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Imminently qualified. and the key thing congressman jeffries pointed out is that she has been twice confirmed by the senate. >> thats right. >> unanimously. there is no reason for her to not be, to not be confirmed, except to embarrass the president. >> well, frank, you work capitol hill. what are you hearing? i mean what are you hearing from senators and their staffs? what is really going on behind the scenes here? >> well i think theres no doubt that once loretta lynchs nomination does make it...

Helicopter wisconsins him away. frisk him for any explosives before they put him on the helicopter. dramatic scene and yes, america wants sergeant bergdahl back. did president obama get a bum deal? could he have gotten him back without a high risk prisoner swap. the obama administration was brokering for a deal since 2013. catherine herridge joins us. >> thanks, greta. a military source confirmed to me there was a second track that was being pursued as as late as december 2013 and that second tr...

Thanks to you both for joining me. i want to talk about this idea of what options really are available. this morning there was a lot of conversation on the various sunday talk shows about things like boycotting the g-8 summit in sochi, potentially the expulsion of russia from the g-8, economic sanctions, suspension of trade talks, asset freezes, visa bans. in your mind, what would be the strongest leverage point out of those options? >> i think all these options are very good. theyre all possibl...

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Over. its a pr nightmare and theyre both real and perceived threats to this. but i think that they have to act like theyre going to or else all the leverage is gone. >> well, theres various points of leverage here right now. you say its a pr nightmare if we go over it. if theres a debt default, thats more than a pr nightmare. thats an economic catastrophe. >> i said real and perceived. >> that affects everybody. if you move beyond the debt ceiling, if you can take that aspect of it off the table...

For $1 trillion in increasing the debt ceiling and so that is our next leverage point. it is a shame that in this nation where every developed country in the world knows that our greatest threat is our fiscal solvency that you have to have the leverage points. you would think that people would just sit down, solve the problem because we know it is our greatest threat. but that is not the case here. we have a president who has not laid out a plan. obviously a spend-aholic. he doesnt really worry ...

Before august 2nd? >> there was a technical default around the debt ceiling back in 1979. and that was just a mistake where they literally used to send out the checks and the checks got there a little bit late a day or two late and just from that, without all the politics around it and the game of chicken going on, we saw 60 basis points spike in treasury bonds from that alone. that gives us some warning that this is not something to play around with. >> for our viewers who dont trade in treasur...