Mara gay. White house editor for politico, sam stein. You saw him on way too early. And the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. It is a great group. Thank you for being with us this morning. Well begin the week with the latest on those new charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. Today, a newly introduced third defendant, the Property Manager at former president s florida home, is scheduled to be arraigned in miami Federal Court. Carlos de oliveira was named in a Superseding Indictment last week and charged in four counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to the fbi. According to prosecutors, trump directed both de oliveira and his valet, walt nauta, to destroy Security Camera footage last year from the Room Monitoring where boxes of classified documents were being stored at maralago. That alleged order came just days after the fbi issued a subpoena for that same footage. Its unclear
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
Superseding indictment, it s between de oliveira and a fourth employee who appears to be cooperating, where he says, the boss wants the footage deleted. obviously, what they would like to do is flip mr. de oliveira and have him testify about his conversations with donald trump and if those, in fact, were the conversations, that becomes a devastating witness. but there s reporting that, you know, they brought him in and talked to him under what is known as a proffer, a queen for a day proffer. according to the washington post, they didn t like what he said, and they believe he lied to them, which is why they ve charged him with false statements. he is represented by an attorney who is paid for by donald trump s supe pac. thus far, he is standing firm. it raises a bit of a question about how strong the evidence is here in terms of pinning on mr. trump the conspiracy to delete the footage. we ll have to see if this is all the prosecutors have, jonathan. a conspiracy complete with re
Or gave enough. some observers certainly would point out that desantis has used his office for political purposes quite a bit the last couple of years and sort of his whole ethos. let s talk about the week in desantis, well covered the live stream of the twitter space was pretty glitchy, bad news. the good news, though, that $8 million fund-raising haul. that s a huge number, frankly better than trump s been doing. talk to us about it. yeah, it s a big one day number, and better than the six weeks of the trump campaign. on the other hand, the expectation for desantis was so high because for the first basically five months of this year people expected him to gett he d be on the fundraising level. you know, what we ve seen so far is there s going to be a lot of focus on the supe pac, a budget of about $200 million. obviously, far more than the $8.2 million raised for the
their client and in a very bazaar and strange and might i add surprising news conference this afternoon the lawyers say they are dropping george zimmerman. i still believe that he was acting in self defense that night. nothing i have said about him or this case has changed in any way. i just can t proceed to represent a client who doesn t stay in contact with me. say the last time they spoke to the volunteer neighborhood watchman was this past sunday and he is no longer answering their calls. as of 1:30 eastern today george zimmerman posted a statement that claims his innocence and seeks donations to his defense fund. he is writing i am attempt s to respond to each and everyone of my supporters personally. the support has been overwhelming in volume and strength. he goes on. i thank you all and ask that you permit the time to respond to each one of you personally. once again, thank you. george zimmerman hot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin on february 26th and claims