convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles. members of both groups were seen meeting with each other in a garage right outside the capitol the night before the attack. joining me now is justice reporter ryan reilly who has been covering the trial, former lead prosecutor andrew weissmann and former federal prosecutor glen kerschner. are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence? give me a name. proud boys, stand back and stand by. ryan, one of the defenses was that they were just following the leader, donald trump, in the encouragement from him. they have been convicted of seditious conspiracy. talk to me about what s happening. reporter: that s right. they explicitly blamed donald trump. during the trial, blaming donald trump for some of the problems that the proud boys are screening new members. after the click, that was a major boon for the proud boys. they produced
safety and privacy. when walker categorically denied the story and said he didn t know who was making this allegation, the woman, a registered democrat, whose relationship with walker continued after the abortion, told the daily beast her chief concern with revealing her name was because she is the mother of one of walker s children. she wanted to protect her family s privacy as best she could while coming forward with the truth. walker has publically acknowledged that their child is his own and the woman proved she s the child s mother and provided credible evidence of a long-term relationship with herschel walker. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. walker is once again denying some, all of the allegations, telling nbc there s, quote, no truth to it. in his denials, the woman tells the daily beasts it s his hypocrisy that spurred her to come forward. she s the mother of one of his four kids. he did not accept responsibility for the kid we did have t
convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles. members of both groups were seen meeting with each other in a garage right outside the capitol the night before the attack. joining me now is justice reporter ryan reilly who has been covering the trial, former lead prosecutor andrew weissmann and former federal prosecutor glen kerschner. are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence? give me a name. proud boys, stand back and stand by. ryan, one of the defenses was
maga march in mid november of 2020. stewart rhodes said, listen there are probably going to be antifa members, and we know his words, they like to prey upon the weak. what i think we should do is dress up like we are vulnerable. make ourselves look old, carry canes. if they try to attack us, we will, quote, give them a good beat down. this so disgusted john zimmerman that he walked away from the organization. that was a common theme from the three witnesses that the prosecution presented today. they were so disturbed. one actually said, it sounded like based on stewart rhodes rhetoric they were preparing to go to war against the united states. this was really damaging testimony. it was sort of table setting for the evidence to come. glen, the piece that ties trump to this, one of the pieces is this call, this alleged
the ex-president s connection with militia groups in the lead-up to the attack on the capitol. glen kerschner is here with us. with us at the table, mike schmid and the former director of the cia john brennan is here. he is an msnbc senior national security analyst. glen, take us inside the courtroom. today was a table setting day. the prosecution presented three former oath keepers. there was a common theme. all three of the individuals were members of the oath keepers organization for a relatively short period of time in the run-up to the presidential election and the aftermath, and they were disturbed by what they saw, particularly from stewart