he did not do it. day four of the seditious conspiracy trial. trump should have acted, and just manned up to do it, but he didn t. tonight, new evidence of how hard the oath keepers pressed for a coup. congressman jamie raskin, on what it means for the committee s final hearing. then, even new reporting suggesting the justice department thinks donald trump is, still, hiding documents. plus, new reporting that herschel walker urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion. joe searcy owning, on the presidents candid remarks about vladimir putin, and nuclear armageddon. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. we begin tonight by setting a scene for you at the e barrett premium federal courthouse in washington d.c.. five members of the right-wing gang, the oath keepers, are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy. in connection with their plot to keep donald trump in pair power with, the 2020 election. we have been bringing you up
commander-in-chief, it will be exponentially harder, and many more of us will die. on new year s eve, roads was clear about what he believed would happen in the following week. on the six, they re going to put the final nail in the coffin of this republic. unless we fight our way out. with trump, preferably, or without him, we have no choice. those messages show, what elmer stewart rhodes was planning for, and anticipating, was a bloody, violent insurrection. ultimately, we also reveal a fascinating irony that, i can t get past. everyone else, every single other person who is ever placed their trust in donald trump rhodes, a man apparently willing to die on trump s behalf, ended up disappointed. the ex president, never did pull the trigger on the insurrection act. on inauguration day, and was being let down by trump, but, alarmingly, he should have called the action.
he did not do it. day four of the seditious conspiracy trial. trump should have acted, and just manned up to do it, but he didn t. tonight, new evidence of how hard the oath keepers pressed for a coup. congressman jamie raskin, on what it means for the committee s final hearing. then, even new reporting suggesting the justice department thinks donald trump is, still, hiding documents. plus, new reporting that herschel walker urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion. joe searcy owning, on the presidents candid remarks about vladimir putin, and nuclear armageddon. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. we begin tonight by setting a scene for you at the e barrett premium federal courthouse in washington d.c.. five members of the right-wing gang, the oath keepers, are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy. in connection with their plot to keep donald trump in pair
can think terrible things, and that donald trump should use violence to stay and office? you actually have to act, how hard is that threshold, it is that part of what you look again in this trial? well, i think you need the mens rhea, the intent. clearly, there was intent. it was all over these online communications they were having. then, you need forward motion, and the actual taking ups against the government. there is the engagement and violence, and i think we saw that as well. we don t have to wait for an insurrection to succeed, in order to treat it as an insurrection. article one, section nate, clause 15, says that the call forth to the militias of the states, and will force the laws to suppress insurrections, and
scope of roger stone s involvement on january 6th? we know a little bit more with, every trial, and with every bit of investigative evidence, that is surfacing. the way to think about stone is there was three people that were pardoned by the president. stone, michael flynn, and steve bannon. all three of them, acting as intermediaries, to a different extent, with the domestic violence extremist groups. of course, roger stone has made a career out of that, and the transmission belt with the highest precincts of power in, the republican party, and street fascists, and hooligans. that s how he defined his role. we saw that in 2000, during the gucci riot, as well. but, michael flynn, also, has been doing his outreach.