Federal courts for alabama redistricting could have huge implications for the control of congress, went all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes this evening. One of the leaders of the farright gang the proud boys a guy by the name of Enrique Tarrio, received the longest and harshest sentence to date for attempting to end american democracy and the rule of law. 22 years in federal prison. Tarrio was convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for his role in the insurrection. That sentence, which we got just a few hours ago, is the most severe sentence of the more than 1100 people charged in connection with a january 6th attacks. In court today the proud boys leader says that january six was a, quote, national embarrassment, for the judge was not moved, saying, quote, i dont have any indication hes remorseful for the things hes convicted of. The judge went on to say that tarrio was, quote, the ultimate leader, the ultimate person who hogue organized, who was motivated
Get from him now? so, i think the doj probably wants a couple things. first, it s true that he puts it in his book. but they would also want to know from him basically what he would tell to a grand jury, what he might tell to a jury, if this is ever indicted. and the book is very devastating. he actually annotates the phone call at the back end of the book. and in it he says he felt directly pressured by trump, both in terms of his own physical safety and also a threat of criminal coercion, criminal punishment. and then subpoenaing him for all his conditions with or about trump could also be very important because it would be contemporaneous communications probably between himself and other state officials that phone call, about the call with lindsey graham as well, in which raffensperger told cnn that he felt that graham was essentially saying to him look hard and see how many ballots you can throw
The lawyer said, it put them in the hotel putting everything together. so he s the guy that can pull it altogether, and bannon is another, stone is another, and the other day you had on another assistant, navarro, who was present in that conversation in georgia. present in the sense they were all on the phone, in which raffensperger, the strait for the secretary of state for georgia was threatened. so we have some pretty devilish information and i would say the january 6th committee is at ramming speed, if you will. they re cleaning up. when they come to rudy and some of the others, you have to look over your shoulder and say what is the justice department doing with meadows? we still don t have a subpoena for the simple act of him not complying with the congressional committee. we ve asked them to hold him in
Remembers a former house member himself, has already submitted documents and will soon appear for a deposition. thompson added in a statement, quote, the select committee expects all witnesses, including mr. meadows, to provide all information requested and that the select committee is lawfully entitled to receive. the committee will continue to assess his degree of compliance with our subpoena after the deposition. so a lot have been there in the middle. vice chair of the committee, liz cheney tells political the deposition will likely take place next for week. nbc news come the secretary of state raffensperger, for over four hours. he told the atlanta georgia constitution that he quote, spoke at length with members of the house select committee about a notorious january phone call with trump. in which raffensperger refused the then president s demands to find enough votes in georgia to