they were indeed armed, and that s the evidence of it. preet, on the morning of january 6th rhodes sent a message saying in part and i quote here we ll have well equipped qrfs outside. what are prosecutors doing to who those people are to find out who those people are and whether there were communications to trump or his allies? well, i think they re doing what they did to transform the original charges against a number of these people into the seditious conspiracy charges we re talking about today, and that is flipping witnesses, people who have been charged, seeing if they will cooperate. some of these people who haven t cooperated before might be under much more significant pressure to cooperate because this seditious conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, and every single person who flips and cooperates is in a position to provide