vaccine mandate. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight the justice department charging 11 people with seditious conspiracy. it is a charge rarely used. the 11 people include stewart rose, the leader of the far right extremist group the oath keepers. this is a major move in the investigation and the indictment is damning, right? it s 48 pages here. i m going through here. rhoades indictment. it details prior planning, use of military tactics, stash of weapons and they stored weapons outside of washington. it s really shocking the level of planning here. so used to a certain chorus of people saying it got out of hand on the fly and there were bad actors out there. when you get to page 4, this really stood out to me. page 4, rhoades and certain co-conspirator planned to stop the lawful transfer of power which applied multiple force. and we re prepared to answer rhoades call to take up arms. some co conspirators amass beinged firearms distri
life people pay crazy amounts of money for that make no sense. it s sort of in that category. that was my basic takeaway. okay. that s good, though, because, like, taking away the, like, ooh, it s digitalish or it has an acronym that s hard to remember, therefore it must be unique. that is a surface. that is very helpful. i found it useful. i found it useful. well done, my friend. much appreciated. thanks to you at home for being with us tonight. it is official. as of today you have made it. you have made it through the longest night of the year. it is all downhill and brightening horizons from now on. it s great to have you here. one year ago, to be precise, exactly one year and one week ago on december 14th last year, this quite nutty thing happened at the state capitol building in lansing, michigan. a group of 16 michigan republicans came to a side door of the state capitol and they tried to get in. a very polite state trooper at the door told them the capitol wa
a very police state trooper at the door told them that the capital was closed, except for official business, that everybody who is due to be there that day, for that official business was already there unaccounted for. and these republicans know they could not come in. the official business that was underway at the capitol that day, is michigan was going through the official process by which the states electors, cast their votes in the electoral college. biden won the state of miss michigan. that means the electors for biden and harris were chosen to be the official electors for michigan. the electors that they had to meet officially at the state capitol at noon and cast their votes in the electoral college. it s an elaborate and performative process we go through to pick a president in this country, but that is the part of the process that was underway in that state capital that day. it was kind of just this crazy thing to see that these republicans were outside banging on t
was closed except for official business, that everyone who was due to be there for that official business was there and accounted for, and these republicans know they could not come in. now, the official business that was under way that day is that michigan was going through official process by which the s state s electors cast their votes in the electoral college. biden and harris won the state e of michigan, so that means the electors for biden and harris were b chosen to be the officia electors for the state of michigan. the electors that day had to meet officially at the state capitol at noon and cast their votes in the electoral college. it is an elaborate and performative process we go through to pick a president in this country, but that is the part of the process that was under way inside the state capitol that day. it s this crazy thing to see s that these republicans were outside banging on the door trying to get in. because they said that they were there for the of
trump left office, but there have already been a bunch of significant and well-reported books published already about how things went so off the rails at the end there. but in the jonathan karl book, there s one anecdote, one bit of reporting from him that has really stuck with me from that book in particular. and it was the part about rescuing the cia director because she had been wounded in germany. you remember this? i mean, spoiler alert. cia director was fine. she wasn t in germany. nor was she wounded. but this is the way that jonathan karl reported this out, page 51 of his book. pentagon official, quote, received a call from sydney powell who was advising president trump and promoting some of the craziest theories about the election. powell called the pentagon official with a bizarre request. her request was specific, urgent, highly sensitive. it was also completely insane. quote, cia director gina haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in germany, she told the of