Any minute, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell is set to speak on the floor of the senate for the First Time Since his latest Freezing Episode as questions swirl about the future of his leadership. Were monitoring those remarks. The man hunt for a dangerous escaped murderer is now expanding. Pennsylvania Authorities Say the convicted killer was spotted outside of the original search area. Two School Districts closed their doors as hundreds of Law Enforcement officers deployed to help with the search. And more than 50 years after his heroic actions in vietnam, retired Army Captain Larry Taylor will be honored at the white house. Captain taylor will receive the nations highest Military Award. We are following these latest developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. This hour on capitol hill, the senate is back in session after its august break, and many eyes and ears are going to be trained on the minority leader. Any moment now were expecting to he
This as cnn has exclusively reported on the Special Counsels 2020 election probe. Also tonight, the u. S. Warns north korea it will pay a price if kim jongun arms, helps arm Vladimir Putins war in ukraine. Ill ask key white house official john kirby about that and the prospect of a kim putin being in russia. The manhunt for a Fugitive Killer expanding right now after a Security Camera catches a glimpse of the escaped convict in pennsylvania. Outside the original search area. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. We begin with Breaking News right now. The former chairman of the proud boys was just sentenced moments ago in connection with the january 6th attack. Cnn senior justice Cover Ant Evan Perez is outside the federal courthouse here in washington. Evan, enrico dario got 22 years, 22 years in prison. Tell us more about this very significant sentence. Reporter thats right, wolf.
asking to sentence the leaders of the proud boys on january 6 to essentially three decades in prison each. they re asking for 33 years in prison for the chairman of the proud boys who wasn t even on the grounds on january 6th but was purged from washington, d.c., and cheering on the others over texts. they re asking for 33 years for joseph biggs, zachary reel, another man who bashed in a window, one of the first pieces of the capitol to fall, for 20 years. but this court document was a reminder when you read it just how serious the violence was on january 6th, how there was now asserted by a jury s finding here, that there was an effort of people who came together who plotted out how they would lead a mob inside the capitol if they had the opportunity. the justice department wrote about these four members of the proud boys convicted of
boys, leaders of the proud boys, and people who were leading the charge at the capitol on january 6th. those men are enrique tarrio, the chairman of the proud boys, zachary reel, joseph biggs, and dominic pazolla, a man who is seen in many image breaking into the capitol with a police riot shield in a window, climbing in there with what prosecutors say was the tip of it spear at the u.s. capitol, leading the rioters around the back of the building to get inside that really caused things to unravel that day for police that were trying to protect the building. and this prosecution and this conviction is so important because it is not just about what happened on january 6th, it is about the planning that the prosecutors are able to argue here and how they have been able to prove to the jury that these men wanted something like this to happen on january 6th, that the proud boys were coming together as a team and they wanted to create something similar to a war on the grounds
was not in washington, d.c. on january 6th, so that makes him very unique among the january 6th defendants. but the jury has found the government proved these men wanted to overthrow the u.s. government or hinder it somehow by force. the jury has also found that the other three men are guilty of additional charges, other conspiracy charges. there is one person on trial, though, a man named dominic pazolla. he was seen breaking a window at the capitol and was accused of using a riot shield to break that window. there haven t been verdicts read about dominic pazola at this time, but the four men convicted the four men found guilty by the jury today enrique tarrio as well as zachary reel, eethens biggs those are the ones the justice department is accusing them of planning together and moving on january 6th in a way that essentially in