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
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
thought you should have brought the weapons and if you had, you would have hung nancy pelosi from a lamppost. that s from the judge. this trial went on for weeks. he was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy, a rare charge. the other story we are following from the justice department, folks here are watching closely at what s happening across the street at irs headquarters. that s where the wi, gary half lee, spoke with cbs news. take a listen. that was my red line meeting. it just got to the point where that switch was turned on and i just couldn t silence my conscience any more. he talks about an october, 2022 meeting with department of justice investigators. the commissioner of the irs wrote to republicans and democrats, says he has not been part of any retaliation plot regarding