i will stay with it until we can get it done. the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about default. house speaker kevin mccarthy and president joe biden remain on the same page about not letting the u.s. default on its debt, but time is really running out to get a deal in place before the deadline. we ll have much more on the negotiations and that time line in just a moment. plus, a federal judge sends a message to an insurrectionist handing out the longest sentence to a january 6th defendant to date. and also ahead we ve got new details on presidential campaign fund-raising for florida governor ron desantis including some questionable actions by his gubernatorial staff. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 26th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. with less than a week until the united states could default on its debts house lawmakers have left
it s caught on video. mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is america reports, happened hours ago in new york. sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdie s death over his book satanic verses. sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdie s condition at this time? we do not know much about his condition. we have not received an update on the condition of the novelist, salman rushdie. set the viewers up, an hour and 20 minutes south of buffalo. a place where people live, a community for arts and literary figures who come here and lecture. and that s exactly what was happening. the new york state police says at just about 11:00 a.m. today, salman rushdie was on stage when he suffered an apparent stab to his neck. a man rushed on stage while he s having a discussion with his interviewer on that stage. his conditio
yeah, i think it s really important that we are not back here watching this again next spring. we ve already seen republicans will be irresponsible for this. they re happy to raise the debt ceiling when trump is in office. they did it a number of times and trump said, oh, no, you can t mess with the debt ceiling. let s not give them that opportunity. let s stay focused with what needs to happen next year, which is protecting people that need it in our country. instead of taking care of the very wealthy and then let the election occur, and hopefully that election will allow the debt ceiling to be dealt with a way responsible going forward. thank you so much for being with us tonight. that is the show for tonight. reminder you can catch my show american voices this weekend 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. eastern. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. i am not going to give up. we re not going to default. we re going to solve this problem.
or gave enough. some observers certainly would point out that desantis has used his office for political purposes quite a bit the last couple of years and sort of his whole ethos. let s talk about the week in desantis, well covered the live stream of the twitter space was pretty glitchy, bad news. the good news, though, that $8 million fund-raising haul. that s a huge number, frankly better than trump s been doing. talk to us about it. yeah, it s a big one day number, and better than the six weeks of the trump campaign. on the other hand, the expectation for desantis was so high because for the first basically five months of this year people expected him to gett he d be on the fundraising level. you know, what we ve seen so far is there s going to be a lot of focus on the supe pac, a budget of about $200 million. obviously, far more than the $8.2 million raised for the
tell the post that trump s aides also allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sentence papers in may of last year even before a subpoena was issued. investigators are reportedly suspicious about the timing of those events, which the newspaper sources say could indicate possible obstruction. according to the new york times, the boxes were moved just hours before trump lawyer evan corcoran searched the storage room where they were previously being held. after a search corcoran reportedly contacted the justice department and arranged for law enforcement to retrieve the boxes the very next day. when a top doj official arrived, he was not given access to that storage room, according to the times. instead the paper reports he was given an envelope containing 38 classified documents and a letter signed by corcoran assuring him that a diligent search for documents had been carried out. corcoran, of course, has become a key witness for jack smith in