records related to the saudi backed golf league. connecting that up with an investigation into classified documents which causes me to wonder a lot of things. certainly, there is no answer to these things that we know, but is there some connection that perhaps there is some concerns that donald trump is sharing classified secrets with the saudis? that would be a blockbuster huge development in this case because the one aggravating factor that is the worst of all is to share secrets with an foreign adversary. that is the kind of thing for which the rosenberg s were executed. we i don t know that we are there yet, but that is a really eye-popping fact that emerges in this new reporting. ryan, i want to turn to the proud boys trial, you have been actually covering this for months and i first want to show video of one of the men that was convicted. this is a video of joseph biggs. so, we just stormed the
there he is. literally embracing the convicted january 6th or after learning that she had stormed the capitol. that s the leading candidate for the republican nomination of president. throughout the primary, and if he gets a nomination, which right now looks likely, though who knows, he s going to singlemindedly advocate for the pursuit the successful completion of the same overall project the man in court today were convicted of furthering. which is quite literally the destruction of american democracy. force over votes. the end of the experiment. so far, 14 seditious conspirators have faced some measure of justice. for that crime. but not the guy at the top. i m joined now by ryan reilly, a justice reporter for nbc news who s been covering the proud boys trial from the start and barbara mcquaid, who served as the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, where she was the one who prosecuted that seditious conspiracy case against members
nbc s ken dilanian is following this. ken, this is not connected to the big verdicts we got yesterday at the proud boys trial. tell us who this guy is, and why his case is the one doj is asking for a big sentence on? his name is peter schwartz. he s 50 years old, and what s really going on here is the doj contends he s essentially a career criminal. they say he s got 38 prior convictions going back to 1991, including many convictions for domestic violence and making threats. so when you have somebody with that kind of record who s now convicted of violently attacking police officers at the capitol, that makes for a long prison sentence, so they re asking for 24 years in prison for schwartz. his lawyers are countering that he should serve four years. when your lawyers are asking for a four years as a minimum, you know that s a bad day for you. prosecutors really portray him as one of the most aggressive rioters on january 6th. they say that he picked up
of the hour. join chris jansing reports every weekday 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern. i ll be back here tomorrow, and katy tur in addition to that breaking news will also welcome geoffrey hinton, known as the god father of ai to discuss the existential threat he believes that technology poses to society. katy tur reports starts right now. we are going to get an additional verdict in a moment. good to be with you. i m katy tur. convicted, four members of the proud boys, including former leader, enrique tarrio have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy for attempting to overthrow the government on january 6th in order to keep donald trump in power. in the four-month trial, prosecutors painted the proud boys as donald trump s army. they argued the defendants took the former president s 2020 tweet that the protest on january 6th will quote be wild