first january 6th hearing broke the news that prior to trump s rally at the lips that day, those proud boys were actually casing the joint. just to be aware, to be advised, is probably about [inaudible] proud boys, marching eastbound and it s 400 block of independence, actually, towards the, lawn on the united states capitol. they went there 10 am, casing the capitol, at various entry points. on wednesday, we also learned about this nine-page document, strangely titled 1700s 76 returns, because it was filed in federal court by one of the proud boys and it shows their alleged december 2020 plan, including filling eight targeted buildings in the complex with their own footsoldiers and their protesters, whom they call patriots, laying a kind of siege where they could issue demands. but even if they got in, why would they think they would be in a position to hold the building and make demands? again, as the understanding has evolved, as more evidence has come in, they were hu
new york times broke ground in the collective understanding of what happened on january 6th. the proud boys paramilitary group were part of that crowd storming the capitol that day and donald trump had shouted them out before the election. but the way these groups achieved the grave, remarkable active breaching the capitol, during that long schedule national security, event that s not been fully accounted for. that s what we re going to get into right now. because this was, of course, one of the only days of the year that both houses of have congress have all their members gathered, along with the vice president. many people tend to bring their families as well for that swearing in ceremony. and yet they got in, the very first january 6th hearing broke the news that prior to trump s reilly at the ellipse that day, those proud boys were actually casing the joint. just to be aware, to be advise, there s probably about 300 proud boys, marching eastbound and it s 400 block of i
that important distinction that whatever one thinks of all those people because many more of them were willing to commit crimes and trespass they were waiting for hours around those gates, that sort of the order. but over and over again the proud boys use these tactics to move and convert and mobilize. they were five major advances where they played a critical role in breaching. the times documents how they entered the capitol from one direction, then they would go help with another breach at with another reach at another entry point. there were filling the capitol with the people willing to do criminal trespassing, which is the opposite of patriotism. but of course, this is there orwellian rhetoric, but they call the [inaudible] they are, getting patriots in. but the seaming case was not organically, is engineered, which addresses one of the questions that day, how even a large mob of even seemingly random people who don t know each other would actually do something like breach th
they are, getting patriots in. but the seaming case was not organic, was engineered. that how even a large mob of even seemingly random people who don t know each other would actually do something like breach the capitol. yes, they did outnumber police. yes, parts of the trump administration were unhelpful, to say the least, in protecting the capitol. and we ve done a lot of reporting on that and the potential accountability for that. but again, as a factual matter, even with all, that it seems remarkable that people who were publicly summoned by trump s call to come to washington would pull this off. they would seem to mostly be strangers. it was odd. well, this evidence is part of the answer, just as these three hearings had shown how the violence was directed and ran parallel to the illegal coup plot, which built on trump s public call it a presidential debate, infamously telling proud boys to stand by. the committee, separately showing how that, which was heard by hundreds of mil