DOJ Charges Leader Of Oath Keepers For Capitol Insurrection

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The Department of Justice has filed the most serious charges yet related to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The DOJ has arrested and charged the head of the far-right Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy to use force to undermine the election and he is not alone. The United States Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration's nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for big businesses this afternoon. However, the court did allow a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide. 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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0:00.0	The most serious charge is yet related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
0:07.4	The lead starts right now.
0:09.5	Breaking news.
0:10.5	The Department of Justice has arrested and charged the head of the far-right oath keepers,
0:14.8	the leader of the far-right extremist group, is charged with seditious conspiracy to use
0:19.3	force to undermine the election, and he is not alone.
0:23.2	And there's breaking news from the US Supreme Court this afternoon, the Biden administration's
0:27.7	nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for big businesses has been blocked.
0:33.0	But it may still be allowed to go forward for one particular industry, and they won't
0:38.2	back down.
0:39.2	The top US diplomat warns the drumbeat of war is sounding loud.
0:43.3	From Russia, what will Vladimir Putin do next?
0:52.2	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
0:53.7	We start with the politics lead, and for the first time in the January 6 investigation,
0:58.8	the US Justice Department is using the rare charge of seditious conspiracy related to
1:04.6	the insurrection at the Capitol.
1:06.6	Prosecutors indicted 11 defendants on this charge, including the leader of the oath keepers,
1:12.5	the violence prone far-right extremist group.
1:16.1	Prosecutors say that the defendants opposed by force the execution of the laws governing
1:21.9	the transfer of presidential power.
1:24.6	Video from January 6 shows a group in oath keepers in insignia, many wearing helmets, moving
1:30.6	in a single file, tactical formation, through the crowd, and according to the indictment
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