5 PM ET: Proud Boys sentencing, United flights resume, new Spanish soccer coach & more

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

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The last of the five members of the far-right organization, the Proud Boys, is being sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and the rest of his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case have pleaded not guilty. The office for Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has released an update on his health following two health scares. And, Spain is shaking up its coaching staff for the women’s national soccer team amid the fallout from a World Cup kiss. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.0	With the five things you need to know for Tuesday, September 5th.
0:35.3	The last of the five proud boys defendants is being sentenced today.
0:39.2	Former proud boys chairman Enrique Tarrio let a failed plot to forcibly prevent the peaceful
0:44.0	transfer of power from then President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the
0:48.2	2020 election. Prosecutors had sought a 33-year sentence, but federal judge Timothy Kelly has
0:54.4	consistently gone far below sentencing requests. All 19 defendants in the
0:59.7	Georgia election interference case have pleaded not guilty including former
1:03.4	President Donald Trump and his former White House Chief of Staff Mark
1:06.8	Meadows has been charged with two state crimes, violating Georgia's
1:11.3	anti- racketeering RICO law and soliciting a public
1:14.4	official to violate their oath. The charges mostly revolve around an
1:18.2	infamous January 2021 phone call where Trump and Meadows pressed Georgia
1:22.4	Secretary of State Brad Raffinsberger
1:24.4	to find enough votes to flip the election results in Trump's favor. Meadows is also
1:28.8	trying to move his case to federal court where he could possibly get the indictment dismissed by invoking
1:34.5	immunity as a federal worker.
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