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condemn. >> the -- >> proud boys stand back and stand by. >> the proud boys celebrated that shout-out from then president trump during a debate in 2020. months later, members of that group would be heavily involved in the violence on january 6th. and now they are facing serious prison time for their actions. much more on yesterday's guilty verdicts in just a moment. meanwhile, in new york jurors in donald trump's civil rape trial heard more of his video deposition yesterday while taking through some of that testimony, and also ahead, more ethics issues for supreme court justice cla...

Have the same purpose, which was to stop the congressional certification of those electoral votes on january 6th. so, you know, people talk about it as the white collar version and blue collar version of this effort here and there may be other links that smith is looking at. in terms of future cases, these are the big ones that we're aware of with seditious conspiracy, but every week there are new and shocking arrests. just last week a former fbi supervisor. >> oh, my god. >> was arrested and charged being present at the capitol and, capitol police calling them nazis, gestapo. worked in a coun...

>> thank you mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i appreciate you being here today. we do need to look back. this is really important hearing but we also need to look forward. we have taliban government. we have terrorist groups surging. potential threats to u.s. interests remain. it is true that we're not the world's policeman but we know that the strength in isis-k or al qaeda pose a threat to not only the u.s. homeland but to americans abroad, our interest abroad and the region. middle east and north africa were changed in the aftermath of 9/11 with the rise of al qaeda and isis affiliates. we can...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we're working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing some time in the ...

Administration is trusting the taliban too much? one of the other conditions would be that the taliban would act in counterterrorism role. >> again, so i don't see, one, i don't buy into that assurance. we've seen nothing, zero, from the taliban indicating that they're walking away from al-qaeda. either publicly or privately. but i don't think they have the military cape bability to make those assurances. at the end of the day, if the united states lead and leaves a vietnam yuck, bad things will devoid. you have china and russia and others looking to back the united states leadership and again...