collar of the man ahead, ranger file is standard operating procedure for a combat team that is stacking up to breach a building. it s instantly recognizable to any u.s. soldier or marine serving in iraq or afghanistan. it was a chilling sign that many at the van guard of the mob that stormed the seat of american democracy either had military training or were trained by those who did. again, that was the associated press reporting just days after the attack. this is the footage though that made it come into very stark relief. this is what that looked like, the military-style stack formation. all right. there is a bench of yahoo!s standing around quelling. but who are these guys? this organized group one hand each of them and the next one wearing helmets, wearing coordinated outfits of some kind, purposefully trudging up the stairs like the ap said. within six weeks the fbi tracked down and arrested the people who formed that stack on january
charged more than 700 people. with charge with participation in that attack in some capacity. the vast marj of the 700 plus people who have been charged were charged with low level offenses like trespassing. but almost immediately after the attack on the capitol started people picking through footage of what happened that day realized that within the crowd of thousands of rioters, many of whom seemed to be sort of throwing themselves willy-nilly at police officers and barricades and windows and doors, within that riotous but mostly uncoordinated crowd there were some attackers who appeared to be very highly organized. this is from an associated press report days after the attack. quote, as president donald trump s supporters massed outside the capitol last week, a line of men wearing olive drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marshalo stories stairs in a single file line each man holding the jacket
to ayma tonight, with voting rights dead in the senate, how much blame for republicans as well as democrats. plus, finally making an example of the oath keepers. and hasn t been the easiest two years to be a comic in this country, but funny man mo amar made it work. i ll ask him how. i m ayman, let s get started. could the u.s. government be training its own insurrectionists? on thursday, department of justice charged 11 members of the oathkeepers far right group with seditious conspiracy on january 6 attack, inside those indictments are new details how the militia group used military skills to advance their plots. here s a group formation known as ranger file, a standard
the easiest two years to be a comic in this country, but funny-man mo aman made it work. i m going ask him how. i m ayman mohyeldin. couldn t the u.s. government the training its own insurrectionists, on thursday the department of justice charged 11 members of the oath keepers, a far-right militia group with seditious conspiracies for the role in the january 6th attack. now inside those indictment documents are new details of how the militia group used military schools to advance their extremist plots. here, you could see a group using a formation known as ranger file. it s a standard procedure convent teams use as they breach a building. and it s instantly recognizable to any soldier or marine who was served. looking at that level of coordination, it s frightening to see just how close we came