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
were doing was legal 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 believed 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 out where we are gonna be staging and will be there. we ll be inside easy, will also be in the outside, d. c., armed prepared to go in at the president. me it was serious about these guys being armed, that wasn t
so i think sometimes these cases are difficult to prove, in this case it really will fit like a glove. that s a good point. part of the reason it s hard to point, slash rare, there s not a lot of sedition just happening in the u.s. often right? sort of textbook example is when you try to storm the u.s. capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of power. there you hear this in stewart rhodes talking, rhodes has created this legal theory for himself, he went to yellow, this is all gonna be fine as long as we get the goal from the president. of course, they planned this in violation of the law, they had people circle the capitol. this is basically roads defense ryan, they were not there to storm the capital of stop the certification to take over the government. they were waiting for trump president trump to invoke the insurrection act. it does seem like the relation to trump and his authority is gonna be part of the defense in this case. definitely and i think
like a glove. that s a good point. part of the reason it s hard to point, slash rare, there s not a lot of sedition just happening in the u.s. often, [laughs] right? sort of textbook example is when you try to storm the u.s. capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of power. you hear this in stewart rhodes talking, rhodes has created this legal theory for himself, he went to yale law, this is all gonna be fine as long as we get the goal from the president. of course, they planned this in violation of the law, they had people circle the capitol. this is basically rhodes defense ryan, they were not there to storm the capital of stop the certification to take over the government. they were waiting for trump president trump to invoke the insurrection act. it does seem like the relation to trump and his authority is gonna be part of the defense in this case. definitely and i think that s something that defense
donald trump to invoke the insurrection act, they need to put in testimony for that. they can t just argue that, they need firsthand testimony from the west is that says how it is they believe that to be true. is there linked to roger stone, somebody communicated that? i ll be really curious to hear if that comes a. that s really interesting. the incentive from there and and landing their defenses to get as close to the white house is possible or any communication of the white house that they could have. ryan riley and barbara mcquade thank you both. coming up, january six committee postpones its next hearing as hurricane ian approaches florida. what it means for the committees investigation going for plus everything you need to know about the threat from that hurricane. still ahead! d!