you're believing is bs. >> for some reason i had an image walking with caw boy boots talking about i'm the law in these parts. that was my immediate image. you know what? think about it. the problem is it was never about what common sense and logical. that's the frustrating part. it was never about that. because you know it was going to be spun. now suddenly it's going to be a criticism of this doj being political, and that wasn't the case before for the prior doj and attorney general. it's sometimes i think the point is to frustrate, and so the arguments come out, don, they're like, well here's the explanation for why this is. i might think, you know, the point is to frustrate because logic has shown its face since january 7th. >> yes. but today with the charges from these are the proud boys or the oath keepers, right? >> the oath keepers. >> these are the oath keepers. i don't think there are oath keepers blm and antifa and so on and so forth. >> they actually criticized them as i think they call them marxist. and certainly the person who's the leader has been outspoken on the issue. he doesn't even have a lawyer. as you hear i was talking to the committee lawyer but not an actual court lawyer. he does not yet have one. >> we shall see. i got images of annie oakley. laura oakley, that's it. thank you, laura, i'll see you tomorrow. >> oh, god. good-bye. everyone, thank you for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. what we've been talking about just now is called seditious conspiracy. seditious conspiracy. sedition, you guys know what that is. it's a chilling charge. the u.s. code characterizes sedition as two or more people who conspire to overthrow the u.s. government or, quote, prevent, hinder or delay the execution of u.s. law by force. two or more people who conspire to overthrow the u.s. government or, quote, prevent, hinder or delay the execution of u.s. law by force. what's that sound like? january 6th. the doj charging the leader of the far right extremist oath keepers stewart rhodes and ten others. the charge carries 20 years max in prison. according to the indictment rhodes allegedly stated if president-elect joe biden were able to assume the presidency, and i quote here, we will have to do a bloody -- massively bloody revolution against them. that's what's going to have to happen, end quote. and we saw the oath keepers in action january 6th. we saw it with our own eyes, right? it played out live on our television sets and we got the video thereafter. this video shows what is called a stack of them wearing military gear and moving intactical formation through the crowd at the capitol. they aggressively pushed through the crowd, eventually getting inside. but we can't just look at what happened today, okay? it's not just what happened today, right? we have to expand our view of this, expand our lens a little bit. we can't even just look at what happened at the capitol on that day. this is about a months-long plot to block president joe biden from ever taking office and using violence to do it. in just the past few days we have learned so much more about how the helmets of this coup -- because that's exactly what it was. it was an attempted coup. we've learned how it was all supposed to come together. the details are pouring outright now this was no spontaneous uprising. there were a lot of things that had to happen to make all the parts come together like a puzzle. it was a lot of things that had to happen. there was the plan itself, the relentless pressure on then-vice president mike pence to throw out electoral votes even though he had no power to do that and to overturn the election. we've learned the committee wants to talk to mike pence about that, and he is keeping the door open for that. and in the letter to kevin mccarthy the committee makes it clear they think the former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, had advance knowledge. another quote here. in advance of january 6th you explain to mark meadows the objection to the certification of electoral votes on january 6th was doomed to fail. this window is just beyond because this one is -- these are the fake electoral college certificates that we have learned were sent to the national archives in the weeks after the election declaring that trump won seven states he actually lost. and meanwhile i want you to just take a minute and realize these are the people alleging fraud here. the people who are sending fake electoral certificates are the ones who are alleging fraud. these are the people alleging fraud here, the very same ones who are sending the fake certificates. the fake certificates created by trump allies in georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, nevada, and new mexico. now, coincidently -- or maybe not -- most of those were states republicans planned to challenge on january 6th until the riot at the capitol intervened. inwatchdog american oversight got copies of the certificates from the archives like this one from arizona. it's up on your screen. and it's signed by those fake collectors. but one of them arizona representative jake hoffman really didn't want to answer a question about it from our affiliate kpnx. watch this. >> so in unprecedented times unprecedented action is -- there's no case law, no precedent that exists as to whether or not an election that is currently being litigated in the courts has due standing, which is why we felt it appropriate to provide congress and the vice president with dueling opinions. >> did you have direction from anybody in doing this? was it you yourself doing this, or did someone giving you advice on the manner in which you can do it? >> so i'm simply -- i was one of the electors. i'm not in charge of the electors. >> how did you hear? >> you would need to ask the party chair that. >> how did you hear about the plan? >> you would need to ask the party chair that. >> but you're the person who