Today the january 6th investigation interviewed one of the highest profile witnesses yet. the former president s son, donald trump jr. politico reports the interview was conducted voluntarily, without a subpoena, and lasted several hours. no word on what was discussed. but investigators no doubt were interested in don jr. s texts with trump chief of staff, and of course, in conversations that he may have had with his father. and here s one more piece of january 6th news you should know about. a few months ago, you may recall that this gentleman was arrested by federal agents. this is his mug shot there. his name is stewart rhodes and he, eye patch and all, is the leader of a right wing dress-up pseudo para military organization called the oath keepers, arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy, conspiracy against the united states government. stewart rhodes led a group of
With something quite serious, the defendant described here is the leader of the right wing pseudo para-military organization called the oath keepers, arrested last month on seditious conspiracy for his role in helping orchestrate the attack on the capitol on january 6th. still in jail. awaiting trial. and so it was from jail today that this guy gave his deposition to the january 6th investigation in congress. according to mr. rhodes attorney, he refused to answer some of the investigators questions by pleading the fifth amendment, by invoking his right to not self incriminate but the lawyer says he answered some of the committee s questions and the testimony lasted six hours. the other person who spook to the january 6th investigation is jeffery clark, not in jail, s the trump justice department official who was spearheading the effort within the trump administration to try to use the u.s. justice department as part of the overthrow the government