hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. digital breakdown, ron desantis starts his 2024 campaign with embarrassing technical dysfunction. when we could hear him, worgs and spending in contrast with donald trump and he will not be timt in using presidential power to get what he wants and to punish those he doesn t like. plus right now, the sentencing hearing underway in washington. a judge deciding how long oath keepers convicted of january 6th crimes will spend behind bars. and your congress not at work. the government could default on its bills a week from today. but the house speaker sends lawmakers home because negotiations are moving so s slowly. up first for us, a day two riddle for ron desantis. how to prove to voters, to donors and maybe to everyone that he s ready for prime time. the governor now plot ting a campaign kickoff tour through the early voting states of iowa, new hampshire and south ca
michael cohen s cell phone, if you look sad and he can t copy, and he can t transcribed notes. they re really trying to minimize how much of this can leak into the public ahead of the trial. and we all remember that donald trump does pose things on his social media, particularly when he is displeased with an investigation. so how do we get here to the point where the judge felt the need to do this? so this was all from the prosecutors. if you remember at the arraignment they brought up trump s post, because all leading up to the charges he was criticizing the district attorney alvin bragg. he was putting out some pretty inflammatory posts. and even then he was criticizing the judge in this case. so the prosecutor said look, you keep saying all the stuff on social media, can we reign this cnn? the judge was very even-handed. he said i ve been telling both sides prosecution you control your witnesses, defense you control your client, don t put anything on social media that
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. signs of cautious optimism in the debt ceiling standoff ten days left before the federal government runs out of cash with house republicans trying to extract major budget cuts in exchange for allowing new borrowing to pay the bills. president biden how speaker mccarthy have just wrapped up talks at the white house. i felt we had a productive discussion. i believe we can get it done. here from the white house earlier today, treasury secretary janet yellen reminded lawmakers at the state saying it is quote, highly likely, unquote, the government will default as of june 1st. emily s and anna joins us now with more from the capital. what is the status of negotiations after speaker mccarthy s meeting? the talks are still very much alive, which is a positi
of bribes, and an inside look at is evarts to turn over the election. and fighting, back at the free speech organization that is suing to block rhonda scent this after he banned books in florida schools. i m charles lowe, in for him in, let s get started. this week, the facts finally caught up to republican-led smear campaigns. let s start with the mess, the hearing on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. for months now, chairman jim jordan that promised to testimony from dozens of whistleblowers on how the fbi is unfairly persecuting conservatives. yet hours before the promised blockbuster hearing on that very issue was set to begin, the fbi made a shocking revelation. two of the three self proclaimed whistleblowers sent to testify had a security clearance was revoked over questions about their allegiance to the united states, reported criminal conduct, personal misconduct and their handling of sensitive information. so when the hearing began, it quickly
called section 702 and part of the foreign intelligence surveillance contact and the fbi is really only authorized to search the 702 data base when there s reason to believe it ll produce evidence on foreign actor crimes, usually the suspect has to be abroad. but in the year ending 2021, the filing shows the fbi used the warrant lesser much powers against u.s. citizens 278,000 times. the gorge floyd protests in the summer of 2020 and a batch of 19,000 donors and unnamed congressional campaign and one fbi searcher described in the filing the analyst said she ran the queries to determine whether individuals had foreign ties and indicated she had run thousands of names within the fbi systems in retaliation to the capitol break investigation and did not remember why she ran these 13 queries on raw visa information . fox news learning in the year ending 2022, the number of section 702 searches dropped by 92%. seen yore fbi official sayre senior fbi official shares as a judge i