that in just a moment. but first, let s talk about the sedition trial that s happening today after a break for the holiday weekend, the day, federal prosecutors in washington, d. c., resumed prosecuting a case against five members of the oath keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy, or trying to overthrow the government. last week zeroed in on the group s founder, stewart rhodes. but today s former afghanistan veteran. her name is jessica watkins. introduced evidence that watkins discussed cutting off pool cues to serve as antifa smasher is. she sought to recruit and train people to join the oath keepers. if it convicted of seditious conspiracy, watkins and her fellow defendants face up to 20 years behind bars. there s been a lot of wrangling on the radar. but today s trial is important because it s another example of individual accountability. and this, case accountability for a small group that s not tweens flicked significant damage. individual accountability do
there can be no doubt there was a coordinated, multi staff effort to overturn the election overseen and directed by donald trump. there could be no chance that he commanded a mob, a mob he knew was heavily armed, violent, and angry, to march on the capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power. this sunday, the clearest picture yet of trump s true print plan on january six. on thursday, it is eight hearing, the second on prime time. then, the january six committee laid out an excruciating detail the 187 minutes between trump leaving the rally at the ellipse after exhorting his followers to march on the capitol, and finally telling the mob to go home. we now know that trump knew within 15 minutes of leaving the stage that the capital was under attack. rather than stay in the oval office or enter the situation room, they then commander in chief hunkered down in his private dining room off the oval, to watch the violence unfold on fox news. he barred the omnipresent
Votes, in fact, johnson is the first to get every republican vote since john boehner in 2011. So who is he . He is a staunch social and religious conservative from louisiana in his fourth term in congress. Hes cosponsored a 20week abortion ban and voted for a National Abortion ban, and he served on one of Donald Trumps impeachment defense teams. But what he is most known for is not just refusing to certify the 2020 election but being the quote, architect of the objections. As the New York Times reports, quote, in december of 2020, mr. Johnson collected signatures for a legal brief in support of a texas lawsuit attempting to throw out the results of four Battle Ground states won by mr. Biden. The Supreme Court ultimately rejected that suit, but not before mr. Johnson convinced more than 60 of House Republicans to sign on to the effort. He did so by telling them the initiative had been personally blessed by mr. Trump, and the former president was anxiously awaiting to see who in congress
Reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president Ebrahim Raisi and others. News of ruizs death comes nearly 24 hours after the helicopter crashed. It was in a remote part of the country during dense fog, Rescue Efforts have been hampered by bad weather and pretty rough and tough terrain, and a number of other top officials, including the countrys Foreign Minister, were also on board. The chopper was heading back to the countrys capital when it reportedly went down. The crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east with the war raging in gaza. And then, of course, weeks after iran launched a drone and Missile Attack on israel in response to a Deadly Strike on its diplomatic compounds in damascus, so Hardliner Raisi became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021. Irans Supreme Leader is stressing the business of irans government will continue no matter what. Under the iranian constitution, irans first Vice Pre