Honest. Tarrio is loved and loathed in equal measure. Can you hear it . Can you hear this . Suourme their entire stupid | message has become about me and i could not be any happier. Shouting news Opening Statements got underway in the trial of five men tied to the Extremist Group the proud boys. That includes long time leader Enrique Tarrio. The trial comes just weeks. After two leaders of another Extremist Group, the 0ath keepers, were convicted l of Seditious Conspiracy. Tarrio is perhaps the highest profile defendant to face jurors yet, in the attack. Tarrio had nothing to do with the events Ofjanuary 6th. He was not there. He was not present. He did not incite or orchestrate any attack on the capitol and i think the evidence is going to be clear. All we want is the truth to come out during this trial. Its obvious that the government has thrown all the resources possible prosecuting the people Onjanuary 6th. Its an issue of finding a scapegoat for what transpired Onjanuary 6th. Enrique tarrio to me is such an interesting character. You know, hes the national ringleaderfor the proud boys and he sits at the top of theirfood chain. He considers himself a propaganda minister, i think. And so i think as a leader of that group and he did have political aspirations for a while i think that he just likes to be the, you know, the front facing figure and the Smooth Talker and likes to represent what the proud boys are supposed to be. And. Yeah. I think he might be a charlatan, to be perfectly honest. For three years, Enrique Tarrio let our cameras follow him. They gave me this at the atlanta rally, and i dont know what you do with it because usually its like the finger and its like a stop sign. Like you. You know, with a finger, you know, like. Ijust dont understand that. Every time i do some type of interview with some media company, the first thing that they do is they ask the same questions. Why are you guys White Supremacists . Are you racist . Or, are you fascists . And like i have to first. Its like i spend the first couple of minutes in these interviews like, no, no, no, no. I denounce, denounce, denounce, denounce. When we were filming with Enrique Tarrio, he said that nothing was off limits. You can ask me anything, he told us. You got to try this. Its great. What is it . Ok, so its an empanada with guava and cheese. Oh, i heard of these. I never tried it. Its not so much as im antifascist, as im anti authoritarian. Fascism is an authoritarian ideology. So is communism. Enrique tarrio is an afro cuban who grew up in miami, and speaks spanish with his family. On paper, hes a very unlikely far right leader. Ive always been political. My family was executed at the order of che guevara. So, you know, from birth, i was very political. I was a trump supporter from day one. In 2012, he was thinking about running, and at that point i said, this guy is the guy thats going to win. And then he decided not to run at that point, which i thought was a great idea. He wouldnt have beat 0bama in 2012. Enrique tarrio is charming, but also elusive. As a journalist, he can be hard to pin down. He can be likeable one minute and say incredibly offensive things the next. But among his followers, he inspires devotion. You can just tell people that i have a special irish pool. Its green there would be some rally and he would be there and he was kind of a nobody at the time. He was a proud boy. And then i had friends that were good friends of his. Thats how we would be around each other. You know, there would be different events that he would, he would be there. He would be speaking. Hes just always been there. Im really protective of him because people dont know him. Hes not a white supremacist. Hes got a soft heart, and hes for the same things im for. Hes. Hes a conservative. Hes a rock star now. I knew him when he wasnt a rock star. Like, seriously, like. Im like. The proud boys started as an all male drinking club. I played on this table four times the night after i built it. And i just havent. I havent used it. The government and the media, theyre not after the proud boys. Were just in their way. Werejust in theirway because what scares them is our voices. Thats why they dont want us on facebook and twitter. Were wrongthink. Thats not allowed. How dare us go against the narrative . How dare us go against The Deep State . How dare us go against the democrats and their socialist agenda . Im going to see if i can swivel the hip. I full power. I like that. Yeah. The founder of the proud boys is gavin mcinnes. Thats the man in the hat. 0w all right. Come on, now. Thats good. Come on. I didnt have to promote it. Itjust blew up. And where it really blows up is left wing cities like los angeles, chicago, i new york, because you cant talk patriotic stuff in these cities. I and it was a place where guys could notjust relax and be dudes and fart and not hold out chairs or anything, but it was a place where you could talk about trump. But as the trump years wore on, the proud boys became notorious for violent clashes with police and antifascist protesters. They were instantly recognisable in Black And YellowFred Perry Polo shirts, and they often wore tactical vests. They said they were fighting communism and that they were there to save america. There were proud boy chapters in almost every state in the us, and in time, a new leader emerged. Enrique tarrio. I think he was kind of nerdy. When he was younger and all of a sudden with proud | boys, he was the fonz. And i think he fell in love with the attention. Enrique loves to rally. He loves to get out there. While he leads a group that essentially is magnetised to violent situations, right, where i have filmed people who essentially directly report to him in these immense Street Fights with their adversaries, with media in some cases, enrique himself is always very smiling and bubbly with the cameras. Were in the midst of a fight, hell crack little jokes with the media. I am a proud boy. Im a proud boy. The first time i came to learn about who the proud boys were, were probably a little bit before donald trump mentioned them at the president ial debates in september 2020. Are you willing tonight to condemn White Supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down . Give me a name. White supremacists. Who would you like me to condemn . The proud boys . Stand back and stand by. Chanting donald trump before the debate stage mention, we had 22,000 proud boys worldwide. Give or take. 12,000 of them residing here in the United States, the other ones residing abroad. And its not hard to see that our numbers have been doubled since then. After the president ial election in 2020, the proud boys started to protest across the country, supporting Donald Trumps baseless claim that the election was stolen. They set themselves up as an informal army for the former president. I cant tell you if the election was stolen or not. I cant. And thats a problem. Those people that think that the election are stolen. I understand them. Because the United States government has meddled in the elections of. Almost any country outside of. Here, look south america, israel, all over europe. So is it crazy to think that the United States government would meddle in its own elections . I think thats a question worth. Discussing, at least. But people dont want to discuss it. They just want to shut it down and say, no, the election is not stolen. Well, the proud boys were central because they had attracted growing numbers and they were ready and willing to fight. And they also had a fascist street fighting group. They were willing to take orders from the top and they were willing to watch the signals they were getting from those in power. On december 19th, in the early morning, maybe 1 42am, trump tweets this famous tweet about coming to an event on january 6th. Will be wild. Immediately, the proud boys respond. The next day, Enrique Tarrio creates a special chapter that he calls ministry of self defense. Its a very Secretive Group that is dedicated to planning for the january 6th rally. On january 4th 2021, Enrique Tarrio travelled by plane from miami to washington, dc, and flew straight into trouble. Off the top at ten, the leader of the far right group, the proud boys arrested in the district and hes l being held by police. Enrique tarrio is accused of burning a black lives matter banner stolen from an historic black church. I the next day, he was released. He was issued with a stay away order, banning him from washington, dc for the day of the capitol protest because of magazines for a gun that were found in his luggage when he was arrested. 0njanuary 5th, i picked enrique up and drove him to the Phoenix Hotel to pick up some other bags. And while we were there, we encountered the 0ath keepers, who are led by stewart rhodes. The 0ath keepers are a far right militia group. Enrique and stewart exchanged cordialities. After the meeting in the garage, we followed enrique, continued to follow enrique to baltimore. He said that he wanted to go to baltimore because he wanted to be close to his boys. Those events would be at the centre of Enrique Tarrios trial. But one element has baffled many observers. Why did Enrique Tarrio allow himself to get arrested . The proud boys were very aware of the Second Amendment laws in dc, and im sure that enrique would have known that those magazines would have precipitated a much more severe penalty than just burning the flag. Enrique was aware that he was going to be arrested. He was arrested with his magazines, which meant that he was going to be exiled from dc and thus was not on the battlefield when, um, um, january 6th happened. Enrique took himself off the battlefield, knowing what was going to happen Onjanuary 6th. A Dc Police Officer has since been arrested and charged for tipping off Enrique Tarrio ahead of his arrest. 0n the morning Ofjanuary 6th 2021, thousands of Trump Supporters descended on washington, dc, as lawmakers in congress were preparing to confirm joe biden as the new president. Theres no doubt in my mind that Donald Trumps commanding objective was to overthrow the election, set aside the constitutional order, to claim power. Trump were going to walk down and ill be there with you. Were going to walk down to the capitol. As members of the proud boys were entering the capitol. Enrique tarrio was posting messages on an encrypted site from his hotel room in baltimore. Those Extremist Groups who were. Mobilised to be in his hemisphere all shared the goal of Seditious Conspiracy, of overthrowing the government as we knew it. Tarrio pleaded guilty to destruction of property and attempted possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device. He was sentenced to five months in a washington jail. Take care. Call me. Thank you, guys. Thank you for coming. I appreciate it. All right. As a us house committee, investigating january 6th, began hearings, authorities started to narrow in on the proud boys and other extreme groups. A very hateful word. Can you talk a little bit about the proud boys . Tell us a little bit about. How do you get to be a proud boy . Give me more. Hey, tarrio siren tarrio hey, tarrio tell � em siren continues hey, Tarrio Tarrio all you got to do is exist. Hey, tarrio can you hear it . You hear this . Siren continues you hear the rage, the anger . Tarrio was somebody that the far left saw as a big problem, and he was somebody that Trump Supporters idolised. And i think he knew that. Tarrio is a paedophile. Ill knock you the bleep out. Ill break your mouth. Get the bleep off me. Do something. Get the bleep off. Do something. Dont touch him i said dont bleep touch him get out dont touch him, ill kick your mother bleep do not touch him. Yeah, he keeps pushing people. They continue shouting so, just to tell you what ijust did here is that their entire stupid message has become about me, and i could not be any happier. Overlapping voices none of them remember why theyre here, right now. But just weeks later, Enrique Tarrio was re arrested, this time for his role in the january 6th attack. I ended up in court. Because i was subpoenaed. As a journalist, its probably the last place in the world i wanted to be. Using footage shot by nick quested as evidence, the prosecution argued that tarrio planned and directed the attack on the capitol using encrypted social media platforms. Even though he was kind of away and afar from it, he didnt have to be in dc Onjanuary 6th to be charged with Seditious