live. plus, connecting the dots between the election in brazil, brexit, and donald trump. and meet the new attorney representing brett favre and his volleyball welfare scandal. i got a great effing criminal defense lawyer. you re gonna need it. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. well, today, we got an extended look at just how narrowly we avoided the january 6th insurrection becoming much, much worse. because this morning, the seditious conspiracy trial of five members of the oath keepers started. and of course, the far-right militia group who prosecutors say, blotted to use violence, weapons, if necessary, to block the peaceful transfer of power. now, even before today s opening arguments began, lawyers from one of the defendants argued to suppress evidence of to hand when it s found in an rv. apparently, brought to d.c. by one of the alleged coconspirators, this man is named jeremy brown. lawyers say brownstein a was not f
unmasked. the new york times reporter who revealed his identity joins me live. plus, connecting the dots between the election in brazil, brexit, and donald trump. and meet the new attorney representing brett favre and his volleyball welfare scandal. i got a great effing criminal defense lawyer. you re gonna need it. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. well, today, we got an extended look at just how narrowly we avoided the january 6th insurrection becoming much, much worse. because this morning, the seditious conspiracy trial of five members of the oath keepers started. and of course, the far-right militia group who prosecutors say, blotted to use violence, weapons, if necessary, to block the peaceful transfer of power. now, even before today s opening arguments began, lawyers from one of the defendants argued to suppress evidence of to hand when it s found in an rv. apparently, brought to d. c. by one of the alleged coconspi
caldwell, even used boats to quickly bring large numbers of weapons from virginia to d. c.. quote, how and people on a boat, or a trailer, that could handle the potomac crossing? if we had someone standing by at the dock ramp, and one near the pentagon for sure, we could have our quick response team with heavy weapons standing by, quickly load them and ferry them across the river to our reaching arms. now, you might have heard of that defendant, thomas caldwell before, it might bring cabal. and because he appeared on fox news quite a bit, where he is portrayed as a simple man who was being persecuted by overzealous comments. so, this indictment, you are pushing 70, or one had percent military disable career in the navy. this indictment paints you as the leader of a crack commander unit, trying to stage a sort of d-day invasion on the banks of
indictment, one oath keepers, and then by the name of thomas caldwell, even used boats to quickly bring large numbers of weapons from virginia to d.c.. quote, how and people on a boat, or a trailer, that could handle the potomac crossing? if we had someone standing by at the dock ramp, and one near the pentagon for sure, we could have our quick response team with heavy weapons standing by, quickly load them and ferry them across the river to our reaching arms. now, you might have heard of that defendant, thomas caldwell before, it might bring cabal. and because he feared on fox news quite a bit, where he is portrayed as a simple man who was being persecuted by overzealous comments. so, this indictment, you are pushing 70, or one had percent military disable career in the navy. this indictment paints you as the leader of a crack commander unit, trying to stage a sort of d-day invasion on the banks of the potomac, with what they described as heavy weapons. were you planning what kind o
the potomac, with what they described as heavy weapons. were you planning what kind of heavy weapons do you think that were forced to, are you planning to do that? i had no idea, and no, i was not. look, i was a navy guy, okay? now, navy guy, it s like aircraft carriers, you know blue water navy here. so, this other stuff, i don t know anything about, didn t have any role in planning any of it. it s just more hooley. so, his arguments there, as you can see backed up by tucker carlson, that these allegations are false, and i guess, he never even wrote that. he s just a harmless old man. that s probably a characterization prosecutors would disagree with. according to a search warrant filing from earlier this, year when law enforcement search caldwell s home, they found, and i quote here, a document