we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2020 el
consequences if lawmakers fail to raise it. a bill to eliminate the irs will soon come to the house floor. it s the result manufacture deals that kevin mccarthy made in order to become speaker. and also ahead, former president trump offers up a in you reason for why he had hundreds of classified documents stashed at his palm beach country club. they were cool keepsakes. we ll trin to explain that just ahead. we ll try to explain that just ahead. good morning. welcome to way too early. the united states is expected to reach the debt ceiling today. that means the country s borrowing limit is maxed out. that forces the treasury department to take extraordinary measures to keep the payments going through early june and prevent the united states from defaulting. there is little progress on capitol hill to resolve the problem. white house, senate democrats and republicans are all refusing to budge on the stances. the white house is warning that there should be no negotiat
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
i remember the night, was very dark. we pulled in to his home. it did have the feel of almost being in a bond movie. he had a lot going on. a millionaire computer genius living in paradise, and on the edge. i tried to cut his throat, but he just said, do it . he takes the gun out, and he puts it to his said. the jungle started to infect him, almost like a virus. then came the mystery his neighbor suddenly found dead. there was blood all over the floor. everyone was crying. i said, no, it can t possibly happen. and the millionaire suddenly on the run, taunting authorities, launching a chase, an international hide and seek hunt. it seemed like it s fiction. it doesn t seem real. he may have eluded the police, but he did not elude us. so, neither you nor anybody representing you went over to greg faull s house and shot him through in the head? no, sir. can you possibly get any inkling of the truth? you will not believe the things that happen. get rea
presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. the election lies. i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and put out, i told the president this was [ bleep ]. the riot. i was slipping in people s blood. it was carnage. it was chaos. and the warning. i say this to my republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. this morning, i ll talk to one of the members of the january 6th committee, democrat elaine luria. the documentary filmmaker who testified on thursday and the republican congressman who defied his party and voted for an independent commission. turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her at the shooting. how about that. gun safety demonstrations, coast to coast. even if democrats and republicans do reach a deal, will the limited changes really make a difference? joining me for ins