hello, everyone. i m dana perino. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. dana: america just when you thought you had seen every scandal out of washington, there s this. a staffer for democratic senator ben cardin is out of a job after a graphic sex tape was filmed in a historic senate hearing room. capitol police are investigating how it was allowed to happen. it was recorded last week, but the time of day is unclear. it s the same esteemed places where supreme court justices had their confirmation hearings, where the 9/11 commission uncovered what happened there, and it s where james comey testified against former president trump. the identities of the people involved in the video have not been confirmed, but legal experts think they could face criminal charges like trespassing. meanwhile some in the media are really spinning this story. nbc news blames conservative outlets for reporting that a democratic senate staffer filmed the sex video in a capitol hill heari
deadline is june 1st. who has time for a break? well, apparently conversations are not productive, at least that s how the gop is framing it. here was the republicans lead negotiator, congressman garrett graves who walked out of the room early today. the house passed the strong bill. it has great savings, and it s responsible and puts us on a path. until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we re not going to sit here and talk to ourselves. speaker mccarthy says the pause is not fatal, and the white house says an agreement remains possible, but it does concede, the white house does, both sides are still pretty far apart, perhaps as far apart as some of the more progressive senate democrats who say the president should ignore a vote all together, and raise the ceiling by himself, with authority, they argue, is granted by the 14th amendment. and the house freedom caucus which tweeted today t
were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report
good morning it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific i m jose diaz-balart i ll be joined by the next two hours by yasmin vossoughian live outside the manhattan da s office in new york city where we re facing a week certain to go down in history about two hours from now former president donald trump is set to leave florida for new york city where tomorrow he will become the first former president arraigned on criminal charges. this, of course, centers on the alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels who says she had sex with trump which he denies sources tell nbc news the former president faces about 30 related to documents fraud the major security prep is under way in follower manhattan has authorities gear up for the unprecedented arrest of a former president. trump s former fixer, michael cohen, making his own prediction over the weekend mayhem. i expect complete and total mayhem we begin in manhattan with my colleague, yasmin vossoughian ahead
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. right now the fbi is at mike pence s indiana home trying to track down any classified documents that perhaps went home with the former vice president. it happens as pence also grapples with the big subpoena from the special counsel investigating donald trump. plus, ready or not, joe biden holds off on formally announcing he s running again but says he feels good about how the voters feel about him. and the death toll in turkey and syria now get this north of 22,000. countless souls remain under the rubble. hope in short supply as survivors grapple with what s next and with what they ve lost. translator: we are four families staying in this vehicle now. thank god we came out fine. but the buildings we live in are uninhabitable now. not only us but all the entire neighborhood we live in is like that. my whole family died. my father, mother, brother, sister, an