protest? a riot? the makings of some scattered illegal violence? or do you see something worse. one of the most severe felonies against the u.s. which is now on trial tonight. do you see sedition? that is what federal prosecutors see and what some juries saw and have now convicted, and it s our special report for you right now. we are living through a test of accountability, the doj s effort to convict in these separate sedition trials two years out from an attack that might fade out of view for some people. today the doj demanding juries continue to face what it felt like, what happened, the facts of that day. seemed like they just took mike pence out really quickly. yes, they did. a moment i never saw in my life, these individuals just rushed through security. they are inside statuary hall. obviously this is a huge victory for these protesters. they have disrupted the system in an enormous way. i completely condemn the violence in the capital. i ve spoken to the
your democracy and who would hurt you unless you re on board with the trump coup. there is a modicum of a legal process and justice in this country. that is now damning evidence at that very militia leader s trial, which is happening this week. big news, big story. attorney general garland and some legal experts now have moved the needle. they ve won those other sedition cases and they view sedition when you look at jigs as part of the baseline for legal accountability. the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law. these charges are very rare. prosecutors have an unusual volume of evidence against stewart rhodes and others of the organization. you re allowed to plan a protest. you re not allowed to plan taking over the government. taking over the government
so, these sedition cases which can hit convicts with 20 years in prison on top of whatever other crimes they re convicted of, are a huge deal, rarely pursued. and that is the factual context for the garland donl to go at them, through the book at them. aggressive. sedition. that means the doj says it has the evidence that was more than violence, more than plots, that it was coordinated, trump boosting plot against the united states government was it was the violent muscle of the coup to overthrow the election. the doj having hard evidence on tape. the proud boys established a command structure in anticipation of coming back to d.c. on january 6th. you better get your [ bleep ] to d.c., folks, this saturday. if you don t, there will be no more republic, or we wind up in a bloody fight women all know
police officers among others. that s now criminal evidence against mr. trump. we ll come back to that. as you saw in that archival footage from that terrible day, some of the crimes that played out in realtime for straight forward. trespassing, entering with a weapon. over 900 people invited, half convicted already, often on those type of charges. straight forward cases. you see trespassing. you charge trespassing. you see battery, you charge battery, and there was a lot of video tape. but others are not legally obvious, which i m going to go through with you right now. in casual english, people throw around words like treason or sedition or traitors. in law those are actually quite precise charges, and they re hard to prove in court. consider that until this year, the doj had not won any sedition case since all the way back in
protest? a riot? the makings of some scattered illegal violence? or do you see something worse. one of the most severe felonies against the u.s. which is now on trial tonight. do you see sedition? that is what federal prosecutors see and what some juries saw and have now convicted, and it s our special report for you right now. we are living through a test of accountability, the doj s effort to convict in these separate sedition trials two years out from an attack that might fade out of view for some people. today the doj demanding juries continue to face what it felt like, what happened, the facts of that day. seemed like they just took mike pence out really quickly. yes, they did. a moment i never saw in my life, these individuals just rushed through security.