the u.s. strikes back. air strike in baghdad against militia leaders supported by iran. the u.s. believes they re behind the surge of attacks against american forces in iraq and in syria. we ve been on the story for some time and see where it goes now. live in new york i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it s interesting it feels like every day we come here and there is another little bit and another little bit. the retaliation from the biden administration, it s been a long time coming since the middle of october pro-iranian mill i shalls have attacked 118 times. bill: let s get to senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot watching the story from london. let s begin with you. hello. bill and dana. our crack team at the pentagon in the last 30 minutes has been able to confirm this. a major strike by the united states on a militia leader right
foot soldiers of the trump movement are in prison. its allied militia leaders are facing justice, and now the architect of our national chaos will face his day in court. this is the trial america needs. and, david, to your point, i think there are a lot of americans who are hurting, who believe trump s lies, and, i think it s hopefully a time for a national conversation. it s definitely not a time to shame anybody who has been led down a path of lies, but to try and help people understand that republicans here have testified under oath. they have put themselves on the line. they have showed the bravery that perhaps some leaders under trump haven t. but many have. many have stood up for our democracy. yeah, absolutely. and, look, i m not naive. i know that you can present
join the violence and reassess. mr. tarrio sent an encrypted chat, we did this. that bluster combined with a lot of hard evidence proved the attackers were donald trump s army and the evidence to keep them in power no matter what the law said. the militia leaders conspired to overthrow by force the government in the united states. that s what they re convicted of. besides those four seditionists i mentioned the other was accused of a range of crimes, convicted of assaulting an officer but not convicted of sedition. we can tell you as this guilty verdict was read, the top militia leader sat dressed in a blue top and red tie. his relatives in a courtroom gallery while the others if i canned their eyes on a jury forearm, according to a washington post account. each of these convicts are now
if trump called upon them as a militia that he believes the u.s. secret service would be happy to have their help. why do you think rhodes believed that in. i think there were end roads, communication lines that were opened between the administration and different militia groups. i think that goes all way back to before the first election where they were trying to make those end roads. what communication do you know about the white house, people in the trump orbit, people close to trump what would have been in communication with oath keepers or other extremist groups? well i wasn t there firsthand. but i do know about a call that was put out for calling for militia leaders to meet with roger stone in the desert of nevada back before the first election. so i think it is something that they ve been working on for a while. it is been in the back of their minds and i think it was one of the cards they were holding back
president advisers say from jail by a pardon in the last days used oath keepers as his personal security on january 5th and sixth. jason talking hail the, former spokesman for the militia group told my colleague joy reid told stone was basically a back channel between the oath keepers and the white house. we know that there were some sort of communication going on because the oath keepers were providing security today before. it is my understanding the way back during the campaign, roger stone from my thought process is probably the one who is reaching out to these militia leaders and trying to open lines of communication. so he probably was one of the major players when it comes to some of these extremist groups and backwater communication to the white house. so, just one of the big questions at this trial begins, who elsewhere the oath keepers talking to? and join our by and we see choice to comey s riot rallies,