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arlington, virginia just outside of d.c. a few miles from the capitol. the doj is talking about those qrf teams in this from the indictment, i ll read it for you, while certain oathkeeper members and affiliates inside of washington, d.c. breached the capitol grounds and building, others remained stationed just outside of the city in qrf teams. the qrf teams were prepared to rapidly transport firearms and other weapons into washington, d.c. in support of operations aimed at using force to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power. the dojjen kats here this plot continues. stewart rhodes who was arrested today allegedly bought almost $18,000 in weapons and ammunition leading up to january 20th. jake, he was calling for members of the oath keepers to form militias to stop and commit violence against the biden administration. ryan these right wing groups are also an important part of the investigation by the select committee investigating the january 6 attack. tell u ....
rhodes, the highest profile person charged in the january 6th investigation yet. president biden leaving the hill just a few minutes ago after trying to wrangle the votes for his voting rights push. he doesn t have the votes. here with us, dick durbin. we re live with him one on one to take us inside that meeting later in the show. it is going to be a rock and roll hour. i m going to call it now. i m hallie jackson in washington with pete williams joins us, peter alexander with us as well. pete, let me start with you. break down the supreme court ruling and what it means. two rulings, hallie. the first one by a vote of 6-3, the supreme court is blocking the biden administration from carrying out the business mandate, the one that said companies that employee more than 100 workers must assure they either get the covid vaccine or wear a mask and undergo weekly testing. that s the one that would apply to about 80 million workers. it had ogone into effect after a lower ....
this breaking news, pete, but we re topping out the hour and i want to go back and lay out the the bare facts here. the arrest of the head of the oath keepers and a number of other rioters with seditious conspiracy, this suggests the doj is closing in on some of the people who they say were in fact organizing what happened on january ofth and leads us to suggest it was supposed to go even farther than it did. right, that s the key question after reading this indictment. it s one that we may have to wait for these trials to get an answer to, which is, was there a well-developed plan before these people came to washington to actually enter the capitol and try to stop the vote by intimidating members of congress right in the capitol while they were working. but the big news, as you say, stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, has been charged with seditious conspiracy. the interesting thing about that is that there were 19 other members of the accused members o ....
the bbc s quinten sommerville reports on a growing crisis. a medical helicopter crashes in phildalephia, narrowly missing a church and power lines. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden is calling it a defining moment for us democracy. he was in georgia today, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. this is one of the big drives of the biden administration after many republican controlled states introduced tighter voting regulations after the last presidential election. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things voter suppression and election subversion. it s no longer about who gets to vote, it s about making it harder to vote. it s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. it s not hyperbole, this is a fact. look, this matters to all of us. the goal of the former president s allies is ....
billions of dollars in aid the bbc s quinten sommerville reports on a growing crisis. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s get the latest on novak djokovic in australia. the tennis world no. 1 has issued a statement to as he puts it address the continuing misinformation about my activities and attendance at events in the lead up to my positive pcr covid test result but has admitted breaking isolation rules to attend an interview was an error ofjudgement . the statement also addresses the tennis star s incorrect travel declaration form for his entry into australia. he says, this was submitted by my support team on my behalf, and my agent sincerely apologises for the administrative mistake in ticking the incorrect box about my previous travel before coming to australia. this was a human error and certainly not deliberate. meanwhile, a spokesperson for the australian immigration minister who still holds the power to cancel the p ....