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with the investigation, cnn reports this, questions asked of two recent witnesses indicate smith is focusing on how money raised off those baseless claims of voter fraud was used to fund attempts to breach voting equipment in several states won by joe biden and squarely in jack smith s sights, unindicted co-conspirator number three, that s trump co-defendant attorney sidney powell. cnn reports this, quote, according to sources, witnesses interviewed by jack smith s prosecutors in recent weeks were asked about powell s role in the hunt for evidence of vote fraud after the 2020 election. including how her nonprofit group defending the republic provided money to fund those efforts. if team trump was literally trying to break into the voting machines after the fact, then the truth spun by chris krebs about the security of the 2020 election was a real fly in the ointment. there is no foreign power that is flipping votes. there is no domestic actor flipping votes. i did it ....
yeah. 50 if you canjust start off just introducing yourself and, you know.- my name is enrique tarrio, and i am the international chairman of the proud boys. chanting: whose streets? our streets! whose streets? our streets! onjanuary 6th, 2021, a mob of protesters stormed the us capitol. more than 1,000 people are facing charges. the most notorious is enrique tarrio. he s banned from everything. he s the most banned person in the world. tarrio was the leader of a right wing extremist group. he stands accused of trying to overthrow the us government. well, the proud boys were central because they were ready and willing to fight. whose streets? our streets! so was tarrio the puppet master, or something else? i think he was kind of nerdy when he was younger. all of a sudden with proud boys, he was the fonz. i think he s very interested in his image. i think he might be a charlatan, to be perfectly honest. tarrio is loved and loathed in equal measure. can you hear it? can ....
i think he might be a charlatan, to be perfectly honest. tarrio is loved and loathed in equal measure. can you hear it? can you hear this? shouting their entire stupid message has become about me and i could not be any happier. shouting news: opening statements got under way 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 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. it s obvious that the government has thrown all the resources possible prosecuting the people onjanuary 6th. ....
live starts right now. laura? you ve got a lot to fix with what s going on in washington. you think i can fix it? hold on, i m the want to fix this? you will not put that on me today. laura alone can fix it. well, then you have some very high hopes. thank you so much, nice to see you as always. and we do have, to her point, there is breaking news out there as republicans are just now choosing another speaker. the big question is, how long will this one last? tonight, i am laura coates live. all right everyone, mike johnson, come on down. you re the next contestant on the next speaker, right? well, for the fourth time in three weeks, republicans have chosen another speaker designate. congressman mike johnson was elected with 128 votes. do the math, that s less than the total, you do realize. and get this, kevin mccarthy, who was kicked out of the job three weeks ago, received 43 votes. the next highest tally. which means it s groundhog day all over again. just go ....
news: opening statements got under way 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 oath 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. it s obvious that the government has thrown all the resources possible prosecuting the people onjanuary 6th. it s an issue of finding - a scapegoat for what transpired onjanuary 6th. enrique tarrio to me is such an interesting character. you know, he s the national ringleaderfor the proud boys and he sits at the top of theirfood chain. he considers ....