we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2020 el
unlike the one that katelyn is covering in georgia. this has to do with four counts, conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstructing the proceedings of congress and, of course, conspiracy to deny the voting rights of americans particularly the americans in those states in those states where the former president was trying to overturn the election result. we expect, again, that we might hear a trial date as soon as today from judge chutkan, guys. all right, evan perez, thank you so much. we will be watching to see what happens in that case. over to you, phil. this is one of the two weapons that was in possession of the white gunman in jacksonville, florida, on saturday, when he shot and killed three black people at a dollar general store. you see if you look at the top right and the bottom right, two swastikas drawn into the ar-style rifle used and kamala harris says it is being investigated as a possible hate crime and an act of domestic
difference between having proceedings in federal court if they are moved there versus state court. state court we get the cameras and get to see a lot and judges, witness, but instead today we re just going to be sitting inside the court watching, paper and pen, courtroom sketch artists and delivering the information to you when we can. busy day as always. katelyn polantz, thanks very much. to washington, d.c. in just a few hours the judge and the federal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election will hold a hearing in that case. judge tanya chutkan will consider dueling arguments by jack smith and trump s defense team over the date for a trial. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez in washington for us. evan, what does team trump want to do, and what are we expecting the special counsel to ask for. we know the former president doesn t want the trial to happen any time soon. his lawyers have suggested a
been able to reach a verdict on dominic pazolla, who is one of the prominent faces you see in some of those videos that has been shown from january 6th. absolutely. evan, stick with us. john miller, stick with us. elliot williams, stick with us as well. we have much more coming in. the jury now back deliberating, but very importantly guilty of seditious conspiracy four members of the proud boys who have been on trial, a four-month long trial. the jury handing back a guilty verdict on the serious charge of seditious conspiracy. much more coming in from the courtroom. we ll be right back after this. (engine revsvs) the energy of light. everywhere. it just has a lot of control over me.
boys, those two groups that were at the capitol on january 6th and were interested in coming together planning, that they had suited up, that they were communicating to one another, juries are bringing them to justice in this federal court in d.c. all right, katelyn, standby for us at the courthouse. let me bring in evan perez on a couple of things. evan, count one was the charge on seditious conspiracy as we know. we ve seen ten counts also on other charges that have been brought against some or all of these men that i wanted if you could just kind of run through what that what they mean but also as you ve been following this so long and so closely what this day means for the justice department. well, i ll start there. for the justice department obviously these are major, major wins of getting convictions of at least four of these men. again, the jury is still going to be deliberating on dominic