indictment, there is probably decisions that had to be made on things that couldn t be charged. and we ve spent the greater part of the last two years or so debating the question of whether the former president will be charged with things like seditious conspiracy or inciting violence and so on. i think it would have been incredibly hard to tie the president to some of those things. for instance, seditious conspiracy, you d have to prove some agreement to use force or threats to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of american law. now that happened, and many people were already convicted of it. but tying the president to that would have been incredibly difficult. and you would have also run into some pretty serious first amendment. explicit versus implicit. and all of those things from his speech which were disgraceful, shameful for a president, unbecoming, not becoming the presidency. so it would have been incredibly difficult to do. and then the other thing that s what s not
time. reporter: since then, they ve only gotten worse. the flash point, the self-governing island of taiwan. beijing regularly deplores warships around taiwan, while accusing washington of stoking the fires of the island s independence. in november president biden met with xi in bali to rescue this vital relationship. we ll compete vigorously, but i m not looking for conflict. i m looking to manage this responsibly. reporter: any goodwill generated shattered by experience of a giant chinese surveillance balloon over the u.s. in february. u.s. war planes shot it down. beijing says the united states moves are aimed at constraining china s rise. it s about not trying to cut off, eliminate, hinder economic
agreeing the justice department has enough evidence to prove the case that these menners leaders of the proud boys, came to an agreement and wanted to somehow block, hurt, hinder, or even overthrow the u.s. government using force. so those are the two key things that were proved today, that the jury agreed with, and that resulted in finding these four men, these four leaders of the proud boys, including enrique tarrio who was not in washington, d.c., on january 6th, guilty of seditious conspiracy, jim. it s both that force, the use of force is a key part of that charge that they are found guilty on, and the fact that there is some sort of agreement, some sort of planning and some sort of communication to take steps forward not just on the ground on january 6th, but before, during, and then as the prosecutors pointed out that there was celebration after in one text message that was used in this case as evidence, enrique tarrio sent a message to
happening on the sixth? what s going on? he knew. we just need to understand the extent to which him and these others you just mentioned are going to be loyalists to trump, a going to obfuscate, hinder, obstruct or whether they are going to finally realize that their own criminal exposure is facing them now in the they ve got a decision to make about whether they are going to be part of criminal charges or cooperate and i have to i m not very optimistic in these are the names you just rattled off for the most part of extreme loyalists and in fact mark meadows s aspirations to continue on to another administration with some form. and so we are about to see whether the prosecution really can get what they need from these folks and additional folks and that s going to tip the scales. whether they cooperate or not and cooperating with this inquiry. we don t know where this is