happening right now, sentencing is under way for oathkeeper s founder stewart rhodes for his part in the capitol riots, and we will find out the time he is going to get for seditious conspiracy. and ron desantis has a huge gap to close against donald trump and we hear about the plan he has to try to close it. and a man is able to walk for the first time in decades, and we have the latest of what is helping him to do it. this is noouz. this is cnn news central. negotiators are working 24/7 to get a deal on the debt limit as the treasury department is warning that the u.s. could default one week from today. this is what house speaker kevin mccarthy said in the last hour. every hour matters, and this is why the white house is meeting on this, and why last night, the team they have is very professional and very bright. they know where the differences are, and how to work on this. as the talks are playing out, the house will recess today and head home for the weekend,
katelyn polantz for that report. as we are waiting to see what sentencing rhodes is going to get, and where do you believe this is going to land today? look, a massive delta between 25 years sought by the prosecutors and the time served by the defense counsel. the judge has a tremendous amount of discretion here, but the prosecution has portrayed this sentencing in particular as a real outlier, and they describe it as unparallel and unprecedent and it defies any comparison because witness after witness spoke about the impact and the trauma that january 6th had on them, but the government is portraying the real victim here as our normal democratic functioning, and the democracy itself which flies off of the
that are going to be coming? it is not a coincidence that he is sentenced first, because he is the ringleader, and the leader of the extremist group. so, the government has put forward a scheme a framework of how they believe that the sentencings should apply ranging from 10 years for the lowest level offender to 25 for rhodes, so we will see where the judge comes out between time served and 25 year, and this is going to be baseline for what to expect with respect to other sentencings. it is going to be an important day for the others who are charge and others who have faced sentencing already, and this could be a very big moment for the fight for justice after january 6th. thank you for coming in dannya. and now, a far from perfect