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This weekend in washington a ridiculous white supremacist boys club called patriot front dressed up in matching outfits to make themselves look like menacing middle managers of an electronics store. they got their white nationalist flags and their little shields and their khakis and their shin guards and they marched from the lincoln memorial down the national mall in what was supposed to be a white supremacist show of force in the nations capital. according to reporting today in "the daily beas...

Cooperating with the january 6th investigation, the investigation into the violent attack on the u.s. capitol by trump supporters and the plot to overturn the election results that led up to that day. this weekend in washington a ridiculous white supremacist boys club called patriot front dressed up in matching outfits to make themselves look like menacing middle managers of an electronics store. they got their white nationalist flags and their little shields and their khakis and their shin guar...

Federal conspiracy. we have spent four years, we are willing to spend another four years if it takes that time, but i dont think it will. >> let me also ask you about this, i believe it is seven of these defendants who effectively tried to pretend like the proceedings werent happening and refused to engage with these proceedings, refused to recognize the court. one of them, i believe, is the e man who is serving multiple life sentences for having driven the car into the group of counterprotester...

Group of them were injured during the car attack that saturday. another group were attacked at the horrific incident the night before where students were surrounded at the thomas jefferson statue on campus. they all decided to join this because they wanted to stand up for what is right and for justice. they it wanted the world to know and to understand what happened to them. and so they are all feeling pretty good today. when we walked in from the courthouse yesterday, they were all waiting for ...

The skoencenes who funded and nurtured them werent involved in this case so theyre still out there. >> you were there that night in 2017 and youre there tonight. i imagine there are more chapters in the future youll be covering as well. we appreciate the work youre doing on this. >> thank you. >> as we mentioned one woman was killed during the 2017 rally. she was a 32-year-old paralegal killed when one defendant drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. he is serving multiple life sents. ...

On in charlottesville, and we really only knew i think half of it before we saw the truth told on the witness stand at trial. we saw a theme emerge. we saw that people came to plow through counterprotesters with their bodies, with shields, and finally, as everyone tragically knows, with a car. it was all versions of the same thing. we also got an admission today from one of the defense counsel, who after the verdict told a reporter that actually they had implemented a strategy to desensitize the...

Tiki torches and chanted things like "jews will not replace us." on the second day a man plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old heather heyer. today a jury concluded that nine counterprotesters are entitled to financial compensation from those very same white supremacists. substantial compensation, awarding them more than $25 million in damages. the jury failed to reach a decision on two claims about whether the defendants had engaged in a race-based violent conspi...

Just and due consideration because thats what our legal system commands. however, i do think that this is also a very straightforward case in many regards, and hopefully a quick verdict will be a sign that justice -- that there is an attempt to have justice for ahmaud arbery. >> charles f. coleman jr., thank you so much for talking with us. i appreciate it. >> no problem. a federal jury has found the white nationalists who organized a violent demonstration in charlottesville, virginia, four ye...

>> reporter: the jury awarded the plaintiffs in the unite the right trial more than $26 million in compensatory and punitive damages on several claims. among them, finding five defendants were liable for racial, religious, or ethnic harassment or violence under a virginia state law and that all the defendants participated in a conspiracy. >> i think this verdict today is a message that this country does not tolerate violence based on racial and religious hatred in any form. >> reporter: in addit...

Learned about the so-called alt-right, what you learned about the status of the white supremacist, white nationalists and, indeed, neo-nazi movement in this country? did you feel like your understanding grew, became more serious, more nuanced in terms of the extent of that movement and its capabilities? >> absolutely. i mean even for people like robbie and me who spent four years completely immersed in this, we saw with clarity for the first time some of the most dangerous parts of this movement...