Today on Velshi, major breakthroughs in multiple investigations into a certain twice-impeached ex-president.

Plus, how a Republican attorney general is trying to leverage the case of a 10-year-old rape victim to pursue an anti-abortion agenda.

And we'll touch down in Georgia, where the battle for the latest

undecided U.S. Senate seat is in full force with big early voting numbers, narrow margins in the

polls, and fresh scandals erupting in its final days. Then our very first return guest to the

Velshi Band Book Club, the one and only. Margaret Atwood joins me later this morning

to talk about the oft-band Shakespeare play, The Tempest, and her modern retelling of the story,

Hagsie. Velshi starts now.

And good morning to you. I'm Ali Velshi. It is Saturday, December the 3rd, and as we approach the two-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in American democracy, we're entering a new stage in the investigation into the insurrection.

At the same time, a breakthrough in a separate criminal investigation into the twice-impeached former president's handling of

classified documents is clearing a path for the Justice Department in what could be the most

dangerous case yet for Donald Trump. But let's start with the insurrection. Elmer Stuart Rhodes,

the founder of the extreme right-wing Oathkeepers Group, who wears an eye patch because he once

accidentally shot himself in the face, has been found guilty of seditious conspiracy relating

to the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. Rhodes was also found guilty on several

other charges, including obstructing an official proceeding. Notably, Rhodes did not enter the Capitol on January 6th,

but instead stayed outside acting as a, quote, battlefield general, according to prosecutors.

Another member of the oathkeepers was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy in the trial,

although three other oathkeeper defendants were acquitted on that charge,

but found guilty on numerous other charges, including obstructing an official proceeding.

The oathkeepers are just one of the extreme right racist groups, which took up the

insurrectionist ex-presidents' call to come to Washington, to stop the certification of the

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