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at this hour, fighting words with just days left to strike a deal. senate democrats are taking fierce new swings on capitol hill against the house republicans debt ceiling plan. plus, despite rival coasts and sports teams, the attorneys general of both california and new york are standing united in a new investigation into allegations of workplace discrimination and pay inequities at the nfl. how the league is responding next, and that explosive proud boys partial verdict. four members of the far right organization including their former leader were just found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy. this verdict is a major milestone for the doj and offers a significant blow to the far right group. we ll dig into where this case goes from here with a former federal prosecutor. our nbc news reporters and experts are following all of the latest developments for us. we re going to go ahead and start with ryan reilly in the ongoing deliberations of the proud boys trial. r ....
we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2 ....
convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles. members of both groups were seen meeting with each other in a garage right outside the capitol the night before the attack. joining me now is justice reporter ryan reilly who has been covering the trial, former lead prosecutor andrew weissmann and former federal prosecutor glen kerschner. are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence? give me a name. proud boys, stand back and stand by. ryan, one of the defenses was that they were just following the leader, donald trump, in the encouragement from him. they have been convicted of seditious conspiracy. talk to me about what s happening. reporter: that s right. they explicitly blamed donald trump. during the trial, blaming donald trump for some of the problems that the proud boys are screening new members. after the click, that was a major boon for the proud boys. they pr ....
Boys, leaders of the proud boys, and people who were leading the charge at the capitol on january 6th. those men are enrique tarrio, the chairman of the proud boys, zachary reel, joseph biggs, and dominic pazolla, a man who is seen in many image breaking into the capitol with a police riot shield in a window, climbing in there with what prosecutors say was the tip of it spear at the u.s. capitol, leading the rioters around the back of the building to get inside that really caused things to unravel that day for police that were trying to protect the building. and this prosecution and this conviction is so important because it is not just about what happened on january 6th, it is about the planning that the prosecutors are able to argue here and how they have been able to prove to the jury that these men wanted something like this to happen on january 6th, that the proud boys were coming together as a team and they wanted to create something similar to a war on the grounds ....
Been able to reach a verdict on dominic pazolla, who is one of the prominent faces you see in some of those videos that has been shown from january 6th. absolutely. evan, stick with us. john miller, stick with us. elliot williams, stick with us as well. we have much more coming in. the jury now back deliberating, but very importantly guilty of seditious conspiracy four members of the proud boys who have been on trial, a four-month long trial. the jury handing back a guilty verdict on the serious charge of seditious conspiracy. much more coming in from the courtroom. we ll be right back after this. (engine revsvs) the energy of light. everywhere. it just has a lot of control over me. ....