Conspiracy because he was allegedly organising the conspiracy, regardless of where he was. The defence said that tarrio wasnt in dc and therefore couldnt have been involved in the insurrection in any way. Their argument was that the government was prosecuting tarrio because it was easier than going after the real culprit. With tarrio, his own Telegram Messages are. The most damning, the message, make no mistake, we did this. He also tells everybody, proud of my boys. Im proud of yall. He seems happy with what happened. Thejudge is going to be taking the bench in five or ten minutes to have that verdict returned by the jury. Well, four proud boys leaders have been found guilty by a jury of Seditious Conspiracy in a major case that the Justice Department brought afterjanuary 6th. Those include Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the proud boys who was not in washington, dc Onjanuary 6th. So that makes him very unique among many of the january 6th defendants. But the jury has found that the government proved that these men wanted to overthrow the Us Government or hinder it somehow by force. We respect the jurys verdict today, although we disagree with it, but we respect it. And at this point in time, were currently drafting all the appellate paperwork to proceed forth. You know, im not sure it matters that much. They got these convictions. Theyve effectively laid a blueprint for how to disrupt the american government. But the next time somebody wants to do this, somebody with a better plan, smarter, more dedicated, they can just follow the blueprint thats been set out now. I think that with all the january 6th cases, you know, unless. Former President Trump is called to account for this event, all of them become almost farcical. You know, everyone knows who caused that event. Everyone there was there for him. The rest of these people are pawns, even the. Even the important ones. This is a prepaid call from an inmate at the washington, dc central detention facility. To accept this call, press zero. Beep i mean, you know, we all listened to the trial. This is a prepaid call from an inmate at the washington, dc central detention facility. To accept this call, press zero. Beep i mean, you know, we all listened to the trial. A lot of it does have to do with, you know, the encouragement of getting people to get out and rally and getting people to come to dc and all those other things that. That you were doing. You sounded pretty sorry for. For what had happened. You say you didnt, but yet youre the one in prison for 22 years. America remains deeply divided. As the 2024 election approaches, the threat of Political Violence is never far away. Hello. For some places, the flooding situation could get worse before it gets better not least in Eastern Scotland, where we have this new red warning from the met office. Further rain through the day on saturday, falling on top of what weve already had. This is fridays rainfall radar. The rain was pretty relentless across Eastern Scotland and also northern england, parts of east anglia, the north midlands, north wales. Huge amounts of rain. Weve seen widespread flooding and this met Office Amber Warning remains in force through the first parts of saturday morning. But of greatest concern, i think, is this red warning covering parts of angus and southern aberdeenshire a further 100mm of rain, further significant flooding and a danger to life. Amber warnings covering larger parts of eastern and Northern Scotland as this rain just keeps on coming through the day tomorrow. For england and wales, broadly speaking, a drier day. This band of showery rain will push eastwards. Could see hefty downpours skirting the southeast corner. Northern ireland probably having some of the best of the weather largely dry, just the odd shower, some spells of sunshine. Windy in the South Of England and the channel islands. Still windy in north east scotland. But for many northern parts of the uk, not as windy as it has been. Temperatures north to south 8 16 degrees. Now, this heavy rain continues into saturday evening but it will clear northwards overnight, this band of Showery Rain Pushing away from Eastern England and then, things do turn drier. Yes, a few showers, i think therell be some mist patches around as well, but a drier start to Sunday Morning as an area of low pressure tends to swirl away north eastwards. And this very, very weak ridge of High Pressure you cant see much of it here on the Weather Chart but there is some slightly higher pressure just toppling through, and that means drierweather, more in the way of sunshine. Yes, there will be some showers but certainly not as wet as it has been. Lighter winds, temperatures of 12 16 degrees, so a much calmer day to end the weekend. But then, as we head into next week, well, another area of low pressure looks set to push up from the south. This one probably not as potent but it will still bring further rain in places where we really do not need it. So, the outlook for next week is pretty unsettled. There will be some heavy rain around at times. It will be quite windy but with some drier interludes. Live from london, this is bbc news. President biden says hes overjoyed at the release of an American Mother and daughter who were abducted along with 200 people from southern israel by hamas. Thousands are expected to take part in pro palestinian rallies across australia over the weekend. Storm babet continues to rage across the uk, with Eastern Scotland enforcing its second red weather warning this week. Hello. Im rich preston. President biden says hes overjoyed by the release of an American Mother and daughter who are the first hostages to be freed by hamas since it attacked israel this month. Judith tai and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan were handed over to the red cross, who said they were extremely relieved after they helped facilitate the transfer of the us hostages from gaza to israel. Its understood both mother and daughter have now been reunited with their families in israel. They were kidnapped by hamas from the Nahal Oz Kibbutz during an attack on october 7. Theyd travelled from illinois to visit family in israel. Hamas say the pair were freed for humanitarian reasons