celebrate all of these nominees live cnn heroes announced our tribute. once again, control usually shunts, cnn heroes of 2022. i hope you go out and vote! the news continues. i want to hang it over to jake tapper, and cnn tonight! the united states of america faces a far-right militia accused seeing to overthrow the government. its biggest test yet. federal prosecutors today rested their historic case for their role in the u.s. capitol attack on january 6th, 2021. over the last month, the justice department presented witness testimony and shocking videos, and damning text messages and more all of it evidence that prosecutors proves the five defendants attempted to carry out a coordinated conspiracy to try to legal transfer of power and keep donald trump in the white house. now why is this case so different than the hundreds of other cases facing alleged rioters in january 6th? two words, seditious conspiracy. that s a rare charge. it s one that has been put in the books
celebrate all of these nominees live cnn heroes announced our tribute. once again, control usually shunts, cnn heroes of 2022. i hope you go out and vote! the news continues. i want to hang it over to jake tapper, and cnn tonight! the united states of america faces a far-right militia accused seeing to overthrow the government. its biggest test yet. federal prosecutors today rested their historic case for their role in the u.s. capitol attack on january 6th, 2021. over the last month, the justice department presented witness testimony and shocking videos, and damning text messages and more all of it evidence that prosecutors proves the five defendants attempted to carry out a coordinated conspiracy to try to legal transfer of power and
to do if he gets elected again? opening statements in the oath keepers trial were given exactly one month ago. one person who has been covering every step in this trial is cnn sarah sidner, who joins us right now. sarah, thank you for joining. thank you. d states government? very compelling. there are mountains of evidence. we have heard from about a half dozen fbi agents talking about everything from where their phones were and having to paying the phones. we ve heard from capitol police officers like jerry dunn, who talked about the fact that the oath keepers defenses trying to say that they re trying to help him, that that was not the case, in any way, shape or form. some of the most compelling has been from former oath keepers themselves.
stewart rhodes, and it was a very violent filled rhetoric about what they thought of joe biden winning the election. so interesting. you have been coming here group cnn for years and years and years. it s a tough bid to cover, i know, you and i have talke d about it. how significant was the election of donald trump and donald trump s refusal to concede? how much is that a pivot point for these groups? so, it really does go back, and i hate to see this, but we saw a spike in rhetoric and he crimes actually when president obama, especially and his second election. we saw those numbers start to march up. the oath keepers themselves, for example, they were founded in 2009. what was that year? it was the year after the first
in are far to retain analysis, one part we don t pay enough attention to is this. the information we have at the current time is that they were legally purchased firearms. it was legally purchased. all indications are that there were purchases legally. once again, it s in st. louis, a suspect was 19. he was legally an adult. he had no criminal record, you might hear that and they, of course, he s a lot of bygone, there s nothing that could ve prevented this from happening, but that is not accurate. as cnn contributor and founder of the website the reload, stephen can task you point out, by the police departments on telling of events, it appears the st. louis shooter committed at least two crimes before he opened fire last week at the central visual and performing arts high school, crimes that should have led to police actions that could have prevented the shooting.