monoxide detect ter it needed a battery. brian: at least it wasn t a leak. steve: i didn t know. i couldn t find any more batteries that fit it. it s like is there carbon monoxide. ains is it one of those rectangular? steve: it was a double a. you are thinking of a 9-volt. i took batteries out of the tv remote. ainsley: reminder to change the battery in your smoke alarm. steve: i should have done it two weeks ago. we have a lot to talk to you about on this wednesday. show down brewing between president trump s lawyers and robert mueller. brian: leaks now show the special counsel is considering a subpoena to get the president to talk if he won t voluntarily. ainsley: that s right. griff jenkins is live in washington to break it all down for us. what s the latest? good morning, guys. if you had any doubt robert robt mueller want to question the president. we now know he is willing to go to make it happening. threatening a subpoena march meeting with trump attorneys
will they invoke the best interest of baseball clause and ban him for life and play through an appeal which the other players would do if they re not banned for life based on that clause or come to some compromise? year-and-a-half has been thrown out there. we don t know. irony seemingly want nothing to do with these guys because he has been a black eye for the franchise, cost them a lot of money and play tonight, double a. he is scheduled to play tonight for trenton aa for the yankees which is amazing. rick: he is trying to recover from an irjustry and he had surgery in the off-season. what would baseball have against a-rod, talking a main nor penalty against him versus other guys? started with ryan braun of milwaukee brew is, first guy to be suspended for biogenesis, lab in miami that deals in drugs, no way around with it with drug dealer anthony bosh. getting braun first allows them to have credibility for bosh. this as i said a drug dealer, he has no credibility.
stave off, obviously, a government shutdown, it would if approved, it would keep things going, but it would not be to the credit markets liking and they might, might force the issue, that is the credit agencies and go ahead and downgrade us. as i said before, as well, shep, there s a school of thought out there that we don t deserve the triple-a rating we ve enjoyed for years through this president and the last president and it would probably be a lilith recognizanre recognizanre recognizanrec a little late recognizing that reality. and including the days we financed wars. neil, what practically speaking, if the united states credit rating is downgraded, why do i care again? if that happens, if all of a sudden we lose the triple-a rating, it falls to double-a. and in order to keep bringing investors in and up the ante and analogous to someone s credit report:
as of we know it is in the 3 trillion dollars vicinity. now, that s better than nothing at all, but that would stave off, obviously, a government shutdown, it would if approved, it would keep things going, but it would not be to the credit markets liking and they might, might force the issue, that is the credit agencies and go ahead and downgrade us. as i said before, as well, shep, there s a school of thought out there that we don t deserve the triple-a rating we ve enjoyed for years through this president and the last president and it would probably be a lilith recognizanre recognizanre recognizanrec a little late recognizing that reality. and including the days we financed wars. neil, what practically speaking, if the united states credit rating is downgraded, why do i care again? if that happens, if all of a sudden we lose the triple-a rating, it falls to double-a.