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what steps beyond mere preparation the defendants took that fit in accordance with that plan so you can look for that convictional conspiracy. ryan, back to you for a second. what s the betting money on? will stewart rhodes take the stand? reporter: i think he will. he s done a media interview which his lawyers i don t think were happy with during the course of the trial. i think we will hear from him and will have an interesting defense essentially that he thought he was waiting on trump to invoke the insurrection act and thought he was doing everything he was doing would be legal under his interpretation of the insurrection act. isn t it generally believed, charles, the only way a defendant in a serious prosecution takes the stand is if you re really desperate, you think you re losing? but, ultimately, they re the ones whose future is on the line.
for more let s bring in ryan riley who is at the courthouse, charles coleman is a former prosecutor. so, ryan, a juror this morning removed after testing positive for covid. testimony continued. what more did jurors hear about today? reporter: a lot more about what stewart rhodes was up to in the days before the attack, in addition to sending texts to the legal counsel for the oath keepers, he was buying a lot of weapons on his trip and prosecutors showed a map of all the stops he made along the way to load up on alm of these weapons as he was making his way to d.c. ahead of january 6th. i think what we heard recently there was a dual purpose to a lot of what the oath keepers were up to. people in the conservative world ahead of january 6th.
it may be that the that this was a silo, that the oath keepers just operated themselves, but let me read you one sentence from the indictment, paragraph 70, this is a signal message, an encrypted message that rhodes sent on the morning of january 6th and he says to his colleagues, there are many many others from other groups who will be watching and waiting on the outside in case of worst case sncenarios. who are those people? who are the other groups? how did he know that? what sort of communications did he have? that s the kind of thing that federal prosecutors will want to know, and if they can persuade rhodes or others to cooperate, that s certainly a question they re going to ask. phil, you have heard the narrative from capitol hill that there was no pre-planning of this, of course we now have all of these messages that have been exchanged and maybe that was the case for some of the people that
power lines will be down, and so we could see a nightmare scenario in some of these locations. look at this, up to a 1/2 inch, an inch of ice, the models are definitely differing still. we re going to have to wait and see these models come together. either scenario is not going to be good for the carolinas if that sets up. snow forecast, could see a foot of snow across the appalachians. all right. jennifer gray, thank you very much. brand new hour, it s good to be with you, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. in just a few minutes, the leader of the far right extremist group, the oath keepers is due to appear in fourth. stewart rhodes is one of eleven defendants who the justice department charged with sedition on thursday for their involvement in the january 6th insurrection. these are the most significant charges in the investigation so far, and prosecutors say rhodes and others were plotting for violent