Host: Samantha Stone

Guests:
Gerald O’Driscoll, The Cato Institute
Pundits:
Angie Taylor, Consultant, Guardian Quest
Bill Uffelman, President, Nevada Bankers Association
Alison Gaulden, Vice President, Planned Parenthood

"They are almost an arm of the government, so they’ve been reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them. They’re playing an elaborate game... They don’t want to downgrade sooner than the government wants to be downgraded, but they want to be a credible threat, because that plays into the Obama adminitration's hand, so to speak. "

- Gerald O'Driscoll, Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute, says Moody's, Fitch and S&P are not the only bond raters, they're just the ones the government requires for certain transactions. And yes, they have a dog in the debt-limit fight.