received the call. you showed up, right? how did you know to show up that day? >> as i said you can go ask the party chair the logistics of it. >> do you not know how you arrived at a place? >> thank you, i appreciate it. thank you so much. have a great one. >> so it's like trump hanging up on pensky yesterday. did you catch that? they thought it was they had to provide dueling opinions. that sounds a lot like remember alternative facts? dueling opinions the new alternative facts. so we learned about the plot. we've learned more about the plotters. today we learned about the muscle, the indictment against the oath keepers laying out their alleged tactics, weapons, organization and communication. from the indictment and i quote here, rhodes and certain coconspirators to include selected regional leaders to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power by january 20, 2021, which included multiple ways to deploy force. they coordinated travel across the country to enter washington, d.c., equip themselves with a variety of weapons, don combat and tactical gear and were prepared to answer rhodes' call to take up arms at rhodes' direction. some coconspirators also amassed firearms on the outskirts of washington, d.c., distributed them among quick reaction force, qrf teams, and planned to use the firearms in support of their plot to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power. that whole idea about there were no -- they didn't have guns, many weren't armed. well, we heard what commander kyle and what michael fanone said about that. of course there were guns. so that argument is out. that's another lie. who's coordinating all of this? who was behind -- who was the coordinator or coordinators of this? that is a major question yet to be answered by you better bet -- but you better bet it is being asked. like what was working at the hotel in the so-called war room january 5th, the meeting allegedly attended by rudy giuliani, steve bannon, john eastman and others. the committee met virtually today with another name. folks here in new york know him because he's a former new york police commissioner who worked with rudy giuliani looking for evidence of voter fraud. he told cnn he paid for suites in washington hotels used as command centers. and you can bet your bottom dollar the committee has questions about what went on in those command centers. i bet they want to know who the command center was commanding. who were they commanding? what were they commanding? why did you need a command center? and when a coup fails, then comes the whitewashing, the cover-up. elected officials who were in the united states capitol while it was being attacked. they knew the score. they knew it then, and they know it now. just like kevin mccarthy. this is what he said exactly one year ago tonight. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action of president trump. accept his share of responsibility, quell the brewing unrest and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. >> we play that often because it's important to remind you, the folks out there, the duality, that's a kind way of putting it of kevin mccarthy and others what they said at the time and what they're saying now. because kevin mccarthy who knew one year ago who was responsible for the attack at the capitol now refusing to cooperate with the january 6th committee. hmm. hmm. why wouldn't you cooperate? i have nothing to hide, but i'm not cooperating. refusing to tell them what he knows about what happened on january 6th and who he knows is responsible, who he said is responsible. so we have that, and there's a lot more big news today. okay? president biden pulling out all the stops on his last ditch effort to get one of his biggest campaign promises across the finish line. here we go again. this time it's voting rights. forceful speech, an about face on the filibuster, a trip to capitol hill and a white house meeting with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema tonight. and after all that looks like he's doomed to fail. >> i hope we can get this done, but i'm not sure. i don't know we can get it done, but i know one thing. as long as i have a breath in me, as long as i'm in the white house, as long as i'm engaged at all i'm going to be fighting to change the way these legislatures are moving. >> so the president admitting defeat because the gop won't protect the vote. it's really mainly about the gop because you can't get one or two when it's usually bipartisan. but you can't get one or two, even a couple? nope. gop won't protect the vote. two members of his own party won't carve out the filibuster to make it happen. this is what you call -- i mean it's flat out it's a minority ruling a majority. that's what it is. it's what happens when you have a -- a razor thin majority but a minority party explicitly saying we're not going to work with you. a minority party who appears voting rights, they don't really care about it. it doesn't matter. and then there is the conservative majority supreme court in a decision that is a huge hit to the president's attempt to use the power of the federal government to fight the pandemic. the supreme court blocking his vaccine and testing rule for large businesses but allowing a vaccine mandate for some health care workers to go into effect nationwide. we've got more on all of this coming up tonight. it's a packed news night. we're going to get to all of it. but now i want to get to this investigation. i want to bring encnn's evan perez with more on these landmark charges from the doj today. and i think that's a good way of putting it, evan, landmark. and the level of detail in this 81-page indictment is stunning. is it clear now that the justice department is going after not just the rioters but the planners? >> yeah. that's, i think, one of the things you've come away from this document, don, and you see that for all the criticism that