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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 ....
murder charges against ex-officers there in that case will continue later in the program with maya wiley. we also have a twist in the trial of trump aide peter navarro, that had been slated to start monday. i have a breakdown on that coming up. a lot of new information. and we ll get into why it matters. the top story right now is new evidence in the continuing domestic terror that this nation faces. right-wing political violence. authorities releasing new footage from that attack on the spouse of former speaker pelosi. paul pelosi. the violent and disturbing footage shows the attackers approach on the pelosi s home and the horrific attack, i think we can look at this in full. this was 11 days before the midterm election. this is the political violence that many republican officials failed to condemn or even minimize. here s what police found when they confronted the intruder. [ bleep ] yeah, hi, guys. how you doing? how are you? what s going on, man. everythi ....
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 and the vice president are together in one space. breached by seditionists, some of them armed led to the footage you see here, sending lawmakers and powerful people running for their lives instead of certifying the election. in those first day after the attack, which was actually if you remember something of a mystery in plain sight. how did this even happen? how were they so effective at reaching the capitol that day? well, tonight we have part of the answer for you, because overtime independent accounts and the january 6th committee probe and then later ultimately the doj added evidence that showed that in all accuracy and fairness, some people did just show up to watch a speech that ....
Let me tell you, tonight, trials have a way of bringing things into focus. that s the case for richard barnette, convicted after trial this week for his role on january 6th. guilty, all eight counts. that was the case for bannon, navarro s co-conspirator in the coupe or sweep. convicted of defying the committee. we re seeing some of this happen for navarro. there s a new document that i m going to tell you about right now for the first time. in this case, which proves peter navarro did not, not have a privilege claim from trump at any point during the january 6th committee probe. navarro was incorrect to imply otherwise and it s exactly what i was bearing down on in that exchange, which got less attention or notice perhaps than him admitting the sweep, but is important right now. and let me tell you about this document. this is bad news for navarro and ....
Now president biden. according to the new york times trump junior wrote to meadow, it s very simple and we have multiple paths. we control them all. the message went on to cover a variety of options from legal challenges as he wrote, to promoting alternate electors. cnn reported the texts are among records obtained from meadows and others as part of the january 6th committee probe. the committee told nbc news they had no comment on the report. let s talk about this. if this reporting is accurate, if these text messages are true what does this mean for the investigation and donald trump ....