former he s an oath keepers leader, and he testified to the committee from jail today. he and ten others were charged with seditious conspiracy, andrew, the most serious charge yet. he allegedly plotted to stop the transfer of power by force, bringing weapons to d.c. and organizing quick response teams to help insurrectionists. some of the oath keepers fought their way inside the capitol. are you surprised that he s cooperating? and is that valuable to them? i am surprised, don. i m surprised that the committee asked him to speak at all, to be perfectly clear. i m surprised that he agreed to do it it. it s unlikely that rhodes is going to come in and say anything except for self-serving statements designed to get himself out of trouble. we all know he s facing very serious charges under his current indictment. i m also shocked that his lawyer allowed him to go in and talk to the committee, potentially under oath, and put himself in jeopardy of getting charged with additional offens
of the material that the department of justice has already, so that s where we can start because a lot of that information, the indictments are public in the public domain. so we will start there and chase every available lead. we re not going to be deterred from executing our goal, which is to find out what happened on the 6th. so we re not going to be sidetracked by political fantasyland of whatever the former president says. we re going to be focused on the goal. we re going to start next week, as chairman thompson mentioned, and we re going to start in earnest. the other thing that happened one of the other things that happened at the cpac is that the oath keepers leader was there, credentialed and walking around, schmoozing with republican politicians. are you concerned that some of your fellow members of congress on the republican side are in league with some of the very people who might wind up being called before this committee and that maybe some of these republican memb
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Yale Law School 04 graduate Elmer Stewart Rhodes, III Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 ( 1/6 ) with one simple question: what relationship do the FBI and Army Counterintelligence have with Stewart Rhodes?
Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.
The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America s largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military. Whatever the truth of these hyperbolic claims, the fact remains: the Oath Keepers are the most extensively prosecuted paramilitary group alleged to be involved in 1/6. Indeed,