york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we are talk
or be in charge of this months ago. this hunter biden investigation seems to be on really slowly moving. i think it s time for the fbi and d.o.j. to do something. dana: washington correspondent mike emmanuel is following this story in washington. reporter: good morning. the top republican on senate judiciary chuck grassley says whistleblower documents reveals that president biden was aware of hunter biden s business arrangement. grassley sent a letter to attorney general merrick garland and fbi director christopher wray. grassley says the fbi has significant impactful evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by hunter biden and james biden. hunter is the president s son. james is the president s brother. grassley indicate that the president s relatives began working on behalf a chinese energy giant while joe biden was vice president but did not collect compensation until he left office in 2017. former business partner spoke to tucker carlson about joe biden s r
the document by tuesday, he will begin contempt of congress proceedings. we know director wray and chairman comber are expected to speak next wednesday. curiously, john, sandra, that s one day after the fbi deadline. certainly multiple stories we are following. that s a big one we want to watch. busy week at the doj. david, thank you. sandra? sandra: let s bring in democrat california congressman on the committee. thank you for joining us. he became so concerned about prosecutors handling of a high profile controversial investigation he felt duty bound to sound alarms. how concerned are you about the allegations? i supported whistle-blowers coming to congress. i support this gentleman s right to speak to the committee. i hope he would also speak to the senate committee. my understanding is he has been unwilling to speak to the senate committee where
be the hunter biden tax probe. gary half lee, 14 year veteran of the irs revealed his identity in an interview. a congressman is here on what democrats are saying about the latest revelations. we begin with david punt at the justice department. before we get to that, you have breaking news for us. that s right. following several stories on the justice beat. the first seditious conspiracy sentence has now been handed down from the attack on the capitol, january 6, 2021. that s for stewart rhodes, leader of the oath keepers. we can confirm he was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. this came down just moments ago from federal judge meta. i want to read notes from producer jay gibson who was in the courthouse. according to the judge, he told stewart rhodes you celebrated it, meaning january 6th, you thought it was a good thing. your only regret is you
can get questions in, noting that the president is about to leave town. she was asked about that, him leaving town amid negotiations and karine jean-pierre said he can deal with this issue anywhere. except australia or new guinea. a week ago, he cancelled that part of the trip to get home for negotiations. clearly he can t do it from everywhere. let s bring in david, former campaign surrogate. want to talk about ron desantis and his campaign last night. karine jean-pierre talked about that a moment ago. first of all, the debt ceiling crisis. there s going to have to be a compromise. can biden sell it to progressives, and can mccarthy sell it to the freedom caucus. that s anyone s guess. we need to see the final package. there could be a deal as early as tomorrow, which could be in place by wednesday s default deadline. listen, you have good