Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. We made it to Wednesday. It's March 9th. I'm Nailabudu.

Here's what we're watching. President Zelensky gives a historic speech to the British Parliament.

Plus, the airline industry reacts to the Ukraine war. But first, today's one big thing,

a verdict and an indictment on the Capitol riot.

We got two big criminal updates on people involved in the January 6th and

Syrection yesterday. A jury found a Texas militia member guilty on all counts in the very first

Capitol riot trial. And the leader of the Proud Boys in Rikitario was indicted yesterday by

the Justice Department for his role in the insurrection. Aruna Vishwanatha covers the Justice

Department for the Wall Street Journal and is joining us now. Hi, Aruna.

Hi, thanks for having me. Could you start first with this trial? Who is Guy Reffett? And what

was he found guilty of yesterday? Sure. So he is from Texas, as you mentioned. He wasn't

oil worker. Had been somewhat out of work during the pandemic and started becoming more

interested in kind of right-wing politics, ended up coming to DC. Or body armor had a gun on him

and basically stood on a banister and sort of riled up the crowd as they were about to start

breaking the police line and entering the Capitol. He gets shot with sort of rubber projectiles

and bear spray and doesn't ultimately go into the Capitol. But he was charged with obstructing

an official proceeding, having this gun on him while he's standing there on Capitol grounds,

battling with police. And then he was also charged later on with threatening his children not to

report him to the FBI and he was convicted on all of those counts. What is the likely punishment

that he's facing? So the obstruction count that he faces carries a 20-year maximum penalty and

some of the other January 6 defendants who have pleaded guilty to that count have been sentenced

to three to four years in prison. And those were under plea deals. So I would expect Mr.

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