brand-new reporting regarding financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d.c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup cho
financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d. c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup choir. he then proceeded to play
up without that, it was simply an exile to belarus. we don t know if prigozhin has accepted this exile, the last we heard from him is that he sends his regards, that he will get back in touch with the media once he has better communication. so, a little cryptic, there, but in terms of the wagner group itself, the state duma in russia is said to be working on this. when we saw an interview with a russian newspaper on sunday, the head of the defense committee said we are not planning on dissolving the group, this would be the ultimate gift to nato, since he described wagner as the most combat-ready part of the russian army. even though we do not know its future status it seems this group may live to see another day. clare sebastian joining us live from london, many thanks for that report. u.s. secretary of state, antony blinken, says it is too soon to know how the crisis in
and it sweeps through the next barrier. i was proud boys takedown fence after fence over and over again, the proud boys used the same tactics while at the crowd, remove the barriers, allow the crowds to push through. the times reports that the proud boys were critical players in five major advances to breach the capital. they were using the crowds as a tool, and it worked. and that is why today s conviction was so important. these weren t random members of the mob. they were the leaders of it. and it turns out one of the things we learned in this trial was that, not only was the mob a tool of the proud boys, but internally, within the far-right group itself, the leaders of the proud boys were losing using their lower level numbers, the lower level proud boys, as ponds as well. here s an example. during the trial, and now former proud boy, a witness who cooperated with the government he testified that he was surprised when the group s leaders, like joseph biggs, when they marche
and it turns out one of the things we learned in this trial was that, not only was the mob a tool of the proud boys, but internally, within the far-right group itself, the leaders of the proud boys were using their lower level numbers, the lower level proud boys, as ponds as well. here s an example. during the trial, and now former proud boy, a witness who cooperated with the government he testified that he was surprised when the group s leaders, like joseph biggs, when they marched about 200 proud boys away from trump s speech and towards the capitol. but when the rioters burst through the barricades, minutes after the proud boys arrived, he realized that this may have been the plan all along. quote, i was putting two and two together, he recalled, and saying, this is it. now, the fact that the proud boys leaders were using their own members as pawns is not just interesting. it is also important, legally speaking. one of the guys who was convicted today, the former chairman of the p