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letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today, may 4th, marks one legal conclusion in a quest for justice began on january 26th, 2021. today federal prosecutors won their big case against a key militia that first breaches the capitol, the proud boys, who donald trump specifically shouted out. now convict of sedition, the most series possible charge for an insurrection, and a rare charge in american life and law. it is proven against these four sedition conspiracy including top gun. you may remember the nation was watching in realtime, and from casual observers to security experts, many were aghast and astounded that a group would so quickly overrun the security apparatus, the police during one of the most significant national security gatherings of the year, during a time when we know all of congress an ....
busy news night. joy reid picks up next. tonight on the reidout give me a name. white supremacists. who would you like me to condemn. proud boys, stand back and stand by. as we await a verdict in the proud boys trial, how january 6th continues to be a drag on the republican party. as their likely nominee, donald trump, continues to quite literally embrace insurrectionists. also tonight, the sorry state of the right-wing supreme court majority. and the questions their actions raise about the credibility of the court. and actor and comedian john leguizamo will be here right hire on set with me to discuss his new series, leguizamo does america. very, very excited about that. but we begin tonight still awaiting a verdict in the trial of five members of the far right extremist group the proud boys. for their role in the violent attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditio ....
Stand by. would you say proud boys numbers increased after the stand back and stand by comment? exponentially. i d say triples probably. tripled. donald trump recruit for this convicted sedition militia, rejecting any standard call to stand down. he told them to stand by, and they did. now they ll be standing by in prison, for maybe decades. some may die there. they will have plenty of time to reflect on what heeding trump s call did to their own lives and, more importantly in the eyes of justice, what it did to so many other people s lives the police they savagely assaulted, the lawmakers they sent running, even those lawmakers who had claimed to be among some republicans, forging a type of common cause with january 6th. ....
January 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditious conspiracy. this is a group that donald trump told to stand back and stand by in the 2020 campaign. along with other far right groups like the oath keepers, the proud boys descended on the nation s capitol, heeding trump s call for what he promised was going to be a wild time. the jury is expected to continue its deliberations on monday. and while the republican party would like nothing more than to be able to move beyond the insurrection, the party s standard bearer is making that all but impossible. as he continues to make litigating the 2020 election and the big lie the main component of his 2024 campaign. trump yet again pushed those debunked conspiracy theories last night at a campaign stop in new hampshire. but probably more problematic for republican party leaders is his continued embrace of the january 6th insurrectionists themselves. ....