he is the reason that the oath keepers were in washington, d.c. on january 6th. that was what the judge found today. and he also believes that stewart rhodes poses an ongoing threat to democracy. rhodes made no attempt to try and dissuade the judge of believing that. and the judge certainly did say that explicitly after stewart rhodes expressed no remorse in court today and continued to be very far right in what he said to the judge and not saying that he believed that he had done anything wrong at all. now, the other thing, with kelly meggs, that was the second defendant sentenced today, kelly meggs was much more remorseful. and judge mehta looked at him and reminded him how serious of an offense this is, seditious conspiracy. and then spoke about how he found it so astonishing that american citizens who had been upstanding average americans before january 6th then became criminals. and i want to read for you one of the last things that judge mehta said after this marathon d
right. so you give me the time on the other side. odd because it was one of the few times i could not see it. oh is it really. is that what we re saying? i was late one time in all the years i ve been together. all right. now a lot of it s all right. so out your awesome show and i will pick it up where you left off. i m laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. we re going to bring you voices from inside tonight s twitter announcement from ron desantis. david sax, who actually moderated the event along with congressman thomas massie ,he participated as well. he ll be here. plus, you re going to hear from newt gingrich, charlie hurt, raymond arroyo. they re going to compare previous presidential launches and tell you how this one stacked up. but first, as you might have guessed, desantis launches. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now it s quiet. let s see. so we all look so just to simplify. all right, great. so let s see. crashing her
simply the best. the lead starts right now. what s love got to do got to do with it remembering an entertainment legend. tina turner dead at the age of 83. plus, ron desantis bucking the trend. less than two hours to go before the florida republican using twitter and elon musk to launch his campaign for president. coming up, how donald trump, the front-runner, is responding to desantis unconventional approach. and we re not going to default. we re going to solve this problem. oh, really? how s that fwgoing to happen. only eight days until the u.s. possible default. negotiators on both sides go back to the drawing board to try to avoid economic catastrophe. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with sad news in our pop culture lead. music legend, tina turner, has died at the sage of 83. a post on her verified facebook account says today we saw good-bye to a dear friend who leaves us her greatest work. her music. tina, we will miss you dearly. you re
you, from nbc news here in miami, welcome everyone to alex reid reports. we begin with breaking news, this just in an update from capitol hill, where negotiators from the white house and house republicans are working through the holiday weekend, inching closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. it comes as after a news of some new breathing room, as the treasury secretary now says the deadline for default is june 5th. moments ago, house speaker kevin mccarthy, giving an update. but. i feel closer to an agreement now than i did before, because i see progress. so this is not easy initiating for me. that does not matter. at one pmi, i will talk with democratic congressman jasmine crockett about the negotiations, as well as renewed calls for police reform after an 11 year old boy is shot by an officer. more breaking news for you, in two hours, the texas house begins debating whether to impeach the states republican attorney general, ken paxton after a republican-led i
room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the worker was reportedly helping trump val l.a. matt nauda move the boxes but didn t know what was inside of them. nbc has yet to confirm that account. it comes on the heels of a similar the washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers his office received a may 2022 subpoena. and more shocking details from that report reveal trump showed those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump has insisted he s done no wrong. i have every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act. i was there and i took what i took and it gets declassified. i took the documents i m allowed to. but reports indicate special counsel jack smith