takeovers well beyond january 6th. these indictments detail the arsenal of weapons and equipment they brought to the capitol and purchased in the weeks following. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us live. before we get to rhodes, another defendant, edward viejo just appeared virtually for his federal court appearance in arizona, what did we learn from that one. the hearing, the initial appearance just wrapped in federal court in arizona. the way it s laid out, he ll have another hearing next thursday. that will determine if he s eligible for release. he will be held until then. it s all because he is facing this serious charge of seditious conspiracy for allegedly plotting to violently overthrow the government along with ten other dfefendants including stewart rhodes who we re expecting at 3:30 in court. they outlined his role in the indictment, he led quick reaction force teams where a few oath keepers actually stayed
clamoring and i know others have been clamoring that what we saw happen on january 6th does meet the definition of sedition and seditious conspiracy, and now doj has taken that action, and one of the big questions that i have now is, how much farther does this go? how much more broad does it go out? how much does it go perhaps to even higher levels? we shall see. people might flip off of this indictment. doj may have other evidence. but for now, this is a very powerful statement. we have our sara sidner on the phone with us, who has covered this group and these leaders more comprehensively than any reporter i know. sara, first, tell us more about this stewart rhodes, edward viejo, the leaders of the oath keepers. i have had several conversations with stoewart rhodes, who is the national leader or at least was of the oath keepers, and there was it was really interesting because when we looked at what happened with the oath keepers,