Taking on the Proud Boys (w/ AG Racine)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers are now central to the investigations into the events of Jan. 6th. More than thirty Proud Boys have been indicted by the Justice Department for the attack on the US Capitol. And just this week, a Federal Judge overseeing many of those cases, upheld the department's position that the defendants can be charged with obstruction of an official proceeding. Meaning, they can be sentenced to lengthy prison terms of up to twenty years. As this situation intensifies, DC's AG Karl Racine is taking another route. He's filed a civil suit against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the events, calling the attack, "a coordinated attack of domestic terrorism." AG Racine joins us to discuss.
GUEST:
District of Columbia's AG Karl Racine (@AGKarlRacine)
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Yahoo News Article on Racine's lawsuit filing against Proud Boys / Oath Keepers - Here
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| 0:00.0 | Last minute invite to an undisclosed location. |
| 0:05.7 | So wrote Enrique Tario last December on the right-wing social media site, Parler, as he |
| 0:11.8 | posted photos from the steps of Donald Trump's White House. |
| 0:15.5 | Tario, a convicted felon, is the leader of the proud boys. |
| 0:19.2 | A far-right group that, as USA Today put it earlier this year, had turned into a de facto |
| 0:25.1 | army of fighters who traversed the country getting into brawl, setting fire to black lives, |
| 0:30.5 | matter banners, and attacking antifa protesters. |
| 0:34.2 | The group, and a similar one called the Oath Keepers, are now central to the investigations |
| 0:38.5 | into the events of January 6th. |
| 0:41.1 | More than 30 proud boys have been indicted by the Justice Department for the attack on |
| 0:45.0 | the US Capitol. |
| 0:46.5 | And just this week, a federal judge overseeing many of those cases upheld the department's |
| 0:51.4 | position that the defendants can be charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, meaning |
| 0:57.3 | they can be sentenced to lengthy prison terms up to 20 years. |
| 1:01.5 | But even as the criminal exposure of the proud boys intensifies, Washington DC Attorney General |
| 1:06.5 | Carl Rossine is taking another round. |
| 1:09.4 | He's filed a civil lawsuit against the proud boys, the Oath Keepers, and their leaders |
| 1:13.1 | over the events of January 6th, calling the assault, quote, a coordinated act of domestic |
| 1:19.2 | terrorism. |
| 1:20.2 | We'll talk to Rossine about his lawsuit, and the broader issues raised by groups like |
| 1:24.3 | the proud boys on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:28.0 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United |
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