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This -- they want to bring their work more into the public sphere so people can make their own decisions, alisyn. >> a federal judge just issued a ruling allowing a major conspiracy case to move forward against four members of the proud boys. so, how significant is this? >> reporter: well, its very significant, alisyn, for a number of reasons. this is one first big conspiracy cases were going to see move through the criminal justice system in february. well start to see these trials. and i think...

In d.c. appointed by former president trump has said a conspiracy case against members of the proud boys can move forward. in a 43-page ruling, the judge said the alleged crimes could not be considered protected first amendment speech. in washington, im whitney wild. hong kong pro-democracy outlet stand news announced it will shutdown less than 12 hours after a police raid of its offices. hundreds of police officers swarmed the company headquarters collecting boxes of evidence. at least seven ...

Meanwhile, a conservative judge in d.c. appointed by former president trump has said a conspiracy case against members of the proud boys can move forward. this is significant because in a 43-page ruling, the judge said that the alleged crimes could not be considered protected first amendment speech, laura and paula. >> whitney, thank you for that. so, paula, you covered the legal fallout from these riots, a lot of these cases. the ruling whitney mentioned seems to give prosecutors more momentu...

Committee is not infringing on first amendment speech. he is trying to stop data and he wants the committee basically to not ask questions. it will be interesting to see where this lawsuit goes. i think in the end, well see somewhat of a stalemate because its very, very hard to believe that the committee will get any information out of him, even if the lawsuit fails. >> irwin, i want to ask you in your title, youre the founding director of colombias national disaster of preparedness. people are ...

Insurrection but the fbi regarded many to be protected first amendment speech. some feared trump would misuse the national guard to stay in power. and an official who wanted area hospitals to stock up on blood and prepare for a, quote, mass casualty event. they described president trump as a driving force inciting supporters and keeping key federal agencies tasked with protecting the capitol. the report dives into what happened as the insurrection unfolded. erin davis spoke to cnn about that par...

German, german, german down, was german catholic and german lutheran was the distinction and then a bunch of vietnamese refugees came to town adding value. and i remember as a kid hearing a republican politicians saying americans arent against other people, we are other people. america is a nation that believes a bunch of stuff about human dignity. its true of 7.8 billion people but for the 330 million americans what we want to start with is an idea that says we dont believe that government come...

What was a credible claim versus first amendment speech. that makes no sense to me. why didnt they think what they were seeing on social media as being credible. clearly it was because it manifested itself in a dramatic and horrible fashion on january 6th. but we want to know what they knew and when they knew it and who did they communicate it to or not communicate it to. were still waiting for that information and were going to continue to aggressively pursue it. >> having conducted these inter...

>> reporter: as far as we know, he has not. we spoke to him a couple of times today. he said he has not been contacted by the fbi. he says that that is clearly a sign that he didnt commit any crime, that what he said is protected first amendment speech. >> this isnt the first time that this topic has kind of -- or this kind of rhetoric has come up. >> reporter: yeah. you know, its really been interesting here, anderson. over the course of the last month and a half with the two shootings in el pa...

Tweet? >> he does not. he told us that any kind of suggestion that this, his comments were a death threat is simply trying to manipulate the issue. he says that he was trying to take a modern twist on the old texas revolutionary battle cry of come and take it, and that was the spirit in what he said. after beto orourke had tweeted back at him he shouldnt own an ar-15, he fired back at the former texas congressman calling him a child. >> and beto orourkes campaign said had was reported to the fbi...

Not supporting this. the country wants it and i think it would be politically disastrous for any person in the republican party not to vote for this at this point. >> and the white house organized an event today on the rise of violent online extremism. you represent silicon valley. do you think anything productive will come from this? is silicon valley doing enough on all of this, do you think? >> we need to do more. certainly, there are some sites such as 8chan that clearly need to do more. i m...