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Agencies, which are sounding the alarm as the deadline gets closer. for more on what all this means, we bring in cnbc's steve sedgwick live in london. good morning, steve. >> good day to you. moody's joining s&p in saying, look, guys, if you don't raise this debt limit, which you reached on may 16th anyway, at $4.3 trillion, there's a threat you're going to lose your aaa rating, which means people are not going to want to hold what's been seen previously as ultrasafe bonds. what boosted the markets before that was ben bernanke, who's been appearing on capitol hill and actually said the econo...

Compromise on spending cuts and tax hikes as part of a plan to raise the debt ceiling. all of this as moody's put the country's stellar credit rating under review. nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us from washington with more. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. just when you thought it couldn't get any uglier, word of the tensest talks yet at the white house. republican house majority leader eric cantore is saying that the president said to him, "eric, don't call my bluff," and then stormed out of the building. democrats say those reports are overblown. they admit the presiden...

Sidelines, standing in front of 100 or 125 republicans, so i'm very concerned. putting aside that, what they have simply failed to do, they won their elections talking about jobs, lost jobs in this country, lost jobs over the last three years, and they seem to have no solutions other than that kind of end fighting, so i'm very concerned about that half of the legislative branch of our government being able to do much of anything, and that concerns me. it concerns moody's, obviously, and their rating, rating agency in terms of aaa rating for the u.s. and it concerns all of us, including the bus...

Real decision is rendered by americans in november of next year that's we the real issue will be decided. >> sean: i might argue on this point, by having control of the house, they can't pass a spending bill without the house's approval. i think there's a lot of leverage there, similarly with the report on the standard & poor's what they said this week about our debt and the threat to our aaa rating i think that gives enormous leverage they could hold out for a very strong deal with the white house. i think they have the upper hand. >> i'm with you on trying to get a strong deal. but here's wh...

Real decision is rendered by americans in november of next year that's we the real issue will be decided. >> sean: i might argue on this point, by having control of the house, they can't pass a spending bill without the house's approval. i think there's a lot of leverage there, similarly with the report on the standard & poor's what they said this week about our debt and the threat to our aaa rating i think that gives enormous leverage they could hold out for a very strong deal with the white house. i think they have the upper hand. >> i'm with you on trying to get a strong deal. but here's wh...