we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2020 el
boys, leaders of the proud boys, and people who were leading the charge at the capitol on january 6th. those men are enrique tarrio, the chairman of the proud boys, zachary reel, joseph biggs, and dominic pazolla, a man who is seen in many image breaking into the capitol with a police riot shield in a window, climbing in there with what prosecutors say was the tip of it spear at the u.s. capitol, leading the rioters around the back of the building to get inside that really caused things to unravel that day for police that were trying to protect the building. and this prosecution and this conviction is so important because it is not just about what happened on january 6th, it is about the planning that the prosecutors are able to argue here and how they have been able to prove to the jury that these men wanted something like this to happen on january 6th, that the proud boys were coming together as a team and they wanted to create something similar to a war on the grounds