Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber. Our top story is the rare victory lap that

attorney general Garland took and remarks like today of the thousands of incidents,

crimes and threats the DOJ and FBI tackle throughout the year. Garland is

singling out these five new convictions against the violent oath keepers now

convicted criminals who stormed the Capitol. This is the DOJ's most significant

January 6th court victory thus far. Early yesterday evening,

a jury in the District of Columbia found five defendants associated with the oath keepers guilty

of serious crimes. Two defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy. These convictions were the

result of tireless work by Justice Department agents attorneys, analysts and support staff

beginning in January 2021. Don't be fooled by his famously sober demeanor. This is a huge deal.

And that last point that he made so soberly, it almost could pass you by, we selected it to make

sure everyone understands that last point was bipartisan because those FBI agents and support staff

that he says began this work in January was of course, while the Trump administration was in office.

Many of them stayed on because those civil servants do not rotate with the new administration or

the party empower some of the prosecutors and the attorney general himself of course did rotate

after Biden assumed the presidency, which is linked to these crimes that have now been convicted

because Biden went into the White House precisely because of the defeated unsuccessful and now

convicted sedition plots which tried to stop the transfer of power. And I'll tell you there's

so much noise out there including on the topic of January 6th it's easy to lose sight of which

things matter. Let me tell you as the DOJ marks this big victory those coup lats matter. Sedition

matters. Many other also terrible things went down on the 6th and there are cases on the violence,

the trespassing, the mayhem. But Garland hasn't come out to address the nation at each one of those

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