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Werent. two of the five defendants were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, three of them were found not guilty, all of them were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding. there is a mix of different ways that this can be approached legally, and this one jury looking at this one polis of evidence came to a very complex conclusion in terms of what these people are actually guilty of. thats important in terms of thinking that this is some sort of slam dunk. well see that matrix like...

Another insurrection. how much do you think gets done in the lame duck? >> were going to try to do all of that. as you said we know were watching a gop in the house that is taking over and choosing chaos over community. they have led with obstruction over the years theyve been in the minority, and they have no plan to do anything different. they have not found how low they can go yet, and they are willing to bring in anybody from the extreme side of their party to try and get power. but when you...

Tell you about the founder of the founder of the right—wing oath keepers the founder of the right—wing oath keepers militia group in the us has been convicted of seditious conspiracy, in relation to last years attack on the capitol building in washington. he and four other people were accused of using force to block congress from certifying president bidens election victory. our north america editor sarah smith gave us this update. the far right extremist group, the far right extremist group...

Confronting russia over the war in ukraine. the founder of the right—wing oath keepers militia group in the us has been convicted of seditious conspiracy, in relation to last years attack on the capitol building in washington. he and four other people were accused of using force to block congress from certifying president biden�*s election victory. our north america editor sarah smith gave us this update. the far right extremist group, the oath keepers, two of them were found guilty of sedit...

>> i think it says the charging decisions were carefully made. and that the jury looked at it very carefully. they parse that out, which is exactly what you want them to do. i think the notes that they sent out acts skiing for clarification on these seditious conspiracy charges in a case thats a tougher charge for them to grasp. and i dont know this necessarily is that heart of a charge to always prove in theory. but it is certainly very rare, thankfully. [laughter] >> we dont want conspiracy ca...

Militia group and kelly meg makes, head of the florida chapter on the obscure civil war era charge, which could send the two men to prison for up to 20 years. rhodes, meg, and three other members of the oath keepers were also found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding, although justice department prosecutors did not obtain guilty verdicts for all five defendants on the charge of seditious conspiracy. the verdict for roads and makes are seen as a major win for the justice department, i...

Lawful proceeding is sedition. they were all convicted of some sort of that obstruction, covering up, sedition. the message is very clear. i think this case is very important to the doj for it standing on its own but its important for the cases that are coming up with the oath keepers and the proud boys and even for the people that were convicted here, maybe not rhodes because theyre not going to want his cooperation, theyre not going to cut him any slack. for some of the others, they may want b...

Rhodes and leader of the florida chapter of the far-right group kelly meggs found guilty with the january 6, 2020 attack on the capitol. the seditious charge carries maximum of 20 years in prison. rhodes attorney said they plan to appeal the conviction. the notice serious case to grow out of the justice departments sprawling investigation into the u.s. capitol insurrection. the trial lasted eight weeks with the jury deliberating for three days. three other members of the group were found not gui...

>> reporter: lake also dined with trump. lake has made baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and trump is pushing the false claim that arizonas midterm race was rigged and thats why lake lost. shes not the only election denier to visit mar-a-lago. rudy giuliani has been there as well as former national security adviser michael flynn. flynn pleaded guilty twice to lying to investigators about his conversations with russias ambassador before trump pardoned him. georgia congresswoman m...

Shes out there fighting hard. at mar-a-lago trumps also met with longtime confident, roger stone. who trump pardoned. stone, had convicted of witness tampering, obstruction, and making false statements during special counsel, robert muellers investigation. stone posted video of their embrace at the private club back in april. >> roger. >> how could i not -- >> another gassed who garnered attention, mike lindell. last year, or long after trump lost the 2020 election, lindell interviewed him at ma...