states now. pamela? brian todd, thank you. the justice department has released sobering new details about the january 6th attack on the capitol and the extensive planning by one right leaning extremist group. according to a filing at least one member of the oath keepers transported explosives to an area just outside d.c. and another member allegedly had a hand written document headlined death list. it included the name of a georgia election official and that person s family member. the revelations come just hours after a key witness testified before the january 6th committee. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone spent nearly eight hours testifying yesterday. a person familiar with the closed door hearing told me that cipollone did assert privileges, executive privileges to a couple of questions from the committee. and the source also told me the committee asked cipollone a series of questions about pardons including potential pardons for the trump family and whether tru
training, bombs and the so-called death list, what a right wing extremist group was allegedly doing right before the capitol riot. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. sri lanka s president and prime minister say they will resign after protestors stormed the residences of both leaders as the country s seemingly endless economic crises boil over. saturday demonstrators broke through to reach the presidential palace calling for the president to leave office. and they also set fire to the prime minister s private residence. his office says that he was moved earlier to secure location. these unprecedented protests come after months of anti-government demonstrations across the country.
jeremy manhunt fohunt formally hat into the ring. he also ran in 2019. and gentsajid javid also declar his election. the opposition labour party is threatening to bring a threat of no confidence against johnson as soon as monday if he isn t forced out as caretaker prime minister immediately. the justice department has released troubling new details about the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol and the extensive planning by one right wing extremist group. according to a new filing, at least one member of the oathkeepers brought explosives to an area just outside washington and at least three chapters of the group held training camps before then focused on military tactics. another member allegedly had a handwritten document headlined death list, it included the name
it will be quite extraordinarily different and all i can say is, strap in. the war room posse, you have made this happen and tomorrow it is game day. strap in. that was his prediction, game day. we saw what unfolded and now, based on the justice department filings, even worse was being planned in terms of explosives, and alleged death list, all of that. knowing all of that, if the committee has an opportunity to talk with bannon, what are the questions? he has some explaining to do but he is the perfect person. so far, we have had a lot of stuff on the ground, a lot in the white house. he would be part of a sort of bridge conspiracy, the people at the war room say, on the fifth plan, and rudy giuliani. he actually could marry up the three presenters and oath keepers with trump, and obviously, he is knowing things
about the scope of the doj s investigation into the riot? this comes under a rule of evidence called 404(b). if it isn t specifically relevant to the case, but it does prove motive or intent or preparation, it is admissible and there s a rule that requires the prosecution to provide notice to the fence that it plans to introduce this evidence. that s where we see this evidence at this explosives that were kept just outside the boundaries of washington d.c.. this death list, i think it does suggest that the conspiracy perhaps extended even beyond january 6th. the names on that death list were a georgia election official and a family member of the georgia election official. it s a dress that the plot goes even beyond the capitol on january 6th. i think that frank is right about the concern of rising political violence in this country. i think this investigation should show us that it s about much more than the past, but could also be a warning for the future.