in a huge win for the justice department, a jury just found four members of the proud boys guilty of seditious conspiracy including the group s leader enrique tarrio. all of this related to their roles in the january 6th insurrection. baseless lies, the biden administration is blasting moscow s claim that the u.s. is somehow tied to yesterday s drone explosion near the kremlin. now russia is seeking revenge, even using drones itself to attack ukraine with the words for moscow written on them. we re live from the battlefield. and a mysterious illness, a detroit public school forced to shut down after reports of a spike in illnesses among young students stricken with flu-like symptoms. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. from insurrection to conviction, a major day for justice, coming two years and three months after the attack on the nation s capitol. some of the most serious offenders charged wit
Livelihood depends on President Trumps destruction referring to cohen so that was all well in the courtroom. But then after court, when trump walked out and you could speak to the public, he said this about cohen what are they going to look at all the lives that gone . Good in the last row . He that joint line so he got caught lying pure lime well, im Insider Cohen firing back hey, Von Expletive in pants, your attacks of me, stink of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense. Lets public spat between a key witness and the defendant is remarkable in a court. And trump, of course, is under a gag order forbidden to speak about any witnesses in the trial. But this public brawl breaking out just hours before trump is back in court facetoface with the judge, juan merchan for hearing on gag order violations. He faces fines and of course, violations could ultimately put them in jail. So this is really serious stuff. And it comes as witnesses are already taking the
The crowd to do so. i know that there were freedom of expression barriers to charging someone, but you have folks here among hundreds, right, who have now been convicted of criminal acts, in this case conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. do you see do you learn anything from these convictions as regards the president s legal jeopardy and the chances that he might be charged for his involvement? well, a couple things. i mean, first of all, jim, whenever a defendant is sentenced, one thing that they consider are all of the nature and circumstances of their offense, and all of the history and characteristics of the defendant. that s by law what a federal judge is required to consider. so i suspect that this will raise the stakes for the former president because ultimately a judge looking at a potential punishment in a case involving donald trump is going to
When it comes to the obstruction question? well, there seems to be so much obstruction that has gone on in plain sight and i think what some people sort of forget is that obstruction actually has an impact on whether you committed the underlying crime of in this case conspiracy. because you know, you don t have to cover up something if you didn t do anything wrong in the first instance. so when the president is asking comey to layoff flynn and then firing comey, when the president is participating in drafting a false narrative about what happened at that trump tower meeting, why is he taking all of those obstructive acts? because he s covering up wrongdoing. there is a powerful synergy between obstruction, which is a fancy way of saying covering up your crimes, and the crimes themselves. so the fact that there is obstruction in plain sight breathes life into the argument