Being persecuted. He writes, quote, our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly related to the January 6th protest concerning the rigged presi president ial election. By the way, that protest he is talking about is not why people are being prosecuted. They are being prosecuted for breaking the law, taking part in an attack on the capitol. An attack in which more than 100 Law Enforcement officers were injured. Officer Brian Sicknick died the day after being attacked during the riot. Four officers died by suicide in the aftermath. One Capitol Police Officer said he and fellow officers were punched, kicked, shoved, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded with eyedamaging lasers. For the record, currently, 608 defendants have been charged. 78, already, have pleaded guilty. Six defendants have been sentenced. THree of them to prison. So lets start with the congressional correspondent Ryan Nobles At The site of that fencing near the capitol. So in light of
and this is the ingraham angle from parts unknown. all right. i have been doing a lot of thinking today. january 6th, i think, should be celebrated by deep sea fishermen across the united states because we now know that the capitol riot was the pretext for the government to launch a giant fisher expedition against conservative trump supporters. according to documents obtained by congressional investigators after january 6th, the feds coordinated with banks to track purchases of customers by using key words related to our 45th president. now, just as we predicted back in early 2021, the liberal permanent bureaucracy used the events of january 6th to go far beyond run-of-the-mill prosecutions for trespassing or vandalism or assaulted. their goal was a lot more ambitious. it was to intimidate, to smear, to hound, and surveil trump supporters, even if they weren t on site. and even if they hadn t committed any acts of violence. now, remember, the only person killed that day was
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coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let s get the latest on the balloon and today s recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government s explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense officials and administration officials, strongly told us that this was used for spying and they believe it was used to try to collect data about sensitive u.s. military sites across the country. now, that raises an being question, though, and one that the biden administration is going to have to grapple with in the next few days. they know that was the intent of this balloon, why did they not shoot it