Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Any minute now, a Trinity General Merit Garland

is expected to hold a news conference on the Justice Department's big winning court

today in its January 6 investigation. More than 2 and a half years since the disgraced

ex-president told them to quote, stand back and stand by, a call that helped to galvanize

the Proud Boys to serve as the tip of the spear of the mob that stormed the US Capitol

months later. Four members of the Proud Boys, including the group's leader in Riketaria,

were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. It is a rarely used, often difficult to prove

and serious charge that dates back to the Civil War. A fifth member, Dominic Pizzola,

was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious

charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer.

But today's verdict means that so far 14 people, including members of another far-right

group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspiring and

plotting a violent overthrow of the United States government. This victory by the Justice

Department, while it is a milestone, in the massive and hugely consequential federal

investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on January

6, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who is January 6, Committee

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, so memorably puts it, quote, sum in the mob, assemble the mob,

and lit the flame of this attack. Of course, we're talking about the disgraced ex-president

himself. As a Washington Post reports, over nearly 15 weeks of trial, prosecutors allege

that the proud boys on trial saw themselves as Trump's army, inspired by his directive

to stand by during a September 2020 presidential debate, and mobilized by his December 2020 call

for a wild protest when Congress met to certify the election. Prosecutors said the men sought

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