he hears them. he actually responded last week, and he vowed that it was far from over. remember this? the actions we have taken thus far will not be our last. the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law, as long as it takes. as long as it takes. i bet some of you probably heard that and a part of you somewhere within you, you conflated this attorney general with maybe a robert mueller, right? you had the deja vu of the mueller years. i hope it s not too soon to mention them. you probably rolled your eyes, thinking it might only be the minions and the drawn-out process. if it s the minions and not the leaders prosecuted for the worst attack on our democracy in modern american history. but he told you, as long as it takes. i bet you thought it would take a much longer period of time. and it s still not over. but more would be coming. well, guess what? here it is today. the first charges of seditious co
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
and so forth. i think they called them marxist. the person who is the leader has been outspoken on that very issue, which you know is not the case. but he doesn t even have lawyers. i was talking to his committee lawyer, but not the actual criminal lawyer. he does not yet have one. i m wondering if he ll get the rittenhouse treatment in terms of funding to see who really does have his back. we shall see. i ve got images of annie oakley. laura oakley. that s it. thank you, laura. i ll see you tomorrow. oh, god. goodbye. have a good one. so everyone, thank you for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. so what we have 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 charges sedition as two or more people who conspired 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 over
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.
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