wow, this is some known i can relate to because they re doing the same thing about me. and as hurricane in approaches landfall, the nightmare scenario for flooding, the west coast of florida. get ready and do not underestimate the potential that this storm can bring. all in starts right now. good evening from new york and chris hazy maeve heard this, a final hearing of the january six committee has been postponed due to the intimate landfall of hurricane ian in fort s gulf coast. we ll be covering that in just a bit. but today the biggest criminal trial related to the insurrection actually began in washington. members of the far-right gang the oath keepers including its founder this man, stewart rhodes the third are on trial for seditious conspiracy for what cause prosecutors say was accorded and premeditated effort to disrupt the peaceful plant transfer of power in the senate. all five members, and roads in particular has quite a colorful history. you notice for instan
wow, this is someone i can relate to because they re doing the same thing about me. and as hurricane ian approaches landfall, the nightmare scenario for flooding, the west coast of florida. get ready and do not underestimate the potential that this storm can bring. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, im chris hayes. a final hearing of the january six committee has been postponed due to the approaching landfall of hurricane ian in fort s gulf coast. we ll be covering that in just a bit. but today the biggest criminal trial related to the insurrection actually began in washington. members of the far-right gang the oath keepers including its founder this man, elmer stewart rhodes the third are on trial for seditious conspiracy for what cause prosecutors say was accorded and premeditated effort to disrupt the peaceful plant transfer of power in the senate. all five members, and roads in particular has quite a colorful history. you notice for instance
he s going to trial represent a significant escalation in the criminal case the department of justice has built against people responsible for january 6th. these militia groups that actually plotted a violent insurrection have one run up the ladder from the average person who stormed the capitol. they are certainly not the taupe. rhodes himself said they were waiting for directions from the president. one of the fascinating aspects of this trial, is that anyone else they were clouding with. we know for example trump s coup plotting lawyer rudy giuliani mentioned militia groups like the oath keepers in white house discussions. that s according to to testimony from white house aide kathy hutchison from the january six committee. i recall hearing the word oath keeper and the word proud boys closer to the planning of the january 6th rally when mr. giuliani would be around. we also know that trump advisor role roger stone the ex
just idle boasting according to the indictment. quote while certain oath keepers members and affiliates inside of washington d. c. breached the capitol grounds and building others rain stash in just a side of the city in quick response force. the q r f teams were prepared to rapidly transport firearms and other weapons into d. c. in support of operations aimed at using force to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power. in the days before january six, according to messages acquired by the department of justice, rhodes even discussed storing weapons in his hotel room quote, if you want to style weapons with another oath keeper lap leader you can have a secure car trunk or hotel room. d. c. prosecutors also released surveillance images, showing elise looks what looks like a guns by the quick response being team members. in a group chat another oh keep suits shared a map now thankfully the scheme failed. rioters did not hold a capital, the oath keepers did not actually send those a
in other words, to do a violent insurrection. now the oath keepers are arguing they thought what they were doing was illegal when they armed themselves and plan to take the capital by force because they believed that donald trump would invoke the insurrection act of 1807 which would allow the government to essentially deputize militia groups to block what the oath keepers believe or claimed to believe was a stolen election. now it s true that rhodes did make it clear the oath keepers were trying to block the peaceful transfer of power at trump s direction. we have men already stationed outside d.c. as a nuclear option in case the attempt to remove the president illegally we will step in and stop it. so we ve got good men on the ground already, we did recon there last week and we are sorting it where we are gonna be staging and will be there. we ll be inside easy, will also be in the outside, so d.c., armed prepared to go in at the president. call me it was serious about these guy