plus since the january 6th attack on the united states capitol, the most important so far has been the arrest of this man. meet stewart rhodes the founder of the far right militia the oath keepers, a former army paratrooper who was honorably discharged after he was injured in a night parachuting accident. he then worked for libertarian congressman ron paul and went to yale law school. so far what would seem to be a kind of main stream conservative. according to the southern policy law center it s only when rhodes moved to montana that his believed turned a hard right away from small d democratic politics the justice department announced thursday it was charging rhodes and ten of his coconspirators with something called seditious conspiracy for their roles in the january insurrection. seditious conspiracy is a rarely used civil war era statute reserved only for the most serious of political criminals. i look at the court documents for rhodes arrest reveals why the government
procedure combat teams use as they prepare to breach a building and it s instantly recognizable to any soldier or marine who has served. looking at that level of coordination, it s frightening to see just how close we came to a coup and a year later, our democracy remains at risk. today, that risk isn t from a group of men making their way up the capitol steps but from a coordinated, nation-wide attack on voting rights in this country. tomorrow, the u.s. marks martin luther king jr. day, every year we celebrate the life, work and legacy of the civil rights giant, but tonight, on the heels of another federal voting rights failure, i want to play these words from king in 1963. i think the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they won t let the majority vote and certainly don t want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not repre
Hyperbole, people just talking big game on the internet and threats, people making deliberate plans to engage in violence. that clip, it s hard to watch that clip and not take it seriously. it s hard to watch it and think this is somebody who is just spouting off the top of his head and being silly. it s deliberate, it sounds sober-minded when he s giving that and has a lot of specifics. the facts law enforcement officials didn t see that and use that as justification to further secure the capitol building is something in retrospect that still boggals the mind. and to say trump and his allies to down play this, say oh, we haven t seen seditious conspiracy, insurrection charges, we are now seeing seditious conspiracy, and others betsy, thank you so much for joining us this evening. appreciate your time. if you don t know who mo amar is, you ll probably become a fan after tonight, a
To ayma tonight, with voting rights dead in the senate, how much blame for republicans as well as democrats. plus, finally making an example of the oath keepers. and hasn t been the easiest two years to be a comic in this country, but funny man mo amar made it work. i ll ask him how. i m ayman, let s get started. could the u.s. government be training its own insurrectionists? on thursday, department of justice charged 11 members of the oathkeepers far right group with seditious conspiracy on january 6 attack, inside those indictments are new details how the militia group used military skills to advance their plots. here s a group formation known as ranger file, a standard