I am Ari Melba. This is The Beat, and we begin with the breaking news in what is the most significant January 6th verdict so far.

A breaking news day in law and for accountability for the insurrection that tried to overthrow the peaceful transfer of power.

I can tell you, full stop, this is the most significant verdict we've gotten

in the series of cases around January 6th, and we'll walk through the news for you right now, a federal

jury, finding the leader of the notorious oathkeeper's militias to erodes guilty on the most serious

January 6th charge he faced, sedition, or what they technically call seditious

conspiracy, because multiple people were allegedly involved. The whole plot was to violently

prevent the peaceful transfer of power, to violently prevent the certification of votes in a

government proceeding, a term we heard throughout this trial, that all culminated in the deadly

insurrection on January 6th. Now, there was more than one person in the conspiracy case, although he

was the leader and the most significant, and this is a major blow to the Oathkeeper's Movement and

those who looked at January 6th as some sort of test run that might be repeated in the future.

Another Oathkeeper's member, Kelly Mags,

also convicted of seditious conspiracy, as well as other lesser charges against other individuals.

In all, there were five oathkeepers, all five convicted of obstruction of an official

proceeding and aiding and abetting. You can see what are now convicted criminals on your screen,

some of the most prominent leaders of the Trump-aligned

insurrection. These people yesterday were presumed innocent and awaiting a verdict. Tonight, for the

first time, I can tell you, you are looking at the convicted felons who tried to overthrow the democracy

of the United States of America. I can also tell you that

three of these individuals were convicted of the lesser crimes, for example, obstructing the

proceeding that would secure the election results, but not seditious conspiracy itself. Three were cleared

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