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affair heats up as russia announces a new set of sanctions targeting trump critics. and stacey abrams joins me. we begin tonight with the old bait and switch, were one week away from a potential default on the national debt, every economic expert agrees would be catastrophic for our economy resulting in millions of americans becoming unemployed. interest rates on your homes, cars and credit cards shooting through the roof and a major punishing recession, a meeting between president b...

>> yeah, the last time they brought us to the brink of this in 2011, moodys downgraded the u.s. from aaa-plus to aaa-minus and this was catastrophic, that sent wall street tumbling and it was a disaster, that was close to a default. i want to talk about that policy difference. republicans are insisting that the only way theyre willing to raise the debt limit is if they get work requirements, lets start with facts, work requirements are already law, you cant get food stamps you have to be working...

See on tv are the relationships that we have in real life. and its so special. i mean. you guys are the best people i have ever worked with and i have the best bosses here. this has been the best experience of my whole life and its been so hard to make this decision to leave it. but its. ainsley: will you come back? you can always come back. jillian: at some point you choose if you so chose to focus on yourself and personal life thats what im choosing. i know we are running out of time gavin and...

How to protect our embassy on 9/11. what that conversation was. >> meanwhile, i mean all of this going on overseas while here at home obviously still in financial trouble. we have just been downgraded yet again another credit agency you will remember back in july a year ago, moodies downgraded us from our a.a.a., the stellar raiding. now egan jones has downgraded us three notches from triple a to aa minus. >> this would have been unimaginable moving with portugal at this point. one of these mile...

Prices. those drove up consumer prices .6 of a point. industrial production fell by 1.2%. the most in three years. the dow finished up the week by gaining 53-1/2. the s&p 500 was up 6. the nasdaq ended 28 ahead. the egan jones credit rating agency downgraded the rating on u.s. debt one level from a.a. to a.a.aa.-minus. it says the federal reserve plan to bind mortgage bonds each month will hurt the u.s. economy, reduce the value of the dollar and raise the price of oil. as we told you, the u.s. ...

Into february s&p said we need 4 trillion-dollar in cuts, right? >> thats right. over the nerks decade. essentially what this deal that the president signed into law, just last week, 917 billion immediately, right? now this super committee, which we dont know who is going to be on it has to come up with at least 1.5 trillion more. moodys saying on top of that you have to get to 4 trillion. before we go to aa. >> we have some graphics to give people a sense of where we stand in terms of who has t...

Very slightly and same story for the xetra dax. here in asia, most of the markets finished lower led by tokyo. the nikkei lost more than 1% by the close. standard & poors cut japans rating to aa minus on thursday saying japan most likely will struggle with the fiscal deficit for several more years. the hang seng and asx 200 lost nearly 1%. the shanghai composite gained slightly despite a lagging performance by some property stocks. and lets go now to john again in davos. japan made big news by...