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
safe in documents probe. unusual move handily under scrutiny. win the past 24 hours have been a doozy. it was yesterday evening when the former president, donald trump, put out a rambling, chest, pounding feet stomping statement, announcing to the world that the fbi had raided, his words, his florida home. a so-called law in order president decried the search, and called it a witch, out and even gave a shout out to hillary clinton. but her emails! he did let the world know a fascinating detail, that the fbi got into his safe. as part of their search. so, let s take a step back, now it s been 24 hours, technology seriousness about happiest day. justice department officials didn t just wake up yesterday and say, hey, let s sum send some federal agents to search the past presidents home, because we think a crime is committed there. but this hour as long as search means, is that law enforcement had to convince a federal judge that there is probable cause that a crime was commit
Weaponization or political targeting, and we ll be aggressive at issuing pardons. some of these cases some people may have a technical violation of the law, but if there are three other people who did the same thing but just in a context like blm and they don t get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice. special counsel jack smith is wrapping up his investigation into trump for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. and the department is planning to announce a charging decision in the days or weeks after memorial day. that s according to sources familiar with the matter who told that to bloomberg news. it comes as the washington post reports that two of trump s mar-a-lago employees moved boxes of papers one day before fbi agents and a prosecutor visited trump s home to enforce a subpoena and retrieve classified documents they believed that he was storing there. sources familiar with the matter
Especially under the trump administration, has been something that has gotten a lot of support, and has been popularized on the right. this talk of us gradual f, and the quote, weaponization of the bureaucracy, has been a popular idea on the right, and something that they feel like they can get their arms around, and uses momentum. let s talk about the republicans who didn t rush to donald trump s defense, and then ultimately came out, mitch mcconnell for instance released a statement tonight, after staying silent for most of the day, and his statement was, how this needs to be explained. i just saw news of another republican senator who said the same thing. they talk to the fbi director, and this is got to be explained. tonight the thinking is here. well, there have been republicans who have come to trump s defense, i know at the house republican conference call today, it was talked about,
His lifetime. so you can imagine him thinking, i complied enough, but not completely. we and, so again, i think time will tell, but whatever his circumstance is they would leave him not simply to comply and return government documents. with this evidence which is why they got the search warrant. so this is another question, where it s helpful, given your experience both of the fbi and the doj to help us understand this. there s some reporting today that in the spring a small team from the department of justice, including the head of its counterintelligence and export control office, went to mar-a-lago to meet with trump s lawyers about the documents that were taken to mar-a-lago. i don t know when any of that possibly could mean, do you? yeah, so i know jay broad he