that. i ve taken down a couple of hate groups just by myself. and if we see more vets doing this, i think it s going to be a great movement and you know, vets, we protect democracy. the oath keepers, they re not keeping any oath. it s folks like me engaging in this work who are really taking our oath to the country seriously and serving and protecting our democracy in a tangible way. i guess i need to know then how this was planned out in the open. violence and conversations about what weapons would be used and the belief that they were doing what the president wanted them to do. how did that all go undetected di law enforcement if it was so clear to folks like yourself? law enforcement has been convincing themselves that these people have a first amendment right and they have been basically made afraid. and especially with the trump administration and bill barr s department of the justice.
well, there are parallels to the work of the 9/11 commission. i mean, i remember reading that report and it is narrative in a way that these are now so narrative. let me read from this letter. this subpoena for mr. rhodes, this section about the indictments and ask you what they re probing at that is separate. according to press reports, you are the individual referred to as person one in the indictment involving 18 oath keepers. the indictment explains that you were in direct contact with several of these members before, during, and shortly after the attack on the capitol. moments after the attack, you gathered 100 feet from the capitol with the oath keepers members who had just breached the building. just gone inside. and written and spoken remarks delivered prior to january 6th, 2021, suggested that the oath keepers should or were prepared to engage in violence to ensure their preferred election
donna sticks around. when we come back, republicans across the country are working to make it harder to vote and in michigan, they may have found a way to get around that state s democratic governor and their assault on democracy. that story s next. plus, yesterday s batch of subpoenas included familiar names like roger stone and alex jones, but two other conservative operatives who were subpoenaed, a man named duston stockton and a woman named jennifer lawrence, have been described as the bonnie and clyde of maga world and we ll bring you their story. why is the rnc agreeing to pay some of the twice-impeached disgraced ex-president s legal bills? we ll explain. deadline white house continues after a quick break. deadline ws after a quick break. feel stuck with credit card debt? move to sofi and feel what it s like to get your money right. move your high-interest debt to a sofi personal loan.
know about this group that roger stone had aligned himself with and that was aligning itself with, as they called him, big daddy. some of these domestic extremists were referring to the president as, you know, daddy has called us to washington. time to saddle up. and i m sure, in some sad, sick way, the state will pay for whatever therapy it takes to unpack that. i m going to leave it alone. donna edwards, we have so much of what went on that went on in public view. so, what the subpoenas add is an and i have used this, i m going to use it one more time. the second volume of the mueller report, the obstruction report, it was really in all those footnotes where you learned that what the mueller investigators did was investigated their witnesses and those interviews were made up the narrative of that second volume on obstruction, but it was clear that they were also laying over donald trump s tweets and the
about. they don t want exposed, and they certainly don t want to see african americans tell that story in their own words. their own lived experience of how they grew up in this america, dealing with all of this. and to have that moment unfold the way it did in charlottesville was more than just a smack in the face or a turn away from the efforts to repudiate that, but it was an embrace by our political leadership that we re now seeing play out in a myriad of ways, nicole, that i think send out a clarion call to the country in asking the question, is this who you want to be? because this is what we ve come through, and now, do you want more of this? and what are you willing to sacrifice as a nation to put it down? and i m not talking about violence. this is not about, oh, let s