more testimony from the indicted leader of the oath keepers jason rhodes. we begin tonight with trump summoning the mob, a memorable line from liz cheney laid out exactly what happened. president trump assembled the mob and lit the flame of this abeing at all. today s hearing spelled out exactly how the mob was summoned that day and as with most things donald trump can be traced back to a tweet. in this case on december 19, 2020. as the committee showed it s important to note what happened in the frantic final weeks of the trump administration leading up to that tweet. today s hearing filled in those blanks focusing on everything that happened after december 14th, the critical date when the electors meet and the election is finally over. in fact, here s what mitch mcconnell said the very next morning. yesterday electors met in all 50 states, so as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. many millions of us had hoped the pre
Federal courts for alabama redistricting could have huge implications for the control of congress, went all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes this evening. One of the leaders of the farright gang the proud boys a guy by the name of Enrique Tarrio, received the longest and harshest sentence to date for attempting to end american democracy and the rule of law. 22 years in federal prison. Tarrio was convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for his role in the insurrection. That sentence, which we got just a few hours ago, is the most severe sentence of the more than 1100 people charged in connection with a january 6th attacks. In court today the proud boys leader says that january six was a, quote, national embarrassment, for the judge was not moved, saying, quote, i dont have any indication hes remorseful for the things hes convicted of. The judge went on to say that tarrio was, quote, the ultimate leader, the ultimate person who hogue organized, who was motivated
I think that there s kind of two stuart rhodes, you know, the stuart rhodes that lived in my basement at one time was doing yoga classes and white fish, you know, while he was living with me, but there was certainly this other stuart that we see on the cameras and we see in you know, on info wars and such and and that s a real dangerous thing because he doesn t seem to care about the repercussions of that messaging. you know, we i m wondering if when you are around him because he said that you broke with him because of some really anti-semitic holocaust denial and stuff like that. people like steve ban no, michael flynn, richard spencer, that type of person, roger stone, to your norms, you got out in 2016. did you ever see the richard spencers, that kind of person around him because we know that the oath keepers year after year did take part in the unite the right rally in charlottesville so they were getting involved in real violent ugly stuff. were any of those people around
Capitol, but, you know, we really do have a problem here. and those were kind of his words after these charges have come forward, after what we all saw happen on january 6th at the capitol. and he s talked a lot about a lot of different things, but 24 days after the insurrection, stewart rhodes goes on info wars, the right wing conspiracy ladled online show, and he talks about exactly what he thinks should be done, he talks about the biden administration as being illegitimate. he continues the big lie. and it is like he s making a call to arms to the folks that are members of his organization and to others who believe in the big lie. and i want to let you listen to that. it is striking now that we see this indictment, it is striking to hear him continue all of this
Talking about this on fox news but in private meetings with the president. he is another of the president s fox news advisers who is talking to him behind the scenes. and other people have gone on fox news to appeal for pardons as well, and have gotten them. like scooter libby and other folks who have been pardoned throughout the information. it cuts out the office of the attorney. speaking of pardons, roger stone s fans are lobbying for a pardon for stone. one of his biggest fans is alex jones on info wars, urging info wars viewers to call the white house switchboard. what do you make that have, nicole? people have recognized the best way to get the president s ear is through these platforms, through fox news and alex jones show. you ve seen that pardon pipeline happening. i think it s absolutely expected. roger stone s daughter was on