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the riot once it got under way. we will see them drive that point home today. thank you very much. this morning new testimony from a veteran member of far right extremist group the oath keepers admitting the group had a stockpile of weapons including an ar-15 stashed outside washington on january 6. afterwards, fbi agents were seen carting several gun cases and other evidence from the courthouse. cnn s whitney wild is live with us at the u.s. district court. she has more on. this whitney? brianna, this is quite a moment in court. what this man kerry krucummings testified to, he had not seen that stockpile of weapons like that since he was in the military. he traveled to washington with one of the defendants and brought his own ar-15 and ammunition. it was when he was here in washington that another defendant told him to return to virginia which is where that weapon stockpile was to prepare for what they called a quick reaction force. that quick reaction force has ....
It may very well stand up. i think what was compelling about this story was how repugnant the things that were said were and how much these families were put through. but in terms of questions of law, was it an unusual case? no. it really wasn t. it was just like any other defamation case. other than as you said, the violent things that were said and the speaker who made them. one oddity is that there was no merits trial. here he defaulted essentially. he really refused to show up. and so it was aat this trial. that was a bit of an oddity. no, it s a classic defamation case. the plaintiffs had to meet the burden of the elements of defamation like any other plaintiff in any other courtroom. jrt found this was an outlier in terms of the things that were said and the damage that s it caused. you spent your days and nights lurking in these world ....