you've heard of the attorney general, you know, there's been a lot of work going on behind the scenes quietly to try to build as they usually do in these cases, to build from the ground up. and one of the things that strikes you when you read this is that, again, we focus a lot on what happened on january 6th. and this idea that we've seen in all the other court cases that what this was about was about impeding and stopping the certification of the vote count that day. the prosecutors in this document today, however, go further. they say that this was a conspiracy and this is the reason why they get to seditious conspiracy. they say it was a conspiracy that went beyond january 6th, that these people were working to try to impede and try to -- plotting to stop president biden from taking office. and then even after they talked about having militias, organizing militias to oppose the new president once he was in office. there's a reference in here to stewart rhodes, the founder oof the oath keepers who was one of the people arrested today and was charged -- one of the 11 charged. he had a meeting on that night on january 6th where they talked about next steps, according to prosecutors. they talked about retreating to the mountains of kentucky as a refuge to start civil war 2.0. again, this is all laid out in detail in this document there. >> for people who were saying this is -- well, two things, evan, that it was spontaneous. this shows it was not spontaneous. that it was other groups acting on behalf of democrats and joe biden, that it wasn't trump supporters and it wasn't -- clearly that is not the case. >> not true. >> okay. i'm reading here because we got new information now on the former police commissioner of new york reporting about his meeting with the january 6th committee. what can you tell us? i just got it. tell us what's going on. >> he met with the january 6th committee, don, for about 8 hours today. that's a long, long virtual interview he had. and he talked a lot -- apparently he was asked a lot of questions about rudy giuliani and the effort he was working with rudy giuliani on this what they said was an investigation of vote fraud. of course we know this was all bogus, but -- and he acknowledged, by the way, in this interview with the january 6th committee they never actually came up with proof of vote fraud. but he felt and rudy giuliani felt in all their work, they were working out of the willard hotel, working out of the manard oriental apparently until covid forced them to move hotels. they never actually came up with any proof, but they felt they needed to continue pursuing this lie. and so that's one of the things -- >> what do they need a warrant for? >> he says that it was a misnomer in this interview, apparently. he said that it was mainly to organize everybody who was working on this vote fraud cause that they were pursuing. and, you know, they saw steve bannon there periodically i guess -- >> to do exactly what? this was to do exactly what? to continue to spread lies or -- >> to continue to pursue the big lie. >> but not to get people to the capitol? is that -- >> that apparently is what he is contending this is not what this was about. >> interesting. he previously provided documents to the committee and went through them during his testimony. >> he did, exactly. he had provided documents before, and finally after a bit of a back and forth decided to provide this interview to explain what was going on in those rooms. >> evan perez. >> good to see you, don. >> good tee to you as well. there's a lot going on. thank you, avenue an. the indictment today is a huge moment of the investigation of the attack on the capitol january 6th. so what about lawmakers who had been trying to whitewash the whole thing? what do they think now? designed to help you keep more of what you earn. this is the planning effect. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. research shows people who take h-i-v treatment every day and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit h-i-v through sex. serious side effects can occur, including kidney problems and kidney failure. rare, life-threatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems. do not take biktarvy if you take dofetilide or rifampin. tell your doctor about all the medicines and supplements you take, if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you have kidney or liver problems, including hepatitis. if you have hepatitis b, do not stop taking biktarvy without talking to your doctor. common side effects were diarrhea, nausea, and headache. if you're living with hiv, keep loving who you are. and ask your doctor if biktarvy is right for you. 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the next day. on january 4, 2021, while still traveling toward washington, d.c. metropolitan area rhodes spent approximately $4,500 on sights, mounts, optic plate magazine and various firearm parts. the reason it's scary to me because it sounds like someone is preparing to go to battle. it's a miracle not a single member of congress was killed. >> yeah, don. this is called a speaking indictment, and it sure does speak. i mean, i've read it cover to cover. it's impactful. it's a very thorough investigation. it lays out every single step probably backed up by hotel records and texts and all the electronic evidence that the fbi can get their hands on. so, yes, this is an impactful indictment. i was wondering for a while there whether we were going to see any real conspiracy involving sedition or insurrection. well, this is it. and it's not surprising that it is the oath keepers. they and the proud boys seem to be prominent that day, about 20 or so have already been charged. so this is -- this is very, very serious. >> one more, chris, because the indictment details how they had staging areas just outside washington ready to respond with the purpose of stopping the lawful transfer of