decided to postpone tomorrow s proceedings. we re praying for all those in the path. we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economical and historical trends that should favor republicans, this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected, thanks in part to republican extremism to states across the country. from roe v. wade to state abortion bans to election denial to political stunts to silence asylum seekers, the republicans are executing on april radical agenda. red state governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men pushing the extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to raise trump s mantles as leaders for presidential hopefuls. on the other side of that fight are a handful of democratic governors, the people leading the charge against ready cal republican policies. chief among them is california gov
violence associated with the supreme court s eventual decision on abortion rights. this warning comes as the senate is holding a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism, and lawmakers are still talking, trying to find common ground on something to combat the gun violence epidemic in the country. this morning, a teacher who survived the elementary school massacre in uvalde is speaking publicly for the first time. every single one of his students in his class were killed. i lost 11 that day. and i tell the parents i m sorry, i tried my best. it s what i was told to do. please don t be angry with me. just gut wrenching. we ll have much more of his story in that interview in a moment. let s begin with this new threat bull fin. what more are you learning? reporter: this is the sixth time that dhs has issued this terrorism bulletin that makes clear that terrorism risk comes from within the united states, before january 6th, these advisories focused on terrorism from eithe
Capitol and bragging about storming the capitol. two people have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy. and they include the founder and leader of the oath keepers who founded the group in 2009. elmer stewart rose iii has been found guilty of the most serious charge, seditious conspiracy. he is joined by kelly meggs. that charge is a charge that the jury had to take quite a while to look at because of the seriousness of the charge which is, trying to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power by force. and the jury said that s exactly what these two men did. now, for the other three defendants, we have kenneth harrelson. he was found not guilty on that charge. jessica watkins. not guilty. and thomas caldwell, also, not not guilty. four of the five of these people
United states. john berman here in for anderson. tonight for the first time since 1995, a jury has returned guilty verdicts on the charge of seditious conspiracy against some of the leaders. so-called oath keepers for their roles in the january 6th attack on the capitol. sara sidner is live with the verdicts rendered and the history made. what more can you tell us? reporter: there is no way to overstate how important and historic this trial was. there is the very first trial in which several defendants were accused of seditious conspiracy. now the jury has spoken. two of the people on trial, members of the oath militia, here on january 6th, the world saw video of, wearing military combat gear and a military, walking up the steps of the capitol to my left. and some of them going into the
Were, they re all veterans. they had a certain kind of training as well that i m sure the jury looked at and it was certainly mention in the court. we found several other charges. seditious conspiracy was the first conspiracy charge but there were others, including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. . in case, kelly meggs, one of the lieutenants, was found guilty. but rhodes was not found guilty of that particular charge. neither were the other defendants, the other three that i mentioned. so you have this hodgepodge of decisions. they re not all guilty, except for on one charge, all five people were found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding. these all carry pretty heavy terms in prison. the seditious charge carries a 20-year sentence in maximum prison and so does conspiracy to