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Does not mean we need to default. the government will have plenty of money to pay the interest on the dent. it just won't have money of money to pay for everything it likes. it will have about three quarters of the cash it needs to do business. the treasury secretary says he can't set priorities. he's the nation's chief financial officer. i know i could set the priorities and any good financial person can and it's his job to do that. if he doesn't have the financial acumen to deal with that, he needs to move over for someone who can. >> when you talk about dollars and cents, this math is done ...

The cbo earlier this year of how higher interest rates would effect deficits in the next ten years. if ten year treasury notes stay at the baseline average of 5.2%, a one year payment on just the interest on the national debt will rise from 243 billion in 2014 to a one year payment of $857 billion by 2023. now, if interest rates were to stick to their averages in the 1990s, when rates on ten year treasury notes averaged 6.7%, the additional costs would be a little over $1 trillion in 2023. but take a look at this. if interest rates were to rise to the averages from the 1980s, when the rates on...

Vuitton handbags, part of a display featuring 23 animals made from designer handbags. the exhibit is in china why? well, because they love those handbags. it is in fact vuitton's second largest market. civil servants earn modest incomes in china, yet they find ways to get the things they love that cost tens of thousands of dollars. that doesn't add up. just last year, chinese officials were charged in an estimated $57 billion worth of personal expenses on government-issued credit cards. so when it comes to giant designer pandas, the chinese taxpayers are the ones who have to bear the load. >> ...

On tuesday a powerful senate investigation's sub committee meant to demand answers for the ceo of the most valuable company in the world. apple is based in california in 2012 enjoyed sales of $157 billion. that's $47 billion in profit in just one year. and what the senators wanted cook to explain were the findings from this report. and they pay no u.s. taxes even though the businesses are run from the united states. one subsidiary called it aoi, manages to have no legal tax residents at all. so it doesn't pay taxes to any country. despite polling in $30 billion in revenue in the past four year...

Because their use of chemical weapons is limited. listen to what they're saying on the sunday shows. >> american people are weary, as you pointed out. they don't want boots on the ground. i don't want boots on the ground. >> we don't need to put boots on the ground. but we need to enable their neighbors, the neighbors of syria to bring some sort of peaceful resolution to this. >> we don't ever want to say, absolutely never any boots on the ground because iran is busy here. iran is very busy here. and so is hezbollah. >> gretchen: so besides being war weary amongst the american public, it's als...