limit. what do you say? guest: that is an idea bouncing around on the left for a couple of weeks, 14th amendment was the post civil war amendments had to do with paying
every three who leave but the idea that underperforming workers are let go is not possible. stuart: not present in government thinking. all right, bring ron, former bill clinton said he would use the 14th amendment to raise the debt element to congress doesn t, if he were president now, like all immigrants i carry around my copy of the constitution so i am looking at the 14th amendment section four that says the public debt of the united states including pensions shall not be questioned. president clinton says that would give president obama authority to raise the debt limit. what do you say? guest: that is an idea bouncing around on the left for a couple of weeks, 14th amendment was the post civil war amendments had to do with paying off civil debt and most experts believe it is not relative haven t to this situation. certainly the leaders of the republican party in congress believe it is absolutely not relevant and the president does not have the power to unilaterally raise the deb
why didn t they do that weeks ago regarding libya? why didn t they get involved weeks ago in the debt limit talks? they are similar stories, waiting too late for the president and the cabinet to get in here. but it is politics, the republicans want the same thing. some criticized cantor forgetting out of the meeting and suddenly this is showmanship, right, theater season in politics. you wait. we will play our cards. and bring in the big guns. have the president come to the table. the speaker wents the president to be the leader. he says the american people voted for a new majority in the house with clear orders to end the spending in work. the american people will in the accept an increase in the debt element that is accompanied by job-crushing tax hikes and failed to dramatically cut and reform government spending. so, it is interesting because 60 percent of republicans, it looks like, will in the support any sort of revenue increase or tax