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vaccine mandate. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight the justice department charging 11 people with seditious conspiracy. it is a charge rarely used. the 11 people include stewart rose, the leader of the far right extremist group the oath keepers. this is a major move in the investigation and the indictment is damning, right? it s 48 pages here. i m going through here. rhoades indictment. it details prior planning, use of military tactics, stash of weapons and they stored weapons outside of washington. it s really shocking the level of planning here. so used to a certain chorus of people saying it got out of hand on the fly and there were bad actors out there. when you get to page 4, this really stood out to me. page 4, rhoades and certain co-conspirator planned to stop the lawful transfer of power which applied multiple force. and we re prepared to answer rhoades call to take up arms. some co conspirators amass beinged firearms ....
department, and that change is being made because now they are able to say with this grand jury indictment that they believe there was a plot to overthroat presidency, not just to stop congress. elliott, caitlin calls it a lot more oomph from the justice department. let s put that into legal terms. you ve been arguing for some time be parish, that to build the tougher cases that many people are demanding it takes time and it takes evidence because the legal threshold to prove seditious conspiracy is a lot higher. explains. right. look, number one, this pours a lot of water on the idea that the justice department isn t going after planners or organizers and is merely getting people fortress passing. this is very, very serious. now, in order to convict someone of seditious conspiracy you have to prove or multiple people conspired by force to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of a lie. that s quite hard. number one, you have to have the communications between thos ....
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provide critical support to help relieve some of the drain and the strain on the health care system. and more relief. early indications suggest the omicron surge is starting to slow in a handful of northeastern cities such as new york and washington, d.c., that bianna got hit first with this. yeah. that is a promising sign. in moments, president biden will speak from the white house laying out his latest efforts to tackle the pandemic. then he ll be heading to capitol hill later this afternoon where he will make a direct appeal to senate democrats to take action on voting rights. this as house minority leader kevin mccarthy changes his tune, saying he will not cooperate with the committee investigating the capitol riot despite previously saying he d do so. we begin this morning at the white house with president biden set to address the nation as covid hospitalizations hit record highs. cnn white house correspondent john harwood is following. john, the president ....
through and various democrats and major civil rights leaders will be there for this speech but a number of georgia voting rights groups are boycotting saying the time for talk is over. we ll speak to one of those leaders in just a moment. also notably absent today, democratic candidate for governor in georgia stacey abrams whose name has almost become synonymous with investigate rights, but president says no need to read into it. i spoke to stacey this morning. we have a great relationship. we got our asked lipping mixed up. i talked with her at length this morning. we re all on the same page, and everything is fine. let s go to cnn s chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny there in atlanta. jeff, is everything, quote, fine? reporter: well, ana, that s very much an open question. certainly it s not fine with the local georgia democratic activists who simply want action from president biden and vice president harris. they said that they should be deliverin ....