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,
united states authorizing this unprecented search? yeah, andrea, what o sources have told us about the search warrant that was executed is that it was it did specify that the fbi was going to be looking for claified information. and information from the president related to presidential records. but this is something that officials, not just in the fb but in the national archives as well has been dealing with over almost a year now. the bac and forth between trump s counc and the arcves started shortly after auguration, once they realized that there were items missing in the archives as they were going through the presidential records that they had. d 15 boxes were already picked up in january. that continues and there was more extended back and forth. d the only reason why archives hadn t stopped that process of continuing to recover additional items on top of these additional boxes of classified and presidential records is because classified information was found
both sides about gagging donald trump. now, jack smith did win the first round in the d.c. coup case, but that gag order has not been am place. indeed, it was held for this review today. the special counsel s team says donald trump has clearly shown in his violent rhetoric and his calls for violence and his calls for other things that sounds like witness intimidation means he has to be gagged. trump s lawyers say the gag order, first of all, is overly broad. second of all, they think the whole thing in its entirety is basically a violation of the first amendment, first speech rights afforded to everyone, including especially a presidential candidate engaged in free speech, which can include legitimate criticism of the current administration, which oversees the justi department. now, special counsel jack smith was in court today. despite the judge s pushing back at prosecutors at times, we could tell you one headline from the new york times is this, they write that based on
the mishandling of the interference of the investigation. and we are joined now by the reporter katrina. and now we know who this whistle-blower is. and he is gary shapely. and we know that he was specifically working on the hunter biden case, and he claiming that the hunter biden investigation was slow-walked at the direction of the justice department, and he claims that he believes s s that the justi department was acting unethically, and in his years at the white house that the justice department has not acted like this, and he laid out the case before nbc news. let s listen.
man tim ryan, oversight for the capitol ghpolice, he told us on the show that federal prosecutors will be reviewing theec matter and the u.s. justi department will be looking at the matter. and we a don t know which membe of congress were potentially implicate and which members of congress might have done this. until all of a sudden it got sort of easy to figure out. because last spring, and into the summer, while those investigators were apparently under way, again congresswoman, nancy pelosi, tim ryan, all told this, that investigations had begun of thisth matter. and wild those investigations were under way, this guy kind of raised his hand, republican congressman barry loudermilk, emerged basically from nowhere to release an oust blue statement saying he and other republicans had checked this out. they hadre looked at all of the security footage from january athri and they wanted to assure everyone that this whole allegation was debunked, there was no one who had any tour of