Ukrainian gas company. you ever heard of burisma. that s what we are talking about. ainsley: this as a ukrainian prosecutor said the country engaging in activities. brian: maneuvering to fire shokin. lucas tomlinson is live with more. that s right. those emails claim hunter biden orchestrated a plan to shut down viktor shokin s investigation of burisma one email from a burisma executive. the scope of work should also include organization of a visitor of a number of widely recognized influential current and/or former u.s. policy makers to ukraine. in november, aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal message and support on nicholai s issue to the ukrainian top officials above with the ultimate purpose to close down for any case against nicholai in ukraine.
Things, it just shows how, this how corrupt and reckless he s been with our national security. i m glad that jack smith s brought this to the foreign terms of being one of the charges that he is going to face, because, again, it is so grave and so serious. we need to send a signal message to everybody else that even the president of the united states is gonna get away with this. if he does, what is going to lead others to do the same thing, and using the trump defense? thank you, john brennan, for a sober reminder of the seriousness of all these documents and what could be in them. i appreciate you joining me tonight. coming up, could we all have been watching the d.c. courthouse for the last couple of days? for good reason. what is the next big thing is coming out of georgia? we re gonna talk about that when we come back, after the break. break. about tha smart bankers. convenient tools. boom. one bank with the power of both.
On the capitol. it s the first time federal prosecutors have used the sedition charge after bringing more than 700 cases related to the insurrection. but prosecutors have long signaled that they were considering using the rarely applied section of federal law. rhodes is the most high-profile individual charged in the investigation so far. court documents filed today lay out a wide-ranging plot to storm the capitol and disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. two days after election day, rhodes allegedly urged his followers to refuse to accept the election results, writing in a signal message, we aren t getting through this without a civil war. according to federal prosecutors, on his way to d.c. on january 3rd, rhodes allegedly bought an a.r. platform rifle and other firearms equipment, including sights, mounts, triggers, slings, and other firearms attachments in texas. the next day, he allegedly
It may be that the that this was a silo, that the oath keepers just operated themselves, but let me read you one sentence from the indictment, paragraph 70, this is a signal message, an encrypted message that rhodes sent on the morning of january 6th and he says to his colleagues, there are many many others from other groups who will be watching and waiting on the outside in case of worst case sncenarios. who are those people? who are the other groups? how did he know that? what sort of communications did he have? that s the kind of thing that federal prosecutors will want to know, and if they can persuade rhodes or others to cooperate, that s certainly a question they re going to ask. phil, you have heard the narrative from capitol hill that there was no pre-planning of this, of course we now have all of these messages that have been exchanged and maybe that was the case for some of the people that
Cnn s paula reid has details on the justice department s investigation. reporter: the justice department today escalating its efforts to prosecute those responsible for january 6th, charging oath keepers leader stewart rhodes with seditious conspiracy. it s the first time prosecutors have used the sedition charge after bringing more than 700 cases related to the insurrection. prosecutors have said they were considering using the rarely applied section of federal law. rhodes is the most high profile in the investigation so far. court documents lay out a wide-ranging plot to storm the capitol and disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. two days after election day, rhodes allegedly urged his followers to refuse to accept the election results writing in a signal message, we aren t