power. what's your assessment of the level of planning that went into this? >> yeah, it was very militaristic. they had the so-called quick reaction forces. they had their stacks, their lines of approach. they had people storing weapons and other equipment in hotels. i know that hotel very well. it's right off of the interstate. you can get there in about ten minutes, which they did when they were called upon. so the level of detail and the military planning is what really scares me. >> so you never thought this was spontaneous? >> no, i thought we might see some -- we have seen some conspiracy charges. i wondered if we were ever going to see insurrection or sedition and whether there was going to be some sort of organization behind any part of this. and i think -- i don't know if we'll see other indictments like this, but i -- you can see why it took so much time. it's very meticulous. when you use this, this statute is very rarely used. i think it was last used about 20 years, 30 years ago, 1990 or so. and it's hard to prove because you're talking about intent. you're talking about some things that overthrow the u.s. government. it went well beyond the 700-plus charges that we have seen already. so i'm interested if you might see other indictments involving maybe the proud boys or three%ers, other group, sort of paramilitary-type groups that we've seen individual members arrested. >> let's talk to elie about that. nothing about this describes the normal tourist visit some tried to portray. what do you think of that and what do you think of what chris said? do you think we'll see other charges? >> so, don, this is game changer as far as it goes. and it's taken about a year. we're seeing appropriately serious and heavy charges lodged against some of the people who were behind the organization here. it really lays to rest so many of the myths behind this attack. and you used an interesting phrase earlier this in show, don. you said these guys are the muscle -- the muscle. and i think that's a good way to describe it. when you read the indictment it makes it very clear. let's remember muscle doesn't act on its own. muscle acts on some sort of impulse i guess to continue the analogy from the brain or nerve center. will the justice department be able to bring similar charges against other people who were literally above ground level because all these folks, yes, the leader of the oath keepers did not physically go into the capitol, but he was there. we are still literally at ground level here. i want to see if the doj is able to take it up higher. >> i just want to read this. this is from the indictment a message from stewart rhodes. rhodes stated if president-elect biden were to assume the presiden presidency it would be a bloody and desperate fight. he says we're going to have to fight a fight that can't be avoided. but, elie, stewart rhodes was at the capitol there but never entered the building. are they going after the planners now? and who could be next? >> well, i think the key to answering that question is going to be determined by who flips, right, and who cooperates because that's the key to bring them up the chain even further. i will tell you from my years as a federal prosecutor, people flip in federal cases all the time. i mean, the oath keepers say they have this oath. you know, those oaths go out the window real quick when you get hit with federal charges. and these guys are looking at very serious time. unfortunately, we've gotten used to some really laughable short sentences in these january 6th cases. the highest sentence we've seen so far is just over 5 years. these defendants are looking at significantly more than that, double that, arguably triple that depending on how the guidelines work out. so they're going to have very hard incentives to flip, and if they do we'll see if the doj is able to take it up beyond the vicinity of the capitol that day and where they're getting their instructions. the reason these guys stormed the capitol was donald trump's big lie, the same lie being perpetrated and thought of and spread from that willard hotel war room you mentioned before. why do they call it the war room? that's what drove this muscle into the capitol building. >> elie, chris, thank you very much. i appreciate it. president biden meeting with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema hours after they declare they won't budge on the filibuster? is there any chance he can change their minds or is it the final nail in the coffin for voting rights legislation? some of my best memories growing up, were cooking with mom. she always said, “food is love.” so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ i want to make the most of every meal we have together. ♪ at northwestern 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joining me to discuss mr. ron brownstein. ron, here we go again. good evening, sir. look, definitely this is a blow to president biden and to democrats and to the cause of voting rights that will reverberate throughout the mid-terms. it's going to reverberate and beyond, the next presidential election -- >> decades. >> right. so talk to me about the significance of what happened today. >> it's a momentous day. you can look at the failure now with kyrsten sinema saying she'll not accept any carve out of the filibuster for voting rights. you're now in a position where the road may be clear for the red states to proceed to steadily tighten the tourniquet on voting rights throughout this decade. i mean the supreme court has made clear it is not going to interfere. the roberts court has never overturned a state voting rights restriction, in fact banged the gong with everything you're seeing with the shelby county decision, in 2013 eliminating the justice department clearance authority. and with manchin and sinema saying you need a bipartisan super majority for congress to act, there may be no effective constraint