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
likely. and then the question will be what happens. what are the ramifications? is there a way they can stall that default for a couple of days to get this over the finish line? we shall see and have this later on in the show and undoubtedly later next week. another major headline here the founder of the far right group the oath keepers has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison following his conviction on seditious conspiracy in connection with the january 6th insurrection. stewart rhodes called himself a political prisoner in a courtroom speech before the sentencing yesterday, and he believes, he says, the only crime he committed was opposing those who are, quote, destroying our country. well, the judge disagreed. he countered those comments saying rhodes presented an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and to the republic and to very fabric of this democracy. 18 years is the longest sentence for any january 6th defendant so
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,
unique threat, ongoing threat to democracy because he s said he s charismatic and he continues with this message, these other defendants are in that same boat. in fact, one of these defendants was apologetic on the stand for what he did, that s a defendant named jessica really apologetic and also is transgender. she will go in and say the difficulty she had in the military throughout this and perhaps that s what sort of inspired it. she thought she was overcharged, jessica watkins, but she was apologetic when she testified during her actual trial for what she did. i think it ll be interesting to see where these ultimate sentences fall, but i would expect more on the 12-year range then what we saw for sarah rhodes. and you ll be back out there for us today. thank you so much, and you just