It is. You know, as David Walker would say, the -- what we were doing last week was paying the bar bills on the Titanic. And now in the coming weeks we're going to fight over the Titanic itself. And I do think that there is -- this is likely to be a huge battle.
David Gergen: “It is. You know, as David Walker would say, the -- what we were doing last week was paying the bar bills on the Titanic.…”
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Gergen discusses the upcoming debt ceiling battle, comparing it to a significant crisis.
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