on what the red states can do. so we could be in a period of a significant unwinding of civil liberties and civil rights that go beyond voting rights in the red states. i mean, it is highly likely the supreme court is going to let the states -- the red states restrict or ban abortion. we're seeing roll backs of lgbtq rights, first amendment rights in terms of limiting how teachers can talk about race in schools or how people can protest, heighten penalties for protesters. there is a great divergence, i think, that is ahead between what basic civil liberties look like in red states or blue states, and today is a turning point or cross roads on that path. >> all of this -- the lions share of the blame should be placed on republicans because they're just not going to budge, but also on the two democrats who have this sort of misguided idea of what the filibuster is actually about and the history of the filibuster. go on. >> think of the asymmetry in place here. we're seeing republicans impose these voting restrictions in red states on a party line majority vote basis. there are three democratic votes total in the state ledge s lachers for the most restrictive voting laws. the states are passing these restrictions on a party line majority basis. the supreme court has opened the door to this. the shelby county decision in 2013 and the decision in 2019 each were approved on a party line majority basis. five republican appointees outvoting four democratic appointees. but manchin and sinema have set a standard that congress can respond to these restrictions on voting rights only with a bipartisan super majority of 60 votes. and that kind of incongruty, that kind of imbalance in the playing field virtually guarantees, i think, through the 2020s we're going to see more rather than less restrictions on peoples access to the ballot box. >> why are you -- i guess you answered part of it. you say today reveals that the trifecta of red state legislatures, the right leaning supreme court and the senate filibuster making it impossible for democrats to govern even when they win elections. meaning this isn't a runoff, and what does that mean? one off. i said runoff. >> as i said before if you look at what's happening across the board is you're seeing red states on a majority vote party line basis, their legislatures rolling back all sorts of civil rights and civil liberties that we thought were established as common national rights. and they're doing that on a majority basis. the supreme court is giving them the leeway to do that certainly on voting rights so far and potentially on abortion next summer in that decision and on other rights. and then the one tool democrats have to protect these rights whether it's codifying roe or cod foying national voting rights is their ability to pass legislation through the congress. but in the congress they now have to reach this super majority in the senate, which that gives a veto to the same red states. so what we're seeing i think is kind of a pincer movement from several directions, which is driven by the uniform as you point out resistance of senate republicans but fundamentally enabled by manchin and sinema with their eyes wide open. i mean, they can have no illusions about what's happening either in the red states or the refusal of senate republicans to try to rein in what their republican colleagues are doing. and all these forces i think make it very difficult for democrats to advance their agenda. especially on the other side they're moving on the kpergz of national power. >> that we're going to talk about next. thank you, ron. i appreciate it. so ron just mentioned the supreme court, right, and what is happening. handing president biden a major blow, striking down his vaccine mandate for large businesses. what will he do now? a ridiculous amount of ink! you're mocking me. 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undercuts the capacity of the responsible federal officials acting well within the scope of their authority to protect american workers from grave danger. why didn't that argument win, harry? >> that's the broader theme, right? having administrative agencies with expertise and uniformity, it didn't win because the new majority doesn't like the administrative state very much, doesn't trust it and wants to scale it back. >> i want to see if you understand this, all right, because these are comments from conservative justice clarence thomas from the oral arguments hearing for this case. watch this. >> there's been some suggestion or at least it seems to be implied that the vaccinations are efficacious in preventing some degree of infection to others. could you talk about that? particularly as i remember in the filings that the 18 to -- that the younger workers, the 20-year-olds who are unvaccinated are actually safer than the older workers who are vaccinated? so there are obviously some differences. >> okay. let me just before you answer that. the science is that vaccinated people regardless of age are way less likely to get seriously ill or die from covid than unvaccinated. what did you make of those remarks? >> well, i thought it was puzzling and bizarre, but if you put it together with some of the things that the people on that side were saying, i think he's really worried and so is aleto about people who feel their liberty interests are being violated if they have to take a vaccine. >> yeah, that's liberty. but the science doesn't show what he's saying, harry. >> don, no argument there, but he wants to say -- they see it as an issue of personal liberty. their look out here were people who want to stay vaccinated and business. the look out of the dissent of entire workers and countries powerless. the republican national committee threatening to boycott presidential debates if they don't get the changes they want. i wonder who they're trying to please. seen it. 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