we also know that the chairman, enrique tario, had ties to roger stone. mean for possible charges against trump? what would prosecutors need to show? >> so, there is this big question about whether or not prosecutors will be able to connect trump to the violent assault on the capitol. i think there's a lot of information that they'll be able to connect to other efforts to overturn the election, pressure on mike pence, et cetera, but this is the key one, and we should recall that the january 6th select committee in the house made a criminal referral to the justice department, saying they had sufficient evidence that called for at least an investigation as to whether or not president trump aided and abetted an insurrection. the fact that we have this verdict is important as a foundation to that kind of a claim. once again, if there were an acquittal in the case, that would just go away. it would not really be on the table. it is on the table. so, the question is, in part, what you asked with roger stone. is there enough connective tissue? will they be able

and stewart rhodes, enrique tario, the leader of the proud boys are two important pieces of that. in term of deterring future extremism, i don't think we're seeing that specifically in the online space or in social media. in fact, the reason why stewart rhodes is able to say in court he's a political prisoner is because he's parroting many on the right in terms of elected officials even on the hill saying him and other january 6th defendants are political prisoners as opposed to convicted felons, which is what they are. >> and we've spoken with other intelligence experts that really these groups have gone underground, become harder to track. it strikes me in previous cases, previous january 6th cases, judge meta had denied the prosecutor's request to a terrorism enhancement. >> it would have gotten stewart rhodes to 25 years. i think that's important because as you read the january 6th report and you see the select committee, this was an act of domestic terrorism, full stop. this fits the exact definition of domestic terrorism, and so if we're not going to charge people who try to

enrique tario found guilty of seditious conspiracy several additional members of his group were alsovicted of various charges. attorney general merrick garland commented late this afternoon. >> today's verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything in its power to defend the american people and american democracy. >> attorney general garland says his department was secured more than 600 convictions for a wide range of criminal conduct on or before the day of january 6th riot. former president donald trump may have changed his mind about not attending the civil trial here in new york accusing him of defame ago woman who claims he raped her in the mid 1990s. former president told reporters in ireland he would probably go. he has repeatedly denied the allegation. and insists he does not know e. jean carroll. his lawyers previously said they would not call any witnesses. the former president's attorneys say they want to move the criminal case against him here in mid-a manhattan in federal c. that announcement came during a hearing today in new york. the former preside

against other people who weren't physically at the capitol on the 6th one of these defendants enrique tarioa hotel in baltimore on the day of the attack if there's a conspiracy here that involves someone as far away as baltimore, it could also involve someone as close as, say, the white house these verdicts could inform how the special counsel looks at his investigation of donald trump and other people in his orbit. with more than a thousand people have been charged with crimes related to the attack on the capitol. so we've got a lot more prosecutions still to come >> our senior capitol hill correspondent, thank you >>> let's move now to the escalating war of words between the united states and russia top u.s. officials now pushing back after russia implicated the united states in what russia calls an attempted drone attack on the kremlin nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins us now with details. hey, richard, good morning >> reporter: good morning. still so many questions about this alleged drone attack. u.s. officials have said they had nothing whatsoever to do with it, wh