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we have secured the convictions of leaders of both the proud boys and the oath keepers for seditious conspiracy. specifically conspiring to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power. >> guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. four members of trumps maga army, the proud boys, including leader enrique tarrio, are convicted of seditious conspiracy in the january 6th attack. also tonight, yet another allegedly undisclosed big money gift to justice clarence thomas from the same bi...

Members of the trump cabinet watching i described how the 25th Amendment can be used to remove the president and make the Vice President what the 25th Amendment call it is acting president. Under the 25th Amendment, the Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can decide to invoke the 25th Amendment. That is entirely up to the Vice President and a majority of the cabinet. They dont need donald trump to become medically unable to do the job. They dont need a written opinion from a psychiatr...

Liability is so far, right, and thats why they were able to pull enrique tarrio into it even though he wasnt at the capitol. >> well show that video again, these are the leaders either now indicted or headed to jail. there they are in the basement plotting, they must have felt so cool in the moment, but thats when keeping it real goes wrong, one might say. im a little fascinated by enrique tarrio. a black man, black cuban. a member of a group that has been called anything from western chauvinist...

Will go. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says well go with the facts lead us. unindicted co-conspirator number one, who is that? also implicated in the allege scheme. a source tells cnn its trump organization comptroller who testified before the grand jury in new york. those who testify before a grand jury get transactional immunity. you wont get prosecuted for your testimony, unless you lie. if you lie, the immunity deal goes away. what is trumps response? no response. he doesn...

No surprise. he doesnt discuss the merits. he doesnt give any plausibility deniability. he doesnt define what the action was and why its okay. he goes right to division. these are democrats. its a witch-hunt, its about dividing the country. but think about it, if he didnt do any of this, if he didnt know anything about this, why doesnt he say that, why doesnt he argue the merits? why doesnt he tell you what the government is getting wrong? think about that. his attorneys allege that this has nev...

Witnesses, and yet got an enormous break. the other thing thats bothering people is the proportionality. so many people are not wealthy, white and powerful get sentenced for much more time. but hes not out of the woods yext he has to face judge jackson later and people ask can the i would not expect it here. >> lot of people are also talking about michael cohen and the checks the president allegedly wrote cohen, the hush money payments for having an affair, alleged affair, with a couple of women...

Of play out this idea of plausibility deniability. we know from the past that this president is not shy about disputing the conclusions of his intelligence community. if they conclude something he doesnt agree with, he will say he doesnt agree. we heard about this horrible recording that the turkish intelligence services have shared widely with the united states services and the president said in that interview over the weekend that he didnt want to listen to it. what probably is not on that tap...

However, because it is this is not -- they are not uttering the name of the crown prince. they are not talking to the crown prince. that gives a little bit of plausibility deniability. so far the trump administration signalled they are going to use that to maintain the relationship with prince mohamed. that could change, but right now we see that the policy decision will be to continue the relationship with the saudi crown prince. >> you also reported that this audio we are talking about is play...

But the language was so flowing and flowery. you need a communications expert to put this together as well. so i actually think while one person they may use he or she from the new york times, i think this was probably put together by two or three members of the administration all concerned who could then also say they have plausibility deniability. >> i would footnote that with dan coats has the people by his side to polish that. jennifer rubin, who do you think? >> jennifer palmeri said im pre...

Shakes peer an individual or a selection of people who put things together? i dont think it was one person. i actually thought it was mike pompeo and probably either sara hukky sanders and kellyanne conway. but the language was so flowing and flowerl lyflowery. you need a communications expert to put this together as well. so i actually think while one person they may use he or she from the new york times, i think this was probably put together by two or three members of the administration all c...