were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report
jurors have no problem with that. and it s not like the former president didn t want to be present on that day. there were other people who prevented the worst. it s bad enough when he d but dwrou had other people making it worse. he was planning to be there and leading them at the scene. but that s no reason not to be able to charge him. the justice department investigation into the proud boys and the oath keepers commenced around the same time as the congressional probe, but most of what was public facing we learn from the congressional investigation. what is your is there anything that surprises you? you know the evidence that would have been brought to bear in a criminal case, which is different from your mission, but a lot of overlap. we have to recognize the department of justice up front. i was a former jag prosecutor. my team leads were also federal
the guardian for. he said, i didn t think i needed to disclose it. he knew that a payment that was flowing to this young man that he was the legal guardian, he thought it should be disclosed in one instance. when harlan crow did more payments, he stopped disclosing it. that suggests bad faith on his part. we shouldn t stipulate he is an honorable man. there have been multiple reports. to your point, you said earlier, if the shoe was on the other foot and a democratic-appointed justice, the republicans would put the benghazi hearings to shame. as we speak, as this is playing out in the senate, and the senate is doing nothing, in the house you have the republican chairman of the house oversight committee who issued a subpoena
detailed the extent of the violence at the capitol on january 6th and the central role these defendants played in setting into motion the unlawful events of that day. today s verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything in its power to defend the american people and american democracy. since the january 6th attack, the justice department has conducted one ofrt the largest, most complex and most resource-intensive in our history. we have worked to analyze massive amounts of data,s we have recovered devices, decrypted electronic messages, try anxiouslated phones and poured through tens of thousands of hours of video. we have also benefitted from tens of thousands of tips we received from the public. following these digital and physical footprints, we were
it prevented the peaceful transfer of power. do we think he s telegraphing that as a focus? i don t want to read too much into his comments, but what i hear him saying is at the same time the justice department was probing the foot soldiers involved in a violent overthrow. he broadened that to talk about efforts to investigate other related crimes to block the peaceful transfer of power. i don t want to get ahead of the facts that we have in our hands and in front of us in that we know through court filings and through the great work of the january 6th committee, but we can t know everything merrick garland has in hand, but also everything jack smith has in hand. we ll see what happens. but i have been told multiple times by sources there is not yet in hand that connected tissue. i want to flag one thing for everybody, which is something that enrique tarrio said from jail, about how he rejelkted the